After the Catastrophe

Frame · Time relations temporal

It is over – what was is destroyed. What remains is rubble, memories and the question: what do we build now?

Design question – Your game begins after a catastrophe. What is left – and is it worth restoring the old, or should something new arise?

Reference example – Metro 2033: the survivors have withdrawn into the underground tunnels. Pandemic Legacy: Season 2: after the plague, the world is reconnected city by city.

Associations

• Typical Activities – Scavenging, Building, Governing, Remembering

Coherence

Mechanisms: Crafting (improvised), Resource Management (extreme scarcity), Exploration (searching the rubble), Building (new construction). Activities: Scavenging, Building, Governing, Remembering. Ludic Narrational Structure: rise narration (from nothing to the new), liberation narration, iterative narration (building piece by piece).