On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 14:45 +0200, david blanchard wrote: > * Gaia : like you, right now I'm not able to picture neither Gaia > being there directly on the internet, nor the spirits, mostly for the same > reasons as you. I think this needs to be reworked, but what I like with > Xav's idea is the overall context of environmental/ecologic/sustainability, > and how this can be incarnated on the web through realistic entities > (governments/NGO/corporations/medias...) or more magic/fantastic ones (maybe > not Gaia and spirits, but some mysterious organization that clearly has > powers that don't seem human).
Yup - both are definitely not opposed. The contact with the player can definitely be through more "traditional" organizations, such as governments, NGO, sects... It helps to install it in a modern setting, and at the same time, still tap into the subconscious strength of the Gaia myth. I believe this second part is important though - if we only do environmentalism/ecology and forget about the Gaia part, we lose an important component of the theme. We could always replace it by something else that taps into human psyche, if we find one. However, I don't think we've really started to explore the theme, from a story perspective. Xavier. _______________________________________________ Hackit Bar mailing list - [email protected] Wiki: http://community.hackit.cx/ List: http://community.hackit.cx/ml/ Forum: http://community.hackit.cx/forum/ Ideas: http://community.hackit.cx/ideas/ IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#politis
