Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject: Time for a first post!
My story is similar to most peoples that arrive that these boards. Up until about 6 months ago I was living in my western bubble. I honestly believed that technology would conquer all the worlds problems in the end, including famine in the third world and pollution from our industrial lifestyles.
I always knew oil would one day get expensive, but I thought the governments would have prepared for that long ago and they are secretly sitting on zero point energy or nuclear fusion, ready to be unleashed as soon as oil was not longer profitable.
Sure, now I can see how naive that is, but I was born in 1981 so kinda grow up in the days when all seemed great and was even pretty oblivious to the suffering around the rest of the world. I turned 18 on the year 2000 around the time of the internet boom, so yeah, the future seemed rather bright!
EDIT: wow it was longer then 6 months ago, look at my sign up date :O
The one day I clicked a link to matt’s site, and well, I then spent the next 6 months reading everything I could on the subject. I have never been one to stress about possible end of the world scenarios but this seemed very real, and I just had to try and prove it wrong. I failed, and here I am now fully convinced that peak oil is real and taking place as we speak. I also sadly have come to believe that matts 'doomer' predictions are pretty damn accurate, the man seems to have a very real understanding of how human nature will dictate how peak oil will affect us. That's what gets me the most pissed, we still have time, even now, to really cushion the blow of the inevitable. But there are little signs of that happening soon, or long term plans to try and put this issues on the forefront of all industrialized nations agendas.
Not much I can really say on the issue that’s not already been said, but I have taken some inspiration from the whole thing. I work as a video game level designer with others from around the world to make hobbyist ‘first person shooters’ (just a team used to explain a game that’s played from the first person view). We are just coming to the end of production on a game based on zombies, so I wanted to direct our attention to a more real survival situation next, and make a game based on the theories of how peak oil will play out. We really wanna get in-depth with it, with a plausible and interesting script, ‘puzzles’ to work thought for survival and overcoming such challenges as obtaining water and food. Sounds alittle ambitious I know but we are quite a talented bunch between us, With script writers, texture artists/models/animators, level designers ect. So I’m confident we can do something pretty impressive. My motivation is really cause I personally wanna learn something from doing it, and maybe help enlighten a few others. And hell if not, It’s still a pretty cool storyline for such a project, beats zombies
Sry I didn’t just come here to plug a game, I been trolling the forums for a while now while I took it all in. I thank everyone who posted their thoughts, it’s really be fascinating to read all your opinions, as well as making me feel less alone in this knowledge of what’s to come. I’m curious to know if there are many gamers here and what they would imagine a game like this should be like. It’s the closest you can get to a simulation I guess. For the guys here who know alittle about pc gaming, it will be a total conversation either on the source engine (for half life 2 no doubt) or possibly unreal 2007 (unreal engine 3.0) if it comes out this year. And I have no idea how long it will take, it’s only a hobbyist thing and will be free once done.
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: Time for a first post!
Hey you need to find a woman to bang and find a hut in a rural area with garden and animals to inusre your chances to project your dna into the future. good luck
Joined: Aug 11, 2005 Posts: 617 Location: Missouri
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:30 pm Post subject: Re: Time for a first post!
The world is ending, you and all your loved ones are going to die from starvation and oil deprevation and your making video games, what kind of worthless bastard are you??
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:25 pm Post subject: Re: Time for a first post!
Toploader wrote:
Yeah well, Might as well enjoy the peak of technology while it's here.
Aye. And therein lies the crux of the problem: everyone wants to "get theirs while the gettin's good" which shoves the gas pedal that much further to the floor on our collective mad dash toward the cliff.
Anyway welcome... _________________ "It means buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, because Kansas? Is goin' bye-bye... "
Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject: Re: Time for a first post!
Yeah I couldn't agree more, pretty much how we have all been conditioned I guess. I'm slowly starting to change my lifestyle as a result, but honestly it's not long sunk that this is a reality. I don't drive, but i'm able not to as I live in the UK and it's pretty easy to get around without a car.
Joined: Jan 18, 2005 Posts: 265 Location: London, UK.
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:35 am Post subject: Re: Time for a first post!
Welcome to the site.
I've only played a few PC games but a Peak Oil based game sounds a great idea and I'm sure this forum would be an excellent source of ideas.
One thing I have learnt from the games I have played (e.g. Age of Mythology) is that you take good care of your resource base because as soon as you run short of something you're in big trouble. _________________ Life results from the non-random selection of randomly generated replicators
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:14 am Post subject: Re: Time for a first post!
bobbyald wrote:
I've only played a few PC games but a Peak Oil based game sounds a great idea and I'm sure this forum would be an excellent source of ideas.
I think it's been done already. There was somebody talking here about the peak oil game they had written... search for it, the thread must be somewhere.
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6625 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:25 am Post subject: Re: Time for a first post!
Toploader wrote:
My story is similar to most peoples that arrive that these boards.
How about a video game that teaches overgrown adolescents how to write? _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: Time for a first post!
Quote:
How about a video game that teaches overgrown adolescents how to write?
How about a game that punishes players who needlessly quote entire posts? _________________ "When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F Roberts.
Joined: Sep 14, 2004 Posts: 6625 Location: Rural Virginia
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject: Re: Time for a first post!
Toploader wrote:
Because I would need the grammer skills in the first place to make such a game
Hey, you just earned my permanent admiration and respect. Bravo, kudos, and happy membership, Toploader. _________________ "Actually, humans died out long ago."
---Abused, abandoned hunting dog
"Things have entered a stage where the only change that is possible is for things to get worse."
---Me and my brother
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