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I wrote up one of my old game ideas.

A few years back I found the concept of "gardening games" by @maxkreminski.

https://mkremins.github.io/blog/gardening-games/

The point is not literal "gardening" but rather a deeper way to interact/relate to procedural content, pretty much by inverting the idea of a 4X game. Instead of arriving at a beautiful, believable, "wild" landscape and exploiting it to bits, the player works with the environment system to enhance it.

E.g. the same way a gardener works with/within nature: collecting seeds, growing seedlings, moving self-set plants, removing weeds, composting waste, pruning, improving soil.

It's a beautiful idea that captures something I hunger for in games, but rarely find...

...so this is my attempt to implement the idea in a design: https://emnf-ideas.ianbadcoe.uk/growth-673uxwn7v0-f7tsv293ns75

This particular take is literally gardening, which is not required, but works as a jumping off point.