Have you ever lost yourself in a wiki rabbit hole? Imagine doing that for the Wikipedia of the year 2049. This is Neurocracy, an interactive narrative experience that offers an anthology of compelling sci-fi stories connected across Omnipedia. It is both a crowdsourced alternate reality game and an epistolary hypertext novel, starting on July 12 with a high-profile assassination that you must investigate
Neurocracy builds a speculative world directly on top of our own, exploring the fascinating and terrifying car crash of technology and humanity. The diverse articles on Omnipedia depict an all-too-near future where networked brain implants are as commonplace as smartphones, and equally suited to mass surveillance. In this neurometric panopticon, your thoughts can betray you, but there are ways around that
Neurocracy invites you to explore the articles of Omnipedia as they evolve over ten weekly episodes, and find clues between the lines to solve a murder. Each episode is a snapshot of a single day’s events, with articles uploaded and edited live in response to your working theories. This creates a TTRPG-like dialogue between developers and players as we tell the stories of Neurocracy to each other
Neurocracy offers an array of tools and resources to empower your collaborative investigations: a community forum (disguised as Talk Pages) to discuss clues and theories, and a dynamic conspiracy board that pulls information directly from Omnipedia. Using these tools enables you to leverage your collective imagination and play an active role in building the world of Neurocracy together
Neurocracy was first released in 2021 to critical acclaim, with particular praise for its original sci-fi world and experimental interactive format from outlets such as The Guardian and Waypoint. It was nominated for the IGF Excellence in Narrative Award and won the New Media Writing Prize. It even got its own Wikipedia article!
So if you happen to be in the mood for a sci-fi murder mystery that unfolds in the shape of weekly updates to a futuristic Wikipedia, with a community of players debating theories while roleplaying as editors, please join us for the launch of the updated Neurocracy 2.049 on WEDNESDAY JULY 12 🌐🔍
Also, any signal boosts you can offer us are humongously appreciated 🙏
Wikipedia is dead.
Long live Omnipedia!
Doom metal singers on the run? Millenia-old sentient mushrooms? Reality TV murderous AI hosts? Hackers that kills billionaires? MMORPGs you can only play in your dreams?
There's so many mysteries to investigate in the near future world of Neurocracy 2.049, so pick up your post-its, bring some red thread and join us on Omnipedia !
This year, we've got:
- 📰 New content and new twists on previous Omnipedia articles
- 👁️🗨️ A dedicated forum, where you can share your investigations with fellow sleuths
- 📌 An optional paid app, featuring a custom tool to make your very own conspiracy boards, as if you were a detective in a noir cyberpunk movie.
Neurocracy is a unique narrative experience, where the world reacts to the community's investigations. It lasts 10 weeks, and we'd love to have you on board 🔍✨