Apocalypse Memoria

Welcome to the Post-Apocalypse

Apocalypse Memoria is a solo experience that blends journaling and storytelling games with elements of live-action role-playing. Over the course of several game sessions, you will develop the story of your character while documenting the remnants of the world the character has been left to wander.

You play the game by exploring real-world locations and engaging in real-life activities. Encountering real-world phenomena triggers in-game events that affect your character as well as your ability to accurately document your experience while writing your journal.

Whether you interact with the real-world in character or not is up to you. For example, if you speak to someone in real-life during a mission, it’s up to you to decide whether to have that conversation as yourself or as your character. The fiction of the game allows you to adopt either approach without compromising the experience.

When you finish the game, you will have a unique record of your character’s journey through a fractured future landscape that is a dark mirror of your own journey through the world as it is now.  

Who Are You?

As the player, you embody the character of a research android tasked with documenting the remains of the old world. Although gifted with advanced AI, you are ultimately driven by the core directives given to you by the scientist at the research institute where you were stationed before the fall.

The scientist’s dying wish was that you would serve as a vessel of memories—a reservoir of knowledge that could be left behind for who or whatever comes next. Now, your job is to explore, observe, catalog, and remember the world around you so that it will not be forgotten.

Credits

Designed and written by Trent Seltzer.

All photos courtesy of Unsplash.

“Hacked” font courtesy of David Libeau via Font Space.

Created for the Welcome to the Apocalypse Jam 2021.