redivider's game thread: 'the city is a battlesuit for surviving the future'
redivider:
I might make a game inspired by this >> http://io9.com/5362912/the-city-is-a-battlesuit-for-surviving-the-future
which was the slogan of an urbanomancer char I played in a short unknown armies campaign.
here taken literally: a game in which characters are visitors from the future, perhaps pursuing one another or being pursued. And they take the mightiest products of the 21st century civilization - our mega cities - peel them off the earth's surface, and 'strap them on' as battle suits hundreds of kilometers high.
I assume that statistics about contemporary cities- their populations, growth rates, size, major industries, trade flows- would determine game stats for the cities as power armor.
I might set the game so that chars must engage with the city/ inhabitants to unlock cities as suits.
or something...
Vulpinoid:
Sort of reminds me of the original Macross saga, with the city built into the giant transformable battleship, the SDF-1.
That's an ambitious concept. Good Luck.
Jason Pitre:
Ambitious. You might want to take symbolic approach to account for the infrastructure and social programs in the city. If a city has an excellent recreational baseball team, the city might be better at clubbing opponents, for example. The better the roads, the faster the city can move.
I see the City and the Skin here, but I am uncertain if you have described any use of a third element? The desert or the edge? Curious how it would be included.
Jason Morningstar:
Staggeringly cool. What would be extra awesome is if there were the possibility of games with in games as dudes fight across the cities that are themselves fighting. Maybe infiltrators can mess with the infrastructure of the Sao Paolo megasuit - blowing up power substations and plugging stormwater channels - to cripple the suit's wearer in battle.
redivider:
Quote from: Vulpinoid on September 11, 2010, 07:35:36 PM
Sort of reminds me of the original Macross saga, with the city built into the giant transformable battleship, the SDF-1.
That's an ambitious concept. Good Luck.
thanks for the macross example & good wishes
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