Originally shared by Mark Richardson
Headspace RPG (shared consciousness cyberpunk powered by the apocalypse) is in it’s final two day stretch on Kickstarter. It’ been a hell of a ride and we aren’t done yet as we just blew past our 5th Stretch goal and are on to our 6th cyberpunk setting!
To date the game has funded:
Neo-Tokyo Pleasure Dome Ultra 2070 by Adam Koebel
Paraiso Amazonia (South America) by Encho Chagas
100% Pure (New Zealand) by Hamish Cameron
Hieroglyph of the Whale (Undersea Arcologies) by Emily Care Boss
Carteles Unidos (US/Mexican Cartels) by Jesse Scoble
NEXT STRETCH GOAL #6: $20,800 CAD – New Motor City by Kira Magrann
Detroit, 2065
The architectural carcasses of old rust belt Detroit still haunt these neon streets; art deco theatres and car manufacturing plants preserved in spectacular ruin amidst fields of urban wasteland. Not far from these relics are the shiny new skyscrapers and lush urban farms that mark the revival of Detroit’s industrial landscape. New Motor City industry is a temple built to speed: fast cars, fast music, fast fame. It’s always been about transportation here, and corporations thrive on electric hybrids, vehicle mod trends, and the bio fueled superhighways that support the New Mobility. Detroit Techno has made a comeback in the form of massive local Street Burns that draw latex and dayglo clad ravers who race for pink slips. New media creates and destroys reality stars in a matter of days and tech start-ups with questionable morals support this culture. The urban farmland provides ultra-local paleo-genetic veggies and fish bioengineered to mimic natural foods inaccessible to all but the super-rich. There’s a distinct disparity between the downtown biotech revival and the shamefully neglected neighborhood sprawl. Beneath the success of the new tech and a renaissance of culture, race and class tensions are still prevalent, and the people grow restless.
THEN STRETCH GOAL #7: $23,400 CAD – A Bloody Thaw by Will Hindmarch
The Arctic Ocean, 2044
How quickly can a city grow up? How fast can it fall down? Ice-melt in the Arctic Circle has created new pathways for commerce, revealed new resources to fight for, built up new fortunes, and made new magnates rich. The thawing coastlines opened turf and gave traction for new frontier ports, some of them hiding submersible smugglers and all of them teeming with black-market dealers looking to siphon their share from the planet’s last big oil boom. But as swiftly as they rose, these cities are coming apart. Even with half the ice, it’s cold on top of the world — and a storm is surely coming.