Mine World Craft War Game Thing ~ 1/21/2018

I dreamed there was this Minecraft style game that could be played as a community effort. The game system was controlled by these machines that were about twice as big as a microwave, had a piano style keyboard and accordion bellows beneath a shiny, crinkly cover, kind of like a windshield sunscreen, in silver, magenta, light blue, and red. I was shopping for a system for my game group, and of course I wanted to get a red one.

The game itself involves spawning microorganisms, then helping them evolve into humans. Like, you spawned your small critters, and once they reached a certain level of health, you could trigger them to spawn into fish, then dolphins, then mice, then humans. The humans were all identical male people called "Hessians".

The Hessians were dressed as Phrygian warriors, with helmets shaped like Smurf hats, breast plates, swords, spears, and VERY short leather kilts. Once the Hessians reached a certain level of health, they would... er... mature... and then procreate/replicate. Similar to how Minecraft animals do.

The next stage of development for the Hessians was that they could begin travelling to other teams' worlds, as long as they either conquered or colonized systems in a geographically realistic way. At this stage, you could play either looking at a screen, or, through virtual reality, actually enter the game world. In that mode the Hessians finally differentiated, because they looked like the actual people controlling them.

As a system administrator, I could individually pop into any game in progress, though I couldn't affect any world my team didn't have an official presence in. I popped into one realm where a battle over an office building was going on, and I hid among rows of seating in a training amphitheater. I watched as players took each other out. Or snuck off into corners to, erm... help each other mature...

But most of the time I played the game in console mode, so the graphics were mercifully unrealistic. There was also a creative mode I could enter as an admin, to set up challenges for my team. At one point, though, my team was all so scattered and unfocused that I decided to just start spawning thousands of dolphins, just cuz.  And then I woke up.