The GARDEN

developer: Biome CollectivE

Platform: PC/Mac / Console

GENRE: narrative, music & exploration

Website: biomecollective.com

Press Contact: info@biomecollective.com

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Overview

The Garden is a first person adventure set on luminous alien worlds where every plant is an instrument and each world is a song that YOU make.

Explore and rescue the planets of a dying solar system- each with their own unique environments, challenges, life forms and original soundtracks.

Transform barren landscapes into spectacular musical gardens full of life, sound and joy.

Each plant is an instrument

Every planet is a song

Grow life and make music in a distant galaxy

Narrative

Be the light-bringing musical force that brings hope to a dying solar system. Told through the fragmented memories of the main character, The Garden is set in a solar system of living, singing planets threatened by a darkness that is spreading decay. Your task is to rescue these worlds by seeding, protecting, nurturing and expanding musical life on these planets until they are strong enough to push back against the darkness.

EXPLORATION

The Garden is a first person adventure exploring alien worlds looking for seeds, artefacts and resources. Explore the environments metroidvania style in order to progress the story and collect pick ups. Each planet has its own environmental challenges to overcome, secrets to share and life to discover.

COLLECTION

Each world contains a unique set of alien plants to discover and collect. Use your “Floradex” to find out what they are and what they can do- it will tell you the behaviour, effect and sound of every plant it knows. Find hidden seeds and grow your collection to progress and to unlock achievements and abilities.

Music

In The Garden, everything is music and musical. Every plant is an instrument, creatures and entities make sounds, and each world is a song that YOU make by growing plants in your garden. As you grow your garden, the music grows with you. The Garden makes this really easy- introducing concepts and abilities as the game goes on, allowing players to make amazing spatialised music without being musical.

Visuals

The Garden's extraordinary organic visual style is given life through fluid, natural movement at scale. It is beautifully simple, memorising and inspired by nature.

BIOME COLLECTIVE

Biome Collective is a diverse, inclusive melting pot of technology, art and culture for people who want to create, collaborate and explore games, digital art and technology. The Dundee-based studio and co-working space is the first of its kind in Scotland. Past projects include the BAFTA Scotland nominated Killbox, an online game and interactive installation that critically explores the nature of drone warfare, its complexities and consequences. Killbox was an official selection at AMAZE 2016 Berlin and South Africa, selected at IndieCade @ e3 and features in the Goethe Institute Politics and Games world tour exhibition.