Beware the Locust

Balance: 0
Crop Value: 0
Selected Crop Value: 0
Cards Left:
Fertilizer: 0
Fertilizer Card

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Objective

Maximize harvest value. Crops gain value over time, but holding them longer increases your risk of losing them to 🦗 Locust cards.

🔄 Each Turn

You draw one card per turn. It will be either:

  • 🌱 A Crop card: Beginning with a value of 10 points, you may sell any crops in your field. Any crops you don't sell during a given turn will receive one Fertilizer card, which will add +10 to their value.
  • 🦗 A Locust card: All unsold crops are destroyed. You cannot sell crops on a Locust turn.

💰 Selling Crops

After drawing a 🌱 Crop card, you may sell any or all crops in your field to add their value to your balance. Sold crops are permanently removed and are safe from future Locust attacks, but they’ll no longer gain value.

🏆 Scoring

Each Crop is worth 10 points, plus 10 for every Fertilizer it received. After all cards are drawn, any remaining crops are automatically sold. Your final score is the total from crops sold during the game and at the end.

You will get to play a practice round before the game.

Game Concept and Research Design:
Aeleah M. Granger, Mina Kim, and Phillip Atiba Solomon

Game Development and Interactive Design:
Paul Liu

Visual Assets

  • Bank icon by Freepik from Flaticon — Flaticon License
  • Crop card image from Flaticon — Flaticon License
  • Farm card image by Freepik from Freepik — Freepik License
  • Fields background image by Envato Elements — Envato Elements License
  • Fertilizer card image by Smashicons from Flaticon — Flaticon License
  • Locust website icon by Freepik from Flaticon — Flaticon License
  • Locust card image from Flaticon — Flaticon License
  • Music on and music off icons created by yaicon from Flaticon — Flaticon License
  • Sound on and sound off icons by Andrean Prabowo from Flaticon — Flaticon License

Audio Assets

  • Background music by Benji Jackson from AudioJungle — Standard License
  • Banknote counter sound by Supersciri from Freesound — Attribution NonCommercial 4.0
  • Card dealing sound by dersuperanton from Freesound — Attribution 4.0
  • Locust flight sound by trp from Freesound — Attribution 4.0
  • Sound toggle sound by dersuperanton from Freesound — Attribution 4.0
  • Cash register sound by mokasza from Freesound — Attribution 4.0

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