Diktador! Playtest: A Role-Playing Card Game on Power, Resistance, and Memory
Join Games for Change Hong Kong on September 8 for an exclusive playtest session of Diktador!, an upcoming role-playing game set in the era of the Philippine Martial Law, featuring and facilitated by the designers themselves!
Diktador! is a role-playing card game that immerses players in the tense realities of the Philippine Martial Law (1972–1986). Through historical campaigns, sector-based roles, and difficult choices, players experience how ordinary people navigate authoritarian rule, surveillance, propaganda, repression, and resistance.
In every session, players take on the roles from different sectors and respond to situations inspired by real historical events. With situations controlled by the Diktador (Dictator), players must help each other make decisions, form alliances, confront consequences, and explore the risks and possibilities of resistance.
More than a game, Diktador! creates a space for historical reflection, dialogue, and collective learning. It invites players to examine how power shapes our choices, how people respond to injustice, and why remembering history matters.
Event Details
Date: September 8, 2026 (Tuesday)
Time: 19:00-21:30
Location: DARA, Shop 3, 5-6, G/F, Soho 189, 189 Queen’s Road West, Sai Ying Pun
Entrance is free. The registration fee on Luma is to secure your seat and to help us plan, as the play experience will need to be adjusted and prepared for the number of players we are expecting. Upon arrival, we will refund you HKD100 in cash.
Thank you to DARA for hosting this unique event at their beautiful space. As a token of appreciation, we ask that all participants purchase at least a drink from DARA on the day. We can’t recommend their Filipino-inspired cuisine (and drinks) highly enough!
Games for Change Hong Kong
Games for Change Hong Kong (G4CHK) is Asia's first local and subregional chapter of the global Games for Change movement, dedicated to advancing the role of games and interactive media in social impact, education, and innovation.
Based in Hong Kong, the initiative convenes educators, researchers, creators, industry leaders, nonprofits, and policymakers to foster cross-sector collaboration and meaningful dialogue across the Asia-Pacific region, advancing the use of games as both a vehicle and a platform for impact and education.