The Airborne Collective

GAME
ECOLOGY
FUTURE


The Catalog is a top down simulation game that models the complex phenomena of entangled systems of TAC ecology and economy. This game presents a model, a toy world with its own internally coherent reality, a world where a player can exercise a fantasy of obsessive control and visibility, observe the systems, cut into objects to look inside, dissect the world like a surgeon, or better yet, as an architect. The Catalog presents a deep dive into life simulation games as a new format for architectural design, it includes a tech tree, it names all the human and non human agents, asks for their moods and current states, in order to instantiate a pluralistic image of a World.