In 2016, I published a roleplaying game about love and radioactivity in Finnish, called Tsernobyl, rakastettuni. The crowdfunding campaign for the English version, Chernobyl, Mon Amour, just launched, so check it out and back it!
Chernobyl
Juhana @ Ropecon 2016
Ropecon on tulossa aivan pian, perjantaista 29.7. sunnuntaihin 31.7. Olen mukana kahdella ohjelmanumerolla: Rakkautta säteilevässä maailmassa: Tšernobyl, rakastettuni -pelin julkaisu Sali 201, perjantaina 18:00 – 19:00 Juhana Petterssonin uusi roolipeli Tšernobyl, rakastettuni ilmestyy Ropeconissa 2016. Esitelmässä käydään läpi pelin ideaa ja sitä, millaista on rakkaus Tšernobylin radioaktiivisella, suljetulla vyöhykkeellä. Hahmot ovat Continue Reading
Non-Digital: What’s a Roleplaying Game Book?
The things we call “roleplaying games” are books that tell you how to play and run actual roleplaying games. The game is what happens when you sit down with the other players and play. I’m writing one of these books. Chernobyl mon amour (Tšernobyl, rakastettuni in Finnish) is a roleplaying Continue Reading
Non-Digital: Expressing Play Culture (Also: Chernobyl)
I’ve been writing and designing a tabletop roleplaying game called Chernobyl mon amour for some years now. I started soon after visiting the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation myself in 2010. It’s taken a lot of time to consider some of the ideas in the game, and a core reason for Continue Reading
Non-radioactive, I’m sure…
(Photo: Juhana Pettersson) An overturned barrel of what I’m sure is 100% non-radioactive sludge at the abandoned Jupiter factory in the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation. Would you stick your finger into this?
Chernobyl, a view from the rooftops
(Photo: Juhana & Maria Pettersson) A view of the Sarcophagus constructed over the no. 4 reactor at Chernobyl, taken from the rooftop of a sixteen-story building in Pripyat.