Tabletop RPG · Standalone game

Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies

Players create the language of an isolated community and follow what happens as that community changes.

Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies in Bruno’s collection

FormTabletop RPG

Players3–5 players, no game master

Commitment3–4 hours

People behind the game

Creators

Kathryn Hymesco-designer Hakan Seyalıoğluco-designer

A closer look

See what it looks like

Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies photographed in Bruno’s roleplaying collection

Dialect promotional artwork banner — Image source

Dialect book and cards photographed above a wooden table — Image source

Dialect book and card deck arranged together — Image source

Bruno holding his copy of Dialect

About the game

Collection: Office Collection
Publication type: Standalone game
Authors and creators: Kathryn Hymes · Hakan Seyalıoğlu
Publisher: Thorny Games
Published: Not recorded

Genres

Experimental and other Contemporary and everyday life

System

Mechanics

Card prompts Collaborative language creation Scene framing Language-card prompts Playset-based community framing

Experience

Bittersweet Collaborative Reflective

Editorial status

Mechanics and experience: Editorial review of the locally stored catalogue description and system metadata. · high confidence.

Source and provenance

References for this record

Creator source Dialect — Thorny Games