An Inconsequential Amount of Peanuts

Role: Designer

A game I made for the Golden Cobra 2023 competition

Based on three previously published Golden Cobra larps. It has two phases, a Dinner phase where characters introduce themselves, and a Blame phase where characters embody stages of grief with their actions

• Inspired by the mechanic of unresolved grief from A Crow Funeral

• Shaped characters and their identities off of characters in Wigilia

• Pulled the idea of characters having dual identities (representing stages of grief and also normal characters) from The Bathhouse

How I iterated on it:

• Initially, the character of Joseph did not have enough influence compared to The Plant in Wigilia, so I allowed Joseph to remove players entirely from a room during the Blame phase to feed into how grief is different for everyone

• Originally, the character of The Chef was going to purposely cause Joseph's demise due to his stubbornness and refusal to change the recipe of torrone. I changed this because it clashed thematically and mechanically with the rest of the larp