[Green Moon] Game Research: Abandoned Cities

[roseembolism]

For my post-technology world-building project, I'm doing a lot of research. One bit of research is focused on getting the feeling of either layers of civilization, or simply of areas that have been deserted for ages. The internet, interestingly, has lists of deserted places that I can use for inspiration.


20 Abandoned Cities: I like this, because it's the feel of an abandoned area that I'm trying to grasp. Now all I have to do is translate it into fantasy/futuristic terms.

7 more abandoned towns and cities

7 abandoned cities and towns of the USSR: I love the picture of the abandoned giant whatsit- I want to have this feeling, of unknown abandoned devices sitting out in the open, theri past functions forgotten.

Dead Cities: Serjilla: A classic lost city: I like the idea of this not as a goal, not as a source of a dungeon or treasure, but as an indication of age, of things lost and forgotten.

Chaco Canyon
Mesa Verde: Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon to me are two of the classic abandoned cities, even if now we have a good idea of where the people went. Flourishing cultures that just abandoned their cities when the climate changed. Also, since of all building materials rock lasts the longest, I'm thinking that the most common remnant of past civilizations will be made of stone. Of course I'm going to have to remind myself not to set everything in a desert.

Abandoned Spacecraft City: weird, modernesque, and sad at the same time. Now imagine those buildings made out of some super-tough substance that doesn't decay, or out of some organic shell, or living wood, with all interior furnishings and outside signs of civilization eroded away or buried.

Comments

[racerxmachina.livejournal.com]

Don't forget Gunkanjima.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

OOh yeah. And of course there's also Petra.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

...I mean, the city Petra. The Petra in the Middle East.

This Petra:

[deirdremoon.livejournal.com]

Okay, after looking at the Russian link, I am officially Creeped Out(tm). *shudder*

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

Isn't that crawler thing something? Can't you imagine something like that half-overgrown with jungle?

Now let's think of it made of stone or shell or something else durable. And once alive. That's what I'm aiming for.