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Serious Games - March 2022 Update!

26/3/2022

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Howdy Star Gazers! We wanted to dive straight into this month and ask you a rather personal but reflective question. Do you think you could make it through a year below the poverty line? What will you have left at the end? Of couse, maybe you already have. Poverty touches far more of us than it would appear, even if we save up for a fancy game now and then. Maybe someone you love is struggling right now.

These are the questions we ask our players to think about before, during, and after experiencing our newly released title The Rent. ​
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What will you sacrifice? ​

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The Rent is an 18 card game that was designed to be a cursory view in simulating life in poverty or near the poverty line. Month to month weighing up what is important to you, and what you may need to sacrifice to scrape by another week. 
The Rent is a remarkably simple single player experience that goes for roughly 15 minutes per session. Using just 18 cards (so perfect for print and play) it is also compact enough to slip into your pocket and be taken anywhere you wish.
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The Rent has had powerful effects on our playtesters, and we’ve been touched how they’ve expressed that to us. One of our interns played the game and said the following “My partner and I really liked rent. We were both quite touched by it. My brother is currently going through detox again, after doing rehab a good 9 months ago. He was in a week to week paycheck situation, which lapsed him back. The game really made me reflect on him and his situation and struggles." 

The Rent was originally designed for the Board Game Geek Solo competition and you can read all about its design and some of the early feedback we got on the BGG forums - and there are two actual plays online!

Whilst juggling the exciting new content for Relics and Partners, our new upcoming over the top heist RPG, The Score, we are proud to announce the release of this short, yet impactful game. The Rent is currently available as a print and play on ich.io, where you can pay what you want. We will be bringing out a print on demand hard copy via The Game Crafter in the next quarter as well.

On a lighter note: We thought we might sneak… (get it?) this exciting little card preview for our upcoming unique storytelling heist gameThe Score. We’ll tell you a lot more about it later in the year! 
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There are a lot of really exciting things happening within Tin Star Games, and a lot to share. You can keep up to date and maybe enjoy a game or two with us over on Discord. 
Additionally, you can keep up to date with us on many various platforms via our Linktree. And remember that subscribers to our Patreon not only keep us making games, they get early glimpses and prototypes as well as everything we've ever made, free to access. 

Until next month. Stay safe, stay dry and play good games!
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  • Story Games
    • The Score >
      • The Score Beta Playtest
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      • Relics Press
      • Relics: Treasures on Earth
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    • Daughters of Exile
    • Genre Cops
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    • Baby Dragon Bedtime
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