Thread by @lzsthw

Played a little more Subsistence this morning and I'm convinced it's actually a sci-fi game. You wake up in an enclosed part of Alaska, fenced off, and build a base with an electronic unit attached to a wall that generates power and fabricates items from loot you get in bags.

I could see a back story to the game that's similar to The Prisoner, where you have no idea why you're stuck here, but it's some kind of punishment/experiment, and the bags of loot are dropped to see what you'd do. This would also explain to impossible things:

1. That shooting an animal from about 1 mile away lets the animal instantly know where you are and run that 1 mile in 2 seconds to kill you. They *have* to be genetically engineered super wolves and bears, so sci-fi.

2. That you can make glass out of sandstone but can't make circuit boards out of the same silica. You have to get pearls for that, so they must be specially engineered giant clams the produce high end silicon.

I think that back story would be awesome. You don't know why you're there, but for some reason all the other hunters keep wanting to kill you. You eventually find out that you're a convicted murderer and the state wiped your memory and placed you in this arena to survive.

The hunters are a combination of rich people who paid to hunt "the most dangerous animal of all" and the family of the person you killed. The only rule is they can't say why they're trying to kill you, but they get better resources and win big money if they do it.

But, someone against the death penalty works on the software development team and that's why you keep getting extra bags of loot to survive. This programmer sets it up so nobody watching can figure out where you're getting all this stuff, and they keep failing to "fix it".

The story could then evolve into you figuring out that you were framed, and one of the people who framed you signed up to hunt you down and kill you so that their crime would be complete. You then have to hunt them down and prove your innocence.