MENDWELL: I/O

Patron early access · Windows

You don't farm. You program the robot who does.

Grandpa left you a farm, a notebook and P.O.N.C.H.O., a little drone who does exactly what you write. Teach him in G-Script, a small language that reads like Python, and grow from three radishes to a valley that runs itself.

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Write it. Watch him do it.

Every chore is a program. Start with blocks you snap together; Grandpa's Typing Manual turns them into text when you're ready.

poncho.gs5 / 8 lines · heat 12%
1  for i in range(3):
2      till()
3      plant(Potato)
4      water()
5      move(East)
  • His motherboard decides how many lines fit; his CPU, how fast they run.
  • Every line warms him up. Push too hard and he reboots.
  • Step through a program line by line, with breakpoints, when it misbehaves.
The game: Poncho tilling a row on Grandpa's farm, with the block editor and his chat on the right

Grow

Soil has nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and pH. Hover a tile and the crop tells you what it's short of. Compost, beans and a soil lab do the rest.

Explore

Send him into the ruins: glitch drones, crates of old parts, and Syntax Manuals that teach him new commands. Program him to fight, or to run.

Upgrade

Every part rolls a base, a rarity and affixes. A faster CPU, a bigger motherboard, a heat sink that lets him think longer. Min-maxers welcome.

Mendwell's square: coloured houses, the market and the fountain, with Ponchos of every paint walking about

Mendwell is shared.

Your farm is yours. Town is everyone's. Walk the square with other players, trade at the post, share a program in chat, and gather when the Great Warden wakes.

Leave Poncho working when you log off. He keeps the farm going, and tells you what he got up to when you're back.

Grandpa's Notebook

Ten chapters that always say what to do next, from a shed to a valley in bloom.

  1. 01Grandpa's Shed
  2. 02Roots
  3. 03Old Tech
  4. 04Tired Soil
  5. 05Homestead
  6. 06Into Town
  7. 07The Deep Relay
  8. 08Memory
  9. 09Bloom
  10. 10The Orchard

Grandpa's farm is waiting.

Back it on Patreon, link your Discord, download the launcher and wake him up. Bring friends: the valley is better with neighbours.

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