- Role: Game Designer/Graphic Design
- Tools: Photoshop, Tabletop Simulator
- Development: May 2022
After being on a massive Root kick for a few months, it culminated into two bigger back to back creative outputs for me: a podcast interview with Cole Wehrle, and participating in RootJam 2022 to make a custom playable faction for the game.
The Playwrights are a travelling band of entertainers that want to be around for a good time, not a long time. They don't want control of the forest, they just want their fellow people to show up for their plays. If plans go awry, however, the tables can turn and the performances can become more sinister.
This is definitely my most thematic work to date, and I had a great time working out how to create and shape pure mechanics around a silly concept like this. Each new expansion for the game tends to add some fresh new ideology and gameplay style to the Woodland, and by making this I felt a traveling band/performance act would make for a fun foil to the rest of the cast. Art and character design for the board is provided by Lexitoons, who did an excellent job creating new creatures to fit in perfectly with Kyle Ferrin's wonderful world.
Primary responsibilities:
- Designed a new faction module to fit in and play like the existing official factions for the game
- 3D modelling/printing game pieces to match official game specs
- Simple graphic design - matching style/layout of official content
- Playtesting and rebalancing
- Digital version compatible with Root - Ultimate Collection, the most popular Tabletop Simulator mod for Root
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