Future Care Force Contributor Support Guide
Hello game players and Care Force Commandos,
This guide is designed to help you navigate, adapt, and contribute to the Future Care Force game ecosystem.
1. Understanding the Creative Commons License
Future Care Force is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
- What you CAN do: * Share: Copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- Adapt: Remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose. We actively encourage you to adapt the game and cards to your specific needs and local contexts!
- What you MUST do:
- Attribution (BY): You must give appropriate credit (mention Future Care Force), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
- ShareAlike (SA): If you remix or adapt the game, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original = (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
- What you CANNOT do:
- Non-Commercial (NC): You may not sell the game for profit. However you can use / facilitate the game in any setting where you are being paid as a professional.
2. Explore Different Versions
There isn’t just one way to play. Depending on your audience, you can choose from:
- Main Version: The standard English Climate and Health edition.
- Translated Versions: Climate and Health decks available in other languages to support global communities. (coming mid February 2026)
- Generic Deck: A larger, more flexible set of cards for broader foresight applications beyond specific climate/health themes.
- Other Versions: that get created by others in future.
*For the non-standard version please join our FCF whatsapp game community for information.
3. Adapting & Expanding the Game
The game is built to be modular. You can tailor the experience by adding specific card types:
- “Transmission” Cards: Use these to introduce emerging issues, signals, or trends relevant to your specific field.
- “Future Shaping” Cards (Morphology): Add these to define the parameters or “shapes” of the future you are exploring.
- Editable Templates: We provide a template (including blank cards on the PDF) that allows you to easily modify or create your own cards to fit your unique context.
- Want to add a whole new translation into another language? We are keen to support new language versions.
Templates
4. Share Your Work with the Community
The strength of Future Care Force lies in its community. If you create a new version or a specialized card set, send it to us! We will feature it on the website for others to use.
When submitting, please include a note with:
- Who you are: Your name, institution, or organisation.
- Context: Why the adaptation was made and the specific goal of your version.
Why contribute?
- Community Updates: New versions are shared with the entire community so everyone can benefit from your work.
- Resource Growth: Every contribution increases the shared pool of resources, helping others tackle complex futures with better tools.