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**The First Wide Area Megagame**\\ | **The First Wide Area Megagame**\\ | ||
- | The Horde Is Coming to a City Near You\\ | + | **The Horde Is Coming to a City Near You** |
London : Bristol : Southampton : Brussels : Nijmegen : Cambridge : Leeds : Montreal : New York | London : Bristol : Southampton : Brussels : Nijmegen : Cambridge : Leeds : Montreal : New York | ||
=====Introduction===== | =====Introduction===== | ||
+ | The zombie apocalypse trope is well established in literature, movies, computer and board games. And in megagames too, with the first series of Urban Nightmare megagames played in 2012. | ||
- | =====Introduction===== | + | As a megagame, the Urban Nightmare games explore the higher level decision making during a major, potentially existential, |
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+ | In a megagame we can really look at how things get that far out of control. Or not. In the emerging gameplay of a megagame the outcome is entirely open to the consequences of player decisions and their interactions. | ||
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+ | In the previous version of the game, the focus was on just one city, **Romero City**, a place beset with many mundane problems of its own even without the outbreak of a terrifying pandemic. In **UN: State of Chaos**, we have extended the perspective to explore what is happening across the whole state. Five cities (of which Romero City is the largest) are all struggling with their own troubles and turning to the State Governor and the National Guard for help. Will this be enough? or will the state Governer have to sacrifice valuable political capital and go, cap in hand, to the Federal authorities and the President for Federal help.\\ \\ | ||
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+ | =====A wide area megagame===== | ||
+ | So, of course, there is more than one state in the United States of America. What if the crisis is cropping up in more than one state? Together with partners all over the world we are organising multiple megagames, each megagame representing a different state in a fictionalised America containing different cities. | ||
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+ | Those games both stand alone as individual megagames yet are in touch with each other, and are played in exactly the same time frame on the same day. So, for example, Governors of neighbouring states will be able to confer with their counterparts - pass on what they have learned, or warn of cross-border threats. | ||
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+ | And there will be an overall Federal team in touch with all the games and allocating important resources, in real time, to where they are most needed. | ||
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+ | This is the first time we have attempted anything like this, so it is an exciting project for Megagame Makers, and megagames in general. And you can be a part of it! If you want to take a look at the central site for this game follow this link to the [[http:// | ||
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+ | In the Netherlands, | ||
+ | =====Roles===== | ||
+ | This is roughly how the teams look in a single game of **Urban Nightmare : State of Chaos**: | ||
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+ | ^ Team Role ^ What are they trying to do? ^ Approx.\\ number\\ in team ^ | ||
+ | ^ The News Media | The most important players in the game. The media are there to hold everyone to account and report The Truth. The news media operate on both the local level - reflecting how public opinion is shaping up within the state and on the National level - reporting via the internet to the other games in the WAM what is happening. | 4 - 7 | | ||
+ | ^ State Governor\\ and staff | Stay in power. Do not look weak or incapable to the voters. Ensure political rivals do not benefit. Ensure campaign contributors do not lose out. Possibly even run for President. Oh yes, and save the State, obviously. | 4 - 7 | | ||
+ | ^ State Police / Sheriffs | ||
+ | ^ State National Guard | The only military force under the control of the Governor. Responsible for the defence and security of the state against all threats. | 3 - 5 | | ||
+ | ^ City Government - The Mayor and staff | Each of the five cities has city government roles. The Mayor and his staff will want to stay in power and not look weak or incapable to the voters. They city government takes responsibility for leading the city in time of crisis. | 4 - 5 \\ depending on the size of the city | | ||
+ | ^ City Police Department | ||
+ | ^ City Emergency Services | ||
+ | ^ Tech Corporations | ||
+ | ^ ZombieMeisters | ||
+ | ^ Special Roles | We cannot say much about these roles at this stage, but there are a small number specially colourful roleplaying roles that will suit self-starting imaginative players. All we can say is that the weed of crime bears bitter fruit. | 2 or 3 | | ||
+ | ^ Control Team | Try to keep order and run the game. | 10 -12 | | ||
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+ | If you want to form a team with your friends, think of a good team name and register with this team name. What could possibly go wrong?\\ \\ | ||
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+ | =====Costs and registry===== | ||
+ | Costs to participate in the game are €20,-- for players and €10,-- for umpires. You can enlist individually or as a group. For more information, |