Digital Download

Digital DownloadLanguage tells a story. Woven into the way we speak, we reveal what we care about, where we come from, and who we are. Dialect is a game about an isolated community, their language, and what it means for that language to be lost. In this game, 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.

If you're extra ambitious

Designed by the inimitable Young Jerks - this handsome 9x27 swallowtail cut pennant will show the world just how you play

Nicaragua in the 1970s had no official form of sign language

the children did something remarkable—they created one

Enter a tremendous team

Everything needed for play is included

Some Isolations will be voluntary

All proceeds from the physical version go to support sign language education in Nicaragua

we wanted to work with a set of people we admired

illustrated by master letterer Jill DeHaan and printed in Olympia Washington

This game is based on the history of Nicaraguan Sign Language

To pull this off