Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

67: Finding the Right Words with Dyala Kattan-Wright (Signs of the Sojourner)

Apr 9, 2021

01:20:21

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Is This Too Difficult?

04:21

What Does Successfully Connecting With This Person Really Mean?

02:31

How Did the Idea for the Signs of the Sojourner Come From?

03:47

Introduction

3min

Is It a Hard Challenge to Explain a Card Game?

2min

How Did the Idea for the Signs of the Sojourner Come From?

4min

What's the Process of Creating a Collaborative System?

3min

The Game of Thrones - The Return of the Sloop

4min

You Come Back Home

2min

Ike, You Say, You're Abstracted It?

2min

The Game of Thrones - The Story of a Man - Part 1

2min

The Caravano

2min

10.

Played the Last of Us, Is It Really a Puzzle?

4min

11.

Ico A, Yeah, Ico, I'm a Friend of the Player.

3min

12.

How Do We Sort Out Miss Matches?

2min

13.

Is This Too Difficult?

4min

14.

Is There a Difference Between Paper Prototype and Computer Game?

5min

15.

Deck Building Games

3min

16.

Ito, Is It a Subconscious Game?

2min

17.

Co-Op Net Runner

2min

18.

What Does Successfully Connecting With This Person Really Mean?

3min

19.

Is a Deck Building Game More Accessible Than a Card Game?

4min

20.

'Chatter'

3min

21.

The Story of Um, a Journey Through Time

2min

22.

'Teve' and 'Mancingy'

4min

23.

Sojourner Is Hard to Say in an Unknown Word

2min

24.

Ioh, This Is Tough

3min

25.

Is There Enough in Each Region?

3min

26.

The Fatigue Cards Added Up a Really Well, for the Most Part

2min

27.

Is There a Game That Needs More Narrative Than Mechanics?

5min

Echodog Games' Dyala Kattan-Wright joins us to discuss their wildly unique and wonderful narrative card game Signs of the Sojourner. We chat about the process of developing the game's innovative dialogue system, its surprising effects on player experience, and why sometimes you just can't go home again.

Show notes:

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Dyala Kattan-Wright

Echodog Games

Signs of the Sojourner

Slay the Spire

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