Suggestions for Settings and Genres

The Orion's Arm Universe presents a vast - across both space and time - future historical canvas, in which to locate a various game settings. The following can be suggested here (many more can be added to this list):

• Play Method
  • Roleplaying
    • Strictly ordered Role-playing system (a la GURPS, Traveller, etc)
    • Loosely ordered Role-playing system
    • Custom-made Role-playing system
  • Computer Game
    • Stand alone
    • Internet Play (Multiplayer)
      • Small to medium number of players
      • Large to Huge Number (MMORPG)
• Game Content
  • Scope
    • Individual
    • Small group
    • Ship, City, Army, Orbital Habitat, Biosphere, etc
    • Solar System or Small Empire
    • Big Empire/Galaxy
  • Historical Period
    • Age of Progress (up until the Interplanetary age)
    • Nanoswarm / Interplanetary dark age
    • Federation/Early Interstellar Age
    • Inner Sphere period (Consolidation to CoEmp period)
    • New Empire/Outer Volume period (post-CoEmp)
    • Any or all of the above
  • Technology Level
    • Primitive/Industrial Revolution/Renewable Eco-safe
    • Microtech/Basic Minituraisation
    • Nanotech
    • Picotech
    • Femtotech
    • Hypofemtotech (down to Planck Scale)
    • Any or all of the above
  • Theme
    • Strategic/Resource/Simulation/"God Game" (c.f. Civilization, Master of Orion, Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, SimCity, the Simms, etc)
    • Tactical/Combat (c.f. any popular outer space or planetary combat game - e.g. Star Trek, Star Wars, Mechwarrior, etc etc)
    • Space Sim (spaceships, astrogation, newtonian rocket science, etc)
    • Resource/Trade/Adventure (e.g. Traveller)
    • Adventure (c.f. any first person adventure game, either with or without puzzle solving)
    • Other themes
    • Any combination of any or all of the above
  • Protagonists (Possible Player Characters and NPC)
    • Human
      • Baseline / Near-baseline
      • Superior
      • Tweak (extreme environment or abilities)
      • Empath
      • Rianth
      • Bioborg
      • Cyborg
      • Copy/Virtual
      • Other
      • Any combination of any or all of the above
    • Animal
      • Splice
      • Provolve
      • Bioborg animal
      • Cyborg animal
      • Other
    • Neogen
    • Alien (any race)
    • Vec
    • Posthuman/Postalien (hyperbright)
    • Organic Po
    • Nanocyborg
    • Uploaded Po
  • Aioid
    • Expert System
    • Ship
    • Neumann
    • Hyperturing AI
    • Archailect AI-God
    • Other
  • Other
  • Hybrid or group of any or all of the above

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