About This Demo

TOMATO IS BANNED

You act as a tomato farmer and shop keeper in an universe where tomatoes are banned by the government. Your job includes farming and selling tomatoes while trying to avoid undercover cops that blend to your network. Customer service is not only essential for the business, but for safety as well. The undercover cops follow specific dressing codes and behavior patterns and your job is avoiding them.

FARMING

Tomatoes smell and the lady living across the hall seems like a retired cop. So, be careful when opening the apartment door.

Even though tomatoes are illegal globally, just like most of the plants, it can be grown easily in most places, like a balcony. You are working in a tomato shop. Daily:

• Grow tomato plants

• Talk with them to improve productivity

• Dump spoiled tomatoes to decrease spreading the shops smell

• Dry harvested tomatoes to sell

• Talk with customers and get to know them

• Detect undercover cops using their patterns given by mafia

CUSTOMERS

The shop is an apartment near a university. There are different groups of tomato heads that seek a farmer that they can buy from. Your customer network grows by recommendations from other customers. Even though it is risky regarding police attention, growth is the only solution for being able to purchase protection from the mafia.

Manage an illegal business, get rid of undercover cops with the mafia’s help, and ultimately buy your apartment to become fully independent.

POLICE

If you deal with undercover cops without noticing you attract police attention. Undercover cops follow patterns and the mafia detects them. Every time you open the shop, they give the information about their current rules and trends. They can be deducted from regular customers when you know their patterns. 

When you detect an undercover cop and notify the mafia, they take care of them.

MAFIA

The mafia loans you money when you need it but the help is not free. You need to pay protection money to the mafia when you are cornered by the police and the cost of the protection increases when they give a loan.

What is not included in the demo?

• 7 tomato types and seed shop

• Object placement (customizable pot and furniture)

• Progress of shop items

• Newspaper (meta narrative)

• Twitch integration

• UI Design

• Lots of visual and sound effects

• Story pieces

• Gossiping plants

and probably some more features

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Even though tomatoes are legal almost everywhere, in the game universe, they are illegal and player is acting as an illegal shop keeper.