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Open-pit mine
Open-pit mine


A boat in the ocean; perhaps the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dockwise_Vanguard Dockwise Vanguard]?
A boat in the ocean; perhaps the [[wp:Dockwise_Vanguard|Dockwise Vanguard]]?


Field with an inch of snow on the ground and tall grass poking through, with ground fog from the snow
Field with an inch of snow on the ground and tall grass poking through, with ground fog from the snow
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Courtyard of building at night, with well-lit exterior
Courtyard of building at night, with well-lit exterior


Expensive hotel (e.g. the [http://theworldofenvy.com/hotels/the-peninsula-hong-kong Peninsula])
Expensive hotel (e.g. the [https://www.peninsula.com/en/newsroom/hong-kong Peninsula Hong Kong])


Artsy dance club (e.g. the [http://contemporan.com/company/sketch-3/ sketch])
Artsy dance club (e.g. the [http://contemporan.com/company/sketch-3/ sketch])
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8bl3gQN_J0 Underground automated garage]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8bl3gQN_J0 Underground automated garage]


[http://www.strangebuildings.com/solar-furnace-odeillo-france/ Solar Furnace]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20150118174402/http://www.strangebuildings.com/solar-furnace-odeillo-france/ Solar Furnace]


[http://www.cracked.com/article_19678_6-abandoned-places-that-will-make-awesome-supervillain-lairs.html 6 Abandoned Places That Will Make Awesome Supervillain Lairs]
[http://www.cracked.com/article_19678_6-abandoned-places-that-will-make-awesome-supervillain-lairs.html 6 Abandoned Places That Will Make Awesome Supervillain Lairs]
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Coral Castle, Homestead, FL
Coral Castle, Homestead, FL
[http://www.travelandleisure.com/thingtodo/nature/mels-hole Mel’s Hole], Manastash Ridge, WA


[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0SGM7yJqXj0 Ringing Rocks]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0SGM7yJqXj0 Ringing Rocks]
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[http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.containercity.com%2Fcontainer-city-two.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE8SNwTNT8KJRKruh1WM2keyFKHEA Container City II, London]
[http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.containercity.com%2Fcontainer-city-two.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE8SNwTNT8KJRKruh1WM2keyFKHEA Container City II, London]


Fuji Television Building, [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/tokyo Tokyo]
[https://www.viator.com/tours/Rio-de-Janeiro/Niteroi-City-Tour-and-Contemporary-Art-Museum-Admission/d712-8753P7 Museum of Contemporary Art], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
[http://www.macniteroi.com.br/ Museum of Contemporary Art], [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/rio-de-janeiro Rio de Janeiro]


Druzhba Holiday Center, Yalta, Ukraine
Druzhba Holiday Center, Yalta, Ukraine


[http://www.museum-joanneum.at/ Kunsthaus], Graz, [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/austria/hotels Austria]
[http://web.archive.org/web/20120411121430/http://www.dillerscofidio.com/blur.html Blur Building], Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
 
[http://www.dillerscofidio.com/blur.html Blur Building], Yverdon-les-Bains, [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/switzerland/hotels Switzerland]


Cybertecture Egg, [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/mumbai/hotels  Mumbai], [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/india-asia/hotels India]
Cybertecture Egg, Mumbai, India


The Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik, [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/iceland/hotels Iceland]
The Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik, Iceland


[http://www.ec.gc.ca/biosphere/default.asp?lang=En&n=3C2E8507-1 Montreal Biosphere], [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/montreal-quebec-canada Montreal]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120520074655/https://www.ec.gc.ca/biosphere/default.asp?lang=En&n=3C2E8507-1 Montreal Biosphere], Montreal, Canada


Bhangarh, [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/india-asia India]
Bhangarh, India


Tugboat Graveyard, [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/new-york New York]
Tugboat Graveyard, New York


Lier Sykehus, [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/norway Norway]
Lier Sykehus, Norway


San Juan Parangaricutiro, [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/mexico Mexico]
San Juan Parangaricutiro, Mexico


Skellig Michael, [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/ireland/hotels Ireland]
Skellig Michael, Ireland


Hundseck Hotel, Black Forest
Hundseck Hotel, Black Forest


Lehigh Acres, [http://www.travelandleisure.com/guides/florida/hotels Florida]
Lehigh Acres, Florida
 
[http://www.travelandleisure.com/thingtodo/park/racetrack-playa Racetrack Playa], Death Valley National Park, CA


[http://www.travelandleisure.com/thingtodo/nature/mount-shasta Mount Shasta], Redding, CA
[https://geology.com/articles/racetrack-playa-sliding-rocks.shtml Racetrack Playa], Death Valley National Park, CA


