Basing Concepts on Genre

Why is Genre Important

Genre can impact everything, from tone to what concepts fit the world you're creating, by starting there you can explore classic tropes and favourite ideas from any TV series, movies, books etc. that you may want to use. With any luck, immersing yourself in a new genre or picking one of your favourites will spurs some new ideas of your own!

Genres to choose from

Here are some genres you may want to choose from with some ideas on how that genre may impact your world, your world may fit one or several of these categories, this is also not an exhaustive list so if the genre you want to choose isn't here you may just want to read some similar ones instead to help you start thinking on what you have in mind.

While going through the ideas below it's important to remember the themes and ideas at the heart of Biosphere Guardians so here's a refresher if you need it:

'Biosphere Guardians aims to create an optimistic view of the future, one where the world has made active efforts to resolve climate change issues on a global scale. It imagines this is being achieved through the creation of The Biosphere Project: large scale re-wilding projects to create carbon negative regions across the world.'

The sections in bold are central to the world of the Biosphere across every genre, they are the foundations to help you build ideas on top of. However, it's optimistic tone doesn't mean your world has to be without problems, in fact we would encourage there to be some degree of struggle as, in-game, climate change is an issue in the ongoing process of being resolved - there are bound to be mistakes and challenges along the way. The point is that, at the end of the day, all hope is not lost and there is always a way forward - it's just a question of finding it.