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Centuries Outside History is a discord-based oneshot worldbuilding game about space travel, history, and neoliberalism.  2-6 players.

It tells the story of a generation ship that is moving from Earth towards a new world, spending centuries in the empty black space between.   The people on board have lived their lives being told their stories don't matter- just a liminal existence to enable a future settlement they won't live to see.  This game tells their stories, their struggles, and their experiences living in a world where they are denied the experience of history.  It's a story about life under neoliberialsm, capitalism, of denied hope and the potential to imagine a better future.


The game is played using a discord bot- the discord bot feeds story prompts the group uses to build the story of the ship as it engages on its centuries long voyage. The bot serves the purpose that a deck of cards or dice might serve in a more traditional roleplaying game.  


Play usually takes between 2 and 3 hours. 


EDIT: I can't really afford to pay for server space to keep this game running, so I'm making it free to download but it is no longer playable sadly.


Updated 22 days ago
StatusReleased
CategoryPhysical game
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
AuthorSniperserpent
Tagsdiscord, One-shot, Sci-fi, worldbuilding

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Is it possible to get a list of the prompts and such for those of us that want to play face to face or on other chat platforms?

Bot works well - love this tech adaptation in the covid age. Interesting prompts and very thoughtful copy for setting the mood of the game.