Anything from massive sunspot activity to a reversal of the Earth’s magnetic field, creating destruction or enlightenment – your choice – could occur. Anything you could imagine has been predicted already. The meaning of this is widely interpreted by those researching it. In our history (real history, not game history), the Mayan calendar ends its last cycle on December 21st, 2012. We also love to tie our game fiction into reality and popular culture if possible, so 2012 as the start year for our game fit nicely.
We decided on a near modern setting, since that fit how we wanted humans to fare against our invaders – close to being able to fight back, but just not quite there yet. We’ll also fill you in on the story and how it unfolds for each of our three main factions.įrom the start, we wanted humanity to appear to have the slimmest of chances against the invading alien forces, because humans are typically at their best when they’re down, but not out.
In this designer diary, we’ll be talking about how and why we set Universe at War: Earth Assault on near-present Earth, instead of in the distant future, the near to distant past, or in a galaxy far, far away.
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