From bd2e584fc8602753e6888cb88060b6bcb05a5592 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Zhang Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2021 00:22:54 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] ideas --- ideas.md | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+) create mode 100644 ideas.md diff --git a/ideas.md b/ideas.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..959583e --- /dev/null +++ b/ideas.md @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +game is set in a near-future kinda society, with the primary difference being brain uploading technology is on the brink of being a reality + +## story outline + +game is mostly split up into: + +- prelude + + - this is basically the worldbuilding part, what does society look like in this reality? + - less digital freedom, more silos like facebook, google, apple, etc. + - are we a space civilization yet? that seems a bit _too_ out there... + +- start of brain uploading tech + + - tech is still in research phase, maybe some tech news and whatever twitter equivalent reports about it + - mc gets their hand on some of the tech early + +- brain uploading tech gets rolled out to consumers via startups + + - at this point, there are not yet able to scan the brain live, so the human has to die + - huge stakes since if the technology is unreliable that basically means ur dying instantly + +## questions / motifs + +- society perception on whether it's ok or not shifts as more people start doing it + + - initially people perceive it as very dangerous or unethical + - probably a lot of religious people against it + - when the payoffs start manifesting then much more people start doing it + +- also touch upon digital privacy + + - who runs the simulation and owns the brain banks? + - can they manipulate the brains on a higher + +## possible conflicts + +- corporate warfare? + - probably the easiest way to induce conflict, and also force the player to walk around and shit +- foreign government with less human rights obtains / copies the technology, does evil shit +- could brain uploading tech potentially give an upper hand in combat? + +## challenges ("the fun parts") + +- ctf problems + + - mc has a desktop at "home" and is able to connect to it remotely from laptop + - this virtual computer should be simulated by the game and players should be able to ssh into it and copy files out and shit. the near-future setting makes it easy to say "you can operate on these files with tools of today" since it's basically in a modern computer ecosystem + - hacking + forensics will be a large part of the game + - breaking weak crypto? + - bofs in firmware? + - are these things running linux? i sure as hell don't wanna roll a custom OS just for this shit but running an emulator also sounds ridiculously annoying + +- puzzles + + - the puzzles are kinda an afterthought, like substories in yakuza. i guess part of making people run around and stuff is for them to encounter these puzzles and idk if i wanna make this count towards any kind of real storyline ending + + - could just yoink puzzle formats from various puzzle games too + + - minesweeper + - baba is you + +## renaming proper nouns? + +probably don't wanna get into some hot shit with real companies, etc, so ideally all these things should just be left as like `$country` or `$company` in the script so it's easy to change it later. + +also ideally collapse all the companies that are in the same market into a single company even tho it's less realistic cus fuck remembering like 50 new names + +- google-equivalent? some kind of mega tech corp that's basically like the go-to storage thing, thinking they offer services like drive, mail, vpn, and whatnot + +- + +## other shit + +- romantic interest? i'm not the right person to write this kinda crap lol + +## references + +any links that i wanna keep