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New Times, Dumbass

New Times, Dumbass

Concept: "WHAT NOW?
Corporate oligarchs, billionaire tech-bros, and trust-fund-nepo babies—the fuel for dystopian nightmare engines of aggression! The New Times, Dumbass jam celebrates the truly awful of the human condition. But how? What do I need to do you ask? Here's some ideas of the things you might make (do them all or none at all, they're just ideas).
  • Make a company
  • Make an executive board
  • Make a logo
  • Make it realllllllly shitty and evil. 
Let's inhabit the glittering towers of CY with the worst of the worst!"

The Ruiguztretzis

Concept: "THE RUIGUZTRETZIS ARE IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD
A new family has arrived to buy all the ruined houses, evict the elderly and sell muffins. Rent is up. Criminals are in the run. Food is gone. Walls are stupidly blank. Everything is getting sanitised and sold to someone cleaner than you. THEY PREY ON YOU AND YOUR PEOPLE. Also, she has four arms and  he's got a shoulder retro機関銃. You better shoot first."
Content: A pair of enemies--members of the Ruiguztretzi family--in the CY class war.
Writing: Extremely terse details complement stats provided for each of the enemies.
Art/design: Two pages of collage art that focus on a semi-surrealistic presentation of the fully demonic nature of the Ruiguztretzis. Text content is also part of the collage, having been cut and pasted onto each page/image.
Usability: Because the text is all part of the art, it's not really searchable/selectable. However, visually it's easy to identify each text block and recognize how it functions in relation to the NPC stat collection of which it is a part.

Triune

Concept: "TRIUNE dominates screens, frequencies and can be found in every corner of the NET.
Their music is everywhere, their brand is inescapable, and their message is carefully crafted to keep you coming back for more, addicted, and consumed by desire.
MindE. Bodi. Spyrr. The perfect pop-idol machine, multiplied threefold. Identical triplets, the epitome of stardom: impossible bodies, voices tuned to unfathomable harmonies. They don’t just make music—they code emotions."
Content: A three-in-one enemy with which to personify the essence of CY and also to make punks' lives miserable through the NPCs' popularity. 
Writing:  Disturbingly on-point mechanics for the NPCs, wrapped in equally (and appropriately) dystopian description of Triune and their reach/impact.
Art/design:  Several spreads of slick marketing-aesthetic presentation (a mix of light-on-dark and synthwave neon color schemes) that uses a mix of illustration and glitchy accents to sell the in-universe nature of the document.
Usability:  High-contrast text and recognizable distinctions between types and sections of content--along with concise and direct explanations of ruling-related abilities--allow for easy navigation, location, and use of desired info.

You Died, Dumbass

Concept: “You Died, Dumbass is a profile for another shitty subscription company, some rules for near death organ transplant (inspired by https://zordvil.itch.io/horrible-wounds) and related headlines made for the new-times-dumbass game jam.”
Content: A set of rules to complicate life when a punk at the table comes back from near death with a biosynthetic organ–complete with 4d4 additional relevant headlines to roll when a miserable headline is rolled. 
Writing: A focus on the bleakly absurd atmosphere of a world where biosynthetic organs (and the late capitalist approach to their supply) is common, with brief mechanical features/effects supporting that focus.
Art/Design: Mix of black-on-white and white-on-black spreads/pages, using different layouts and aesthetics, with consistent appearance of red accents and highlights throughout. Several illustrations of NPCs and a location appear along with a silhouette to underscore our equally bleakly absurd reality
Usability: High-contrast text is consistently provided and page/spread layouts offer visually recognizable organizations of similarly presented and distinctly marked content.
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