BreakFree - A Social Revolution Lasers & Feelings Hack
A downloadable game
You are everyday people, in an unjust world you want to change. Your goal is to resist exploitation, build communities, and ensure future generations will be able to grow up in a just and joyful era. Your power and independence have been taken by guile and force, leaving you to resist your oppressors in both the halls of government and in the streets of the cities.
BreakFree is a hopeful hack of John Harper's Lasers & Feelings. It's a one page RPG designed to be played in a few sessions and has simple and straightforward mechanics. This hack is heavily inspired by both past and current civil rights and revolutionary struggles.
Background art generated by Wonder AI.
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"Background art generated by Wonder AI"
Not to be disrespectful, but... is the irony of writing a game about community-building, fighting exploitation, and engaging in anti-capitalist resistance, while using AI to generate your "art", not lost on you?
A fair point! I think my concern had been about co-opting the art of a specific movemen if I'd used some public-domain piece, whereas AI could make something more like an amalgam of the style and elements of a lot of different pieces from across a lot of different movements, without biasing towards any single one in particular.
I agree with the comment, this feels very yucky to me to use AI, especially with a theme and a medium like this one. As an illustrator myself TTRPG is such a nice space where handmade illustration is still needed and valued, please don't let that change.
Plus the ecological + social cost and issues with AI are really... yeah, something.
I fully understand that paying an illustrator may be too much (even if it may be pretty cheap for one illustration), especially since your game is non-commercial.
Photobashing, using and modifying archive photos, doing a shitty drawing is infinitely more human and anticapitalist than using AI.
I get your point about not biasing toward a particular movement, but i think we should not erase the previous fights (especially not with AI). There was a lot of unafiliated protest, strikes and revolts.
Anyway sorry if this is a little harsh but I got your game with the Trans bundle and was as excited to play it as I was disappointed to see the AI picture
How many players is this game intended for?
I would suggest 3-5. You can do more, but it will likely cause turns to take quite a bit longer.
Thank you!
Two-page RPG
I don't have Lasers & Feelings, but I wanted to get a feel for this and so I made a few quick selections, a few quick rolls and a single oracle roll to determine the entire outcome for the "New York Integrity Commission."
What I created sounded like an episode of Batman the Animated Series.
That's on me.
This is a nice game.
Thank you for sharing it.
Glad you liked it! That sounds like an awesome session.