Map Your Home

This is a game where you make where you live strange to yourself by mapping everything that is not man-made. If it no longer looks how you are used to seeing it, what might you learn about the place you live?

Some Inspirations:

• the article 'searching for a place to call home': https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/YC08FBUAACgAdb-i
• learning that a friend had been to a park I visited often as a kid, and I could describe places in it that they also knew about
• my childhood library
• my favorite Public Policy class in undergrad; and how maps are inherently political, as they are an abstraction of what the maker thinks of the world around them

I wanted to crank out something quick n messy - partially to have it out of my head and partially to finish something and partially to learn Affinity Publisher! Created for the Pleasure-not-Business Card RPG Jam. Special thanks to Speak the Sky and all my neighborhood cats

Note: this game was created by an American. I’m working to decolonize all of my work, and this game doesn’t make sense without that framework in mind. If you notice something amiss, please let me know. I have much to learn.

Additionally, if you play this game, I would love to see your map! If you'd like to share, drop it in the comments or send it to me on cohost.

April 2024 Update: I have chosen to update the price of this game to $1! The game is still availability in its entirety in the image bank, but if you'd like a pdf to print out, that is now $1. This is partially because I want to be able to reasonably submit it to bundles, and partially because people seem to really like it! It got taught at a college! How cool is that! I like making games and I'd like to make some money from doing that. Thank you for your support and for your interest in my work.