Pteridomania
Enter Pteridomania and be transported back to Victorian fern hunting and botanical exploration. Players embody four characters all with different play-styles, each uniquely driven to expand their fern collection.
Pteridomania Research
Areas of Focus
Research was focuses around the general Victorian era and the period’s ‘fern craze’. Focusing on aspects such as class, fern species, geography, plant cultivation, and superstitions. Investigating these aspects of Victorian life heavily informed the motives, mechanics, and variables of Pteridomania’s gameplay and player interactions.
Pteridomania Pieces
Pteridomania Player Pieces
Using botanical data bases, Pteridomania uses regional data to accurately place different species of ferns across the United Kingdom. Regionally distributed ferns are traded to other regions, consumed, or discarded creating scarcity. These mechanics simulate the environmental impacts, collection process, and lucrative markets surrounding the Victorian fern craze.
