Canadian role-playing game designer
Alex Roberts is a Canadian tabletop role-playing game designer. Her games typically lack a gamemaster (GM) and include romantic themes. Her games include "For the Queen" and "Star Crossed".
Career.
Games
Roberts designed "For the Queen", a GM-less storytelling card game that initiated the genre of games called "Descended from the Queen." "For the Queen" was first published by Evil Hat Productions in 2019, then an updated version was published by Darrington Press in 2024. Brittany N. Arde at the University of Cincinnati used Roberts' "For the Queen" in a psychological study on the influence of storytelling games on team building. Emily St. James, for "Vox", stated in 2020 that "Roberts is one of the RPG creators whose work most excites me right now, and "For the Queen" is her best game"; in 2022, she called Roberts "one of the best RPG designers working right now".
Roberts contributed design work for "Till the Last Gasp" (2023), a 2-player dueling game published by "Critical Role's" imprint Darrington Press. Linda Codega for "Io9" described "Till the Last Gasp" as a blend of Will Hindmarch's tactical, mathematical design approach with Alex Roberts' "established" experience "designing immersive two-player games".
She created the two player play-by-post game "Our Time on Earth" in 2021. 
Roberts designed the game "Pop!" in 2020 for the LARP anthology Honey &amp; Hot Wax. In a 2024 interview with Polygon, Roberts said, "The best game I’ve ever made is "Pop!" It’s a live-action game about a community of balloon fetishists."
Roberts made "Star Crossed", published by Bully Pulpit Games in 2019, a game about forbidden romantic pairings. It was funded via a Kickstarter campaign. The game won the 2019 Diana Jones Award. The use of a Jenga tower as a game mechanic to heighten tension was inspired by the horror role-playing game "Dread".
Roberts was the host of the role-playing games podcast "Backstory" on the One Shot Podcast Network from 2016 to 2019.
Counseling
In addition to working as a game designer, Roberts runs a counseling service.
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