When Old Men Plant Trees

It’s inspired by that saying A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they’ll never sit.

It’s a very simple kingdom/city/world management and building game. The trick?

You can only play a specific game/seed/save for one hour. Then your file uploads to a global server and SOMEONE ELSE must continue from it.

In other words, after an hour of play you’re an old man and die, and now you must give the world you made to someone else. The first player to “claim” it then gets to continue, until their time is up and they pass it onwards again.

The goal is of course to keep these saves alive as long as possible and make the society keep growing, even as different strangers take control of it.

A really really interesting idea, but I think it’s so experimental/ambitious that I probably won’t make it anytime (soon), as I’m just a solo developer with no funds or resources.