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Programming / Re: Good Settings for Free-Roam RogueLikes
« on: August 17, 2012, 10:50:35 PM »"I really like post-apocalyptic settings, but I don't want to turn it into an allegory of how we need to downsize our nuclear weapons departments, or stop global warming, or protect the koala bear because without it this certain tree will grow too large and take over our cities, etc."Even if I don't explicitly mention it, how can you make a setting where half the world was destroyed by nuclear weapons and not have it come up somewhere, somehow? Or if the setting is a world where the oceans rose due to all the ice on Earth melting, how do you not bring up global warming?
Then don't.
I also like the ideas about desert/jungle survival, but how do you implement things like quests if you're all alone?