Aaa Friday, everyone's favorite. Although I still have a good couple of thousand words to write to end this week, I'm already thinking of the weekend. Chances are, I'll pick up on a nice casual game to get the weekend started and SilkWood Spring sounds and looks like a good choice. Why don't we check it out together?

SilkWood is a "casual-paced" game based on a digital organism called The Elders that live on a farm with "downloaded real-world weather," according to the developer. Players control the action of the Elder through a 24-hour real-time scheduler which the player can use to assign "timeslots" for the Elder to work, eat, sleep, watch TV and do other things, with a workout session also available.

SilkWood should provide quite a gameplay experience as I hear that the mission of Elder No.6 is to find the lost home of the Six Elders. "As the player helps No.6 achieve this goal, care must be taken to keep the physical and mental health of the Elder in good shape." Hmm, interesting. Better check my state of mind first.

With SilkWood Spring, Reflective Layer has added another dimension to its real-world weather system within the game. For instance, flowers now grow and die depending on real-world precipitations while the real-world temperature even has an effect on the actual type of flowers that grow. Leaves blow across the farm, the windmill spins (I'll bet you're already picturing the in-game atmosphere) and much more, all based on real-world wind speed.

You'll get to tend chickens and raise them. These are new in SilkWood Spring. Here's another gameplay feature which is in very strong connection to the weather system: chickens will multiply in warm weather; however, if it starts to rain, the birds will go in the barn; they're out at dawn and in at dusk.

Other new creatures within SilkWood Spring prefer daylight and are found in the greatest number late in the afternoon, like butterflies, for instance. Ok, so SilkWood Spring is a bit girly, but it sure sounds like it provides a good amount of gameplay hours. I for one am sold on it.