Nearth

A two player game about trusting each other.

Fabulation course

I followed a course about (speculative) fabulation in which we build a world with a group of people. The final assignment was to make something based on the world we build together. This game is my end result.

The story

The part of our story I focused on was the following:

The world is flat and on both sides live a group of people, but they do not trust each other. There isn't a lot to eat. So to gain each other's trust, they came up with a plan. Every week a person is sacrificed and fed to the other group of people. This is how they gain each other's trust. The family of the sacrificed person gets a special tea brew that helps with the mourning, but also helps to get pregnant to produce more people to sacrifice.