Jess at Dissent Games

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Games about protest, games on birthday cards, and games co-created with schools. Based in Reading, UK. I’m Jess. (*waves*) I might also post about books, UK politics, and Quakers. www.dissentgames.com

Some very rough green and blue bits of paper with crosses and wiggles on them. One says “most iced”.
A white bed sheet (flat, not fitted) with different colour squares hand painted. Very messy and rough.
A road going into a pebble beach at high tide. Steel fence.
Advert showing a girl playing Loose In The Library, a card game. Text says: 4 ways to play, 10-30 minutes, 1-5 players, age 8+.
A box of many, many, many spices in mixed up bags and unlabelled jars. A complete mess.
Cards with a stripe of colour at the top tucked underneath other cards which say things like “most iced biscuits: £1.50”
Cards haphazardly on a table. Plus a cup of tea.
Text says: we have very little idea how many seats each political party would get under a proportional system such as STV, because polling data doesn’t ask people who would get their second vote.
Very rough prototype cards. One shows a sock, suit “red hearts”, value 3.
What looks like an A4 piece of paper with a game of “finger twister”. Played similar to Twister, but only fingers. Players need two dice, and roll on one for all four fingers, plus any finger, plus take fingers off, and on the other dice for red, blue, yellow, green, spots with hearts, spots with stars.
A puzzle with some text. Sorry, this is unfortunately a visual puzzle.
Blue t shirt with Busy Buses logo and the words “designed by children for children” on it.
A saucepan of water on a gas stove.
Mock up of a bus stop sign.
Prototype playing cards in faded shades of pink, blue, and purple.
Simnal cake. Light fruit cake with marzipan covering and marzipan balls.
Two card games: Odin and Mada.
A board game prototype with four main colours in yellow, blue, green, and red.
The Eiffel Tower, from the bottom.
Woman in a black T-shirt wearing a metal helmet. It’s a simple Roman replica type helmet. It’s too big.
Rough prototype with board quarters in blue, yellow, green and red. A handful of grey meeples, plus one blue, one red, one yellow, one green meeple.
The board game Die Macher. Big. German. Elections.
Bits of paper and some prototype game components. Might work, might not.
Blackthorn blossom.
A photo of a screen, showing work in progress. Text says “a brief paragraph which explains a bit about why the have these specific skills” and the card is called Xander. There’s a blue section with a 2, a green section, and a red circle with +1. It’s very much a work in progress and not really meant to make much sense yet.
Two women (Mill on left, Jess on right) wearing silly hats. Both women are also wearing teal hoodies.
A toy troll dressed up as a Nac Mac Feegle. Red wool hair and tartan ribbon clothes.