Power system

Here is some of the blue sky brainstorm sketches I did for Google ATAP through Massive Black in 2016. The focus of this project was an augmented reality fantasy game designed to bring people together. These are some of the ideas I came up with for the magic system, and it was a lot of fun to design, especially because I like system-dense "hard magic." I love being able to explore the possibility space and suggest hardware and game design ideas for the team.

The Knight Eldwin found out one of the fundamental laws of the world. All things can be transposed into the words. That meant the skillful master could dismantle the words to reembody the natural phenomenon. He has succeeded to understand the most basic concept of magic, despite being born as an ordinary man. But Eldwin, who had no talent nor eyes to understand the pure meaning of magic, focused on making framework of words. When he found the powerful phenomenon of nature, he immediately…

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The symbols for the planets, dwarf planet Pluto, Moon and Sun (along with the symbols for the zodiac constellations) were developed for use in both astronomy and astrology.

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