Cold Conflict
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Project Type:
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Educational Project
Writer 5 team members 10 days Word Completed |
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Cold Confilct is fictional game project for which I wrote a large part of the narrative. The
goal of the project was to create a narrative design document that provides
detailed information on all aspects related to the narrative of the game. The
document will then be used as a bible (reference document) for the narrative
during the production phase of the game. The requirements of the bible are
detailed in the document linked above.
I worked on this project with a team of five people. For the sake of clarity, the document provided only contains my contributions to the project and it is thus only part of the complete document delivered. I was responsible for researching and crafting a large portion of the back story and writing the central conflict of the game.
This project was part of the International Game Architecture and Design Bachelor programme in the Netherlands.
I worked on this project with a team of five people. For the sake of clarity, the document provided only contains my contributions to the project and it is thus only part of the complete document delivered. I was responsible for researching and crafting a large portion of the back story and writing the central conflict of the game.
This project was part of the International Game Architecture and Design Bachelor programme in the Netherlands.
Back Story Summary
Halfway into the 21st century a glacial age approaches Earth. The UN decides to take action and starts working on two projects to save humanity. One project focuses on preventing the Earth from turning into a snowball, while the other project tries to terraform Mars in order to make it habitable for humans.
The large amount of energy sources required for these two large projects are not available and thus the UN is forced to use a new resource: methane hydrate. Unfortunately, the mining of methane hydrate backfires as large quantities of methane leak into the atmosphere which accelerates the cooling down process on Earth.
The UN decides to abandon the Earth project and instead focus on terraforming Mars. They manage to build structures on Mars to make it habitable for humans, but the structures can only house 100.000 people. The UN heads for Mars in 2105 with 100.000 of the most elite humans aboard the spaceship in order to rebuild society on Mars. Earth never heard from them again.
Chaos breaks out on Earth and humanity fights against nature and itself for survival. Civilisation as we know breaks down and the whole earth gets covered in snow. At this point Singapore is the only remaining functional country in the world. Singapore starts gathering resources from all around the world in order to survive for as long as possible.
Meanwhile, the UN has established a self-sufficient community on Mars. Unfortunately, a major portion of the people on Mars suffers from heavy depressions. Leaving behind Earth was a heavy burden on them. Suicide rates are high and the population is going down rapidly. The newly established Martian government decides that they need to crank up their population. After a recon mission on Earth they decide to send in special teams in order to 'gather' more individuals to boosts Mars’ population. Since the Mars base is still unable to support a large number of humans, the government decides to do this is secrecy.
Venezuela is one of the locations where Singapore mines oil from and also where Mars performs kidnappings (mostly baby’s). The game lets players explore the conflict between Singapore, the native population of Venezuela, and Mars.
The large amount of energy sources required for these two large projects are not available and thus the UN is forced to use a new resource: methane hydrate. Unfortunately, the mining of methane hydrate backfires as large quantities of methane leak into the atmosphere which accelerates the cooling down process on Earth.
The UN decides to abandon the Earth project and instead focus on terraforming Mars. They manage to build structures on Mars to make it habitable for humans, but the structures can only house 100.000 people. The UN heads for Mars in 2105 with 100.000 of the most elite humans aboard the spaceship in order to rebuild society on Mars. Earth never heard from them again.
Chaos breaks out on Earth and humanity fights against nature and itself for survival. Civilisation as we know breaks down and the whole earth gets covered in snow. At this point Singapore is the only remaining functional country in the world. Singapore starts gathering resources from all around the world in order to survive for as long as possible.
Meanwhile, the UN has established a self-sufficient community on Mars. Unfortunately, a major portion of the people on Mars suffers from heavy depressions. Leaving behind Earth was a heavy burden on them. Suicide rates are high and the population is going down rapidly. The newly established Martian government decides that they need to crank up their population. After a recon mission on Earth they decide to send in special teams in order to 'gather' more individuals to boosts Mars’ population. Since the Mars base is still unable to support a large number of humans, the government decides to do this is secrecy.
Venezuela is one of the locations where Singapore mines oil from and also where Mars performs kidnappings (mostly baby’s). The game lets players explore the conflict between Singapore, the native population of Venezuela, and Mars.
