Uprising

Frame · Threat and upheaval situational

The oppressed rise up – against authority, against injustice, against the existing order. Revolution, protest, liberation.

Design question – In your game someone rebels against the order. What led to the rupture – and what happens if the uprising fails?

Reference example – Root: the Woodland Alliance gathers sympathy until the revolt breaks out. Half-Life 2: resistance in an occupied city.

Associations

• Typical Activities – Organizing, Rallying, Risking, Subverting

Coherence

Activities: Organizing, Rallying, Risking, Subverting. Mechanisms: Area Control (contesting territories), Asymmetry (few rebels vs. a strong state), Hidden Movement, Escalation. Ludic Organisational Structures: political order (challenged), social order (hierarchy breaks). Ludic Narrational Structure: rise narration, liberation narration.