Game Design · Graphic Design · Tabletop RPG · 2025
A social deduction tabletop RPG set in a deep-space retirement home, where retired cosmic legends with memory loss investigate a murder. I designed the cards, character sheets, encyclopedia booklet, and presentation.
Role
Card design · Booklet · Presentation
Team
6-person team
Players
7 (6 residents + 1 overseer)
Structure
8 rounds across 2 acts
Overview
Players take on the role of retired cosmic legends: a dementia-ridden war horse general, a 7,000-year-old tortoise archaeologist, an ex-mafia birdman, a forgetful alien genius, all stuck together in a drifting deep-space retirement facility.
The mystery kicks off when their leader is found dead. Players use Identity Shift Cards, Memory Fragments, and Event Cards to investigate, deceive, and build a collective narrative where not even the players know what's true.
Card system
Each card type has its own color and purpose. Identity Shift Cards (pink) alter a player's behavior mid-game. Memory Fragments (green) are clues that may be true, false, or delusional. Event Cards (red) introduce randomized disruptions that shift the whole table's reality.
Character cards
Each character has a public-facing card with their overview and a hidden trait only they know. That asymmetry is what drives the social deduction throughout the game.
Encyclopedia of the Retirement Home
A companion booklet covering the retirement home's mysterious origins and each species' history. The blue hardcover and cream interior make it feel like a real reference book you might find drifting through space.
Pitch presentation
The full pitch deck was designed to match the game's tone: clean, editorial typography with a sci-fi edge. Each section was laid out to communicate the game's world just as much as its rules.
Instruction manual
A single-page reference sheet covering the full game: the premise, all six characters, the memory system, identity shifts, voting, event cards, and materials list. Designed to be handed to players before the game starts.
