Salsa Loco
Salsa Loco is an anxiety-inducing top-down action game about harvesting vegetables for salsa. Unlike other farming games out there, this one is not played at a leisurely pace, unless you want to lose your crop to pests! To play, move the farmer on top of a gardenplot to water the plants or chase away pests that are trying to eat your plants. Each time the player waters the plant, the plant grows a little (or gains health). Each time a pest takes a bite out of the plant, the plant loses health. Pests can eat the entire plant if left unchecked so make sure to chase them away! If you lose three plants to pests or run out of time, you lose the level. You must harvest all the vegetables in time to progress to the next level.
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Developer Bio:
Stephanie Fisher is a PhD student in the Faculty of Education at York University. For the last seven years, she has been involved in research projects that examine digital games for learning and teaching, gender and gaming, and kids’ digital media production. Her favourite part of doing this work is running gaming clubs (play and development) for girls. Stephanie was the ‘embedded academic’ and is grateful for the opportunity to work together to examine the experiences of the women participating in the Difference Engine. This work is being conducted under the umbrella of the Feminists in Games research partnership along with Alison Harvey (PhD Candidate in the Communication & Culture Program at York and Ryerson Universities).
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