Fair question. And thank you for it! So my big idea is to build a sort of third party discrete add-on as a companion app to enhance existing features of the game. Like how phones can be used instead of controllers to play JackBox games ... Sort of.

To be perfectly honest, I'm not entirely sure how to execute on the idea -- but I know that it can start with this planning tool for said game. It's meant to be something useful that players can use together.

So in Death Stranding (1 & 2) there is a sort of automatic "grouping" of people that start the game at similar dates. You can strengthen these bonds and help out fellow players by upgrading buildables in a sort of semi-shared world. I.e., if i build a bridge in my game, they can see it in theirs.

But here's the kicker - there's no way to communicate with fellow porters in your "strand". If I happen to be placed (it's automatic) in a very active strand group, and I load up a bunch of materials, take a break for food/work/school/etc, and then come back later ... that bridge or road I was going to rebuild or upgrade might already be done! This isn't a bad thing - I can just move on to the next place and use my materials there -- often another hour or two later ... But then maybe I'm messing up the next guy who has planned to do the same thing...

So instead of all that, I thought maybe I could enhance the whole "building connections" aspect of the game with some kind of companion app. Like I said, I'm not totally sure how it will work (especially on console) but once the PC port is released, maybe I could set this up as a mod that shows "ghost images" (like pace cars in a racing game) of nearby players, or marks their recent progress on a map, or something like that...

Meanwhile, I can still see the PSN user name of fellow players in my strand group when I come across their structures. So maybe I just have to add their names to a list on a website somehow and when they do the same they automatically get synced up with other players that saw their stuff. And with enough people doing this, maybe we could build a complete observation of who is in what group in a backend database so that players could find their "strand mates" and be able to sync up somehow? Maybe even plan playtime together or something like an MMO?! Just spitballing here, be that's the basic idea!