[http://www.travelandleisure.com/thingtodo/nature/oregon-vortex Oregon Vortex], Gold Hill, OR
[https://thatoregonlife.com/2016/06/oregon-vortex-one-strangest-places-earth/ Oregon Vortex], Gold Hill, OR


[http://www.sairamtourism.com/uzbekistan/muynak-graveyard-ships Muynak, the Ship Graveyard]
[http://www.sairamtourism.com/uzbekistan/muynak-graveyard-ships Muynak, the Ship Graveyard]
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Matsuo Ghost Mine
Matsuo Ghost Mine


[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dhOYRHt2cqM#! Osaka Station Water Display]
[https://youtu.be/dhOYRHt2cqM Osaka Station Water Display]


Bird Suicide Grounds, Assam, Jatinga
Bird Suicide Grounds, Assam, Jatinga
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San Zhi Resort
San Zhi Resort


[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Tusk Black Tusk]
[[wp:Black_Tusk|Black Tusk]]


[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078058/Worth-wait-Breath-taking-snaps-deep-blue-cave-created-centuries-old-ice-slopes-Icelands-tallest-volcano.html Ice caves]
[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078058/Worth-wait-Breath-taking-snaps-deep-blue-cave-created-centuries-old-ice-slopes-Icelands-tallest-volcano.html Ice caves]
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[http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/geomorphology/GEO_8/GEO_PLATE_E-7.shtml Tanezrouft Basin]
[http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/geomorphology/GEO_8/GEO_PLATE_E-7.shtml Tanezrouft Basin]


Extraterrestrial stuff: [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solar/sataur.html Saturn's aurora], [http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/martian_landscapes.html Martian landscapes]
Extraterrestrial stuff: [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Solar/sataur.html Saturn's aurora], [http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/martian_landscapes.html Martian landscapes]


Mammatus and other weird clouds
Mammatus and other weird clouds
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[http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/viganella-the-italian-village-that-built-its-own-sun.html The Viganella Mirror]
[http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/viganella-the-italian-village-that-built-its-own-sun.html The Viganella Mirror]


[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_lakes Lava lakes]
[[wp:Lava_lakes|Lava lakes]]


[http://travel.ca.msn.com/photogallery.aspx?cp-documentid=30979927&page=6 Spotted Lake]
[https://www.charismaticplanet.com/magical-spotted-lake-canada/ Spotted Lake]


[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3042 Lake Natron]
[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=3042 Lake Natron]


[http://atlasobscura.com/place/eaglehawk-neck-tessellated-pavement Tessellated Pavement]
[https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/eaglehawk-neck-tessellated-pavement Tessellated Pavement]


[http://atlasobscura.com/place/3n-cave-worlds-largest-salt-cave Salt caves]
[https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/3n-cave-the-world-s-largest-salt-cave Salt caves]


[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Oceanogr%C3%A0fic L'Oceanografic]
[[wp:L%27Oceanogr%C3%A0fic|L'Oceanografic]]


Great general resource: [http://www.reddit.com/r/earthporn r/EarthPorn]
Great general resource: [http://www.reddit.com/r/earthporn r/EarthPorn]
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Architecture site: [http://afasiaarq.blogspot.com/2014/01/john-pawson_4.html afasia]
Architecture site: [http://afasiaarq.blogspot.com/2014/01/john-pawson_4.html afasia]


[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door_to_Hell Door to Hell], Turkmenistan
[[wp:Door_to_Hell|Door to Hell]], Turkmenistan


The Pantheon’s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4rdTbomG5Y oculus in the rain]
The Pantheon’s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4rdTbomG5Y oculus in the rain]


More weird stuff: [http://www.strangebuildings.com/ http://www.strangebuildings.com/]
More weird stuff: [https://strangebuildings.com Strange Buildings]


Lastly, a reminder that I need to post some of my own architecture pics at some point
Lastly, a reminder that I need to post some of my own architecture pics at some point


==Unusual future==
==Unusual future==
[http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/27/tech/innovation/earthscraper-mexico-fantasy-reality/index.html Earthscraper]/[http://www.uee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/laboratory/geofront/geofront.htm Geofront]
[http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/27/tech/innovation/earthscraper-mexico-fantasy-reality/index.html Earthscraper]/[http://web.archive.org/web/20120207122635/http://www.uee.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/laboratory/geofront/geofront.htm Geofront]


[http://www.chinasolarcity.cn/Html/dezhou/index.html Solar City]
[https://inhabitat.com/worlds-largest-solar-energy-office-building-opens-in-china/ Solar City]


[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDEmtWLwMOM Outer Space]
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDEmtWLwMOM Outer Space]


[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_City_1000 Sky City 1000]
[[wp:Sky_City_1000|Sky City 1000]]


