Sapling Settlement

Sapling Settlement is a city builder game where the player must produce and manage resources to grow their central tree to its full size. However, your people and buildings are all living plants, so you have to carefully balance your resources and keep the soil healthy in order to sustainably thrive.

Controls:

• WASD/Arrow keys: move camera
• Scroll wheel: zoom camera
• Mouse: interact with everything 

How to play:

The first thing you do is place your World Tree. This will be the center of your growing town, and growing the Tree is your main objective. The Tree will grow roots out over time, and all your other buildings need to be connected to these roots in order to work. We recommend building your Tree by the river in the northeast of the map so that you can start off with water absorbing plants close by.

Start by placing Nurseries and Water Plants to get a good production of food and water early on! Villagers need to eat food, and both villagers and buildings consume water. If you click on a Nursery you can also switch it to producing new Villagers for your town (at the cost of fertilizer).

Villagers will automatically work any building or natural formation that they can, but this isn't always efficient. If you click on a villager you can bring up a menu where you can change what type of job the villager will look for.

Your buildings will all absorb nutrients out of the ground in order to sustain themselves. If the soil tiles a building is on start to run out of nutrients, then the building's production will slow. To fix this, you can assign your villagers to Fertilizer duty, which will make them collect fertilizer (produced by Composter or Fishing Plants) and spread it on tiles that are starting to run low.

Developed for Global Gam Jam 2023! Theme: Roots

Some of us are planning to continue development to polish up the game and add more content, so keep checking back in!

Credits: 

Programming:

Katie Ohlson

Tyler Anderson

Xander Bonnell

 

Art:

Kelly McCardell

Seth McKenna

 

Music and Sound Effects: 

Jacob Rich