79 lines
3.3 KiB
Markdown
79 lines
3.3 KiB
Markdown
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
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## story outline
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game is mostly split up into:
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- prelude
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- this is basically the worldbuilding part, what does society look like in this reality?
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- less digital freedom, more silos like facebook, google, apple, etc.
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- are we a space civilization yet? that seems a bit _too_ out there...
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- start of brain uploading tech
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- tech is still in research phase, maybe some tech news and whatever twitter equivalent reports about it
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- mc gets their hand on some of the tech early
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- brain uploading tech gets rolled out to consumers via startups
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- at this point, there are not yet able to scan the brain live, so the human has to die
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- huge stakes since if the technology is unreliable that basically means ur dying instantly
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## questions / motifs
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- society perception on whether it's ok or not shifts as more people start doing it
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- initially people perceive it as very dangerous or unethical
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- probably a lot of religious people against it
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- when the payoffs start manifesting then much more people start doing it
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- also touch upon digital privacy
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- who runs the simulation and owns the brain banks?
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- can they manipulate the brains on a higher
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## possible conflicts
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- corporate warfare?
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- probably the easiest way to induce conflict, and also force the player to walk around and shit
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- foreign government with less human rights obtains / copies the technology, does evil shit
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- could brain uploading tech potentially give an upper hand in combat?
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## challenges ("the fun parts")
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- ctf problems
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- mc has a desktop at "home" and is able to connect to it remotely from laptop
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- 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
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- hacking + forensics will be a large part of the game
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- breaking weak crypto?
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- bofs in firmware?
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- 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
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- puzzles
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- 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
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- could just yoink puzzle formats from various puzzle games too
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- minesweeper
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- baba is you
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## renaming proper nouns?
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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.
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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
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- 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
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## other shit
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- romantic interest? i'm not the right person to write this kinda crap lol
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## references
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any links that i wanna keep
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