myrmepropagandist

Stardew Valley but it's the South Bronx 1960s, you run a community garden & Jojamart is Robert Moses with the Cross Bronx Expressway.

The mines? Subway tunnels with a secret passage to North Brother Island.

Build friendship with the local teens by helping them to find a productive use for their love of graffiti-- But, don't offend the sweet church ladies: you'll need *their* help as well to stop the expressway.

Find artifacts of NYC history!
Pirer is now Pedro at the bodega.
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Show threadmyrmepropagandistFeb 22

The only thing I don't like about Stardew is the whole "gotta get away from the big city" vibe. There are small little communities that need your help with the community center IN the big city. Too many people just aren't plugged in.

And the garden needs a lot of love and you *will* be exhausted.

You want wizards? We have SO MANY wizards.
We have a guy who lives in a tent.
A next to useless, embezzling mayor? We've got those too!
Artistic beachy man? We have that! The man AND the beach!

Show threadmyrmepropagandistFeb 22
And the whole thing where honey is one of the most lucrative crops makes way more sense for NYC community garden honey. That stuff makes BANK.
Show threadzahlenzauber*inFeb 22
@futurebird I love Stardewvalley, but the "get away from the big city" vibe is a problem. Most of us can't get away and as someone who has grown up in rural Germany I can tell you, this isn't the paradise people paint it to be if you are not exactly like the rest of the people living there. Finding solidarity and your own kind of people is far easier in the city.
Show threadmyrmepropagandistFeb 22

@Zahlenzauberin

A small town with the arts scene and diversity of Stardew Valley is VERY rare in the US as well. You will have more luck finding that "vibe" in the slightly run-down parts of a city.

Show threadmyrmepropagandistFeb 22

@Zahlenzauberin

Not that the game is exactly teaming with diversity IMO. But, even the little it has would blow most little US towns out of the water.

Show threadleguinian_utopiaFeb 22
It needs a whole diversity mod to make it better 😭 Which, and the extended mod are the reasons I want the PC version
Show threadAdrianoFeb 22
@futurebird @Zahlenzauberin yeah, in SV you help the town escape consumerism, but the townsfolk kinda want that. The reality is far bleaker in actual small towns. It would have been a much sadder game I guess.
Show threadhexFeb 22

@adriano @futurebird @Zahlenzauberin I mean, it's Walmart but you get to win instead of the entire economy of the town being drained and collapsed. I'm still playing, but I assume no one gets locked inside and forced to work past the end of their shifts without pay either.

... Also no meth or opioids, just some alcoholism. Yeah, the reality is *way* more bleak.

Show threadOctavia Con Amore  Succubard's LibraryFeb 22
@Zahlenzauberin @futurebird people tend to play games that allow them to do things they can't in real life, yeah 
Show threadleguinian_utopiaFeb 22
@futurebird I get it, I've always been a city guy, I would go crazy in a small town. 🫠 Walkability and getting to know your community, two very alluring aspects of Stardew can also be an urban thing
Show threadcyFeb 22
Man, I got a list of everything I don't like about Stardew, but good point.
Show threadDelisaFeb 22
@futurebird my kingdom for stardew valley but with a reconciled town and country as the backdrop. Metropolis-level of intellectual life, rural varieties of useful physical work, and fantastic transit all around.
Show threadJeremy KahnFeb 24

@futurebird

Playable EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE (New York Commune) when?

https://bookwyrm.social/user/trochee/comment/6295384#anchor-6295384

trochee's comment on Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 - BookWyrm

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Show threadHenrik SchönemannFeb 22
@futurebird yes, yes, yes - would pre-order immediately 🤩🤩
Show threadnat 🦗Feb 22
@futurebird btw https://store.steampowered.com/app/2175840/Sunkissed_City/
Sunkissed City on Steam

Sunkissed City is a life-sim set in an upbeat, sun-kissed seaside metropolis full of funky vibes and quirky characters. Stake out your new life in the city, tending to DIY gardens, learning new skills, and making life-long friends and help bring life back to its once-vibrant streets!

Show threadnat 🦗Feb 22
@futurebird literally what you described, literally by a stardew valley dev
Show threadit's B! Cavello 🐝Feb 22
@futurebird @DrFerrous Oh my gosh, this is awesome!!
I love the city. I love urban life. City living can definitely be cozy. You don’t have to live in a log cabin!
Show threadeLearningTechieFeb 22

@futurebird The good news is that the tools are out there for people to create exactly the kind of games they would love to play. That is what Concerned Ape did and the result was Stardew.

Making your own game is actually really good fun. More people should try it. All it takes is a desire to learn and create and a heap of patience.

Show threadAllan ChowFeb 22
@futurebird ok Cool but how do I get my harem
Show threadStrongthany🇺🇦Feb 22
@futurebird literally reading Power Broker right now. The audio book I have been using is split into thirds. The first third is basically "so here's who this guy is" and the second part has been "and here's why he's an awful person"
Show threadJhooperFeb 22
@futurebird I like the city setting, but does it need to have farming/gardening? Why not something different. I think it might be neat to run a hot dog stand or an ice cream cart.
Show threadmyrmepropagandistFeb 22

@jhooper

I mean I guess not, but there's a lot of gardening around here and community gardens in NYC have played an important role in many struggles for places to define themselves.

Show threadJhooperFeb 22
@futurebird I don't mean that I don't think there's gardens and such there, I'm just a little tired of farming games and thought that the city setting could lend itself to new ideas.
Show threadswachterFeb 22
@jhooper @futurebird We need a Luis & Maria’s Fix-It Shop.
Show threadhexFeb 22

@jhooper @futurebird farming has a pretty important role in liberation. Food is the ultimate resource. The US has just locked food behind a car, and thus gasoline, for a lot of folks. But it's still one of the essentials: food, water, shelter, safety.

Authoritarianism keeps people in line by threatening one or all of these. So rain collection, community gardens, and tenant's unions, and community defense/cop watch groups are a critical antithesis to authoritarian violence.

I guess it depends on what you're trying to *do* with the game though. My mind just jumps to this because that's the kind of game I want to make or at least play.

Show threadBlueWindsFeb 22

@futurebird I have been working on a variant of this recently! Not in the bronx, but in the suburbs; "Reclaiming a piece of land and building a community" vibes.

Will I ever finish the project and publish it? No. Am I enjoying developing it casually when I have time? Definitely yes.

Show threadhexFeb 22
@bluewinds @futurebird like Retrosuburbia as a game?
Show threadBlueWindsFeb 22
@Hex @futurebird Had not heard of Retrosuburbia, will take a look! Seems like exactly my sort of book.
Show threadhexFeb 22

@bluewinds @futurebird
I don't think the author's politics are great, but I think the general idea is pretty interesting. I also really like the asthetics of longtail bikes and goat carts. It's very much my kind of solar punk.

I've been wanting to play a game like that and I've been thinking about how to design something like that. Please let me know how it goes and if there's anything I can do to help (with my somewhat limited time).

Good luck! :)

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Show threadflowersFeb 22
@futurebird This is the inverse of “Disco Elysium but you are a young witch trying to find her cat”, and I’d like to go on the record saying I support all four games.
Show threadsuzanneFeb 22
@futurebird
❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Show threadTiny Gamer AlecFeb 23

@futurebird

I WANT THIS. I WANT THIS A LOT.

Show thread🦇 Domo Feb 23
@futurebird I love this! I hope there's a little bodega cat as well :3