Candide Ashcan

This is a development version.

This game is designed to explore a way someone might recover from the trauma of adventuring. Not everyone ends the great quest a king or wizard; some are burdened and wounded, and find themselves feeling less than they were before. This game is about them.

In the one-player game, the player explores the history of a character through the memories brought up by the plants the character finds or plants in their garden. Plants are represented by playing cards.

In the two-player game, one player plays as the Gardener, whose history is explored as above, and the other player plays the Visitor, who visits the Gardener and interacts with them. The focus of play is the relationship that develops between the Gardener and the Visitor.