As you can probably guess, this Jane Austen-themed video game is not about smashing monsters with magic and swords, but about demolishing your enemies with gossip and bolstering your reputation by dancing with the elite. It's set either in Regency England or your worst middle school nightmare. You can spread lies about your enemies, but they can also do detective work to trace the rumors back to you and destroy your reputation.
You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Share this: Twitter Facebook. Are you the heir, toying with suitors as you wait expectantly for your estate?
Or a socialite, desperate to climb the ladder to the pinnacle of high society? More important than who you are in regency society, is of course who your family is.
Or did your father marry well, into old money and a vast estate? Your heart burns with a hidden passion for the achievement of but one end. I would not dare to presume to guess what it may be. We all are made what we are by our ties to others. Shall you find in another a loyal confident, or a bitter rival? Or could it be the former object of your affection, still jilted by your disloyalty? Good Society is a full colour hardcover book, packed with over pages of thematic material and beautiful art.
It includes all the rules you need to get started with your own regency stories. The game also comes with more than 35 Secret Desire and Relationship cards to keep Good Society replayable and customisable. It also includes all the guidance you need to create original desires and relationships of your own. As well as the book and play materials, Good Society comes with a Deck of Connections, to help create vivid supporting characters quickly and easily.
Even though Austen's novels never delve into the sensual details of intimate encounters, her worlds are rife with sexual tension. As Tyrer explains it, Austen's Regency era was a period of heady debauchery: The Prince Regent was notorious for hosting orgies, and women, once they produced an heir, were largely free to do as they wished.
However, discretion was key. That's not our purpose. But we also don't want to ignore the reality," Tyrer says. Historical accuracy is paramount for Tyrer.
She became a history buff while researching Austen's life and writing, and she's attempting to fill Ever, Jane with as many realistic rules and situations as possible. This means that players can have a private chat room, but they can't flaunt any promiscuity. If they do, they're sent to Botany Bay, a penal colony that's populated with other troublemakers and anyone hoping to play without any rules at all. Botany Bay isn't live yet, which means current players can be as naughty as they wish, but Tyrer and her team are working on it.
Ever, Jane is still fairly early in development, but it already has a few hundred players, with roughly 30 people online at any given time. Players see someone at the funeral that they're interested in and they have to smile at this person, but it has to be discreet -- this is a funeral in Regency England, after all.
The game's quests are meant to play with relationships in this way, intertwining players' stories with longing looks and whispered promises. Another quest that Tyrer is still writing throws drama into an otherwise-prim dinner party: One player has to whisper a secret to a specific guest.
However, the targeted person's goal is to not be alone with the player trying to share the secret. It's a game of cat and mouse -- any player who can see the pair will be able to hear their conversation, so the person with the secret attempts to seclude the other player as he or she tries to gracefully duck out of the conversation.
Ever, Jane is packed with atypical quests. There are no monsters to slay or worlds to save, but there are familiar mechanics for anyone who's played an online RPG. One quest asks players to find and return a lost handkerchief, and one coming soon will send people on a mission to collect rare flowers.
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