SOLUBRIOUS Game Design Document

You are a Sol.

You are a (choose, cannot change later):

• Noble (have slight advantage with theoretical knowledge and gain XP (experience points) for checking Fillian Salas science broadcasts[???? Not that exciting or challenging] figuring out marketplace “Game Items”)
• Worker (have slight adantage with spirit energy and totems, gain more XP for releasing totems)

Your Carbon Neutral Goals (choose, these can be adjusted later):

• Food
• Water
• Clothing & Accesories
• Household
• Transportation
• Health
• Pets
• Plastic
• Gadgets
• Entertainment
• Workplace

Choices you make affect the group pool of your side, Worker or Nobility. Working together through individual sums of effort that add up for your group is what it’s all about.

Once a month, a chunk of story is released. As are marketplace “Game Items” to fix societal issues in the key dimensions of the multiverse affect by Sols’ interdimensional travel. 73 Billion souls across the multiverse need your assistance in combating ecological disaster as the spirits of nature go elemental due to Rothar’s technology and inventions.

Your group choices and real life eco actions affect the story and what happens next.

[Code category type tally per month and week etc for easy overview of type of actions taken]

Are you prepared for this adventure? As you transform your personal world, know that the weight of the multiverse is not upon you, but you and your group.

Cooperative play means you will be able to make awesome strides in bigger impact actions which will sometimes be prompted and you and your group can accept.

Are you prepared to save the multiverse? We can’t do it without you.

Tools

First. Your Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Calculator (more below). When you need to make choices of ecological actions to take, you can calculate how much of an impact you are making and add it to your group’s tally.

Next: Your Psymitter will be your best friend. This device allows you to see and travel the multiverse and get broadcasts from the spirits and representatives. You already have it in your hand! And you can find and release elemental totems with it too, more on that later!

Finally: The Fastfrwrd marketplace “Game Items” category is often used to purchase units of clean energy, and other climate fixes after you and your group have decided how to spend your eco points (named Dews) and what to invest in. But, it can sometimes be tricky so be prepared. The Rothary (those still loyal to the deceased king and his way of doing things) are a mighty opponent.

You can also add wildcard “Game Items” of your own and change the story if your group or enough ‘rogues’ choose it, making the storytelling hyper-interactive.

Month by month, we make strides. Are you ready?

Month 1

Hantos announcement Rothar deceased, no more kings or queens, repair multiverse by targeting the primary dimensions.

Tash broadcast: Workers of Solibri, you are free from working in Rothar’s workhouse using spirit energy and making problems worse. Your job now, should you accept it, is to work to repair the multiverse.

Sanaa broadcast: Nobles of Solibri, you have been raised to understand natural systems in the hopes of becoming monarchs. While that incentive is no longer present, the fact is, now, a threat exists to tear apart all worlds and transform them into stillness. We cannot let that happen as we will be no more. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to stop this from happening!

Fillian Salas broadcast: Dear Sols of Solibri. I am Fillian Salas, your science advisor. You can text me anytime with questions about the science behind any task and I and my assistants will respond with information. There are prompts written in the text box, just click to send. I also provide briefings on the progress made in saving the multiverse! The good news is: it can be done. We’ve got this!

[Quests follow in Group Moderator-only doc: https://fastfrwrd.info/docs/solubrious-quests/]

INNOVATION TEMPLATE for “Game Items”:

Item

Description

What it replaces

Cost in energy to implement

Cost in materials to implement

Cost in dollars to implement

How much energy saved (in 10 year short-term)

E.g.

Reusable Doctor’s Glove & UV Sanitizer on Solar power

Heat Pumps HVAC

Tools Details

Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Calculator

Assessment Mode: Assess the Greenhouse Gas and plastic footprint of a specific item based on average study estimates

Compensation Mode: A further step after assessment to calculate how many trees would absorb the emissions

Comparative Mode: Compare the options you have present for the more ecological option.

This includes looking into: Does it produce methane, does it require transportation, does it need gas to be cooked for example, does it use high temperatures to be manufactured, does it require a lot water resources and pumping electricity, does it make heavy use of artificial fertilizer and pesticides, does it make use of plastic or Styrofoam, does it leave microplastics, does it require electricity, does it require refrigeration, does it leach chemicals or release chemicals into waterways? And so forth.

Game Type:

Augmented Reality and phone interface

Built with AR.js: https://ar-js-org.github.io/AR.js-Docs/

 

Game World Pillars:

Totems required to travel, Psymitter (phone-like device for traveling the multiverse).

