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Episode #13: It's in the words! Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies
Episode 133rd September 2025 • The DM‘s Book Club • thedmsbookclub
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This week Fiona and guest co host Tay from The Backwater Bastards explore the ins and outs of Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies.

From the 'Dialect' game bio:

'Dialect is a game about an isolated community, their language, and what it means for that language to be lost. In this game, you’ll tell the story of the Isolation by building their language. New words will come from the fundamental aspects of the community: who they are, what they believe in, and how they respond to a changing world.

Players take away both the story they’ve told and the dialect they’ve built together.'

Book discussed: 'Dialect: A Game About Language and How It Dies' by Kathyrn Hymes and Hakan Seyalıoğlu published by Thorny Games, 2017.

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