Borderland

Frame · Extreme spaces spatial

Between two worlds – a space that belongs to neither one nor the other and where different rules apply.

Design question – Your play space lies between two areas. What makes the borderland special – the freedom, the lawlessness, or the tension between the worlds?

Reference example – Papers, Please: the border post between two states, where different rules apply than on either side. Schotten Totten: nine boundary stones between two clans, each fought over separately.

Associations

• Typical Activities – Negotiating, Smuggling, Spying, Trading (with both sides)

Coherence

Mechanisms: Diplomacy (between factions), Smuggling, Area Control (contested territory), Dual Allegiance. Activities: Negotiating, Smuggling, Spying, Trading (with both sides). Ludic Organisational Structures: political order (contested), economic order (a smuggler economy).