The NYU Game Center Showcase 2024
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⟢Thesis
⟢Capstone
⟢Studio II
⟢Major Studio
⟢Mosaic
FORWARD:
Farming Towards Our Future
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For MFA Thesis
An urban farming simulator about solarpunk community building reframed to serve marginalized voices.
Interview:
✧In one or two sentences, what is your game about?
The player experiences the push “against succeeding alone," and learns how community and exposure to different peoples and cultures can help them and their business grow in this utopic urban fantastical future.
✧What was the inspiration of the game? What made your team decide to make this game specifically?
FORWARD is a love letter about inspirations for our future that communities around the world are already actively working towards today. Through solarpunk, we are reclaiming and exploring our stories of said future based in the cities and land we’ve been dealt with and adapted through intersectional environmentalism.
✧Were there darlings that you had to kill? What were they? Why was the decision made to remove them from the project, and what were the reasons that you like the darling so much?
We had a lot of high hopes for our 5 Day Cycle scope but due to the coding capacity and skillsets we had, just was something we had to let go. We have a very great narrative beats and arc for the game but when the programming becomes the hurdle we just had to figure out what our priority would be with the time left.
✧Talk about your teammates! What was everyone’s role?
Ami Cai - Producer & Art Director
Alyssa Rodriguez - Producer & Narrative Lead
Camron Gonzalez - Lead Programmer
Tip Bulante - Lead Artist
Natasha Ramoutar - Writer
Wei Rao - Artist
Leaflet - Music Lead
Riya Kumar - Musician
Euijae Kim - Musician
forwardfarming.online
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