Forgetful Caretaker

'Forgetful Caretaker' is an asynchronous multiplayer, procedurally generated game in which each player picks up where the last player left off. You are the caretaker of a boundless, labyrinthine garden world, and can protect the garden's various flora, or clear it away. The game world generates via parameters that change based on how the player interacts with the world.

This is a part of S.W.I.M. (Someone Who Isn't Me), a body of work that explores the role of embodiment in the digital game experience. In 'Forgetful Caretaker', the titular player character is a vessel through which users inherit and pass on a unique world that generates in response to their collective actions.

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**Procedural Life**When the player regrows the flora of the garden, plant life is procedurally generated and grows from a sapling to a mature plant.Video

**The Caretaker**All players occupy the same body. The game pauses between users, and the final game world represents the game response to collective player input.

**Garden System**A procedural garden study from the Forgetful Caretaker project.

**Procedural World**World cells are generated from parametric archetypes biased by character actions and random events.Video

**Procedural Structures**This structure is generated entirely in code and each instance has randomized parameters.Video

**Graveyard Cell**Inspired by the large number of overgrown and dilapidated graveyards in Knoxville.

**Maze Cell**A generated cell archetype for the labyrinthine garden world.

**Grove Cell**Inspired by the grove-dotted hills of east Tennessee.

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