Screenshot Saturday: Ironic Beliefs + A Ramble from Me (Patreon)

"Across the wired and in the city, strange beliefs and stranger people reside. Old gods, old rituals, revived, but only "ironically"... unless it works."

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This area has been really fun to design so far. When you're working with cyberpunk, as a genre, you can usually reach into the dusty old drawer of Bladerunner and Shadowrun. 

But with Peri, set in Eastern Europe, we have some serious challenges! 

The world is inherently not going to be what it would be in the west, Europe, or Asia. As such, you have to ask, what is the culture? What do the youth do? Why are they all so fucked up? Why are anime girls cute? 

The end result is, digging into that vast eclectic collection of strange, subcultural, and often long-dead beliefs from the 70s through to the 90s. The music, the cults, the people, and what they might do in a place like the PSR. You come to create entirely new things with it, a new Eastern Cyberpunk, with all the bizarre things that would come with it.