For me, the main inspiration was this album from Murubutu and ClaverGold

https://open.spotify.com/album/3HH6dnNnW6be9n5b8RFEs5?si=JUud4ejzRHSn19eEfgjB2A

In particular the song "Ulisse"

More in general I find really inspiring songs with a lot of "narration" in it, like a bard's song. Karliene and Clamavi from profundis are two of my favourites:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4klPEJJ1odEmXQPc3TGAmJ?si=s6P71NIWQgy8xXX1lxfcNQ

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6o0tlyxHJhnel5vkFMrdAN?si=Nl0X1zZXSt2XXIsT4ZC0Qg

Well, I am not in with a game but I think other inspirational things could be:

• stranger things: how upside down and our reality are linked together and what changes
• doctor strange: how the environment changes when they are in the mirror dimension, it makes me think about how the starting from two similar maps I can end with two different maps (also the old sci-fi movies Dark City reminds me the same vibe of changing environment that changes)
• a map of plate tectonics and a map of the earth or a map of the stars and the same map with the horoscope signs drawn on it are an inspiration for the same space with a different meaning

The subject of my submissed game came from my frequent trip in Val Seriana:
https://youtu.be/lW8Q8xjqVFQ

The concept of the big world for pioneers came from the fascinating Majipoor Chronicles from Robert Silverberg, in particular the continent Zimroel:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majipoor_series

a specific part of the game, related on the Cultural Traits (Tratti Peculiari) came from another concept I was thinking about. This concept was suggested to me during a trip to Val Seriana, during the listening of the music album The Last of Our Kind from The Darkness. In Particular the prhase "defenders of the legacy" in the song "Last of our kind"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl5om4iD5Js

(I have to thank Francesco Zani for this album)

When a map affects another map: https://www.demilked.com/highway-in-residential-area-cairo-egypt/

For the draft i've just delivered today it's hard to say what inspired me, i've worked on it a couple of weeks ago, for some hours, just gathering some ideas i came up after chatting with the Owl (that pestered me enough to write it :-D ...i don't know if this might count as inspiration :-P) .

So, this is more like a postmortem inspiration review.

In the draft i got inspired by some mechanics from Noirlandia, the idea that you can give a meaning to each seed and then to each card it's a very nice idea that i've tried to reproduce here. I've also tried to have some kind of controlled alea, instead of make it disappear.

For the thematics i sure got inspired by some of the iconic scifi movies, for example Alien, Gravity and Sunshine(trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veC25b8Vd2E).
Also by a multitable adventure some friends organized with Alien RPG (Fria Ligan), which i had the chance to play .

Finally, some music to get partially in the right mood; to try to imagine yourself, alone, in this dark void, surrounded by majestic astrophisical entities: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLudkhjWHjTE95LWYZGDPMQ

I hope those references can be of inspiration also for you


Cheers