59. Keep the Faith

In this episode, we work together to tell the story of how a religion changes over the centuries in… Keep the Faith! 

Keep the Faith is a storytelling game for 2 to 5 players about religions in transition. Each player represents a sect within a fictional religion. Players collaboratively make up the story about the religion and how it changes over five hundred years, with a focus on how the material and observable aspects of the religion reflect or contradict the religion’s core values. 

Keep the Faith is currently on BackerKit seeking crowdfunding. If you’re listening to this before March 6, 2025, follow the link below to the BackerKit page to see if you’d like to help get this game published. Keep the Faith will be published by Central Michigan University Games, an academic press that specializes in peer-reviewed board and role-playing games with educational utility.

The designer of Keep the Faith is Greg Loring-Albright, and I'm excited to share highlights from an interview with Greg that I did for my other podcast, Intentional Teaching. Greg shares about his design goals for the game, the role of agency in Keep the Faith, and the challenges of designing a game about a sensitive topic like religion.

Links:

Support Keep the Faith’s crowdfunding effort before March 6, 2025.

Listen to a longer cut of my conversation with Greg Loring-Albright on the Intentional Teaching podcast.

Throw a few bucks at the Intentional Teaching Patreon to hear a few more clips of my talk with Greg.

Listen to Liz Davidson’s conversation with Greg on her Beyond Solitaire podcast.

Learn more about Greg Loring-Albright on his professional website.

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Music:

"Open Road," "Summer in Paradise" by Purple Planet.