About

Hi and welcome to my webshop,

where I sell you physical copies of a selection of my games.

Let me introduce myself. I am Johan Eriksson. I work as a game design teacher and a game designer. I started making games as a young kid. I primarily make table top roleplaying games. Sometimes I make board and card games. Sometimes I make weird avant garde design experiments.

I tend to work alone. I tend to like being a one person show. Mostly because I am a bit restless and easily bored.

I don't want a publisher, I want to stay independent. Mostly because I want to have complete artistic liberty.

My games are political, sometimes overtly, sometimes less so. This comes from me being a politically minded person. That said, I am not in support of any party, person or nation. I self identify as an anarchist, so my games will whether I like it or not be from that perspective.

I'm not in this for the money. I am doing this because I love making games and expressing myself through the game medium. It is literally how I process and think about things. That said, I want you to know that by buying physical copies of my game you are letting me know that you like what I do and want me to continue doing it, in a very clear way. It always makes my day!

I also want to mention that all games I make are in one way or the other available for free on my itch page: https://jocher-symbolic-systems.itch.io/

I really hope that what I make and publish resonates with you. I hope that whatever weird artifacts that I make will enrich your life too.

On games as art

I view games as one of our most important forms of cultural expression, not because of the state of the industry right now but because of the fact that it puts AGENCY at the center. I see making games as the Art of Agency. It is where we explore and understand what agency is, recontextualize ourselves and expand our self to include new ways of doing.

Games are conversations

I believe that you cannot make games in a vacuum. As a game designer I rely on my players, since you provide the last part of the game system, the human interaction. As such you will transmute and change whatever creation I make for you into something that is not fully mine and not fully yours, it is ours. If you play a game of mine we are talking to eachother in an asynchronous and indirect way. I would love to hear your thoughts on your expeiences with my games. Otherwise I have no idea how that conversation is going. :)

A good way of connecting with me is by joining the dedicated Discord server and strike up a conversation there. You can find it here: https://discord.gg/aGaF4hW

On delivery times

When ordering through this page I want to highlight that all packages and all manual labour of this is 100% me doing it, so delivery times might vary a bit (depending on life conditions at the moment).

Certain titles will be slower to produce and ship than other, I will be as clear as I possibly can when describing the products so that you know what to expect.