Game Storyline

It’s 2044

The context

Climate change, pandemics, increasing inequality – the increasing instability on Earth in the early 21st century sparked a spiral of conflict that led a to nuclear exchange. No one left knows how it started, but what they do know is that the Earth is ravaged… Resources are scarce, and the survivors are hanging on by a thread. What resource rich areas remain are too radioactive to explore.

Who you are

You are one of a coalition of surviving experts – Engineers, scientists, and soldiers – who know the next steps to ensure the survival of humanity are to exploit off-world resources… at all costs. ‘Escape Earth Inc.’ was set up to carry out this mission, using the scant resources available on Earth. Your plans are about to reach fruition, your mining ships are starting to land and set up operations all over the solar system.

The mission

Reports are surfacing that our operations are encountering some…friction. Use all means to ensure our quest for resources is not jeopardised. Return to Earth only when our sources of valuable materials are secured. Good luck.

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(the above storyline has been produced based on the below initial blurb, written during week 2 studio).

The earth has been destroyed by some nuclear event and there are no more viable resources available. As a result, a group of engineers have decided to venture to different planets in order to collect resources. Each planet would represent a different level and at each planet the engineers set up base and the aliens of the planet come and attack/retaliate as the humans are taking their resources. This is where the plants vs zombies idea comes in, as the engineers set up their defense and begin collecting the resource from that planet, and the aliens begin attacking.

The story ends/the game is completed when the engineers have visited each planet and successfully collected all the resources and have now returned to earth to reestablish.