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Overview:
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"Wake the f**k up, Samurai! We have a package to deliver?"nnCloudpunk, tells the story of Rania, a woman of color, a refugee and an outsider trying to make her way as a delivery driver in a cyberpunk city filled with flying cars and voxels. In 2020 Cloudpunk was the "other" cyberpunk game. Cloudpunk had a very limited narrative toolkit, but the developers wanted to present a non-violent approach to conflict resolution, even when it seemed easier to just add guns, robots, and robots with guns.nnThis talk will show the design for Cloudpunk, with screenshots, design notes, chat logs and concept art. The talk will focus on the messy and loose writing process, emphasizing the tough choices and disagreements the team had along the way. The speaker will show their limited their narrative toolset, and how they achieved drama, comedy and peril with no on-screen action beyond walking and flying.
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