The only game where you gotta pay yer dues from the beginning — 213°, one degree past boiling. Here's why we've overshot, and how we pull it back.
Water boils at 212°. We start at 213 — one degree past. That's the overshoot truth: humanity now consumes more than the planet can regenerate, living beyond the shore's limits. This isn't a warning about a problem we're heading toward — we're already past the edge. That heat is BuMeRZ, the impact debt already on yer tab. The game? Pull it back down to 0.
Why one degree past boiling? Because that's where we actually are.
Every year, humanity uses more than the Earth can regenerate. We've blown past the planet's carrying capacity — cutting more, catching more, dumping more, burning more than the shore can recover from. That's ecological overshoot, and we're living in it right now.
212° is the boiling point. We're at 213 — past it. The system already tipped over the edge. So you don't start The Shore Score at zero, clean and neutral. You start in debt, because we all inherited the overshoot.
Here's the thing though — that's not where the story ends. Every sHaKaZ uP, every piece picked up, every card passed pulls it back. The whole game is picking up the pieces of a system that overshot — and having a whole lotta fun doin it. 🤙
Not all heat is the same. One burns the shore down. One lights you up. Know the difference.
Every card is a challenge. Pull 213° back down to 0. Here's the loop.
Every sKore climbs you higher. From first-time aware to shore-wide advisor — here's the ladder.
Grab a card, throw uP sHaKaZ, and start pulling yer 213° back down to zero. The shore's keeP N' sK0Re.
Start Yer sKore →