Spit City - Elio J Carranza

Design: Anna Bierler
Paper ruleset, transparent sleeve, 6-sided and 12-sided dice
10,5 cm x 30 cm

An experiential pen-and-paper game, Spit City is played with pen, paper, and dice. The ruleset is inclusive of queer trans*feminist and crip perspectives. It invites players to world a geography and their own in-game identity. The possibility of one collective identity with several players is encouraged. The only physical remnant of a playthrough is a sketched map, which captures the players’ decisions on what is traced and how it is recorded. The process assimilates the approach of feminist cartography, which is multidimensional, multiscalar, and anchored in the body. Spit City facilitates the emergence of a queer pleasure-positive ecology, other-than-human intimacies, and a carnal role play experience for 2 to 7 players. The ruleset was commissioned by transmediale festival 2023 and self-published in an edition of 200.