For Zinequest this year I’m doing a little something called 8-BIT THEATER THE ROLEPLAYING GAME WHERE YOU’RE THE LIGHT WARRIORS GETTING ISEKAI’D TO SAVE A BUNCH OF WORLDS BUT IT ALWAYS GOES WRONG BECAUSE THEY ARE REAL BAD AT THIS.

Or, simply, 8BTTRPGWYTLWGITSABOWBIAGWBTARBAT for short.

The gameplay loop is simple. When Light Warriors Do Things they will eventually cause Collateral Damage that makes everything around them so much worse, so they’ve got to Do More Things to work around The Horrible Consequences they’ve inflicted upon the world, but this is literally a vicious cycle that inevitably leads to realizing Oh Ye Gods What Hath We Wrought.

TLDR the game is tuned to encourage you to do terrible/stupid things that will almost always backfire so you can spend most of your time laughing at one another. Honestly, I’m not sure if it’s feasible to “win” but we made it so failure is fun and hilarious the whole time so who cares.