{"id":15447,"date":"2024-08-08T09:37:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T07:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/tides-of-tomorrow-ghostly-gamers-offer-a-novel-navigation-of-the-climate-crisis\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T09:37:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T07:37:28","slug":"tides-of-tomorrow-ghostly-gamers-offer-a-novel-navigation-of-the-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/08\/tides-of-tomorrow-ghostly-gamers-offer-a-novel-navigation-of-the-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Tides of Tomorrow \u2013 ghostly gamers offer a novel navigation of the climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gameplay designer Adrien Poncet explains how this seafaring adventure anchors the \u2018idea of common effort\u2019 by linking problem-solving players out of time<\/p>\n

Azure skies; crystalline waters; a flotilla emblazoned with \u201cwelcome to Pleasureland\u201d. It sounds like a dream holiday but this is actually dystopia: continents lie submerged after the Great Flood; a disease caused by toxic plastic ravages every living organism.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no mistaking Tides of Tomorrow for anything other than anxious \u201ccli-fi<\/a>\u201d, but its tone is exuberant, brash and irreverent rather than moody or dread-laden. The setting is the fictional planet of Elynd which, says lead game designer Adrien Poncet, lets him and his colleagues take liberties with the science and technology they are depicting. We see one character inhaling \u201cozen\u201d from a canister \u2013 it\u2019s an oxygen-like substance keeping people alive. Elsewhere, players bear witness to striking and unsettling images, including a vast mass of bobbing plastic akin to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nGameplay designer Adrien Poncet explains how this seafaring adventure anchors the \u2018idea of common effort\u2019 by linking problem-solving players out of time
\nAzure skies; crystalline waters; a flotilla emblazoned with \u201cwelcome to Pleasureland\u201d. It sounds like a dream holiday but this is actually dystopia: continents lie submerged after the Great Flood; a disease caused by toxic plastic ravages every living organism.
\nThere\u2019s no mistaking Tides of Tomorrow for anything other than anxious \u201ccli-fi\u201d, but its tone is exuberant, brash and irreverent rather than moody or dread-laden. The setting is the fictional planet of Elynd which, says lead game designer Adrien Poncet, lets him and his colleagues take liberties with the science and technology they are depicting. We see one character inhaling \u201cozen\u201d from a canister \u2013 it\u2019s an oxygen-like substance keeping people alive. Elsewhere, players bear witness to striking and unsettling images, including a vast mass of bobbing plastic akin to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gameplay designer Adrien Poncet explains how this seafaring adventure anchors the \u2018idea of common effort\u2019 by linking problem-solving players out of time Azure skies; crystalline waters; a flotilla emblazoned with \u201cwelcome to Pleasureland\u201d. It sounds like a dream holiday but this is actually dystopia: continents lie submerged after the Great Flood; a disease caused by …<\/p>\n

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