2019 Silver ENnie for Best Game
2019 ENnie nominee for Product of the Year
2018 Indie Groundbreaker Award Game of the Year
2019 IndieCade Europe Tabletop award
Dialect is a game about an isolated community, their language, and what it means for that language to be lost.
Dialect is a GM-less game for 3-5 players where youll tell the story of the Isolation by building their language. New words will come from the fundamental aspects of the community: who they are, what they believe in, and how they respond to a changing world.
Players take away both the story theyve told and the dialect theyve built together. Includes hardcover book, deck of language generating cards used to play the game, and a free digital copy delivered immediately.
- “Dialect is fascinating and fun and innovative”— Jason Morningstar (Fiasco, Night Witches)
- “A language-building story-telling thing of beauty”— Jay Treat (Legacy of the Slayer, Strange Gravity)
- “This is a game about how culture, language and thought interact… and that is amazing!”— Alex Roberts (Backstory Podcast)
What’s Included
- 150 page hardcover and language generating deck, both gorgeously printed with professional layout and beautiful art.
- Playsets contributed by elevenworld-class game designers, linguists, language creators, and generally-formidable humans
- Contributed chapter on language invention by David Peterson (author ofThe Art of Language Inventionand language creator for HBO’sGame of Thrones)
- A chapter on sustaining the world’s language by Steven Bird,linguist, community organizer and champion for language vitality.
