Sleeping Village

Where?

The game takes place in a sleepy village in England. The town is located in a beautiful landscape with green hills and sparkly streams. The town itself is a rather moody and depressing place. The houses are worn down and the villagers all know that this is it, nothing will really happen to them. Instead they spend their life going back and forth to their jobs, taking care of their gardens on their spare time and just coping.

When?

It is a current time game. But since it is a fairly isolated village they are a little bit behind on everything. There are also mostly older people (the young ones move away when they come of age) which makes modern things as smartphones rarely seen.

Who?

As I said before the villages is inhabited by mostly old people, there are some families with children but as the young ones always move away these families get rarer and rarer. Even though they all have pretty much given up on a bigger life ,and now live on the small things in life, they all have very strong and colorful personalities and some of them are real originals.

Society?

The society is organized like every other little village. The community is circulating around the church and the pub. And these two places are pretty much where all the socializing takes place. There is a lot of gossip in the village so, even though very few of the inhabitants use things like Facebook, words get around very quickly.

Morals?

The moral and norms people live by is that regularity, habits are very important. People acting out and doing things they are not supposed to do is frowned upon and seen as something bad. Christian values are also an important part of the moral in the village and going to church is pretty much mandatory.

Occupations?

The community consist of the normal occupations needed in a village. The heart of the village’s economy is the factory that produce wooden toys. The production is slowly dying as the demand for wood toys is getting smaller and smaller. There is also a few artist, shop owners, real-estate agents, pub owners, bar maids, church related people and other people that make the village go around. (think Midsomer Murders)

Economy?

The economy is based on British Pounds but the villagers also do a lot of barter trade, if someone have something you need you give them something that they need.

History

The little village used to flourish and the factory used to be the biggest one in England, supplying toys for the royal family. But as the toy demand got smaller the village slowly turned into the sleepy place it is today. This have affected the villagers that today feel very hopeless for the future. Every day they see the village they grew up in and loves fade away.

Other

In the game things will happen to change the situation of the village. The protagonist Alfred will do what he can to save the city and make it flourish again, in his own sleepy old people way.