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authorDavid Thompson <dthompson@vistahigherlearning.com>2022-12-06 08:05:30 -0500
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+-*- org -*-
+
+#+TITLE Lisp Game Jam 2022
+
+* Idea
+
+A Boku no Natsuyasumi-like about a long weekend in the Massachusetts
+countryside in October, culminating in a town fair.
+
+* Gameplay
+
+The player traverses several different location and interacts with the
+people/objects in them. The player wakes up in the early morning
+(6am) and goes to bed in the late evening (9pm.) Most actions advance
+the game by 1 hour, some will take more. Certain actions are only
+available at certain times or if certain other conditions are met, so
+doing *everything* in the game requires replays and being careful
+about order of operations. However, there is no failure state. The
+game can just be enjoyed as an experience. The exact ending will vary
+based on how many story points the player earns for accomplishing
+certain tasks, but every ending is a good ending.
+
+There are items that can be bought in the game. The player has a
+fixed amount of money and cannot buy everything. What they buy
+influences later events and possible story points.
+
+The game takes place from Friday-Sunday in October. The exact days
+will not be specified. The game concludes at 9pm on Sunday.
+
+Not everything is realistic. There will be some supernatural events
+for fun, such as a ghost encounter.
+
+Boku no Natsuyasumi has several references to WWII. This game should
+have some references to the genocide of Native Americans by European
+settlers. Fall in New England is wonderful, but our cultural
+traditions of apple pies and pumpkin carving are built on top of land
+stolen from natives.
+
+* Locations and what's in them
+
+** Home
+- Where the player starts and ends each day.
+- Animals:
+ - House cat
+- Action: Bake
+ - Condition: when player has apples
+ - Condition: Only on Saturday
+ - Player gets choices about how to make the pie:
+ - Which apples to use (if they bought more than one type)
+ - How much cinnamon
+ - How much nutmeg
+ - How much flour to thicken filling
+- Action: Carve Pumpkin
+ - Condition: when player has Jack o' Lantern pumpkin
+- Action: Go to bed
+ - Condition: Anytime after 7pm.
+- Action: Watch TV
+ - Add some fun slice of life informational nuggets here that change
+ a few times per day.
+ - One of the TV bits should be a baking show that explains how to
+ bake a good pie.
+ - Another TV bit should give some native american history
+ - At least one of the TV events should unlock something cool
+ elsewhere.
+- Action: Inspect garden
+ - The garden is mostly done for the year, but there are carrots that
+ can be picked. On Saturday morning, there has been a frost.
+ Picking the carrots that day yields frost-sweetened carrots
+ instead of the regular carrots of Friday. On Sunday, if they
+ aren't picked, the player will find that the groundhog took them
+ all.
+
+** Trail by the river
+- This trail offers a break from the other, populated locations, and
+ is a necessary step to get to the orchard.
+- Add some interactable elements for classic New England forest finds:
+ - old stone walls
+ - types of trees
+ - ferns
+ - wildlife
+- Action: Forest Bathe
+ - If player has learned about pumpkin contest and has Jack o'
+ Lantern, they will become inspired, improving their carving and
+ increasing their rank in the contest.
+ - Otherwise, just share some interesting observation about the New
+ England forest with the player.
+- Event: Deer encounter
+ - If the player has carrots and shows up between 6am-9am on
+ Saturday, the deer will approach the player.
+ - If the player has frost sweetened carrots, there will be very
+ pleased and will lead the player off the trail to a small defunct,
+ overgrown orchard with an heirloom apple tree of unknown variety.
+
+** Farm stand
+- People/Animals:
+ - Farm stand cashier
+- Store is open from 9am-5pm each day
+ - Buy pumpkins (Sugar or Jack o' Lantern)
+
+** Orchard
+- People:
+ - Orchard store cashier
+ - Dog
+- Store is open from 10am-4pm each day
+ - Buy 1/2 peck of apples (Cortland, Macoun, Honeycrisp)
+ - Buy cider/cider donuts??
+- Event: Ghosts in the orchard
+ - Condition: Friday night on or after 8pm
+ - Just a fun spooky event. Nothing bad happens.
+
+** Town common
+- Interact: Stone marker memorializing when the town was burned down,
+ righfully so, by native Americans.
+- People:
+ - Person on bench (Friday and Saturday)
+- Action: Learn about upcoming town fair and associated contests.
+ - Condition: On Friday or Saturday
+- Event: Sunday, 10am-4pm, Town Fair
+ - Apple pie contest
+ - Player gets first place if:
+ - They found and used the heirloom apples
+ - They used 1tsp of cinnamon
+ - They used 1/4tsp of nutmeg
+ - They added flour to thicken the filling
+ - Quilt raffle
+ - Action: Buy raffle tickets
+ - 0-3 tickets can be purchased. If player has enough money left
+ to buy all 3, then they will win the raffle.
+- Event: Sunday, 5pm-7pm, Pumpkin Walk
+ - Pumpkin carving contest
+ - Players gets 1st place if:
+ - They carved Jack o' Lantern (not Sugar Pumpkin)
+ - They got inspired during forest bathing
+ - Player gets 2nd place if:
+ - They carved Jack o' Latern
+ - They did not get inspired forest bathing
+ - Player gets 3rd place otherwise