Here comes the airplane!

From South American plantations to factories in Asia, your daily meals are transported thousands of miles before entering your mouth.

The world is connected through networks of food supply chains, and that has some benefits. But those benefits could never outweigh the costs that come along with it.

Rootbound is about anchoring yourself.

When a formerly prosperous city's government cuts certain deals to become completely reliant on one food source, it collapses pretty easily.

When its residents realized this metropolis couldn't feed them anymore, the city turned vacant and dead. Now it's your job to bring it back to life.

Controls

Movement	Arrow Keys
Build	Z
Edit Building	X
Stats	Tab
To-do List	L
Confirm	Return
Cancel	Escape
Zoom	Left Shift

Gameplay

Enjoy an exciting new educational city builder focused on teaching you globalization, supply chains, and local agriculture!!

12 UNLOCKABLE HOMES

Enjoy 12 different homes each with different statistics to customize your city! Each with different populations, prices, and aesthetics, you can build from several tiers of homes:

• Mud
• Suburban
• Marble
• Modern

FARMING ECONOMY

Farming makes you money, that you can make to buy more homes and money! Be careful though, you have to balance your population with your food supply, or else the farm expenses will catch up to you!

BIODIVERSITY FACTORS

You need to build more than just homes and farms. To maintain your ecological footprint and stay a green metropolis, you need to build wildlife reserves throughout your city to preserve the biodiversity keeping the nature of your city alive!

EDUCATIONAL CUTSCENES

To dive into even deeper detail of how these systems affect real life, explore real life impacts how your actions affect a globalized world! With specific concepts and explanations, you'll definitely walk away from this game learning something new.

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

With an original theme and variations for certain events, you'll enjoy quality atmosphere while you play! This game was used for a International Baccalaureate Music project!

!! ZERO AI CONTENT !!

That's right! With assets including art, sound, and programming handcrafted by a team of high school students, you can have an authentic experience made by true game developers.

Credits

Arthur Tran

• Programming
• UI/UX Design
• Game Design
• Music
• SFX
• Art

Emily Dai

• Art

Yuki Maeda

• Music

External

• Freesound
• Sfxr
• Pixabay
• OpenGameArt