This morning’s spicy take—
“Survival” is a boring theme for your video game.
Which sucks because we end up with it a lot.

The answer is too easy. “Will you survive? = yes if you keep playing.”

That’s not to say it can’t be *part* of your game. Survival horror games are cool! But you need to dig deeper.

What’s the COST of survival? What should we sacrifice and what should we refuse to? Now it’s interesting! There’s drama! Characters have things to argue over!

“Should we survive?” or “will we survive?”, the answer is almost always gonna be yes. So.... ya gotta put more meat (drama) on that thang.

/fin