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"The Flood" is a hybrid RPG/party game for everyone of every age who wants to laugh, cry, and mutilate classic poetry as part of a deep, immersive study of farmland financialization.

For, oh, too long, those of us who've dreamed of such a game---

You; me; so many friends (you know the ones)---

For too long we've had to make do with RPGs and party games that lacked key, vital parts of that formula. For too long we've limped along drawing pictures while people shouted guesses at us; unpacking board games ... and then, uh, running out of time, and, uh, packing them back up again; and lowering imaginary dwarves and elves into uncropped dungeons. For too, too long ...

We've been able to laugh and cry, perhaps, yes, but not to mutilate classic poetry.

We've been able to play party games and RPGs, sure! or even combinations.

... but that crucial element, that ... that je ne sais quoi, that thing that could have let us really sink our teeth into the financial, agricultural, and political issues of farmland assetization today ... it, it has been missing. It has been absent from us.

No more.

The Flood is here, and when it has washed by, we shall at last know peace.

(a game inspired by "Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush,"
which is by Dr. Madeleine Fairbairn.)

(ePub pending)

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nightpool . August 23, 2022 5:37 pm UTC
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This is a game about the relentless financialization of farmland in the face of global capital, which it simulates by forcing you to take your favorite poems and commit horrible, horrible crimes upon them. But the poems are not a metaphor: the concept of farming meaning from poetry is one that's interwoven with the very fabric of the game, with late-game techniques like Agribot Post-Ophism and Stacked Vertical Poetics that you can use to optimize your verses' annual yield (and therefore, the money you need to survive).

It's honestly a very bleak and depressing game, but one still filled with humor and whimsy, turned towards an ultimately tragic ending. It's funny, it's heartbreaking, it's a work of art, and I think it needs a Twitch speedrunning community. Just like in Minecraft, where players spend tens of thousands of hours generating new random worlds, playing the game hundreds of times per day in an effort to find some version of the universe that will let them finish the game slightly faster...See more
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Martin R August 26, 2022 5:45 am UTC
Thank you for telling us what the game is ACTUALLY about. The publisher's blurb says exactly nothing in regards to that.
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David M August 26, 2022 9:12 pm UTC
Ditto.
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Edward T September 10, 2022 9:30 pm UTC
Thanks from me, too. The publisher's description probably, um, amused them, but tells us nothing.
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Chris L August 23, 2022 2:46 pm UTC
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Excellent experimental RPG that has a wit nearly as sharp as its mechanics. Clever core gameplay loop of poetry massacre kept me coming back for repeat sessions. Easily the most fun I've had butchering Dickinson, which is otherwise a routine hobby for me.
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