Locations & Searching

Real-world POIs, game location types, searching, depletion and persistent consequences.

Location types

External map-provider categories are converted into the game's own taxonomy. Typical types include food store, pharmacy, hospital, farm, hardware, fuel, shelter, restaurant and woodland/park.

Searching

Searching a location consumes meaningful survivor capacity and can reveal context-appropriate resources. A pharmacy should not behave like a hardware store with a different icon.

Persistent depletion

Locations can become picked over or empty. Once a player actually discovers, searches, claims or changes something, the world can persist those consequences.

Persist consequences, not possibilities

Untouched areas need little mutable database state. Deterministic defaults and geographic cells can represent possibilities until someone interacts with them.