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The Village game
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The following is idea capture, not all to be initially implemented
The following is idea capture, not all to be initially implemented

== Learning Objectives ==
=== Pitch to teacher/educators ===
* Teaches basic economic models -- for example, situated around a rural village.
** Balance -- manage supply and demand, investment choices, and cost/benefit analysis
* Competitive and cooperative gameplay options. Motivation: primarily self-driven (get a good score for ones settlement), but also cooperative to see the village as a whole do better.


== Land Types ==
== Land Types ==

Revision as of 21:56, 9 August 2008

The Village game

This is a game being developed at the ILXO game jam.

Village is a economics simulation game. It explores the idea production and trading.

A major inspitation for this game is the 1983 game M.U.L.E.. Other fluences are 'Settlers of Catan', Oregon Trail, various first generation simulation games like Hammurabi and Animal crossing.

The object is for the village to succeed and for you to be the richest player at the end of the game.

The initial version will be hunma player vs. computer. It isntended to become a collaborative game with players on differnt XOa competeing.

The basic gameplay is to develop or exploit resources and to buy, sell and trade them, Players can compete, collude and cooperate to reach therir goals.

The game play is turn based.

The following is idea capture, not all to be initially implemented

Learning Objectives

Pitch to teacher/educators

  • Teaches basic economic models -- for example, situated around a rural village.
    • Balance -- manage supply and demand, investment choices, and cost/benefit analysis
  • Competitive and cooperative gameplay options. Motivation: primarily self-driven (get a good score for ones settlement), but also cooperative to see the village as a whole do better.

Land Types

  • Arable
  • Mountain
  • Tungdra
  • Water containing arable
  • Forest
  • Village

Explotation

  • grow food
  • mine
  • Cut wood

Resources

  • Labor
  • mechanization
  • water
  • pesticide/fertilizer
  • food
  • seed
  • wood
  • Animals/Livestock

Random events

  • Adverse weather
  • Adverse actions occuring to food and livestock

Not players, we don't want the kds to die.

  • Rich mineral deposits
  • Space Pirates (sorry, couldn't resist)

Complexity

to deal with different levels of experience and user sophistication

  • Basic

in basic, at least, the game cheats, untoward events don't happen to the player in last place. Tise in auctioning are resolcved in favor of the lower ranked player. This is to level the playing field, and to avoid discouragement.

  • intermediate
  • Advanced

Game play

The game is turn based, except for the 'auction' phase which needs to be simultaneous

Initial

repeat for each turn

conclusion

General program progress

initial screen

for each turn

phase I: player actions

random event
equip =
equip a plot
reallocate resources
sell land

phase II: production

computer generates what your production is from your land factoring in:

  • appropriateness of the land for the purpose
  • economies of scale
  • learning curve of production
andom village wide event

Phase III: auction

  • for each resource, buy or sell
  • figure out if we bomb out
    • can a player 'die' or will he just muddle on at near zero efficiency?
    • if a play can die, the game is over when the last human player dies

End of game

  • show final scores