Farm

Frame · Nature and environment thematic

Tilling the land, tending animals, harvesting – the rhythm of nature as a livelihood.

Design question – Imagine your game is set on a farm. What is grown, who works there – and what threatens the harvest?

Reference example – Stardew Valley: an overgrown farm, seasons, harvests and a village you get to know bit by bit. Agricola: ploughing fields, building stables, getting the family through the winter.

Associations

• Typical Activities – Cultivating, Collecting, Trading, Building
• Typical roles – family, neighbourhood, cooperation or self-sufficiency
• Typical spaces – rural, open space, fields, barn, farmyard
• Typical conflicts – cultivation, harvest, provisioning, weather dependence

Atmosphere

leisurely, close to nature, industrious

Coherence

Implied Activities: Cultivating, Collecting, Trading, Building. Mechanisms: Cycle (seasons), Resource Management (seed, water, feed), Worker Placement (allocating labour), Engine Building (expanding the farm). Ludic Organisational Structures: economic order (production chains), developmental order (growth).

Compatible with

• Tranquillity (AT-01)
• Serenity (AT-02)
• Breakdown (SI-07)
• Alliance (SO-01)
• Conspiracy (SO-03)
• Mountains (SP-03)
• City (SP-07)
• Antiquity (TM-02)

Tension with

• Detective (TH-20) – Animals disappear on the farm. Who did it? A rural whodunit in which farm knowledge becomes the investigative tool.