More RPG inspirations from the real world
Over on the Vice blog there is a very cool article, including photos of a place called Hashima Island. Nicknamed Gunkanjima or Battleship Island.
Basically it was a very densely populated town built on an island that was essentially a coal mine. It was vacated almost overnight and left to rot when the mines shut down. If you need a desolate location full of urban decay this is some great source material. And the photos are damn cool as well.
Here is an excerpt from the article, giving a good atmospheric description of the place:
In some areas the entire façades of buildings had fallen to the ground, revealing grids of homes, each exposed with their 70s television sets smashed after the TV stands had eroded away. It was difficult to gauge exactly what it might have been like to live here, although with the complete lack of outdoors space and the prison-like seawall keeping you in, I can’t imagine it to have been anything other than claustrophobic, uncomfortable, and a bit like living in an ant farm.
Read the full article, written by Alex Hoban, here.
4 Comments to More RPG inspirations from the real world
That’s awesome! I love that stuff, great for postapocalyptic rpg campaigns 
Action squad would definitely explore that place.
That is wicked! I think they deserve a post of their own. Thanks the that link.
AmandaJune 4, 2009
this is kinda like the other article http://www.viceland.com/wp/2009/06/communisms-pornographic-stronghold/
Another great link. Thanks!
May 12, 2009