THURSDAY 5/12: Ludic Liberation Lab ~ Solarpunk Futures
Can we remember the future we want to see in the world?
Dear Ludic Liberators,
In Spring 2022, Ludic Liberation Lab has dedicated its monthly sessions to playing speculative world-building games that center solarpunk post-capitalist visions. In March, we played The Transition Year by queer anarchist game design collective Affinity Games (check out the lab report on our findings). In April, we played Arcology World, a ptba (powered by the apocalypse) game created by the artist Dyer Rose aka BasiliskOnline (lab report here).
Our final game in the series is Solarpunk Futures by the artist collective Solarpunk Surf Club.
Solarpunk Futures is a storytelling game where players imagine the pathways to a desirable world from the perspective of a utopian future. Players use a deck of cards to remember Ancestors and work together using Tools and Values to overcome a set of real-world Challenges. Through dialogue and collaborative worldbuilding, collective and visionary narratives emerge of a new society, along with plausible scenarios for how to get there.
JOIN US to play SOLARPUNK FUTURES!
🗓 THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2022
⏰ 6-7:30pm Eastern Daylight Time (use a timezone converter to figure out the start time in your location).
📍Zoom
🎟 This lab is free or donation-based; all proceeds will be passed on to the game creators. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Hi! Nick from Solarpunk Surf Club here. Would love to hear about how the game went! Hope you were able to use the just-updated (in the past week or so) second-edition gamebook!
solarpunksurfclub@gmail.com