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Diegetic Games

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Diegetic Games is the game design studio of Randy Lubin, a San Francisco-based designer working since the mid-2010s around a design philosophy he calls diegesis and hyperdiegesis - games in which every element of play stems from the fiction. The catalog is dominated by narrative and story games (Seizing the Crown, Working the Case, Premise: Setting, Character, Plot, Behind the Magic, Plotypus, Across the Border), usually free print-and-play, plus two Kickstarter-funded boxed card games, CIA: Collect It All and One Billion Users, and the Exosolar narrative RPG. Lubin also runs the free browser …

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Country of Origin
United States
Latest Game
Three Generations: The Rise and Fall of the Eternal Empire
Latest Year
2025
Games listed
12

Published Games(12)

Game Name
Across the Border
Behind the Magic
CIA: Collect It All
Exosolar
Hackers and Hustlers
Honor Bound
One Billion Users
Plotypus
Premise: Setting, Character, Plot
Seizing the Crown
Three Generations: The Rise and Fall of the Eternal Empire
Working the Case