Creative Vision / Rationale / How Did You Incorporate the Theme
We were inspired by the idea of generosity being giving back to the Earth as well as to your community. We played with "growing," both in an agricultural sense as well as to your neighbors, and how that could be integrated into gameplay. When you give back to your fellow farmers, eventually the good karma loops back to you. We want the player to strike a balance, of caring for others, but also caring for themselves, as in the case of them giving away all their power and food, they cannot survive the winter. To be generous to oneself allows them to be generous to others and to the world they inhabit. When we discovered that Mancala uses "seeds" and that playing a turn is "sowing," we were inspired to use that as the backdrop of our design. Thank you for reviewing our submission!