First Contact in Full includes one copy of Xenolanguage and its companion play anthology Games to Bind Us.
Games to Bind Us is a play anthology about first contact with alien life, featuring short stories by a tremendous slate of writers including Hugo and Nebula award winners, along with original games by fantastic designers who push the genre forward.
Includes 12 original games and 4 original short stories designed for this project from folks like Alix Harrow, Ken Liu, Max Gladstone, Lizzie Stark and Jason Morningstar, Banana Chan, Sharang Biswas, Kira Magrann, Jonaya Kemper and many more.
Shipping in Q2 2024
As a companion to Xenolanguage, we wanted Games to Bind Us to explore our first meeting with alien life in a different way. Here we blur the line between reader and player and invite folks to interact with story themes in a more personal, intimate way. While reading the short fiction, we hope players get their imagination lit up with stories they can tell through these games. To pull this off, we wanted to work with a set of people we admired.
Enter a tremendous team. Four authors including multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winners and a group of thirteen game designers with too many awards to list. The book is divided into four sections, mapping to four stages of contact.
*They Are Coming*
*The Moment*
*Our Life Together*
*Our Life Apart*
In each, we start the section with an original work of fiction followed by three original games that each explore a different angle of first contact.