In the Game of Village children and youth come together to build a community in miniature.  They begin with peeps, little people who have their own personalities and backstories.  These peeps have come together to forge a new town together.  At our New Hampshire Game of Village summer camps this all takes place in meadows and forests.  

And over the course of several weeks peep houses and other miniature dwellings are designed and constructed.  Businesses open, a town newspaper may spring into operation, and the community has to make decisions about the miniature society they are creating together.  

Constraints of time do not allow for every dream born of this bountiful opportunity to be realized, but the ones that come true are truly wonderful; and others may be stored in that wrinkle in time where they may grow and bear fruit later.

Village is not a programmed game. It is richly tempered by the creative spirit of its players. This does not mean that there is no sequential plan in the scheduling of events, but it does mean that outcomes are dictated, as they are in real life, by unforeseen circumstances, confrontations with natural laws, fortuitous events, personality differences and creative imagination.