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Jannik Friberg
I make board games to explore and model historical and political events to make arguments against the objective and subjective violence of late capitalism. My ambition is not only to bring fresh perspectives on historical events, but more importantly to make games against the empire. We live under a colonial system of exploitation and racial injustices, whose basic logic has crept into the fabric of social life.…
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Capitalism is designed to produce shit we don't need, and create scarcity of things we actually need, a system the profits (and reproduces itself) by making things worse. Making games is about exposing this logic, and the harmful effects of a social reality colonized by capitalism. Making board games, then, is my feeble attempt to distill this lived reality in our neoliberal hellscape and turn into some sort of model. I'm currently working on a Pax-style card-game about the collapse of Imperial Russia. Most recently I published a GDR-themed card game.
Biography and credits from BoardGameGeek.
Designed and illustrated 3 games
| Erich & Walter | 2025 | 0 | |
| Vi Är Ej Maskiner | 2025 | 0 | |
| I Die Innocent | 2025 | 0 |