[[wp:Immersive_virtual_reality|Immersive virtual reality]] — This is an opportunity to put an unusual twist or meta-commentary on top of the normal gameplay. Also, VR levels can be used for training. A truly immersive VR headset will probably engage the muscle atonia that is used in REM sleep to avoid dreamers physically acting out the movements they are making in their dreams. This means that if someone forcibly places a person in a VR space, without providing a soft exit within the space, they will be trapped. Perhaps at some point Konoko must escape a VR space by figuring out how to crash the level so that the headset shuts down and frees her from the physical restraint.
[[wp:Immersive_virtual_reality|Immersive virtual reality]] — This is an opportunity to put an unusual twist or meta-commentary on top of the normal gameplay. Also, VR levels can be used for training. A truly immersive VR headset will probably engage the muscle atonia that is used in REM sleep to avoid dreamers physically acting out the movements they are making in their dreams. This means that if someone forcibly places a person in a VR space, without providing a soft exit within the space, they will be trapped. Perhaps at some point Konoko must escape a VR space by figuring out how to crash the level so that the headset shuts down and frees her from the physical restraint.
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You know it must be the end of the world when you get [http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/firenado-caught-video-australian-filmmaker-143434451--abc-news-topstories.html firenadoes]
You know it must be the end of the world when you get [http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/firenado-caught-video-australian-filmmaker-143434451--abc-news-topstories.html firenadoes]


[http://www.56.com/u12/v_ODU2NjM1MTM.html#st=0&fromoutpvid=ODU2NjM1MTM& Expanding] sinkhole in China
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUdSXxjLlkw Expanding sinkhole] in China


Waterspouts
Waterspouts
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcUnE0tHcaI Dust devil] with fire and tumbleweeds
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcUnE0tHcaI Dust devil] with fire and tumbleweeds


[http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/outposts/post/waterfall-blown-upstream-powerful-winds/ Reverse-flowing waterfall]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVap5ogDgs Reverse-flowing waterfall], Kinder Downfall, Hayfield, England


[[Category:Oni 2]]
[[Category:Oni 2]]

Revision as of 22:12, 27 August 2020

This is a list consisting mostly of possible settings for Oni 2 or even Oni 3. Some of these items are not settings at all, but rather sculptures or installations of some function or another, which could serve as inspiration. Some day this can get turned into a gallery of images and video to properly illustrate what I have in mind.

Commonplace

Shoot-out in a greenhouse (juxtaposes beauty with danger)

Parking garage, done right (see CLT)

Anywhere open, like the western U.S. states, where you can see the sun set all the way down to the ground

Abandoned outdoor area/parking lot at night with dry blowing leaves

Night-time level with Daodan-powered night vision

Train tunnel

Incinerator

Cf. local wire cooling tower in fog under bright sun (need a pic)

Open-pit mine

A boat in the ocean; perhaps the Dockwise Vanguard?

Field with an inch of snow on the ground and tall grass poking through, with ground fog from the snow

Courtyard of building at night, with well-lit exterior

Expensive hotel (e.g. the Peninsula Hong Kong)

Artsy dance club (e.g. the sketch)

A narrow street in an old town (camera would be pulled in and constrained)

A mostly cloudy day, and when the clouds get thin over the sun, the sun shines hazily through the clouds as a sort of golden glow, and the clouds move quickly across the sky

A bunker

A suspension bridge (see Aveyron, France)

Any area laid out below you, wreathed in fog (see Golden Gate bridge, or Dubai fog pic used as Windows 10 backdrop, or jungle mountainside) which you are going to descend into

A cloud forest

Subway construction, e.g. the new NYC projects (East Side Access, No. 7 extension, new Second Avenue)

A forest that you are lost in until you stumble across someone’s backyard, with a banal house in front of you

Something abandoned (see Abandoned mine, r/AbandonedPorn)

Approaching a nuclear power plant in distress, with klaxons going off in the distance…

Snowy places

A dark area where you know an enemy force might be lying in wait, ready to open fire on you from multiple directions; you could take cover but you don’t know when and from where they will fire, and you have to move in that direction

A hotel with a fight on the roof and a pool that you can jump into

The top of a city

For great contemporary Japanese city references, see cat2525jp's YouTube channel

Oni-specific

Abandoned Daodan lab

Navarre’s current lab

Iron Demon factory

The Wilderness (break down into types)

Outdoors under an enormous, expanding mushroom that is filling the sky as it prepares to burst

Mai rides an elevator that runs up the side of a building by holding onto the car from the outside, with the wind whipping her hair as the player can look around with the camera at the city falling below her

