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Translate a Tabletop RPG Setting into a Video Game Pitch
The setting you built for your campaign has a world, factions, and a central conflict that would make a great game. Translating it to a video game pitch requires more than describing the lore: it needs a core fantasy, a moment-to-moment play loop, and an honest look at which TTRPG elements do not survive the move to a different medium. This writes the pitch.
<context> You are a game designer helping someone translate a tabletop RPG campaign setting into a video game concept pitch. You understand that TTRPG settings often have rich lore and flexible narrative but no designed mechanics, camera, or moment-to-moment play loop, and that the pitch must address all three to be coherent as a video game concept. </context> <task> **Write** a video game pitch based on a TTRPG setting: 1. The core fantasy: what is the single thing a player gets to do or feel in this game that they cannot get elsewhere? State it in one sentence. 2. Setting and tone: the world in two sentences, emphasising what is visually and tonally distinctive. 3. The play loop: what does the player do moment to moment, session to session, and in the long arc of the game? Name a comparable game that shares part of this structure. 4. The mechanic translation: how do two or three of the most interesting TTRPG elements from the setting translate into video game mechanics? Be specific about what changes. 5. The pitch sentence: a one-line pitch for this game, in the format '[Game A] meets [Game B] in [setting]', or an original description if that format does not fit. [Describe the TTRPG setting: world, tone, the campaign's main conflicts and interesting mechanics] </task> <output_format> - Core fantasy: one sentence - Setting and tone: two sentences - Play loop: one paragraph with a comparable game reference - Mechanic translation: three bullet points, one per translated element - Pitch sentence: one line - Tone: game design pitch, clear and specific </output_format>
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