What is Roleplay #11 – Design with Guilherme Gontijo

What Is Roleplay?

Welcome to Episode 11 of ‘What Is Roleplay?! This episode we are joined by Guilherme Gontijo to discuss Design

• How design is very similar across the board, and how the differences often just come down to execution?
• Why does design matter?
  • It is more than just style or a taste aesthetic
  • Design is more about translating ideas on the abstract plane into visuals
  • Good design helps roleplay games (RPG) creators to communicate the ideas, mood and feel of a game visually
  • You can fit a whole lot of fun into a small amount of space with good design
• The DIY ethos and how the punk spirit has influenced the Indie RPG scene
• Funding the beauty in both minimalist as well as heavily illustrated RPGs such as MÖRK BORG
• The major importance of remaining faithful to ideas – starting at the essence of the idea and allowing it to inform the design. Making an alliance with the idea and not allowing outside influences to change it & allowing open ended questions to remain.
• Italian ‘Giallo‘ horror movies and their influence on Gontijo’s game Blurred Lines
• Listen as CM Lowry & Gontijo live design a new game where monks fall into temptation to one of the seven deadly sins and end up in a sepia hell where everyone is in perpetual motion. The working title? ‘No Rest for the Wicked!’

Links to things we discussed:

Games:

• Vaults of Vaarn
• Honey Heist
• Lasers & Feelings
• MÖRK BORG
• Blurred Lines

Books, Authors & Publishers:

• Grant Howitt
• Johan Nohr
• DriveThruRPG.com
• itch.io

More about Guilherme

• Twitter – @gontijolab
• Itch – gontijo.itch.io
• Website – gontijolab.com

More about Us

• CM Lowry on Twitter – @cmlowryauthor
• CM Lowry’s website – All About Chris
• Website – beyondcataclysm.co.uk
• Patreon – Patreon.com/beyondcataclysm

With music generously provided by: Powerplant & Imploders.

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