Optional Unobtrusive Community Moment Sharing

[halby]

GOAL: unobtrusively / quickly / optionally, give people a way to think of their colony as a story to be shared as well as a game they are playing.   
Why?:  I think even when we DONT share a story, the act of thinking about a colony or colonist as something that we MAY tell a story about, makes us care more about whats happening... The important part isn't to get people to do more storytelling, it's to lower the barrier to entry to imagining that we COULD tell a story if we wanted to.

Challenges:   Moderation,  breaking the flow of gameplay, interrupting the flow-state of relaxed gameplay, or interrupting the tense action state of dealing with a cool challenge, feeling like homework, feeling like 'reddit already exists why should i do this', we want people to know for sure that whatever they post someone will see, but also we dont want them to be able to follow up on that and get distracted from just playing the game, no rating system, we want the effort of people feeling like what they said was heard, to come from their imagination,   

Ideas:  to avoid interupting gameplay, maybe do all of this on the loading screen? or when ppl pause, this could be the pause screen? so like you go to grab some water, and come back and just see a cool screenshot from someone else's game on the left, and then a few smaller screenshots from your game of how your base has changed or a colonist interaction like 'hey did you notice jane was flirting with benjamin at jakes wedding?'  etc etc... and then you have the option of just smiling and clicking unpause, or like tabbing thru more and more screenshots from your game, and finding one you like, and sharing it so that it'll appear on other peoples pause screens...      Then mid-game now that we've teased you with the pause screen, there's a button you can do to generate a screenshot of your home-area on the left and close up screenshots of all your pawns on the right, and you click that button when something cool happened, and maybe you can rewind thru time a little bit while looking... so lets say we save only the non-paused last 1 in game day of stuff, and you can rewind fast forward thru it and see your base, and each of your pawns, so like if you notice that jane lost a leg, and you didn't see it happen, you can click the pause thing and scroll back until jane gets killed by a squirrel, and be like, oh thats what happened, ha ha.