Farmville meets Daisyworld

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Today I have been thinking about FarmVille an what it might be like to play it if the characters and climate influenced the game dynamics?






Farmville has a ‘time to crop life’ dynamic but it appears to have nothing on the scale of daisyworld which is designed to simulate the ecology evident in life on Earth.






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