Three prototypes · one game
Browser games in the vein of Stardew Valley, set in San Diego. They are not affiliated with ConcernedApe or Stardew Valley. Each one tries a different verb for the same kind of day: tend a place, watch the clock, and come back tomorrow. Progress stays in this browser. Nothing is uploaded.
A year here is not four fantasy seasons. Winter is the rain. Summer is dry. May and June are often gray. Fall can bring Santa Ana wind. The prototypes compress that into 28 days so you can feel it in one sitting.
A backyard behind a bungalow in North Park. Till the beds, plant cilantro, jalapeño, tomato, lemon, and avocado, water from a hose bib, and sell from a folding table on the alley. Saturday pays more. An avocado and $200 of sales is the long goal. The first loop is Thursday to Saturday.
You will see the yard from above: cream bungalow at the top, brown beds in the middle, checkered stand at the bottom.
A field-journal day on Coast Boulevard in La Jolla, in the Matlahuayl State Marine Reserve. The tide is the clock. You sketch what you see. You do not take it. Garibaldi are protected in California either way. This is not the Children's Pool, and it is not a pier. The city piers at Ocean Beach and Crystal Pier are closed.
You will see the bluff from the sidewalk: red-tile houses, sandstone, stairs, pools that flood when the tide is up, kelp in the water to the right.
A fictional chaparral finger behind University Heights, the kind of canyon Florida Canyon and Swan Canyon actually are. It is not a city program and not a permit to garden in a real preserve. Pull ice plant, plant natives, spend a rain barrel, and earn three neighbors' trust. Habitat 50 is the goal.
You will see the trail from above: bungalows at the near end, sandstone walls on both sides, pink ice plant and yellow mustard in the patches.