Attention, capital, and public support — the three resources you manage under pressure. End turn refills AP only; every spend has a tradeoff.
Inventing practice on video
Future Forge videos
Tutorial, then layers.
Watch inventing practice before you open the table: quiet tutorial first — Invent · Challenge · Field. When you’re ready for the full cockpit, the Workshop clips add complexity one system at a time. Story and concepts live on the main Future Forge page. Install and FAQ: Get started.
The loop
How it works
- Invent — Stack emerging tech and write how the solution works for a real problem.
- Challenge — Answer one hard question about your idea.
- Field — Put it into the world before the crisis wins.
Start with the tutorial (Spark) — a quieter first invent win. Workshop is the full cockpit when you’re ready. After the walkthrough, open the layered complexity clips.
After the tutorial
What Workshop adds
The tutorial teaches invent · challenge · field. Workshop keeps that loop and turns on the full cockpit — more room to apply emTech under pressure. Short clips below layer that complexity on, one system at a time.
- AP, Budget, Support — Attention and capital you manage; End turn refills AP only. Watch →
- End turn vs Wait — End turn: +1 year and refill AP; Wait: +2 years with higher crisis meters. Watch →
- Lobby — Spend to build public and policy Support.
- Two story faces — How it works + Everyday life; write one, let the co-inventor draft the other. Watch →
- Harder challenge — Defend, Fix, or Sidestep under a critic’s pressure. Watch →
- Fielding stages — Pilot → Scale → New normal. Watch →
- More tech / themes — Full catalog, bigger stack, Choose a theme.
- Friends — 2–6 people, personal inventions, shared crisis (coopetition).
End turn advances the crisis year by one and refreshes attention. Wait jumps +2 years — tech matures, but meters climb harder. Timing is a strategic choice, not a free pass.
Two faces — How it works and Everyday life — the mechanism and the human picture. Write either one yourself, then let the AI co-inventor draft the other. You still lead; the partner fills the blank so inventing is easier.
One hard question under a critic’s pressure. Choose Defend, Fix, or Sidestep — then earn the right to field.
Fielding is staged: first a local Pilot, then wider Scale, then a new normal — full or partial. The world only shifts when you ship stages.
Next
Read the concepts, then play
Illustrations of the loop, honest timing, quests, inventing paths, and the co-inventor live on the main page. When you’re ready, open the table and start with the tutorial — inventing practice, not a feed.