Games

• Garden Day

  
  
  “Kai-Wen, can you please do me a favor?”
  “What is it, Māmā?”
  “Go to the community garden and fetch some carrots for our Autumn Festival Stew.”
  “But I wanted to play basketball…*sigh*… Yes, Māmā.”

  Join Kai-Wen and Hana the Dragonfly on an adventure both delightful and educational in the New Day Community Garden! Meet Kai-Wen’s new friends Mrs. Franklin, Bija, and Señor Quintana, as they teach him about plants and vegatables, and help him on his quest to find carrots for his mother’s Autumn Festival Stew.

  Learn about community gardening, compost and soil, planting seeds, helping plants grow, harvesting organic food, and interacting in a happy, healthy manner with our wondrous community of people, plants, insects, animals, and Earth.

  Garden Day is designed with ages 4 to 9 in mind, but is suitable for children of all ages!

  COMING SPRING 2012

  Apex Pod

  

  Three Tribes
  splintered from one species:
  the Orca.

  Forged in primordial fires
  the Orcas emerged into being
  embodying terrestrial and oceanic consciousness
  self-organized in matriarchal orders
  loving community members and ruthless predators.
  

  The Resident tribe settled down
  in plentiful fishing societies
  focused on stable family life.

  The Offshores disappeared
  into dark caves and secret cults
  taking up mysterious practices
  elusive creatures
  known as sorcerers and outlaws.

  The Transient tribe also broke away from the confines
  of orderly fishing civilization
  forming nomadic pods
  becoming no mere fish eaters
  but carnivores in search of warm blood.

  You are a Transient Orca
  You will roam the ocean in search of prey
  exploring many waters
  facing many dangers
  experiencing many wonders.

  You will meet other Orcas
  making friends and enemies
  forming bands of collaborators
  seeking to become Apex Pod.

  COMING SUMMER 2012

  Silk Road Merchant

  
  
  “Leave your weapons sheathed, Bandits, and back away from those scrolls! They are protected by this caravan. Tread carefully, or forfeit much.”

  You are a merchant in the 7th century, on an epic and perilous adventure along the Silk Road. Your journey begins in the Tang Dynasty imperial capital of Changan and will take you West across the Central Asian steppe. The Silk Road is a network of trade routes spanning from coastal China through the Gobi Desert, Mongolia, Tibet, India, Persia, and reaches deep into Baghdad, Istanbul, and Mecca.

  Starting with a modest load of goods, you improve your lot as you cut deals and turn profits along the way, expanding your caravan to trade in larger volumes and more valuable items. You carry silk, spices, tea, and treasure, and trade for camels, horses, food, stirrups, weapons, porters, and mercenaries. You also assist Buddhist monks who are collecting and transporting highly revered sutras.

  Be wary! The road is dangerous and fraught with bandits, mercenaries, conniving merchants, and caravans from other kingdoms. It is also a path of immeasurable opportunity for auspicious trade, priceless artifacts, cultural exchange, and spiritual knowledge.

  COMING IN 2013

  Salmon Run

  
  
  “Gotta move, gotta go…to the Big Waters, to the Depths…back up the River, up the Stream…to the Spawning Beds, to Rest.”

  Explore and experience the Cycle of Life through the eyes, worlds, lives, and mysteries of Salmon. Confront and overcome the countless obstacles, challenges, and dangers these fish face from the moment they hatch as tiny alevins. Grow into a freshwater fry, gradually making the treacherous journey downstream, then transform into a saltwater-ready smolt strong enough to head out into the ocean. Migrate as a mature salmon across ocean depths to harvest the Earth’s watery bounty. Finally, make the epic pilgrimmage back to the ancestral rivers and streams of your birth.

  The journey is long and arduous. Most do not survive. The odds will not be on your side. But your path is filled with breathless challenges, wondrous sights, and many strange, funny, and enlightening encounters. Can the player survive to complete the Cycle? Can you master The Way of the Salmon?

  COMING IN 2012, we think, though the salmon set their own schedule so we cannot guarantee anything and will let you know as soon as the salmon let us know.