Description

Farmer Universe Town Story lets you experiencesome of the hardships of farming in a poor country. Will youprosper despite corruption and lack of basic necessities? Or willendless wars, diseases, droughts, and unreliable markets perpetuateyour economic disadvantage and spell your ultimate doom?

Farmer Universe Town Story is a serious game, developed on avery slim budget. It is not precise in all details, but covers awide range of topics. It is meant to be both educational andslightly provocative, with the sole intent of making people thinkabout these topics and, hopefully, realize that each of us can makea difference in helping to end poverty.
Farmer Universe Town Story is a serious-thought-provoking onlinegame and business strategy simulation activity for high schoolteens and college students where you have to manage an impoverishedfarm in a dried out desert area of Sub-Saharan Africa. This is anexceptional survival role-playing game online, and gives you astriking, first-hand insight into extreme rural poverty, and thehardships and challenges faced by the millions of starving,struggling farmers and families of developing nations. In FarmerUniverse Town Story, you have to make tough moral and survivaldecisions in order to provide for your underprivileged family,while enduring droughts, disease, poverty, corruption and war. Howethical will you be when you desperately need to pay yourrapidly-ailing family’s food and medical bills? Will you acceptvirtual money to survive in return for storing chemical waste, andeven housing terrorists?

The Deal: Your proactive mission is to help the head of thefamily turn this small farm in a developing nation into acommercial success. You must carefully budget and decide whichcrops to grow each year to sustain your family, and grow. There areseveral crops to choose from (corn, wheat, cotton and peanuts), andsome prove more risky than others, providing potentially largeearnings or huge losses. Make enough profit to invest in thenecessary tools such as ploughs, harvesters and tractors to improveyour crop yields. Increase your capital by investing wisely inessential buildings such as sheds, wells and barns. But remember,all investments have associated risks; wells can dry up, barns canbe destroyed, and livestock may be stolen. Remember also – Do notbecome too greedy! You must first prioritize your family’s health,or they may weaken, and be struck down by a deadly disease!

How to Play: Each year you must decide which crops to grow onyour restricted budget. Use your computer mouse to select and buycrops, livestock, tools and buildings. Left click in the upper leftcorner of the game screen, and then drag and place the crops inyour field. Left click your mouse again on a family member in thecenter of the screen to administer medicine and other options. Whenyou have bought all your items for the season, click the “RightArrow” in the top right corner of the screen to forward yourcircumstances one year in time. You then receive an annual reportof how your farm has performed.

To succeed, you need to display good business acumen andstrategic thinking skills to help ensure that your family, farm andcommunity is safe and prosperous into the future. Carefullystrategize and invest in “Communications” to coordinate sales withother farmers, “Infrastructure” for easier access to markets and“Crop Insurance” to give your family an income when your cropsfail. Support a local “School” and “Clinic” for improved health andeducation services in your area. Donate to a local “Politician” whogenuinely works for peace, health and prosperity for all. This willhelp benefit the long term well-being of the entire nation. Whenyou have succeeded in purchasing the six above mentioned items, youwin. Good luck with your new farming venture and survivalchallenge!