Thrive

After the world ended, you're a farmer trying to grow the food that everybody needs to survive. Water is scarce and well-guarded; can you obtain what you need?

This is a text adventure. During the creation of this game, two truths became clear to me: text adventures aren't my favorite kind of game, and you'd need to be an excellent storyteller to make an interesting game in this genre. I am not such a storyteller, and as such this game is short and not especially interesting. For this project, it's more about the journey than the destination.

This game is kind of set in the same universe as my previous "game", Thrive Origins. I came up with a really fun design for the main character, kind of a farmer in a doomed world, and I'd love to make more games where you have to get water to grow your crops.

This game is part of Fatal Distractions, my plan to, during 2025, create one game per month based on the genre chapters in David Gerrold's Fatal Distractions. This is January's entry, in the first chapter "Text Adventures".

Source code repository is here. The game was written in C using the absolutely delightful raylib. Images were created with Aseprite.