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Inspiration & Ideas

A topic by Mint-Rabbit created Apr 17, 2025 Views: 376 Replies: 21
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What are some pieces of Canadian culture that you think would be really interesting to use as inspiration? What kinds of games are you interested in creating / creating for?

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I'm going to write a Trophy Dark incursion set in Edmonton but post-apocalyptic. What if there were treasures hidden under the Muttart Conservatory? :D

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this is so good!!!!

While I am not Canadian, I've had a seafaring/exploration game bouncing around in my head for a little while inspired by the music of Stan Rogers, and this is perhaps the best possible excuse to work on that.

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As someone who lives on the coast, the sea is a bountiful supply of inspiration 💜

Wikipedia has a great list of English-language Canadian television series (et Français aussi). 

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I feel like we owe the CBC so much

My co-designer and I will be hitting up the museum for research! I'm so excited - I love the museum.

Yesss! Love this idea, the museum was also my thought for local inspo. 

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I think I've decided on a project! I'm hoping to write up a campaign structure inspired by ReBoot, the television show.

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I know what I'm going to do. Tune up As Above, So Below, then make a tiny supplement where it's about Angels and Demons in the CBC.

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So, I have pivoted from my original project and am now halfway through creating a mystery based on the local legend "The Witch's Grave." The cool thing is that I can even go there myself and take pictures of the grave.

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Oooh, is this a system supplement? A standalone game?

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It's a mystery for monster of the week. I was going to do the ogopogo. But this is like a real local legend that has really captured my interest.

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The first thought that came to my head was The Building of Petermans Bridge (from the Talking to Americans 22 minutes segment) but couldn’t figure out how to make it a game lol.

The St Lawrence Seaway has got it all, pirates, gangsters, smugglers, and legend. There was even a 60s TV show called Seaway but I couldn’t find too much of it.

There are tonnes of lost and abandoned towns that have cool histories and would make great locations for a cryptid investigators. Alternatively, it would be cool to have a game that doubled as a way to document and safeguard local stories and family histories.

I had this idea a long time ago.. On Auyuittuq Island (Inuktitut for ‘the land that never melts’), the isolated communities grapple with newfound disasters of floods, breaking ice, dangerous waterways and dwindling game. But the melting ice will soon release something more sinister. Can the players make peace with the newly awakened spirits and save their homes?

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Might it be a game with a ticking clock of some sort?

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Do you mean the Peter Mansbridge one?

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I mean the game about melting ice on Auyuittuq Island!

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Not a bad idea, maybe a countdown and things get hairier as the ice melts.

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I've been thinking I might make a zine game dedicated to one of Ottawa's local museums! Love history games like Jason Morningstar's designs, and that feels like a fun space to explore. 

(My secret bonus goal is to do a tiny print run for the museum to sell at their boutique, but that's getting a little ahead of things.)

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ooooh I think this is an excellent idea