Dear players,

I was invited to the Utopiales festival recently. It was initially mostly about sci-fi, but it has become more open to fiction in general. There is a video game area, and the professional gamedev association my studio is part of (Atlangames[www.atlangames.com]) helps with organising it.

The Utopiales are held in Nantes, the biggest city of my region, which is very pleasant and which I hadn't visited in a while! The weather was nice, so I took a few pictures of the Château des Ducs de Bretagne :)

I participated in a Twitch livestream on the Utopiales channel[www.twitch.tv] (hosted by Moustique[www.twitch.tv] and Le_Technicien[www.twitch.tv] 💖), it was my first and a very good experience!

Then I presented The Abbess Garden in a workshop where visitors playtested the game (organised by Chloe, a fellow indie developer of Eode[eode.studio]). It was organized in the historical buildings of LU (a brand well known here for their "petit beurre"). Cultural heritage is everywhere ;)

The new part for me was that there were a lot of children, and the game being only in English made me do a lot of live translation ;) It was still very fun and useful!

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In the meantime, we are working on finishing the game's content. Giovanni is writing the dialogs while I am modeling, texturing, rendering/drawing (for the icons and book) and integrating the plants in Unity.

I don't want to spoil to much, so here it's just one plant, one of my favourites (the first plant I bought as a kid ;) ): the columbine! It's probably a bit too much detailed considering it's only seen from afar in the game, but it was very interesting to model!

Let me know what your favourite plants are!

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I wish you all an excellent day :)

Dear players!

The new demo is out!!! Yay!!!

It includes a lot of improvements, new content, and a new gardening system, which I want to introduce to you today!

To make the gardening complexity progressive, there are only very easy plants at the beginning of the game. They need an appropriate quantity of water.

The more you progress into the game, the more you will be given fussy plants ;) From chapter 3 onwards, in addition to water, you will need to verify that the plants are in an area with the right soil, too.

You can now examine the soil to plant them in the area with appropriate soil, or plant them anywhere and add the specific soil they want.

There are 4 types of soil (humus, gravel, sand, clay). Some areas will have some of it already, and there are several "surfacing soil" areas that you use to dig up some soil to add to another place. Beware, you cannot remove soil from the ground, and it will remain this way for several months! Like water, you can move the plants, but not the soil.
It is, of course, a simplified simulation system. I hope you'll like it and it will add interesting depth to our gardening systems :) Let us know what you think!

The last system is the proximity system (for the very fussy plants that like to be alone, near a specific plant, etc. ;) ). It will be in the full game!

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I wish you all an excellent day :)