Ice Desert

Frame · Extreme spaces spatial

Cold, white, monotony – a space where the cold is the constant enemy and the landscape refuses to show differences.

Design question – Your play space is icy and empty. How do players survive the cold – and how do they orient themselves when everything looks the same?

Reference example – Frostpunk: a city around a generator in the endless ice. Never Alone: a girl and an Arctic fox in the Arctic blizzard.

Associations

• Typical Activities – Surviving, Navigating, Sheltering, Enduring

Coherence

Mechanisms: Cold Management (cold as a resource problem), Survival, Navigation (without landmarks), Weather (snowstorms). Activities: Surviving, Navigating, Sheltering, Enduring. Ludic Organisational Structures: survival order, spatial order (cold as a barrier).