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Your grandpa needs help running a workshop and completing commissions that are sent to him. You always were an advocate for doing things by hand and grandpa was an expert at managing the store, ordering supplies etc.
The world is adapting to traditional mediums and technology becomes stigmatized.
Born in 2005, Grandpa Greg couldn’t adapt to the worlds quick shift, and stuck with tech because he knows it best.
Sammie loves the simplicity of the neo-modern tools. Calenders, Journals, pens and paper are the fundamental means of thinking. Teachers teach students about the virtues of thinking for yourself and figuring out things your own way, even if it’ll take more time.
The story of the game will focus on the downsides of technology and traditionals, accepting differences of both and impermanence. I think tech isn’t how it was promised to be, I think traditional tools make us more connected to a craft and I think everything will keep changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The themes and the audience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A core theme is how quickly humanity can change. One main character is Grandpa Greg who was born as a Gen Z and is living in a complete different world to how it used to be (our current world). It is easy to get used to how our lifestyle is as we’ve grown up with it during our childhoods. The idea of it changing so dramatically will probably hit 16-24 year olds the hardest. I think it’s a stage of life where you first notice that the world is very weird and more than the sanctuary that school was.

I want to speculate a society that takes things slower in a less demanding world. I believe that the world is going too fast and the world stunts people to personally develop. I strong example is social media and how little it is stigmatized. There is so much research of both it’s privacy breaches and its design to intentionally keep you on their app. Yet people still use it for hours daily and spend their really limited time just hitting a crave.
I want one character representing what it’s like now versus another character simulating a new generation living in the fall in technology.
Can we handle a change as radical as neglecting all tech? Are we already too used to automation? Is there life in doing all the “boring” work that the robots are replacing us for? What are we searching for, if we want everything to be automatic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This game is for all people who are interested in limiting their time on their phones and shiver at the thought of their screentime. It’s for people who already have a hunch that tech is here to consume us without our control. It’s for the people who downloaded their minimal phone apps and use app limits for social media.
I want to write a narrative that challenges how all f this seems to be moving forward. For people who are on the fence about this progression, maybe the narrative can teeter them to the side with grass.


I think the story is also covering the concerns of Gen Z. I have overheard many conversations and agree about not giving their kids phones and tablets until theyre 16. I would personally rather my kids to draw and play with physical things, or more specifically, use their inds on something. Technology itself isn’t so bad, it’s just the parts of which numbs our thinking and passes our time like it’s nothing that scares most people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other themes could include privacy, a move to simplicity and an aversion against AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n