Interviewing Lola

Please tell me a bit about yourself

I'm a Nigerian/British Neurodivergent TTRPG player and writer, i've been playing for 8+ years and writing games since 2021. I write games to help people explore challenging themes, envision kinder worlds and radicalise people to enact change within their lives and their community.

What do you like best about designing games?

Designing games for me is about exploring parts of the human condition and looking at what we are missing, and trying to bring parts of those into a game, whilst also being a weird little gremlin with silly fun ideas in a way that can be combined together.

What are you working on at the moment, and what excites you about it?

I'm always working on several projects but my main focus is The Wanderer's Bookshop, a solo journalling, bookshop simulator. Where you solve a mystery whilst reading books, junk journalling/ scrapbooking and connecting to the wider literary world. I'm really excited by the way the game interweaves making a keepsake through journalling, creating and scrapbooking with different ways to interact with our wider world and engage with reading.

Can you tell me more about the mechanics of "The Wanderer's Bookshop"?

The game encourages you to create, inspired by tarot card prompts and books in whatever way that suits you, be it through inspired journalling and drawing and/or collecting old material to incorporate in transformative (sometimes destructive) ways . Take influence from the books you read to expand your journal.

Is there anything you would like to promote right now?

The Wanderer's Bookshop is crowdfunding on Backerkit from Feb 2. 2026.

Where should people go to follow you, and to find your products?

I can be found spouting nonsense, sharing yarn and game tidbits on bluesky @thirdvaultyarns.com with my games on https://johnson-ofair.itch.io/

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