I’m having trouble finding the right name for our setting. There are no runners or corps, so it’s not cyberpunk. But it’s close.
I’m having trouble finding the right name for our setting. There are no runners or corps, so it’s not cyberpunk. But it’s close.
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I’m making a cyber-themed game but can’t figure out how to call our setting.
It’s a post-human 100% digital world. There are no corps or hackers. It’s a digital realm populated by “technologically-magical” entities. By magical I mean that some strange things happen with little justification. Frequent use of “memes” and loose associations.
There is no outside to this world, which means there are no human-dude sitting in front of the computer observing it all (I guess that’s who the player is, but we don’t break the 4th wall if that makes sense) .
I like to call it “cyber-fantasy”, but the problem with “fantasy” is that it’s very loaded with elf/dragons/magic expectations which do not fit.
Maybe I’m missing something obvious. I’m not a native speaker so it’s hard to be sure.
What else can be paired with cyber?
Why not “cyber-reality”? To me it kinda seems like that trope of where a character gets sucked into a digital world and they’re surfing the internet, kinda like that one show “reeboot” where these kids enter the cyberspace and fight inside a computer system basically like it’s some whole other world
Bunny punk?