Fenlander
A downloadable game for Windows
Fenlander is a small RPG/Adventure game, built with a text parser engine. It was made for the Historically Accurate Game Jame 5.
In Fenlander, you play as an ordinary resident of the fenlands of East Anglia in the medieval period, trying to smoke enough eels to pay your rent. Life seems simple: there's reeds to be cut, peat to be dug and eels to be fished for. But getting the right balance between those activities can be a matter of life and death, as can learning from and interacting with your fellow villages and the beautiful, dangerous, ever-shifting landscape around you. The fens are ancient, with reeds that seem to whisper of things we have long forgotten - but for all that, they never stop changing.
The game is text-based, with an original soundtrack and location art.
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I love the game. But why can I never go to church?
Because I never got round to implementing the church, is the short answer! I'm hoping to spend some time doing an updated version sometime that will include the church, a bit more fenland, and some more character storylines, but there hasn't been enormous interest over the last year or so time has ended up being spent on being unwell and finishing my PhD - hopefully this winter I'll get to it though :)
I am a huge history nerd, and I love social history. I would cool down to see the different feast day church years. Attend Vesper in the evening on Saturday and Mass on Sunday. It would be something that cannot be skipped; otherwise, there could be massive social penalties.
What was the plan for the church?
It was going to have at least part of that regularity, exactly: probably slightly simplified rather than having a lot of the feast days etc (which would then mean I'd have to think about a year-tracking time system) to a system where on Sunday you were expected to attend there rather than work, and that this would also be a key moment for getting certain bits of information or advancing certain bits of the plot, because it's also the one location that all the NPCs also have to be at.
I am still hoping to get the time to do it at some point, anyhow! I've just had it confirmed that I'm defending the doctorate in late October so I'm hoping this will be a winter for getting creative stuff done.
I would truly love to see it!!!