Bradley Estacio

Agave

A solo journaling RPG about life and change.

Inspired by the agaves that grew at the Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago, you are a freshly planted agave in the desert room of a conservatory. Throughout the 54 years of your life, you witness visitors come and go. Some visitors will occasionally sit on the bench in front of where you're planted, having a conversation with others or themselves if they're alone. These visitors may come back in the future in which you'll see how they've changed. Not only that, but you'll witness changes to the conservatory too, both good and bad. At the end of your life, you'll grow a death bloom in which visitors from the past will come back to take in your presence and say their final goodbyes.

This game was made for the One-Page RPG Jam 2025 - Theme: Growth

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Gameplay Overview

In Agave, you'll journal for each one of the 54 years of your life as an agave. For each entry in that year, you will randomly draw a card from the deck and use the rank to determine who sits on the bench that day, otherwise known as Visitors, and roll dice to determine the type of conversation they have that day. If you draw Visitors who have visited before, reflect on how they've changed as well. At the end of each journaled year, you will also roll dice to determine how much you grow and a change at the conservatory.

After those 54 journal entries, you enter the Death Bloom. These final four entries take place over the final four weeks of your lifespan. Here, previous Visitors will come back in which you make a final reflection on the changes they've had or if they have anything left to say regarding their previous conversations. You also roll to see how tall your infloresence (flower stalk) has grown. The game ends after the fourth week in your death bloom.

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