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Looking for transhumanist art
13 years ago
"Does aₘᵢₙ=2c²/Θ ? I don't know, but wouldn't it be fascinating if it were?"
You may or may not already be aware, but there exists a boardgame, Phil Eklund's "High Frontier", which is a reasonably realistic simulation of using rockets to putter around the solar system and start industrializing it. The BoardGameGeek reviews are at http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/...../high-frontier .
What you may not have heard is that Mr. Eklund is currently designing an expansion to the original game, in which the goal is to launch STL interstellar colonization attempts... and the theme has a distinctly transhumanist flavour, with the current draft of some of the crew-types being "Immortal group mind", "Zero-gee pantropists", "Utility fog robonauts", and a "Rental body guild". Mr. Eklund has asked me to help with the flavourtext for those cards - and, if I can find any, some images for the crew cards that can be gotten with no copyright issues, that are better than the current ones. And since some of the best transhumanist-themed art I've found is here on FA... would any artists here be willing to have their work become part of a published board game?
What you may not have heard is that Mr. Eklund is currently designing an expansion to the original game, in which the goal is to launch STL interstellar colonization attempts... and the theme has a distinctly transhumanist flavour, with the current draft of some of the crew-types being "Immortal group mind", "Zero-gee pantropists", "Utility fog robonauts", and a "Rental body guild". Mr. Eklund has asked me to help with the flavourtext for those cards - and, if I can find any, some images for the crew cards that can be gotten with no copyright issues, that are better than the current ones. And since some of the best transhumanist-themed art I've found is here on FA... would any artists here be willing to have their work become part of a published board game?
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/2931454/
Fun Fact: My 'sona is actually suppose to from a race that digitized there minds a loaded them all into super computer and his body basically fancy shell for his mind to inhabit while going on missions into real world.
Please let me know what you think!
Plus I drew a picture of SHODAN and GLaDOS getting it on.
(Yes, I draw male things too. But the default is female things.)
Depending on how much is there I might be persuadable to do new art for a bit of the profits, as well.
I've put the current, first-draft version of the cards up at http://www.datapacrat.com/private/h.....rds-draft.html for interested artists to look at. At the moment, Mr. Eklund is currently looking for pictures for each group that are better than the existing placeholders; for example, the "Santa Claus Alchemists" could do with an image more representative of what they actually do than St. Nick himself.