Worthplaying: "In Farmlands you build farms, plant crops, and battle for control of land. The goal of farmlands is straight forward....Increase your net worth to meet the goal of the map or have the largest net worth when time runs out. Players move around the outside of the board building farms and planting crops. If a player lands on your farm they will have to pay a toll equal to the value of the farm and its connected crops. It gets interesting when you start connect multiple farms together to combine their values. To prevent other players from connecting farms a player can initiate a battle by placing one of their crops on an opponents square. The outcome of battles between players are determined by slot machine mini games.
The collectible aspect of the game comes in with the pack of cards you are drawing your items and seeds from. During your turn you will draw items or seeds from your pack to use in the game. Seeds are used to plant crops or boost your attack in combat. Items are used to modify the behavior of things in the game. At the end of any map in single or multi player the player will receive additional items or seeds which they can use to customize their pack.
Under the shadow of the mountains in the the Cowlitz River Valley lived a small boy named William and a little girl by the name of Ruby. Their family came from a long line of farmers. Their grandfather had been a farmer and their great grandfather and so on as long as anyone could remember. So it was, when their grandfather retired that he turned the family farm over to their mother."
So what was the very first video game Kickstarter, you may ask? It was Farmlands, launched May 5th, 2009 by Greg Chudecke, aka CaffeinatedGuy.
I'm so glad that platforms like Kickstarter give smaller studios the chance to create games that people actually would want to play that isn't a regurgitation of the same old shit! Not sure I could get into Farmlands myself, but if it weren't for Kickstarter, we wouldn't HAVE games like Shovel Knight or Shadowrun Returns! Indies RULE! #Salute :-)
Caffeinated Games today announced the launch of BuyTexels.com, a website which allows you to buy texture space in their upcoming games. Their first game, Farmlands, is a next-gen board and collectible card game currently planned for the PC.
Caffeinated Games has announced the launch of buytexels.com, a new website that allows anyone to buy advertising space within their upcoming games.
The scheme allows users to purchase any amount of texels (a unit of texture space) they wish out of the 904,800 available at a cost of $1/texel. The image provided will then feature in-game.
It all reminds us of the million pixel campaigns spread across the web, but do we really want to see it in video games?
Caffeinated Games is an independent games company founded by former SOCOM and Lord of the Rings developers who are currently working on FarmLands, a next-gen board and collectible card game.
