Cultivation Press Information
Game DescriptionCultivation explores the social interactions within a gardening community. You lead one family of gardeners, starting with a single individual, and wise choices can keep your genetic line from extinction. While breeding plants, eating, and mating, your actions impact your neighbors, and the social balance sways between conflict and compromise.Cultivation features dynamic graphics that are procedurally-generated using genetic representations and cross-breeding. In other words, game objects are "grown" in real-time instead of being hand-painted or hard-coded. Each plant and gardener in the game is unique in terms of both its appearance and behavior. Press Photo300 DPI JPEG, suitable for print: Right-click or control-click to download Quotes"Unique games have a tendency to wash up on the Linux shores every so often. Cultivation is one of the most unique to show up in quite a while."
"Wow, I've never seen anything like this game, it's fascinating! 5 stars [out of 5]"
"Just to say thank you. It's rare now to see something new in videogames."
CreditsAll parts of Cultivation were conceived, designed, programmed, tested, and packaged by Jason Rohrer.Creator BioJason Rohrer is an independent programmer, scientist, artist, and activist. He holds two degrees in computer science from Cornell University. As a peer-to-peer networking developer working in open-source software, he has created several popular programs over the past five years, including MUTE, the first anonymous search-and-download file sharing system. As of November 2006, MUTE had been downloaded over 850,000 times. His first video game, Transcend, was included on the Moondance Independent Games compilation. Cultivation is his second video game project.Contact InformationAddress:Jason Rohrer 93 Elm St. Potsdam, NY 13676 USA Phone: 315-265-0585 Email: jcr13 at users.sf.net |