Dice Exploder Love, Sex, and Romance: The War (Will That Be All?) with Kim Lam
Transcripts available at diceexploder.com
Today we’re wrapping up the Dice Exploder series on love, sex, and romance with Will That Be All? by Graham Walmsley, a game about the social relationships between the downstairs staff at Melton Hall, a fictional British estate, over the course of about a decade between the first and second world wars.
It’s a lovely game about finding solace and community even as the world outside feel deeply uncertain - and that’s what Kim wanted to talk about: how setting, and in this case the spectre of war, can encourage and affect how not just romance but relationships of all kinds can play out in a game.
Further Reading
Will That Be All? by Graham Whalmsley
Breaking the Ice, and The Romance Trilogy, by Emily Care Boss
Rosenstrasse by Jessica Hammer and Moyra Turkington
Downton Abbey
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