Guerilla Gardening

"You look around your neighbors front yard.
A sad, gravel filled, monotonous dump.
Time to change that! Go forth, guerilla gardener, and diversify!"

Guerilla Gärtnern (Guerilla Gardening) was developed as part of the
ITFS Creating*Diversity Game Jam.
Working in the team were Oliver Meyer, Sophie Kalinowsky and Isabelle Bastian.

In this game your playing field is your neighbors front yard and there is but one goal: Plant as many colorful plants as you can before time runs out and your neighbor discovers what you are doing!

Each time you go to plant something the game will hand you a random color plant. Try to organize them or sow chaos, whatever you think is most beautiful!




For an added challenge try these extra rules!

1. Don't put plants of the same colour on adjacent fields. Two red flowers should not be touching on any side of the hex-grid they are planted on!
2. Try planting circles out of all six plant colours! No doubles in a circle and no touching the same colour on any of the sides!

"What does gardening have to do with creating diversity?"

There's six different looking and coloured plants in our game and (not so) coincidentally there's six dimensions of diversity you can define!
(In case you wanted to know, these are defined as gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnic origin & nationality, religion & worldview and disability.)
Of course it goes deeper than that, but we saw an opportunity to spread "good vibes" and deliver on a metaphor. Just like the monotonous front yards that players can turn into colorful gardens, diversity makes our real world more beautiful!