ITT: We create the darkest setting in existence, or just throw ideas around.
>Born out of hatred and bitterness of a dying, betrayed god
>Scorching, cruel sun(s?) come up for only a small fraction of 26-hour day (13*2)
>A persistent storm, like the red eye of Jupiter, born from the final deathgasp of the creator, bears magically respawning iron shards that cut up everything and everyone
What the main sapient race should be? Is it humanoid, insectoid, ornithoid?
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>What the main sapient race should be?
Metaloids
Metal golems? A curious idea. That'd make making cultures a bit more difficult, though...
World: round, flat, or stuff with fucky dimensions like in Vangers and Hammerfight?
I'd rather have post-apoc with mutants and stuff.
THIS WORLD IS SO EDGY IT WAS POST-APOC SINCE ITS VERY BIRTH
Mostly darkness and only little sun is to meme for dark settings, why not use a more intune with modern fears (climate change) and use a setting of an endless, all consuming sun that destroys all that is not sheltered, and having to try and live with that.
Gonna be too dry, too Dune
Why so? Culture arises from the environment and its individuals/major societal changes, it has nothing to do with race.
being golems does not necessarily mean they are super logic robots, each tribe/group might have their own spawning (making a new golem?) rituals, their own ideas of what is right and wrong, and the reasons to why they think that (which does not have to be logic, irl they hardly ever are).
>it has nothing to do with race
Wrong. Should I explain why?
>being golems does not necessarily mean they are super logic robots, each tribe/group might have their own spawning (making a new golem?) rituals, their own ideas of what is right and wrong, and the reasons to why they think that (which does not have to be logic, irl they hardly ever are).
True.
True, wonder if its possible to do it without necessarily lack of water, solar winds that kill most non-adapted life, including the individuals, but some fungal based life forms "plant" life survives it.
You can have a hellish always-light setting without necessarily dryness or sand.
Also it could be mostly a world full of water, but due to the heat its extremely humid, you can create hazards out of that as well, perhaps the high humidity is lethal somehow, due to in some areas carrying spores/toxins instead of allowing them to settle down, they keep it in the air, trapped in the water particles.
Imagine a hot day in England, its guaranteed its going to become humid as fuck and really unpleasant.
Go on, explain why.
I think race miiight influence culture, but its not deterministic, and thus its not required for variety.
>miiight
It will. Life span, innate qualities, instincts, life cycle, social or individual, diet (carni/omni/herbivore /autothrofic /magicothrofic) are big thingies. Culture of sapient social insects gonna be really different from human one.
wait, you are talking about species, that is a given.
Im talking about race, which is small variations and specific adaptations within a species.
Only fantasy allowed? Because if not:
That's fucking badass. I wanna play that.
That's so fucking edgy
And so are you.
Better be edgy than dull.
Got me there, champ.
Name of game?
Apokalypse. Says it right fucking there, you douche.
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More post apocalyptic, but could work for fantasy or tech equally well.
Gas giant.
Jupiter is Hell. Because of its immense size, it is effectively infinite and could house every living soul from the beginning of time to its inevitable end. The crushing gravity, intoxicatingly thick gas / liquid and radiation would be enough to kill anything originating from Earth instantaneously, but the lost souls must endure it for eternity.
Those trapped therein cannot communicate with or console one another, but they are given the sight to see through the haze, to see the agony of their fellow man for miles in every direction. They are stacked in small, invisible isolation chambers which they cannot traverse through. They collectively experience their own suffering and each other's, for in life they did not care about their brothers or sisters, but now they are required to.
Gazing upwards at the planet's core, screaming in hopes that the heavens will open for them and that God will let down his hand. Their pleas are never answered. They did not care about him in life, a feeling that is now largely mutual in death. He will have mercy at the end of all things, casting them into the lake of fire, the portal to nonexistentance.
New Jerusalem, also known as Heaven is a large cubic spacecraft which will transfer those who have accepted God's grace to the core of Jupiter, Paradise. This is where God, his, children and the angels reside. It is an oasis, protected from the otherworldly horrors in the outer reaches of the planet. It blossoms with life, much like Eden once did. It seems just out of reach for those in the innermost circle of Hell, the worst of all, which taunts the truly evil for eternity.
The demons are mostly absent, having made home within our own planet's core. When this world has overstayed its welcome, the earth's crust will give way and the serpents will ravage
>edgy
It was the 90's, and this (bretty gud, tbqh) game distilled all of it:
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>Magic is cast from positive emotions
>Even so, all magic available to mortals is of destructive nature
>Overuse of magic not only depletes ones positive emotions and memories, but also makes it harder to feel good about anything
>However, in the moment of expending happiness to use magic, it is briefly felt with re-ignited intensity
>Over time, mages basically become destruction junkies, absolute ruins who are always depressed unless they destroy things with their magic
This reminds me of a story of a planet where it constantly rains.
A group of soldiers crashed their vehicle due to lightning and had to trudge on towards a safe spot, a respite of the constant rain.
Was from the Illustrated man story bundle.
This was a good candidate, wasn't it?
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Main source of energy is baby rape
add some totalitarianism
If you're talking "Born out of hatred and bitterness of a dying, betrayed god" you might look at the flash game Gyossait for inspiration, that's pretty dark and bleak, and the goddess in it... hooboy she's not happy
B dis sum Silent Hill metroidvania? Oh well, bretty edge tho...
The backstory seemed a little too EVA or something though.