Wisplings Field Guide – When The Wisplings Call Game Manual (Digital)
When The Wisplings Call – Official Field Guide to the Hidden Folk and the things they leave you. (Digital Companion)
A game I made myself with help from Lou 🍃
This 60-page Field Guide is the essential companion to When The Wisplings Call: a screen-free, story-driven activity game where young or young at heart players receive mysterious letters from hidden, magical beings called Wisplings.
Designed for adults, caretakers, educators, or co-players (known in-game as “Keepers”), the Field Guide explains the full play system, safety scaffolding, and interactive principles behind the letter-based adventures. It includes setup instructions, behavior tips, co-play models, role profiles, and a beautifully formatted journaling system for tracking ongoing play.
📦 Format & Access:
You will receive high-resolution PDF files immediately upon purchase. The journal pages are designed to print at home or at your local print shop, and are easily assembled with a stapler. The guide itself is best used on-screen or printed in booklet format if desired.
📘 You’ll receive:
- A 60-page digital Field Guide (PDF)
- Printable PDF and SVG stencils of the 'Whispling Eye'
- Instructions to start gameplay with any Wispling letter
- 🖋️ Printable Finder’s Journal with space to log discoveries. Prompts reflection and deeper meaning-making.
- 📜 Optional Keeper's Memory, Re-printable template pages to document letter placements, co-created memories and lore, thematic intent, and story arcs over time
📗 Inside the Field Guide:
- Step-by-step instructions for how to prepare and leave a letter
- Keeper’s tips for hosting play at home, in schools, libraries, or workshops
- Co-play guidelines for neurodivergent kids and different ages playing together
- Lore pages introducing the kinds of Wisplings who might leave letters
- Printable Finder’s Journal for kids to log discoveries and quests
- Built-in journaling & expansion tracker to keep growing your world
This guide is compatible with any Wispling letter pack. Letters are sold separately.
🌿 Designed For:
- Parents & Caregivers looking for story-based, exploratory, non-digital play inclusive of ages 5–12
- Neurodivergent kids who thrive on quiet quests, symbolic thinking and self-directed play
- Artists, librarians, or camp leaders who love creating magical moments
- Therapists and educators using letters for sensory, symbolic or Dialectical Behavioral Therapy-based play utilizing mindfulness skills and grounding techniques.
- Game masters or creatives adapting Wispling content into their own campaigns or classrooms
✨ Key Features:
- No screens or apps required
- Developmentally appropriate, educational, exploratory skill-building play
- Includes guidance on behavioral design and co-play scaffolds
- Compatible with all Wispling letter expansions (sold separately)
- Developed by immersive designer Azrai and Lou Wright of Theme Alchemy
📥 Your download link will always provide the latest version of the Guide- including updates, fixes, and expanded content.
🧺 This listing is digital only. You’ll receive a downloadable PDF upon purchase. Printable journal PDF is included, letters and props shown in examples are sold separately.