Roots of Tomorrow, an educational game about sustainable farming, is releasing next week on mobile

Gamabilis, a French indie game studio, has just announced a new mobile game about sustainable farming called Roots of Tomorrow. It is an educational game that makes use of real scientific data to raise awareness and teach the general public about the lives of farmers and everything they go through during this phase of rising sustainable agriculture.

The developers believe that we are at the point of an agroecological transition. And if it were to succeed, people need to understand its importance. This ultimately led to the development of Roots of Tomorrow.

In the game, players will find themselves in France, where they must pick between four multi-crop livestock farmlands. The farms will all be distinctive from each other through their own unique landscapes, climate, type of livestock present like pigs, sheep, and cattle, and a bunch of special options to choose from.

The objective is to successfully transform the farm within a decade. It will be quite a task as doing so requires upgradation and balancing of the land’s economic, environmental, and social scores. To make things more complex, each score is a summation of various sub-scores like the biodiversity sub-score which is part of the environment.

To achieve their goal, players will have access to all sorts of farm-related activities such as buying and selling crops, ploughing, harvesting, and buying better machinery. The sustainability part comes with the techniques used, such as plant covers, direct seeding, and precision fertilization.

Anything players do, will directly affect their farm’s overall score. Just like in the real world, a practice may be beneficial to something, but detrimental to another. Similarly, actions may have a profound positive effect on one particular sub-score, but they may cause another to go down.

It’s not just about planting an entire field with fruits and vegetables and selling it for a profit. Players have to very carefully decide their moves, weighing out the pros and cons of their every action. You can create your own sustainable farm beginning October 5th.