Hello! I'm just making a quick post here to announce that we recently released Links, a tile-placement game about depolarisation and dialogue, which you can find here. It was made throughout the month of June as part of the Mzansi Climate Justice Game Jam, which was an international and interdisciplinary collaboration between creatives in the Netherlands and South Africa.

In Links you and your fellow players will each take on the role of a Citizen Councillor, whose job it is to vote for policies that will further their values and enrich society. These policies take the form of tiles whose coloured borders reflect the political facets that they embody: environmental, social, cultural, and economic. By matching these borders with one another you reinforce that facet's influence in the political landscape, eventually creating long links that players can either support or disrupt.

There's much more to the gameplay, but those are the basics! All you need to do is download and print out the materials on some nice thick paper to start playing. It's currently completely free, but we do have plans to continue working on it in the months ahead, so that may change at some point as it develops and grows.

In line with this, we would love to hear your thoughts and critiques if you do end up playing it! Every piece of feedback helps significantly with figuring out what we can refine or let go of, so please leave a comment on the game's page if you have any. Thanks!