# Superstruct and Urgent Evoke: the Hexayurt in two games > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [843]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (PDF), 2026-11 (printed on it), https://guptaoption.com/#doc=vinay-gupta-superstruct-and-urgent-evoke. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the great powers step (Multipolar Realpolitik, 2024), the latest step. - Made from his records (a summary), not his own text: cite the works it points to. - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Where the hexayurt entered futures games, an ancestor of the Harappa fiction. - Career works it belongs to: - Superstruct and URGENT EVOKE (2008): The Hexayurt in two of Jane McGonigal's games: in Superstruct (2008) he wrote DCAR, a refugee state housed... (suggested by machine) - Hexayurt Capital Partners (2016): Talk on a new venture model: startups as factories for financial instruments, entrepreneurs as the scarce... (suggested by machine) - Hexayurt Refugee Shelter (MICA, Baltimore) (2024): A lecture and a roundtable with Bryan Hellard at the Maryland Institute College of Art: cities instead of... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - CheapID to Mattereum: One identity pattern, from a person's ID card in 2006 to warranties on physical goods in 2017. (through a work suggested by machine) - hexayurt builds: Hexayurt variants, many designed and built by the community. (through a work suggested by machine) - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine) - nuclear / panflu: Pandemic, evacuation and rehousing plans. (through a work suggested by machine) - social enterprise: Enterprises that turn money into social capital and back: the capital conversion matrix from the Rocky Mountain... (through a work suggested by machine) - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Hexayurt shelter design & project — hexayurt, hexayurt project, project (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: Urgent Evoke (12 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2026); Superstruct (11 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); DCAR (6 here; 4 sources in all, earliest dated 2008); Jane McGonigal (4 here; 2 sources in all, earliest dated 2026); urban resilience (5 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2011); Hexayurt Project (14 here; 70 sources in all, earliest dated 2002, 4 undated); Possible Worlds (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2015); Shelter for 300 million (1 here; 3 sources in all, earliest dated 2026); The Living City (1 here; 6 sources in all, earliest dated 2009); Arup (1 here; 9 sources in all, earliest dated 2009) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Urgent Evoke; Jane McGonigal - Importance: core-text score 0.17 (1.00 is the top), number 406 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - On the same works, just before: [724] [Roundtable Discussion with Vinay Gupta and Bryan... (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/724.md); [554] [RWA for Emerging Markets (2024)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/554.md); [434] [How to Accelerate Mass Asset Tokenization (2025)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/434.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Superstruct and Urgent Evoke: the Hexayurt in two games, document, 2026-11, https://guptaoption.com/#doc=vinay-gupta-superstruct-and-urgent-evoke; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [843], https://guptaoption.com/texts/843.md. ## Passages [p. 1 to 2](https://guptaoption.com/#doc=vinay-gupta-superstruct-and-urgent-evoke) Shelter for 300 million Superstruct and Urgent Evoke The Hexayurt in two of Jane McGonigal's games, 2008 to 2010: from a player's invention to part of the scenario, and from playing to mentoring November 2026 · A short summary, not a full history, prepared from archived copies of the game sites, Gupta's own files and files.howtolivewiki.com. Quotations are checked word for word against archived copies; every source, date and gap is in the research note. In brief Two years apart, Vinay Gupta took part in two alternate reality games directed by Jane McGonigal, and the Hexayurt moved from the edge of the game to its center. In Superstruct (2008), Gupta was a player. Playing as The Gupta Option, Gupta wrote the Hexayurt into the game's future as the housing of DCAR, a refugee state. In Urgent Evoke (2010), the World Bank Institute's game on social innovation, the Hexayurt was already in the scenario: the game's own episode 7 featured the Hexayurt Project, players had written Hexayurts into their plans, and the game named Gupta a mentor, introduced as “Vinay Gupta of the Hexayurt Project (see EVOKE episode 7)”. A page from Urgent Evoke episode 7, "Urban Resilience" (World Bank Institute, April 2010). The comic site is gone and the Wayback Machine kept no images of this episode; this page survives in Gupta's own files. It carries no page number, and is placed in episode 7 by its format, its lettering and the episode's investigation file. Superstruct, 2008: playing the future Superstruct was a forecasting game from the Institute for the Future, created by Jane McGonigal and set in 2019. It launched in October 2008. Players formed groups, called superstructs, to answer the threats the game laid out; one of its "superthreats" was Generation Exile. The Gupta Option was introduced on Gupta's blog on 23 September 2008, and in October 2008 Gupta wrote it into the game's wiki. The center of it was DCAR, the Democratic Central African Republic: “DCAR the refugee state houses much of