Congrats to Here Space co-founder, artist, designer and writer @perrin.ellis (they/them) on being the winner of the Deep Cut Award at the Gaming Like It’s 1929 game jam!
Of note also is that it’s Peri’s third year of being an award winner 🏆 in this international competition! 🙌💪👌🏳️⚧️❤️
A Pocketful of Peril! is a collaborative story game for 2-4 players, inspired by four (4) adventure film serials, all released in 1929, and therefore all entering the public domain in 2025. It was developed for the Gaming Like It’s 1929 game jam.
Techdirt says: “But here’s the extra clever part: adventure serials were a highly formulaic genre with a predictable structure, and we do know the evocative titles of these serials and their individual chapters (in fact that’s just about all we know, along with a few still images). That sounds like the basis for some great collaborative storytelling! The game chops up these clues and marries them with story-generating mechanics that draw on the established tropes and formulas of the genre, and thus somehow manages to adapt a film that doesn’t exist. For that seemingly impossible feat, it’s this year’s Best Deep Cut.”
You can check out the game and download it at https://yizazy.itch.io/a-pocketful-of-peril
