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Setting #6

Open juliankrispel opened 10 years ago

juliankrispel commented 10 years ago

First setting description here -> #4

juliankrispel commented 10 years ago

Doing the background art for the first level I have thought a bit more about the story/drama and how it could integrate with the game and have the following proposition:

The setting is slightly postapocalytic.

Background

In the 23rd century, due to artificially sped up climate change the earths tectonic plates are volatile. The consequences have seen major parts of each continent sunk to various ocean depths. Since our power needs in the 23rd century are met mainly by nuclear reactors, these catastrophes also meant that a significant part of earth has been contaminated as and when nuclear reactors where compromised.

How this could tie into the levels

The research group that leads our missions have developed a way to neutralise clusters of radioactive energy in an attempt to stabilise the oceans. Those clusters will usually be the goal/end of each mission and they're a breeding point for the abominations that are now dominating the oceans. This is also were we meet our bosses.