Island Demeter Friends of Island Demeter

This is a collection of clips from each game in season one, highlighting Island Demeter's goal of showcasing critical play and queer bonhomie. Table talk and critical appraisal stand side by side with jokes and serious, emotionally charged storytelling. Because that's what we do.



Around 26 minutes and 20 seconds into this (after a bit of silence), there's also some brand new material: a bit of opening narration from the first game recorded for season 2, which is going to have more traditional GMing and campaign work that shines some light on the world(s) that season 1 implied.

We finish out season 1 with Home by Anders Kleiman. Darius Rose, Tiffany Takashi, Orletta Sam and Tyler Liv all live together in a nice house. But everyone is hiding a secret.



(The secret is that we all are living in different genre archetypes. It's goofy.)



This time, Bee is joined by Keishi, L and Sil.



Podcast art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.

Takuma Okada's Together Among the Stars is a 2-player version of Alone Among the Stars. Bee & Sharmi take a wholesome tour around a couple planets, exploring glacier folks and cloud kittens and chilling in a lake while diamond bugs swarm in the shape of a face on a cliff.



This time, Bee is joined by Sharmi.



Podcast art by Floppydisko. Episode art by Sharmi. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.

Erasure by angrynerdgirl is a game about queer assimilation into cis hetero patriarchy, and this episode includes some pretty frank discussions of dissociation and gender dysphoria, out of character. It's also got a lot of jokes. Take care of yourself.



This time, Bee is joined by Adam and Ricky.



Cover art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.

Alone Among the Stars by Takuma Okada seems to have inspired a slew of single player RPGs, so I wanted to give it a try. I really, really liked it.



Nonym (because I forgot to give them one during the recording) strikes off from their interstellar mapping culture to explore a universe where planets break free of stellar gravity regularly, to make their own additions to the map.



This time, Bee is alone.



Cover art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.

Role Over Play Dead's Ech0 is a game where a bunch of kids bother a long-dead mech pilot, so we figured Pil (from Pil, Who Forgets) should get some more screentime. Plus John Luca (10), Berrigan Omatose (9), Zip (9) and the Kry twins, Marvin and Roger (4).



This time, Bee is joined by Adam, Duckie, Ricky, Sharmi and Sil.



Cover art by Floppydisko. Music by A Truly Blonde Child.