Mizzenmast - A Solo Journaling Seafood Dining Experience
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You have just arrived to Shaarish Shore, a beachside town known for six species of marine wildlife found nowhere else on the planet. You find yourself in front of a locally-owned seafood restaurant. You step inside, curious. You are greeted by the slightly-too-warm smiles of the waiters, who quickly sign you up for a reservation and take your payment up front. You are given a menu, listed with meals made with ingredients harvested from the same sea creatures that made the city famous. The menu reads that you need to let the rolls of the dice determine your meal and encourages you to write what sensations you experience as you indulge.
You're a bit of an adventurous eater. The waiters are smiling at you so expectantly. And you've already paid. What harm could it be?
You peruse the menu, rolling the dice in your fingers...
- A solo journaling RPG about eating strange sea creatures
- Game designed in menu format
- Roll the dice and build your meal
- Read the information of each creature
- Have a hearty chuckle or perhaps a shiver down your spine
- Bon Appetit
(Seafood image by Louis Hansel of Unsplash.com. Beach/jetty image by me.)
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Development log
- Mizzenmast V2 Available!Mar 15, 2024
- Welcome to Mizzenmast!Mar 07, 2024
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Mizzenmast is short, absurdist game about dining at a seafood restaurant which contains fantastical and upsetting dishes, including salt that makes you weep, sentient mermaids, and creatures that want to be eaten.
The game presents itself as a menu, divided up into 4 sections in which the player rolls 1d6 for each for their order. But upon reading the ingredients it's clear that these aren't ordinary dishes.
Fortunately the game provides diegetic explanation on each of the fantastical elements, including what it is, how it is prepared, and some consequences you might experience when eating it.
It is up to the player how you wish to write/play the game, as there is only a brief note at the beginning that you should "write down your experiences while eating." So whether or not you are on a date, or a food critic, or any other reason is up to you.
I wrote a short description of each meal as if I were a food critic, which you can read HERE
I'm about to cry with joy, this is fantastic and my gratitude to you for giving my weird little game a whirl.