'Fungalpunk' RPG Signet City Isn't Afraid To Be Weird And Political
The upcoming game draws inspiration from horror manga, musicals and British history.
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Signet City, the upcoming RPG from Citizen Sleeper developer Gareth Martin, will cast players as a parasite. Set in a brutalist, monochromatic gotham at the edge of collapse, this entity will take control of different human hosts, directing their actions and accomplishing its own objectives. When asked what cultural touchpoints inspired the self-described "fungalpunk" RPG, Martin points to their own British upbringing, and the desire to "create something that would draw on that identity and history" — even if some of it might go over the heads an American audience.
Before they began designing video games, they worked at a theater design company doing pre-visualization work. One production involved Sting's The Last Ship— a musical about the shipbuilding crisis in Newcastle in the 1980s. "There are these amazing pictures of Newcastle in the...
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