Famine

Frame · Threat and upheaval situational

Not enough for everyone – existential scarcity in which every distribution becomes a moral decision.

Design question – In your game there isn’t enough for everyone. What is scarce – food, energy, space, attention? And by what rules is it distributed?

Reference example – Banished: winter is coming and the supplies are not enough for everyone. Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island: every round food is short and every decision costs strength.

Associations

• Typical Activities – Rationing, Gathering, Deciding, Sacrificing

Coherence

Activities: Rationing, Gathering, Deciding, Sacrificing. Mechanisms: Resource Management (extreme scarcity), Allocation (a distribution decision), Decay (reserves fall), Worker Placement (too few workers for too many tasks). Ludic Organisational Structures: economic order (collapsing), social order (solidarity vs. egoism). Ludic Narrational Structure: survival narration, moral dilemmas as narrative nodes.