World of Apocalypse

Overview This world describes a world just after apocalyptic global nuclear wars in the near future. The experience in this world is First person perspective.

Media This world can be applicable to various media such as video games, movies and novels. Motivation Apocalyptic worlds have been popular setting of numerous media, in which the worlds are used to show up interesting storyline. Many media have ignored important messages within the world. Through the world design, I will show the misery of the global wars and the message of anti-war.

Geography By the global nuclear wars a few years ago, the world was entirely destroyed. A number of countries disappeared on the earth as the sea level went up. Also, the continent of America and the continent of Oceania were totally devastated.

The world is divided into two worlds: Destroyed, Undestroyed. Undestroyed world is divided into 5 areas based on geographical factors. People cannot enter the destroyed world because of high radiation or other environmental reasons like tsunami. Destroyed world can be reclaimed depending on efforts of people. Population and the number of nuclear weapons are important factors establishing relationships between the areas.

Culture Surviving people are intensely compete with each other for limited sources of food. People of countries hardly influenced by the global nuclear wars are brutally ruling refugees from disappeared countries. This fact raise many issues related to culture and politics. Almost all people are mutated by radioactive contamination. In this world, not mutated people are suffering harsh discrimination.

Technology Lots of technologies were destroyed. So, people have many problems with food supply and medical condition. However, ironically, many countries excessively invest their all money in researching new nuclear weapons.

Daily lives The only food source is insects and the only energy resource is coals. People are always competing with each other to secure the resources. Because the dignity of man is absolutely ignored, people try to kill each other without conscience. Many mutated people think death is the best way to escape from painful life in this world.

Religions In this world, people worship two things: cockroaches, nuclear weapons. To the people cockroaches mean immortality and nuclear weapons are a kind of absolute beings.