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[anthias]

Well, after an agonisingly long harvest season,the cotton is done for the year! My first year on the farm, and we harvest for a bunch of other places as well. A wet year slowed the harvest considerably, but now it's over I have an idea to theme a game around it.

That raises the question, would the title "Cotton Pickin'" carry any overtones that might offend? I know it is a term used in southern US states, but I'm not up on all the stuff around it. Should I just go with Cotton Harvest? Or Cotton? Bugs bunny gives me Cotton Pickin' and through him it sounds fun, but bugs is from another time.

The table will require you to lock a ball each for two pilot vehicles and a picker, then shoot to get to the destination farm, and commence harvest. You'll build your stack of modules/bales, with the value per bales fluctuating as the market swings. When you have enough you shoot to gin your crop and score based on the current value. Throughout this process, things can go wrong. Wet weather, bale fires, pickers hitting overhead powerlines, among other things, and you must complete tasks to resolve these before you can continue your harvest.

I feel this could be fun if I can pull of the rules effectively.

I have a rough layout sketched, and will start building soon...

But what about the name?

[GeorgeH]

I think the negative connotations for "Cotton Pickin'" are pretty mild.  It is normally used to express dismay or sometimes anger.  Though I live in the south, I don't think it is used much anymore but may be occasionally used in states that actually grow cotton.  

[anthias]

This one is probably going to take me a while, but for now, here is the basic layout. I plan to make that block thing at the back to be a model of a cotton harvester.  cottonpickinlayout2.jpg   981.53KB   5 downloads

[anthias]

It's a long time between drinks on this, but since this week I finally got a working PC again (and the cotton harvesting is in progress again lol) I have started tinkering. NOT final artwork but you'd guess that lol.

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Edited by anthias, 25 April 2023 - 11:27 AM.