The We-ness

This is a game about becoming a hivemind through language. It was created spontaneously one morning in Berlin. We ended up walking around for five or six hours, snuck into an industry conference, and experienced a palpable sense of loss when we finally broke the spell. It's a mindfuck that can give you an embodied sense of what it means to trust enough to let your identity fall to the community.

The We-ness is about the quality of being "we" rather than "I." It won a Golden Cobra Judge's Choice Award in 2018, and I ran it at Big Bad Con 2019 where it went great! This is the text of the lastest updates to the game. Please let me know if you'd like tips on warmups and workshopping, which I think are important to playing.

I often see an instinctive recoil from people who work in oppressive corporate jobs, comparing this to terrible experiences with teambuilding. Please don't use this game in any setting where players feel compelled to play, or where the ending is ambiguous. This game is voluntary, and it must always come to an end.

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