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We are working on a tabletop RPG “1581: The Eastern Frontiers” set in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The project is led by the Games Research Association of Poland, with our Faculty of History as one of three official partners. It brings together creators from the four successor nations of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The designers hail from Poland, Ukraine, and Belarus, and are affiliated with institutions based in Poland, Ukraine, and Lithuania.
Meet our core team: experienced game designers and writers as well as historical games researchers and educators, all long engaged with the Commonwealthian history and legacy:
✍ Michał Mochocki – Video game writer at False Prophet, tabletop RPG designer (Dzikie Pola, 2nd ed.), professor at the Faculty of History, University of Gdańsk
✍ Arina Komarnitska – Video game designer and writer (New Arc Line, Hollow Home) at Whodomagick Studio
✍ Jerzy Szeja – Game studies researcher, historical RPG educator, President of the Games Research Association of Poland
✍ Yaraslau I. Kot – Game designer at Little Bit Different, chair of BelGameDev, president of the Magnus Ducatus Foundation, researcher at the European Humanities University.
👉 Grant project: „Commonwealth of Many Nations: a historical role-playing game” from H. Konopacka LOTTO Foundation.
👉 Beneficiary: Games Research Association of Poland.
👉 Partners: Faculty of History, University of Gdansk; Central European Institute, Quinnipiac University; Magnus Ducatus Foundation.