Tyler's notes on resources from June 1st

resources

• primary
  • food
  • fuel
  • materials
• derived
  • happiness
  • prosperity
  • wealth/comfort
• implicit
  • education
• variables
  • temperature
  • weather
  • plagueiness

fuel - transport, heating - risk reward of how much you use for heating in winter to burn out supplies leading into summer, prime time for travel

seasons - winter - hunker down - spring - plant, explore - summer - maintain, plague - fall - travel/transport, harvest

rogue-lite essentials (need to emphasize when designing game)

no water

• keep number of resources to bare minimum
• complex and interesting interactions

education

• training
• makes more skilled survivors

happiness

• chasing the dragon, raise bar over time

population distribution

• different aspects to old (education buffs) and youth

roles in buildings

• workers
• security
• maintenance / catch-all with security, first responders, etc.

assignment complexities

• crops
  • time of year
  • grow at own rate regardless of people assigned