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+#+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