a video game where the crafting system is modeled on the real retail chemicals economy, that follows the economics of industrial chemistry from startup to large scale, and ages that mimic industrial and scientific development over the past two thousand years.
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And an alternate path where the chemistry conducted by microbes is discovered before high T, high pressure brut force chemistry applied to fossil fuels, and instead leads to low T aqueous syntheses of anything we need made from biology, not lumps of coal.
@fatamorgana there would need to be serious ethical due diligence before coding starts so that the game doesn't create a bunch of fire, poisoning, and addiction harm