let it leave me like a long breath

i'm still messing around with farm game outlining stuff, just kinda trying to collect ideas and get everything worked out. but this is involving a lot of looking up stuff to see how it works. "how do you actually make olives edible" "what's the difference between wild olive and cultivated olive" "how do you make glass" "what's a marshmallow actually" (i mean the plant)

so back in the day to make glass they blew a big bubble and spun it around to flatten it, and then they cut rectangles out of it. this is why the glass in real old houses can be thicker at the bottom and thinner on the top. the way we get flat modern glass is by floating molten glass on top of a bed of molten metal

also glass made just from sand is likely gonna be discolored, yellow glass or green glass or whatever. modern clear glass is generally soda-lime glass, so named because in addition to the actual silica it's got soda and lime in it. i have no clue how you'd refine those. and it's not really relevant i think b/c that's substantially outside the bounds of "farming game"

also olive trees are real complicated, let me tell you

also i guess candied marshmallow roots were a thing, that eventually got supplanted by an eggwhite merangue flavored with rose hips, leading ultimately to the modern marshmallow confection.

anyway here's what the latest revision of the design doc looks like.

i think i need to get a lot more specific about small parts of the game, b/c right now it's still pretty high-level.