The Cyberpunker Handbook - (Cyberpunk Source Material)
What exactly is Cyberpunk?
The question seems to be continuously resurrected in cyberpunk communities without ever coming to a conclusion as to a definition.
While it is true that cyberpunk may mean different things to different people, there certainly is a common thread.
Cyberpunk is about expressing (often dark) ideas about human nature, technology and their respective combination in the near future.
It consists of basic ideas, such as:
What exactly is Cyberpunk?
The question seems to be continuously resurrected in cyberpunk communities without ever coming to a conclusion as to a definition.
While it is true that cyberpunk may mean different things to different people, there certainly is a common thread.
Cyberpunk is about expressing (often dark) ideas about human nature, technology and their respective combination in the near future.
It consists of basic ideas, such as:
- Impact of technology on humanity
- Transhumanism (Mix between man and machine)
- Anarcho-Capitalism or Corporativism
- The Underground
- Low life, high tech
- Futuristic Visuals
But Cyberpunk is more than that
- Cyberpunk is an attitude
- Cyberpunk is an awareness
- Cyberpunk is a subculture
- Cyberpunk is a subgenre
And it's just a matter of research to find out more about that, here goes some cyberpunk stuff you can dive in with no worries.
Roleplaying and Board Games:
- Cyberpunk 2020
- Android:Netrunner
- SLA Industries
- Shadowrun
- Angel Devoid
- Burn:Cycle
- Cholo
- CYBERMAGE: Darklight Awakening
- I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream
- Paradroid
- Circuit's Edge
- Snatcher
- Rise of the Dragon
- Johnny Mnemonic
- A.I. Wars
- Blade Runner
- Gunpoint Launch
- Distance
- Interference
- NeuroHunter
- CyberKnights
- Cell Factor Revolution
- Oni
- Enter The Matrix
- Shadowrun Returns (Alpha)
- BloodNet
- Quarantine
- Collateral
- Neuromancer
- Restricted Area
- Messiah
- Quadrilateral Cowboy
- Nikopol Secrets of the Immortals
- Syndicate
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Anachronox
- Deus Ex
- Deus Ex 2
- Chaos Overlords
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution (And Missing Link)
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
- Dex
- Dystopia (A Half Life 2 Source Mod)
- G-String (A Half-Life 2 Source Mod)
- HacX (A Doom II Total Conversion)
- Hard Reset
- Beneath A Steel Sky
- Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller
- Metal Gear Solid
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty
- Mirror's Edge
- Hacker Evolution
- Hacker Evolution Untold
- Hacker Evolution Duality
- Defcon: Global Nuclear Domination Game
- Darwinia
- Multiwinia
- Neocron
- Syndicate
- System Shock
- System Shock 2
- Frozen Synapse
- Reset
- Nikopol Secrets of The Immortals
- Binary Domain
- Uplink
- CYPHER Cyberpunk Text Adventure
- E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy
- Omikron
- Crysis Series
- Mass Effect Series
- Anarchy Online
- Infernal
- Dead Space Series
- Battlefield 2142
- Quake 4
- Project Lodus
- Dreamfall Chapters
- Shadowrun
- Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
- Lost Planet: 2
- OpenOutcast Oasis
- Remember Me
- Marathon
- The Journeyman Project 1: Project Turbo!
- The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time
- The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time
- ShadowGrounds
- ShadowGrounds: Survivor
- Prototype Series
- Space Siege
- Outcast
- Red Faction: Armageddon
- Legendary
- MDK Series
- Project Eden
- Gemini Rue
- Paradise Cracked
- Dark Sector
- Satellite Reign
- Section 8
- Section 8: Prejudice
- Hydrophobia: Prophecy
- Mercury: Red
- Invisibility Inc.
- Fear Effect Series
- Project Snowblind
- Megaman Series
- Ghost in the Shell Series
- Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots
- Appleseed
- Advent Rising
- Neuromancer
- Count Zero
- Mona Lisa Overdrive
- Burning Chrome
- Hardwired
- Voice of the Whirlwind
- Snow Crash
- Islands in The Net
- Vickers
- Mirrorshades
- Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
- -When Gravity Fails
- A Fire In The Sun
- The Exile Kiss
- Transmetropolitan
- Idoru
- Otherland Book 1
- Otherland Book 2
- Otherland Book 3
- Otherland Book 4
- Cyberdonkey The Tales Of Hatchback Hernandes
- Finnegans Wake
- Altered Carbon
- Donnerjack
- Software
- Wetware
- Freeware
- Eclipse
- Eclipse Penumbra
- Eclipse Corona
- A.D Police
- A.D Police Files (ova)
- AKIRA
- Appleseed
- Appleseed: Ex Machina
- Appleseed XIII (ongoing)
- Armitage III (ova)
- Armitage III: Poly-Matrix
- Armitage III: Dual Matrix
- Battle Angel
- Black Magic-M66 (ova)
- Bubblegum Crisis
- Bubblegum Crash
- Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040
- Cowboy Beebop
- Cowboy Beebop: Knockin on Heavens Door
- Cyber City Oedo 808
- Dominion: Tank Police
- Ergo Proxy
- Eve no Jikan
- Fist of the North Star
- Genocyber (ova)
- Ghost in the Shell
- Ghost in the Shell: Innocence
- Ghost in the Shell: SAC
- Ghost in the Shell: 2nd GIG
- Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society
- Ghost in the Shell: Arise
- Heat Guy J
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
- Mardock Scramble: The First Compression
- Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion
- Mardock Scramble: The Third Exhaust
- Mezzo
- Mezzo Forte (ova)
- New Dominion Tank Police
- Parasite Dolls
- Psycho Pass
- Real Drive
- Serial Experiments Lain
- Spriggan
- Texhnolyze
- Vexille: 2077 Isolation of Japan
- A.D Police
- AKIRA
- Appleseed
- Battle Angel Alita
- Black Magic
- Blame!
- City of Darkness - (ongoing)
- Dorohedoro
- Eden: It's an Endless World
- Geno Cyber
- Ghost in the Shell
- Ghost in the Shell 2 Man-Machine Interface
- Ghost in the Shell 1.5 Human-Error Processe
- Legen of Mother Sarah
- Noise
- Automatik Kilombo
- Avatar (3 volumes)
- Bubblegum Crisis
- Cyberella
- The Dirty Pair
- Ficcionario
- Hard Boiled
- The Monster Tetralogy
- Judge Dredd (2000AD)
- The Last Days of American Crime
- Neurotrans
- The Nikopol Trilogy
- Ranx (Formerly known as Ranxerox)
- Ronin
- Robocop
- The Surrogates
- Narcopolis
- Vampi
- Gipsy
- Zhong Guo
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