I am a space cadet whose chest is about to burst open
And because of that, I completely forgot to mention in my last post that Jon is working on a survival horror game of his own, called Giger Counter. He even linked me to it! I am, as he says, a pirate queen.
There’s some really interesting stuff going on in Giger, some of which I might well steal (arr). It definitely takes Afraid’s Conditions and runs with them, and the monster die-naming seems like a nice way to roll monster discovery and description into a low-prep system—I could actually see something like it working for player characters in a couple of hacks I’m currently marinating.
Anyway, the hack is cool, and he also links to a neat playtest report of a Scream-style teen slasher game played with Afraid. Go check it out.