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-===Joanne===+Part of the [[germinationx game design]] 
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 +=====Joanne the perfect player=====
  
 Joanne is a 26 year old regular FaceBook user and a one time player of Farm Ville. She is experienced with social games and played Happy Aquarium for a time too. She is a student and uses facebook to keep in contact with her friends and family, but is aware of it's limitations and doesn't log on every day. She used to help her father in their garden, and wants to get her own some day soon. She grows some garden vegetables in pots on her window sill. She is interested in organic farming, and has heard of permaculture but isn't sure what it is. She got bored of playing Farm Ville after a few days, as it seemed a bit silly, and really about collecting lots of stuff. She did have some fun seeing what her more obsessive friends who'd been playing it for a while had got up to though, by visiting their farms. Joanne is a 26 year old regular FaceBook user and a one time player of Farm Ville. She is experienced with social games and played Happy Aquarium for a time too. She is a student and uses facebook to keep in contact with her friends and family, but is aware of it's limitations and doesn't log on every day. She used to help her father in their garden, and wants to get her own some day soon. She grows some garden vegetables in pots on her window sill. She is interested in organic farming, and has heard of permaculture but isn't sure what it is. She got bored of playing Farm Ville after a few days, as it seemed a bit silly, and really about collecting lots of stuff. She did have some fun seeing what her more obsessive friends who'd been playing it for a while had got up to though, by visiting their farms.
  
-==Day 1==+====Day 1====
  
 She noticed a post from a game called "germination x" on a friend's wall - the message read: "Frank has planted some Lovage in order to attract ground beetles to deal with a tussock moth infestation". There was no "click here" or free offers, which was a little mysterious, and the message seemed a little bit detailed for most of these farming games - she did a search and found the application page and tried running it. She noticed a post from a game called "germination x" on a friend's wall - the message read: "Frank has planted some Lovage in order to attract ground beetles to deal with a tussock moth infestation". There was no "click here" or free offers, which was a little mysterious, and the message seemed a little bit detailed for most of these farming games - she did a search and found the application page and tried running it.
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 She could clearly see that this game was quite different and was intended to teach some things about how plants could be planted together, and although there seemed to be an absence of scores or levels that she could see - the fact that you could see other people's plants and help them seemed interesting. She could clearly see that this game was quite different and was intended to teach some things about how plants could be planted together, and although there seemed to be an absence of scores or levels that she could see - the fact that you could see other people's plants and help them seemed interesting.
  
-==Day 2==+====Day 2====
  
 The next time she started the game she noticed that there was a message waiting for her. It was from Anthony Mann thanking her for her help for his apple tree, and giving her some Borage seeds in return.  The next time she started the game she noticed that there was a message waiting for her. It was from Anthony Mann thanking her for her help for his apple tree, and giving her some Borage seeds in return. 
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 The worm, who seemed to have recovered from his panic, informed her that she had increased the biodiversity of this area, and it would slowly recover with a few more trees to protect the cucumbers from the weather. It told her that this was an essential aspect of permaculture, and she spent the rest of the day reading about it on wikipedia. The worm, who seemed to have recovered from his panic, informed her that she had increased the biodiversity of this area, and it would slowly recover with a few more trees to protect the cucumbers from the weather. It told her that this was an essential aspect of permaculture, and she spent the rest of the day reading about it on wikipedia.
  
 +======TODO======
  
 +  * Jack the troublemaker 
 +  * Florence the elderly gardener 
 +  * Marco the young hipster
  
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