#gardening sim

[cylunny]

🪏NPC visits, Biome upgrades & Cleaning Minigame

New things have been added to the full game! Only writing and some assets left until full release!!

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[littleriolu]

I started playing Horticular recently!! Very fun game!! Kinda looks like mobile slop at first blush, but I'm glad I followed my gut with it. Here's the guy I've been playing as - his name is Erevus, and he's a kind and jolly gardening wizard. His hat's made of denim... A wizard jat. :)

[cylunny]

My Monster Garden: Full Game Release Plan

Hi all! I come to you with an update on the full game :)C

Right now, I am working towards a late August to early September release.

Currently missing is writing for two characters, which with help of writers will likely conclude around end of July. After which I will add them to the game and potentially do a couple edits where needed. There is a couple of small art assets I can easily pump out on a weekend day.

The game will have an early bird release period of 2 months during which it can be purchased for 5.99USD. After that, it will be regularly available for 9.99USD.

The base game includes 6 plants and multiple biomes as well as many other features lacking in the demo. If you want more info on those features I warmly recommend reading past devlogs!

I fully intend to add more plants and potentially biomes / short events in future. There is much more plant designs I have who I want to bring alive & fill your gardens with! While not guaranteed on any timeline, these addons will be included in the original purchase price: Once you bought the game, new downloads are going to be free as by itch.io's default.

Thank you all for your patience, and I hope you are looking forward to it! ;U;7

Play My Monster Garden here!

[cylunny]

🎁Gifts, Memorybook & Random Events

New things have been added to the full game, still going strong...

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[cylunny]

🌱 Plant Poll Results & new Devlog!

THE POLL HAS SPOKEN. Karohi won with a wide margin, followed by Bellami and Diavolo. :)c

There were a total of 31 votes - first of all, thank you so much for taking your time & entering your vote! Special thanks to those who took the time and wrote such nice comments, it really means a lot to me that you enjoyed the demo so far. This is the stuff that keeps me going :)

Read the full devlog here

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[duckduckgrem]

pspsps polyam witch garden-sim game people

Mondays are for mushrooms, trees get posted Tuesday, on Friday y’all get flowers, and Saturdays I post crystals/rocks/stones. 

I’m also posting Witch of the Greenwood -specific art every other Saturday for screenshot Saturday, since that art will probably appear in the actual game.

I think on the off week in between WotG art, I’m gonna start posting information about the game? Yeah. Yes. I think that’d be a good way to keep up with writing, and a good way to learn how to summarize my game for promotional material + pitching, if I ever do that. 

Okay, so, that was a bit self-reflective, but I’ve got a question:  Would y’all prefer:

1) itty bitty weekly snippets about the game

2) bi-weekly (i.e. every other week) slightly longer posts 

3) one decently long post about the game per month? 

Lemme know in the replies and/or tags? you can just reply 1 / 2 / 3 in either, or give me a longer opinion :) 

If there are specific questions you want answered about the game, you can also ask ‘em on this post or send me an ask and I’ll add that to the weekly / bi-weekly / monthly post!

[duckduckgrem]

“Grem, will we get familiars in Witch of the Greenwood?” you ask. 

Yes, absolutely, 100% you will get a magic companion. May I present to you the first option: Astra, the tri-eyed black cat!

They are very good at catching butterflies and giving you relationship advice (you don’t understand their language but emotionally you know they’re rooting for you 😤)

Familiars will accompany you from day one on your magical journey, and grow right along with you as you advance. I mean that literally 😏

Other than this magnificent being drawn by my friend @dovelydraws, who’s helping me with some of the art for Witch of the Greenwood, what kind of familiars would y’all be interested in seeing? 👀👀👀

Lemme know! And if a magical gardening + potion making + relationship life sim sounds like your kind of game, you can give me a follow to keep up to date with art + feature progress (plus I’d love to hear y’all’s feedback)!

[duckduckgrem]

Okay, alright, cool, so- 

I don’t even know how to go about explaining all of these relationships so I’m just gonna do my best to give an overview of some Highlights ™. 

This got massive, so I had to split it into two graphs, but these two images are the potential relationship charts for Witch of the Greenwood. 

There are two arrow colors - red and orange. Red symbolizes romantic relationships; orange symbolizes queerplatonic relationships (qpr). 

This is more of a draft than anything at this point. There are some things I’m not sold on, others I might tweak, and maybe even some yet to be added. However! There are several that I am in love with and you’ll have to pry out of my cold, dead hands. 

They include: 

The entire top image, which includes:

Four (4) person polycule in the first image. The three people who are not you are dating and will date regardless of your existence. They are, however, open to adding a fourth into their dynamic.

Three (3) person queerplatonic / partially romantic triad. The two people who are not you will end up in a qpr regardless of your existence. One of them would be very happy to romantically smooch you on the mouth or not romantically smooch you on the mouth, and the other would like to do neither but would be delighted if you joined their qpp. 

One strictly monogamous relationship - she’s got nothing against polyamory, but knows it isn’t for her. And hey, that’s okay! Maybe it’s not for you either.

One open relationship - he’s very open (hehe) to the idea of you dating other people as long as you afford him the same courtesy. No overlapping secondary partners with him though; he likes to keep his relationships separate!

One linear polycule where a literal ray of sunshine would love to be romantic with you - as long as you can respect his partner’s boundaries, which includes you Not Pursuing Them. 

From the bottom image: 

Three (3) person queerplatonic / partially romantic potential triad. Date one, develop a qpr with the other, or unite in holy platonic queerness as a qpr triad - the choice is yours :) 

Fully romantic triad. That’s it, send tweet. 

That leaves a few of the relationship dynamics (including a fully queerplatonic, no-romantic relationships present polycule) that I’m still playing around with. I definitely want to have an exclusively queerplatonic polycule, so you can expect that, I’m just not 100% sure yet what that’s gonna look like. 

I know I’ve only listed “Elluna” and a bunch of ovally rectangles with pronouns, but I do already have characters behind (most) of those shapes. I’m just not planning on revealing them all yet because I’d like y’all to be able to discover who’s involved with who when you actually have a chance to play this. 

Some of these characters absolutely will be revealed before the first iteration of the game is published though! Along with other characters who are not romanceable but will hopefully be enjoyable regardless :) 

Is there a relationship dynamic not shown here that you’d really love to see in a “dating” sim (whether that “dating” is romantic or not)? Let me know! I won’t guarantee I’ll add it to the game, but I’d love to at least consider it!! 

And hey, if you’d like to help me make this game faster so that you can get your grubby lil’ gremlin hands on it, consider supporting me on Patreon: here

‘Til next time!