“Being ‘only’ a designer in highly political or economically difficult times feels weird,” Jana Reinhardt, one half of the German game-making team Rat King Entertainment, told me. She feels frustrated and desperate as the world changes in volatile ways around her, and all she can do is design stuff in response. To deal with this, she developed an escapist fantasy, one that involved becoming a shepherd. That might seem odd, especially given the fact that Reinhardt is aware that being a shepherd is hardly an easy time: “I know it’s pretty hard work, no vacations and also no animal cuteness,…