Still Galros energy used to power totems, it does not come back or change, it decays.

Release the energy and use Canna energy (sun spirit) and other spirit energy in a new way. The spirits can fix totems with live energy. Small vacuum splits the energy and reanimates still Galros energy and the spark grows to fill the vacuum.

 

Intro

Good day Doctor,

Nice to see you. While today may seem ordinary, we have an important message on the Psymitter from the Spirits of Nature, spanning the multiverse to share urgent news.

Hantos (Tree and Forestry Spirit): King Rothar is dead. Passed away in his sleep. We have decided as the spirits of nature that we will use the power Sols have given us to decide on their leaders. This time no one will lead.

All Sols are tasked with restoring balance to nature by releasing still spirit energy found in the elemental totems powering interdimensional travel and everything else, and replacing it with live spirit energy.

Repair the multiverse, repair Solibri!

 

Tutorial

[How to Release Elemental Totems]

 

Mechanics

Battles take place in the Spirit Battle realm. When you find a totem held by another Sol that needs to be released, persuade them to give it over in this realm.

 

Sol says either: >:(, >:p, or 🙁

Anger, Mockery or Negativity

Combat with: :), :p, 8)

Brighten, Joke, Logic

On a timer and win the totem in the last round or try again next time.

 

Elemental Totems:

Workers and Rothar Supporters (often nobles):

“It’s too late to save the multiverse!”

“This is my crime!”

Barks in categories to each smiley. They are the only ones not releasing totems. Why?

They heard the news of the multiverse decay and Rothar’s death and fled, cutting off from Psymitters that can be traced by Hantos.

They believe it’s too late to save the multiverse and are looking for an unaffected dimension.

Why not change the energy? Didn’t know? Cut off from Psymitters before last message.

Acted pre-emptively. They all went offline, the supporters. And panicked and fled. Can be found everywhere. Who would tell them.

Resorted to old tech without Hantos roots all up in there but elemental totems power travel. Hantos can see who is seeing him so they cut the message so he wouldn’t see them.

They have Response Rules. They want dependence and cashflow according to the Response Rules.

Rothar encouraged animal rearing to bring Galros food from all over.

It is increasing still energy everywhere, even in the people.

Never will people stop eating meat, can’t stop Sols interdimensional travel.

Rothar was working on Clean Energy to protect lineage, start dynasty, believed kids best qualified to lead.

“They’ll blame all of us.”

Rothar thinks the answer is to find dimensions where spirits of nature do not rule

It’s a whole multiverse against the nobles and Rothar Supporters.

The whole multiverse will blame them.

People are becoming still energy and Rothari don’t believe we will forgive it.

The part to transform still energy comes from the core of an earth-like planet or similar star as our sun, and takes a couple years to replenish.

They would have to ration. They wanna go where they want to and find another dimension in case tje spirits’ plan doesn’t work.

Rothari don’t waan wait, don’t waan stop eat still energy, don’t want give up interdimensional travel, don’t waan wait for the cores, so go out of known multiverse to get their own, so they are hard to find.

Sols travel both time and space. So they can go to some future realms safely and collect cores but they have to choose times when the core would have replenished on an earth-like planet or sun similar to ours. You can travel to a certain point in time when the core would have refreshed.

Elemental totems can shrink down or size up.

 

Galros Intro

Galros: Hey guys, just your friendly swamp spirit here, old Galros.

I knew I was getting bigger and stronger because Rothar was feeding me. Dude would walk in and say: “What do you want?” I say, 3 tonnes of fried chicken, he said: “Yes!” And that would be it. Next day? Pizza, 4 tonnes. “Coming right up, sir!”

I didn’t know it would drain other energy! Swear I didn’t.

Man, I’m sorry. But we can fix this.

 

Details

New dimensions open when Sols affect history and split the timeline. Dimensions decay when spirit energy leaves them. This happened naturally before but interdimensional and time travel lead to more decaying dimensions where Sols affected the timeline.

Sols can see the spirits of nature due to their atmosphere on Solibri granting light beings visibility, including spirits. Because of this visibility of the spirits, Sols learned about other dimensions and tied up their politics with the wisdom of the spirits to choose leaders with knowledge of the natural world and how to steward it. Rothar came to power due to his knowledge, not because he respected nature.

Galros gets big to eat, takes big bite of everything then gets smal again by oozing slime. Likes to belch after. Eg 5 tonnes of chicken wings, gets big then small, oozes, and makes mouth big again to belch fire, caue wings spicy.