Dialect: A Game about Language and How it Dies

Dialect is a game about an isolated community, their language, and what it means for that language to be lost. In this game, you’ll tell the story of the Isolation by building their language. New words will come from the fundamental aspects of the community: who they are, what they believe in, and how they respond to a changing world.

 

Some Isolations will be voluntary, others not. Some will choose to barricade themselves against an unforgiving world while others lie stranded and adrift from home. On their own, one thing is certain—these people will be left to simmer in what makes them special. They will change because of it. You will decide what they become.

Players take away both the story they’ve told and the dialect they’ve built together.

A story game for 3-5 players in 3-4 hours. 

"Dialect is fascinating and fun and innovative.” — Jason Morningstar (Fiasco, Night Witches)
"...a language-building story-telling thing of beauty” — Jay Treat (Legacy of the Slayer, Strange Gravity)
"This is a game about how culture, language and thought interact ... and that is amazing!"  — Alex Roberts (Backstory Podcast)

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