Winner of the Applied Hope Fruiting Bodies Award;

Winner of The Sith Awards in two categories: "Best Anti-Post-Apocalyptic Game About People Just Enjoying Life in the Future", and "Best Yet Another Lasers and Feelings Hack".

ROOTS & FLOWERS

 A Solarpunk Hack of Lasers & Feelings

In a not-so-distant future, we gave up the illusion of knowing better. This opened new avenues in technological innovation, improving life, and opening our awareness of the subtle, ancestral magic of the world.

You are the local community's troubleshooters. Your community turns to you for aid in things big and small. You resolve them by means of innovation, knowledge, technology, mediation, and ancestral guidance.

Player Goals:

• aid and support your community;
• go on wild, fun, solarpunk adventures;
• challenge the legacy of the World Before;
• imagine possible futures.

The ebook (epub) and Simple Text (rtf) versions contain the entire game and are available for free in the "Download the demo" section, as well as the repository online on Codeberg.

About ROOTS & FLOWERS

ROOTS & FLOWERS is a Solarpunk game. Here we imagine what could happen when communities take a hard turn toward inclusive, sustainable living.

Use your tech-savvy, interpersonal skills or ancestral magic to tackle issues that trouble your community and enjoy something nice - we all deserve it.

This game was made for the Applied Hope Jam and the Solarpunk Jam.

In Other Media

Roots& Flowers got a brief mention in a video essay about solarpunk (timestamp).

Safety Tools

Find a rundown of safety tools here.

Cover Art: Apollo Uhlenbruck

Twitter: @youknowfromtv

http://schteeef.itch.io/

https://stefuhlenbruck.wixsite.com/portfolio

Layout: Gaël Sacré (Willox)

Twitter: @gaelsacre

https://willox.itch.io/

Special Thanks:

mv, Jo Lindsay, sadpress, Vagrant Ludology, Daisy Mae, Logan Timmins, David Blandy

Attribution

ROOTS & FLOWERS includes material derived from Lasers & Feelings by John Harper, available by CC BY-SA 4.0 license at https://johnharper.itch.io/lasers-feelings. Roots & Flowers is not affiliated with John Harper.

License

ROOTS & FLOWERS 2021 by Gabriel Caetano is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This means you are free to share and adapt these materials in personal and commercial works, using the same type of license, provided you give attribution to Gabriel Caetano using the following text

Attribution
This work includes material derived from Maker, available by CC BY-SA 4.0 license at https://gabrielcaetano.itch.io. [Product Name] is not affiliated with Gabriel Caetano.

Limitations
ROOTS & FLOWERS’s rules are intended for use in cool games. Do not includeracist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and all similarly uncool tropes, themes, and other content in materials derived from Gabriel Caetano’s work.