Seeds of Resilience 1.0 Release is OUT and a backstory!

[AleksandarK]

After almost 1 year of Early Access and 7 years of development, Seeds of Resilience is out now. It's a 2D turn-based survival management game where you have to make a new village from scratch. The game has a special story, it was born in a time where the environment was still a forgotten issue, 6 years ago. It was the kind of time where growth was the only thing people were interested in.

The team is made of Antonin Deudon & Alexandre. During the development of the game, they were also involved in environmental activities. They made survivalist trips together, where they learned to live in harmony with nature.

The graphic artist, Alexandre, has a main business which is making durable, wooden insulative material for the construction industry. He invented and built a whole machine by himself to make those materials.

Antonin, on his side, has started to make an eco-village. It's a village made of around 20 people who is fully built on having a resilient, plastic-free, auto-sufficient way of living. His family of 4 will be moving here in the upcoming months, it even has an internet connection!

Nowadays, many game developers are concerned with the environment and wondering : are video games worth it for the planet? I hope we can see that like Antonin and Alexandre, it doesn't have to be exclusive with other pro-nature activities people are making on the side.

You check out the game on Steam while it has a 20% discount.

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[Frick]

Oohhh seems very interesting. Good price too, shall buy next week. Shame it probably won't run on the laptop though, I need something to replace Rimworld as a comfy chair with coffee game.

 

[MDDB]

Funny how a "plastic-free" life starts with a big, green plastic bucket in the foreground. But hey, you got to start somewhere

 

[Frick]

Funny how a "plastic-free" life starts with a big, green plastic bucket in the foreground. But hey, you got to start somewhere

There's plastic and plastic. It's the one time use things (shopping bags etc) that are the real killers.

 

[MDDB]

I know, i'm just bitching a little! I'm all for banning one-use plastics, and i try to avoid them myself, it's just that seeing that big bucket awoke the troll in me

 

[Basard]

There's plastic and plastic. It's the one time use things (shopping bags etc) that are the real killers.

I use them twice. Once for groceries, then once for cat poop. Then they get buried by the city....

I don't live by the coast, or else I'd just huck my shit bags into the ocean where the belong. Although... there is a lake nearby.... Relax, I'm kidding.

 

[efikkan]

It's a 2D turn-based survival management game where you have to make a new village from scratch.

No, that's isometric 3D.

There's plastic and plastic. It's the one time use things (shopping bags etc) that are the real killers.

You have to use a paper bag >50 times for it to be more environmentally friendly than a plastic shopping bag. Most plastic bags are durable enough for repeated use and usually finally as garbage bags. For example, if I were to stop using plastic shopping bags, I would have to buy plastic bags for my trash instead.

Plastic have an undeserved bad reputation. Plastic costs little material and energy to produce, and is very easy to recycle. Compared to other materials like paper/cardboard, plastic is actually much more environmentally friendly, with one major caveat; that no one leave it in nature. The real solution is not to stop using plastics, but to have better practices of recycling.

 

[Divide Overflow]

Keeps crashing after 12 years of elapsed game time.
Probably just a bug.

 

[R-T-B]

You know I fully expected a shitshow coming in here. Glad that's not what has happened yet, good work guys.

 

[Frick]

No, that's isometric 3D.


You have to use a paper bag >50 times for it to be more environmentally friendly than a plastic shopping bag. Most plastic bags are durable enough for repeated use and usually finally as garbage bags. For example, if I were to stop using plastic shopping bags, I would have to buy plastic bags for my trash instead.

Plastic have an undeserved bad reputation. Plastic costs little material and energy to produce, and is very easy to recycle. Compared to other materials like paper/cardboard, plastic is actually much more environmentally friendly, with one major caveat; that no one leave it in nature. The real solution is not to stop using plastics, but to have better practices of recycling.

Source? On the usage times (preferebly a paper which also contains a definition for "environmentally friendly" in the context). And as for the rest of it ... sure. But seeing how ingrained single use plastics is in everyday life all over the world and seeing how recycling is bloody hard (especially true for plastic) and requires a shift in culture and technology ... I mean yeah recycling is the key but that would lead to decreased production anyway. Few things are inherently bad, but the "badness" is given by the way its used, and seen as such plastic is practically awful and very deserving of its reputation.