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Oomanakuttan, for instance, is a civil society leader who comes across as dour and snarky, especially to Kuyili with her wild ideas. He has decades of experience and sees change as a slow struggle that just takes lots of hard and boring work. (sketch by @monkeyverse.bsky.social). However,

This means playing your cards right, or more precisely - playing the right cards. Strong evidence and showing that you've put in the leg work are good ways to connect to Oomanakuttan.

If you can understand this about Oomanakuttan, it may become easier to work with him and overcome his skeptical stance toward Kuyili and the team somewhat. #gamedev #personality

Thanks for hosting another #PitchYaGame!

All Will Rise is an upcoming narrative courtroom deck-builder about ordinary people who make the powerful pay for destroying our future. Play as a lawyer, as she and her team take a corrupt billionaire to court for a river’s murder.

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We are inspired in our worldbuilding by the idea of 'infrastructures of mystery' - what a society would look like that has been structured to give people's connection to the mystery of life a central, sacred place. anticiplay.medium.com/infrastructu... #indiegames #spirituality

Our Murizis is also a city of many faiths and spiritual practices, that are in turn connecting in unusual ways with political and technological experiments. It starts with our tagline 'the river is a god, and they killed her' - but there are mysteries everywhere.

This allows us to play with that imaginative tension. What is the same? What is different? In our version of Kerala, the state, already known for being a place for utopian experimentation, becomes more unusual in terms of the interest people have in trying out new, utopian ideas. #utopia #indiegames

The mystery, depth, and weirdness of the world of Muziris makes for such a wonderful dynamic contrast with the more strategic, political side of the game: winning the court case, and building a movement. #indiegames #utopia

Another inspiration for our sideways speculative version of reality in Kerala is the 'Seeds of Good Anthropocenes' project that tries to find initatives and projects that already exist everywhere around the world - and that could inspire a better future. goodanthropocenes.net

You can follow along with All Will Rise by wishlisting us on Steam or following our Kickstarter page. The project will go live early next year!

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When we started developing All Will Rise our focus was on the court case - mostly struggling against corporate power. But as we developed the game and tested early demos with players we realized that we wanted to focus more on a mix of power AGAINST corporates and power FOR a vision of the future.

We work with the sociological concept of 'emotional energy', which is very helpful describe the dynamics of collective action. Strong emotional energy can come from collective joy AND care AND standing up against injustice. Mamdani builds emotional energy on a basis of real social policy.

It's good to compare @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's win to the victory of @robjetten.bsky.social in the Netherlands, which has been described as being 'vibes over policy', and rightly so, given his party's neoliberal program. Mamdani brings powerful vibes based on real social action. Big contrast.