I’ll be writing a cyberpunk setting about New Zealand as a stretch goal for Mark Richardson’s shared consciousness cyberpunk game Headspace (he pitches it as Sense8 meets Blade Runner… I haven’t watched Sense8 yet).
Headspace is a fun game with a quite different take on cyberpunk than The Sprawl. It really zeros in on the possibilities of shared consciousness technology. I recommend checking out the QuickStart document.
Headspace handles Corporations in a slightly different way that The Sprawl does, but all the setting material for Headspace should be compatible for The Sprawl.
Originally shared by Mark Richardson
Headspace RPG – shared consciousness cyberpunk – (Sense8 meets Blade Runner) has just funded it’s second stretch goal and now has over 300 backers and has raised $10,430 CAD!
Our third goal is for Hamish Cameron to write a cyberpunk setting in New Zealand 2070!
$13,000 CAD – 100% Pure by Hamish Cameron
New Zealand 2070
They used to say you’re always prepared for the last disaster. That’s bullshit. When Christchurch got flattened in ‘11, quakes were on everyone’s mind, but the idea of disaster preparation vanished faster than the Civil Defense budget to feed the offshore accounts of the smiling corporate assassins. Short term profit ruled: buy low, sell the guts, discard the carcass.
So when the Alpine cracked in ‘50 and set off just about every fault in the Shaky Isles, no one was ready. The tidal waves and liquefaction sunk the Hutt and half of Wellington and slid most of the rest into the harbour. After sixty years of corporate globalisation, the government could do nothing but relocate to Auckland and sell what little of the country they still owned.
A spreading halo of industrial wasteland encloses Auckland. Everyone with money and contacts fled to Nelson and the Coromandel. The corps took everything flat and green for their agri-factories and everything near the harbours for industrial sprawl and slum housing. Freedom lives in the bush with the cluster bombs and chemical agents, or in the cracks of the cities with the gangs and the ghosts and the Net.
100% Pure? Yeah, right.
About the author:
Hamish Cameron has been playing, designing and tweaking roleplaying games, settings, boardgames and wargames since he discovered Fighting Fantasy gamebooks in the mid-80s. In 2014, he ran a successful kickstarter campaign for The Sprawl, his own take on apocalypse-powered cyberpunk, which will be completed later this year. He tweets primarily as @peregrinekiwi
Oh, you should watch Sense8. For a lot of viewers it doesn’t click until 3 or 4 episodes in, but when it does, it is amazing. (I loved it from the get go personally)
It’s definitely on my list, behind several other “must see” shows like Daredevil and True Detective (S1).
True Detective is on my list as well. I’m afraid it is going to be too dark to watch with my wife Pamela Alexander
Looks like a great game. I’m likely to back it. Sense8 is amazing. It inspired me to want to write a game about it. Glad someone better beat me to it!
We are now 40% of the way towards this goal!