cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5915428
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5915426
Hi, I with a few people are trying to start a remote game-dev studio inspired by Motion Twin, we would horizontally make decisions on what game idea to work and we would horizontally decide salary if we ever got to the stage of creating games with commercial potential. If anyone is interested you can join us, we are so far mostly interested in using Godot for development cause it is FOSS. We have not incorporated yet anywhere because we have just started and I think that for a long time this will be a part time project with various people having different amount of time to work on the project. If anyone is interested then we can get in touch. We are anarchists/libertarian socialists and we think of this as a political project too.
So maybe a multiplayer where a solarpunk city has to collaborate against a simulated tycoon.
I would like to create game narratives that avoid heroes and fighting - in accordance with Ursula K- LeGuin’s Carrier Bag theory.
That sounds wonderful actually
Or rethink the old colonizer and settler games. Uncolonize and unsettle them somehow, tweak the game mechanics of civilization builders and economy simulators to reflect less of the current status quo - gently nudge people into becoming anarchists.
I kind of understand people wanting shooter games and want to blow stuff up in a game. But even in games that aren’t focused on letting off steam, the whole premise and storytelling is often unreflectedly old-school. That’s something I would like to work on.