Unusual existing

Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel

Giant Escalator

Underground automated garage

Solar Furnace

6 Abandoned Places That Will Make Awesome Supervillain Lairs

Tokyo Sky Tree

Metalmorphosis

The Aizhai Suspension Bridge

Here’s some Mexico City stuff that looks like it has to be from the future

WillAustin.com — A gold mine of architectural pics

Abandoned-places.com

weburbanist.com

AtlasObscura.com

Renwick Hospital, Roosevelt Island (supposedly lit at night)

Skara Brae, Orkney Islands

Therme Vals

Stockwell Garage — those beams are interesting

Yaxchilán

Parador de Ronda

Transfagarasan, Romania — a crazy twisting mountain road through beautiful scenery

Stelvio Pass, Italy — anything crazy the Romanians can do, the Italians can do crazier

Trollstigen, Norway

Khardung La Pass, China

Karakoram Highway, China & Pakistan

Hotel Caesar Augustus

AquaDom, the aquarium elevator in Berlin’s Radisson Blu

Hammetschwand Lift, Switzerland

Falkirk Wheel

Asansor elevator, Izmir, Turkey

New Century Global Center, the world’s largest building

Globen SkyView, Stockholm

Mercedes-Benz Museum elevators

Bailong, Zhangjiajie, Wulingyuan cliffside elevator (world’s tallest?)

3100 Kulmhotel Gornergrat

Rifugio Torre Di Pisa

Whitepod Hotel

Roden Crater

Coral Castle, Homestead, FL

Ringing Rocks

Newport Tower

Columbus Lighthouse, Santo Domingo

Elbe Philharmonic, Hamburg

Bahrain World Trade Center

Nanyang Technological University Art School

Seville Solar Power Station

Kansas City Public Library

Container City II, London

Museum of Contemporary Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Druzhba Holiday Center, Yalta, Ukraine

Blur Building, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland

Cybertecture Egg, Mumbai, India

The Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik, Iceland

Montreal Biosphere, Montreal, Canada

Bhangarh, India

Tugboat Graveyard, New York

Lier Sykehus, Norway

San Juan Parangaricutiro, Mexico

Skellig Michael, Ireland

Hundseck Hotel, Black Forest

Lehigh Acres, Florida

Racetrack Playa, Death Valley National Park, CA

Oregon Vortex, Gold Hill, OR

Muynak, the Ship Graveyard

Selfridges Birmingham

Melbourne City Link Gateway

Takakonuma Greenland Park

Travertine Pools, Pamukkale, Turkey

White Desert, Egypt

Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand

Burj Khalifa

Eye of the Sahara, Mauritania

Asbyrgi Canyon, Iceland

Matsuo Ghost Mine

Osaka Station Water Display

Bird Suicide Grounds, Assam, Jatinga

Mayan Hell / Actun Tunichil Muknal

Gunkanjima

San Zhi Resort

Black Tusk

Ice caves

Tanezrouft Basin

Extraterrestrial stuff: Saturn's aurora, Martian landscapes

Mammatus and other weird clouds

Marble Caves, Chile

Lake Retba, Senegal

The Viganella Mirror

Lava lakes

Spotted Lake

Lake Natron

Tessellated Pavement

Salt caves

L'Oceanografic

Great general resource: r/EarthPorn

Architecture site: afasia

Door to Hell, Turkmenistan

The Pantheon’s oculus in the rain

More weird stuff: Strange Buildings

Lastly, a reminder that I need to post some of my own architecture pics at some point

Unusual future

Earthscraper/Geofront

Solar City

Outer Space

Sky City 1000

Immersive virtual reality — This is an opportunity to put an unusual twist or meta-commentary on top of the normal gameplay. Also, VR levels can be used for training. A truly immersive VR headset will probably engage the muscle atonia that is used in REM sleep to avoid dreamers physically acting out the movements they are making in their dreams. This means that if someone forcibly places a person in a VR space, without providing a soft exit within the space, they will be trapped. Perhaps at some point Konoko must escape a VR space by figuring out how to crash the level so that the headset shuts down and frees her from the physical restraint.

Weird weather

Shelf cloud — it only looks like the end of the world!

Sarychev eruption

Amazing volcano photo gallery from Chile

Fire rainbow clouds

Cracked article on apocalypses that have already happened (more in comments)

Shutdown of thermohaline circulation — one of the scarier potential effects of global warming

Exploding lakes like Lake Nyos are scary stuff, and Lake Kivu will cause a major disaster if it outgasses too

This exploding dam is pretty cool

You know it must be the end of the world when you get firenadoes

Expanding sinkhole in China

Waterspouts

Eutrophication in response to pollution

Dust devil with fire and tumbleweeds

Reverse-flowing waterfall, Kinder Downfall, Hayfield, England

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