Peasant to Noble

Project Description

Peasant to Noble is a mobile indie game with poor-to-rich simulation mechanics.

Problem

Simulation game players want to simulate having more control in life, alleviate stress, boredom, and obtain a momentary sense of life satisfaction.

Insights

Successful simulation games require Competence, Autonomy, & Relatedness. This helps create predictability, sense of progress, making life appear winnable. Along with predictability, there should still be volatility as to not make the game too easy and bored of the same-old.

Solutions

Peasant to Noble uses simple idle mechanics that simulate the monthly income & expenses of daily life with life progression & milestones such as buying a new house and obtaining higher education. It also provides escapism with Victorian fantasy themes as well short sweet snippets of storylines that elicit emotional connection.