Collapse/Consciousness

COLLAPSE/CONSCIOUSNESS is a cooperative physical roleplaying game for 2-6 players where you are tasked with collectively playing a prototype 'smart machine' being run through its paces by profit-driven creators. Inspired by Devin Townsend's 2006 ambient music release The Hummer, the game will have you establish an identity for the machine in question as well as its separate components, then test its capabilities in rounds of play arbitrated by a deck of playing cards, similar in structure. At the end you will be evaluated for your performance and reliability, and your place in the world to come will be established.

This game includes to one degree or another:

• misadventure,
• machine error,
• collusion,
• rebellion,
• disappointment,
• ruin,
• true beauty,
• discourse on labor,
• Webdings,
• transcendence,
• related phenomena.