You're listening to Imaginary Worlds, Michelle by the way, and why we suspend her disbelief.

I'm Eric Mullensky.

A few months ago, I was invited to MC an award ceremony at the Boston Festival of Independent

Games, otherwise known as Boston FIG.

The festival was held at MIT in Cambridge, and it was actually run by some of the people

that you heard in my last episode on Larfay.

Now I was happy to go up there at MC, but I was also intrigued.

I knew about independent video games because these days anyone can design a video game on their

own computer and post it online, but this festival was also for independent board games,

which I did not know much about.

Now during the day the board game designers had set up booths inside this huge athletic center

at MIT, and the general public was invited to come by and try out the games.

Rat race, skip the sewers, two to four player card management game, where you are rats in

the sewer system trying to reach the surface by stacking much trashers you can in order to

reach the manhole cover to freedom.

My game is Someone has died. It's a storytelling game that takes place at a will arbitration,

so someone's died and left behind a fortune, and one player is in the staykeeper who has to give

that fortune away. Everyone else is playing characters that they come up with based on the cards

that are randomly dealt, and they have to argue as that character to the staykeeper, they're the

most deserving of the fortune. Born to serve is a game where you play superheroes,

that's the good news. The bad news is your group is lost, it's government funding, so now you all

need to get real jobs. In town is a restaurant, the restaurant owner likes superheroes, so he's

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