I’m enjoying reading the gameplay. It definitely has me curious.

Yes, I suppose you could use the Showdown format for a shared writing project. The only difficulty I could see is that there are dice involved at several keys points to figure out who get to narrate what. When Raquel and I were setting up the game we agreed that we would both brainstorm even if it was technically the other person’s turn so this story is much more of a combined effort than other games of Showdown I’ve played.

I’ve done shared writing projects before and it was difficult to keep a shared vision of the story. One time two of us were working on a story and we did have some face to face conversations about the direction of the story which we were both happy with at the end. The other time there were three of us and we didn’t have the option of face to face planning sessions and no one was really happy with how that story turned out. So, no, the face to face isn’t necessary, but I’ve found it helpful in the past.

I’m just wondering… which one is Ty and which one is Anna?

Also, is this game something that could be played as a shared turn-based writing project? or do you need to be face to face to get this game going?