Thing from the Future
Thing from the Future is a deck of cards for scenario planning . It's a game about peeking into a future and pulling objects from that future into the present. Cards come in 4 flavors: Arc cards describe a future trajectory (grow / collapse /…
Jan 10, 20181 min read
Thing from the Future is a deck of cards for [[scenario planning]]. It's a game about peeking into a future and pulling objects from that future into the present. Cards come in 4 flavors:
- Arc cards describe a future trajectory (grow / collapse / discipline / transform) and a timeframe (10 years, 100 years, etc)
- Terrain cards describe a context ("Education" / "Security", etc)
- Object cards define the thing from this future.
- Mood cards ("excitement", "dread") define an emotional inflection.
The job of players is to synthesize these prompts into a future scenario, then create an object from this future.
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