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 http://lib.fo.am/tale_of_the_plant_dungeon
-== The hex game ==
+== Casual games ==
-One of the things that we found attractive in the
+We realized that there is already one type of game that is capable of "reducing the player to a plant". It's the mindless casual game that is so popular with web savvy senior citizens.
+Perhaps we could come up with a match-three class mechanic, the outcome of which would produce a plant.
-casual games
 http://lib.fo.am/tale_of_vegetal_time
-hex
+== The hex game ==
+When thinking of simple software systems to grow roots in 2D, we stumbled on the hexagonal grid. Hexagons have been a staple for a certain type of strategy games, so it sort of felt right.
+We started prototyping a root growing game with hexagons.
+The abstract nature of the hexagon shape also connected well to our desire to make a hi-tech underground factory.
+[add a screenshot of an early version here]
 hex dressed up