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Shrimp Welfare

A Roguelike strategy game where you help navigate a population of shrimps through an age of rapid AI advancement and scientific discovery.

Code Video Cerebral Valley

Core trick

Early decision nodes add catastrophes to a future deck, so the player's choices determine which events surface later on a fog-of-war board.

Tags

creative/musiceducation

Description

A Roguelike strategy game where you help navigate a population of shrimps through an age of rapid AI advancement and scientific discovery. Guide decisions on government regulation, AI safety, control, and shrimp agency to decide the fate of the next stage of civilization. This project is a 3d game built with the Godot game engine.
areibman/Shrimp-welfare★ 00 forksGDScriptCreated Jun 13, 2026 · last push Jun 13, 2026

README excerpt

# Shrimp Welfare

A 3D roguelike civilization-decision game built in **Godot 4.6**. You guide a
**horde of shrimp** — humanity — across a **fog-of-war** decision board, making
grounded policy choices (AI, climate, biotech, governance, war, space) and
weathering escalating catastrophes. Early choices decide *which* catastrophes
enter your future and *whether you built the tools to survive them*.

> The shrimp are a metaphor. The decisions are about us.

## The core idea

> Early choices do not just change stats. They decide which catastrophes enter
> the future and whether civilization has the tools to survive them.

You can't see the whole board. You see your current node, the next options, and
fog. A tempting early choice helps now and **pollutes the future deck** — three
turns later a catastrophe appears, and you survive only if you prepared.

## Screenshots

| Fog-of-war board + shrimp civilization view | A decision card (with a locked choice) |
|:---:|:---:|
| ![board](shot_board.png) | ![card](shot_card.png) |
| **A catastrophe reveal (with causal breakdown)** | **An immediate risk check** |
| ![disaster](shot_disaster.png) | ![risk](shot_risk.png) |
| **An ending** | |
| ![ending](shot_ending.png) | |

## How to play

```bash
GODOT=/Applications/Godot.app/Contents/MacOS/Godot
"$GODOT" --path .            # play in a window
"$GODOT" --editor --path .   # open in the Godot editor
```

- Click a **glowing node** in the next layer. Dim **"?"** spheres are the future,
  hidd

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