It would be amazing to see some submissions that involved MAKING STUFF, either within the ttrpg fiction or maybe even actually making stuff. For example, games / adventures / zines / educational activities about permaculture, gardening and irrigation, cooking, medicine and healthcare, architecture, clothing, renewable energy, sinking wells, collecting rain water, creating shelter, sanitation, dealing with extreme weather, ecological reconstruction, building weird vehicles or infrastructure, all kinds of strange contraptions.
Possible sources of inspiration:
- https://www.instructables.com/
- https://www.opengreenenergy.com/
- Worldbuilding inspiration reading list
- Primitive Technology YouTube
Some relevant subreddits:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/SolarDIY/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Permaculture/
One interesting thing to explore would be a kind of "hard science fiction" approach, i.e. making it as accurate and detailed as possible. Imagine a post-apocalyptic adventure where the players go on fetch-quests, scavenging the necessary parts to jury-rig something to improve the community's wellbeing.
Or how about a game where everybody scoots around in clean energy mostly-wooden battlemechs made from locally sourced materials, and mossy permaculture equivalents of the war rig from Mad Max?
How else could you gamify / storify all the knowledge that is out there in DIY / open source communities?