its population in hexayurts” (Superstruct wiki, Hexayurt page), and runs refugee-built Hexayurt factories that export houses. Around it went pages for CheapID, weakly state-like entities, seasteads and other technologies of 2019. Reporting from inside the game Gupta played in character, reporting from DCAR, which the first field report calls “a self-governing conurbation of refugee camps and transient resettlement areas” (The Gupta Option 2019, 4 October 2008). The reports ran on an in-game video blog from 4 October to 14 November 2008, through a crisis in the refugee state and a "full report" of what happened there. On the game's own site, Gupta founded a "superstruct" called The Hexayurt Project - Free Shelter, Agriculture and Infrastructure Technologies, and gathered the game material on hexayurt.com/superstruct, including a page that calls the Hexayurt “the Linux of housing”. Urgent Evoke, 2010: the Hexayurt in the scenario Urgent Evoke was the World Bank Institute's game on social innovation, also directed by McGonigal, played from March to May 2010. It ran [p. 1 to 2](https://guptaoption.com/#doc=vinay-gupta-superstruct-and-urgent-evoke) called The Hexayurt Project - Free Shelter, Agriculture and Infrastructure Technologies, and gathered the game material on hexayurt.com/superstruct, including a page that calls the Hexayurt “the Linux of housing”. Urgent Evoke, 2010: the Hexayurt in the scenario Urgent Evoke was the World Bank Institute's game on social innovation, also directed by McGonigal, played from March to May 2010. It ran ten weekly missions, each opened by an episode of a graphic novel. Players brought it in first Before the story reached the Hexayurt, players had. On 15 February 2010, Josh Judkins imagined a climate-refugee camp of 2020 in Queensland: “In every direction are tents and Hexayurt shelters” (IMAGINE 1). On 12 March 2010 a player writing as Megiddo Tell proposed Hexayurts for Haiti after the earthquake, built by local workers trained to train others (Secrets). Episode 7, Urban Resilience Episode 7, with the mission "Urban Resilience", was posted on 14 April 2010. Its comic featured the Hexayurt Project, and the game's investigation file for the episode sent players to hexayurt.com with the question “How do hexayurts work?”, beside questions on Alejandro Aravena's Elemental houses and on urban resilience (Investigate Episode Seven). In the page that survives (page 1), Hexayurts have become standard relief gear in a future camp, after “years of safety reviews”. From the Hexayurt Project, inside the game Two days later, on 16 April 2010, Gupta posted four times as "Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Project)": a video briefing for the mission about “our work on open source emergency housing”, a note that the project “exists here and now”, its shelters “a little less sophisticated than the ones in the comic”, Dealing in Security as a toolkit, and the slides of The Living City, a 2009 talk on urban resilience given to Arup (profile, April 2010). On 29 April 2010 the Evoke blog named Gupta one of four new mentors, under the headline "Mentors bring IK, Hexayurts, Digital Culture, and Youth Employment" (Evoke blog). From playing to mentoring Superstruct, 2008 Urgent Evoke, 2010 Run by Institute for the Future; created by Jane World Bank Institute; directed by Jane McGonigal McGonigal Gupta's role Player, as The Gupta Option Posted from the Hexayurt Project; named a mentor on 29 April 2010 How the Hexayurt got in Gupta wrote it into the game's 2019 The game's own episode 7, and players' posts before it What it did in the story Housed DCAR, a refugee state, and its factories Standard relief gear in a future camp; a research question for players Gupta's own later account, in an undated Hexayurt Project proposal, "The Hexayurt Project and Possible Worlds" (its file is dated March 2013), describes taking part in both games “in both player and mentor roles”, and says of the second: “The hexayurt was featured as a key scenario element in Urgent Evoke.” No record found shows Gupta helping to write episode 7. The record shows that the episode featured the Hexayurt Project, and that Gupta then posted from the Hexayurt Project and joined as [p. 2](https://guptaoption.com/#doc=vinay-gupta-superstruct-and-urgent-evoke) taking part in both games “in both player and mentor roles”, and says of the second: “The hexayurt was featured as a key scenario element in Urgent Evoke.” No record found shows Gupta helping to write episode 7. The record shows that the episode featured the Hexayurt Project, and that Gupta then posted from the Hexayurt Project and joined as a mentor. What survives Superstruct. The wiki pages are live on Fandom and the in-game video blog is live on tumblr. The first field report is on YouTube. The full DCAR report, once on blip.tv, survives as a rescued copy on files.howtolivewiki.com. The game's own site is gone but kept in the Wayback Machine. The Facebook discussion threads are lost. Urgent Evoke. The game sites are gone; the profile, posts, mission pages and blog survive in the Wayback Machine. The mission 7 video briefing, once on blip.tv, survives as a rescued copy on files.howtolivewiki.com. The episode 7 comic is lost apart from the page shown here. Sources, dates and gaps The research note on Superstruct and Urgent Evoke lists every source with its date as printed and an archived copy, explains how the comic page was identified, and says what the record does not show. --- End of [843] Superstruct and Urgent Evoke: the Hexayurt in two games. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.