Games For The Missing & The Found

In 2019, well before I was involved in the TTRPG scene in any real capacity, I wrote a series of short games (between 2 words and 1 page) which were concerned with playability and meaning-making. I was a 21 year old college dropout using games as my creative space to re-examine my relationships with others and the land I lived on at a volatile time in my life. This resulted in the zine Games For Lost People, my first proper game release. I continued to create these zines of game-poems throughout 2019 and into 2020, where eventually they were part of the burgeoning movement of what are now called "lyric games." 

They never achieved much critical or commercial success, although that was never the point. They were tiny poems meant for myself. After a while I stopped publishing them, but I continued to compose these games. The seventh volume, Hungry Games, was never released before now. 

This collection includes 6 of the 7 volumes of Games For The Missing And The Found. 

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1. Games For Lost People. Originally published April 2019.
2. Games For The Breakdown. Originally published July 2019.
3. Games For Tomorrow. Originally published November 2019. Was only available for a single day, and is now no longer preserved (including in this collection).
4. Flying Games. Originally published January 2020.
5. The Games We Wrote. Originally published March 2020.
6. Fever Games. Originally published May 2020.
7. Hungry Games. Written between June 2020 and August 2021. Never published.