WORLDBUILDING.

Subject: WORLDBUILDING. Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:52 pm

Yeah prettymuch everyone is welcome to get in on this. Here's what I had written on another thread copypasta'd:

It's post-apocalyptic KINDA. Lots of urban decay anyway, things are suffering about two decades of neglect...? As well as some damage that'd make you go WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED. It's a crushed up city! And no matter how far you walk in any direction besides West it seems to go on forever. The western side of it stops at the sea.

It'd be kinda more based on survival/survival horror cos there are nasty things in the city... and I think people have been tampered with. Not all of them, but whether surgically or supernaturally or whatever some people are pretty strange. I'm thinking MOSTLY psychics as far as any kind of "power" goes, maybe pheremones, animal splicing to a certain extent, and whatever else people come up with so long as it makes sense.

I also have the idea of a partners system. Like you get paired up with someone IN the city and have to stick together to a certain extent? I dunno how to do it yet except for like... bracelets that cause you pain/harm/whatever if something happens to your partner or if you get too far away...?

Subject: Re: WORLDBUILDING. Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:32 pm

So it would be survival horror in a post-apocalyptic megalopolis BD SO COOL.
If people are put into groups/paired, what is the authority behind doing that? Like who put the bracelets on our characters?
What is the reason for the world to be post-apocalyptic?

I'm thinking of several scenarios... for example, suppose they're in a world that was overpopulated to the brim and then sortof destroyed somehow, and the only people remaining are kind of messed up somehow... and our characters could wake up from cryo and each have one of those bracelets or maybe an implanted chip or whatever, and they'll have to deal with a situation completely unfamiliar to them like that.

Another scenario would be it's a planet where they just like to dump criminals and occasionally alien wildlife, which would explain why people could do messed up things to them like put those bracelets on them and dump them on a destroyed world and have a survival horror thing going on.

In both cases maybe their minds were wiped so they have no recollection of who they were.

IDK

Subject: Re: WORLDBUILDING. Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:06 pm

There's actually an authority I hadn't gotten to that yet! The people involved were either kidnapped or donated themselves to science for some reason.

The City itself seems to loop, like you never get out because you always seem to end back somewhere else. It's actually a containment area. There are monster-ish things like I said buuut... The people wake up with a bit of a gap in their memory.

It's similar to your dumping people here one only it's an experiment.
An experiment and the huge twist in the opriginal concept is the characters IN the city don't realize that there are little cameras everywhere... their lives are a huge "reality" TV show/social/scientific experiment. They don't realize that's what's behind it all though, which means anyone who's in the city HAS been in the city before recording/airing happened or had THAT memory erased. I dunno if THAT is gonna be the twist here but it is one idea.

I at least want to keep the experiment bit of it.