Liz Green and Katonya Mosley joined the core creative team in February 2016, and over the next couple months the full team held a series of meetings to build a compendium of research sources and develop questions (and sometimes answers) around content, structure, audience, marketing, goals, language, and more. Here are just a few of the ideas we explored:

• Is the game existing all the time in your brain, or is there a container that separates the experience from your everyday life?
• Are we presenting a worldview, or are we offering a platform for participants to present their own worldview?
• How do we want to pair guides and players? Should pairs be similar or different from each other? How does age/experience play in?
• Is “guide” the right title? Do we want something that implies less status differential?
• How do we make people feel special from the beginning?
• Do people who are already fulfilled by their lives enjoy this game?
• Can death be considered as beautiful as birth?
• How do we maintain audience agency in a scene with a predetermined outcome?