The artstyle and the character designs for this game are soo charming and memorable! I absolutely love the overall aesthetic. I found the game super educational and loved how you incorporated real plant species into the game. Really really fantastic work!
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Botanica Boutique's itch.io pageArtistic Statement / Use of Theme
Botanica Boutique explores mitigating climate change through a cozy, storybook-inspired shop simulator, focusing on solutions that use plants for issues such as managing heat, flooding, pollution, biodiversity loss, etc. Inspired by games like Good Pizza, Great Pizza and Trash Goblin while taking into account an educational perspective, we wanted to make climate action feel approachable and rewarding by showing how small, thoughtful choices can help a community flourish.
Development Summary
Our game began as a broader storybook-inspired concept set some time between the Medieval Ages and the Victorian Era before evolving into a plant shop simulator visually inspired by these time periods. We shifted from a multi-mini-game structure into a day-night cycle shop loop with customers in order to narrow down the scope of the game. Throughout development, we had to balance the amount of plants that could be offered as solutions with the types and difficulties of each customer’s problem, all while attempting to build up the in-game world alongside it.
Topic Tags
global warming, pollinator diversity, water pollution, soil pollution, air pollution, water contamination
Sprint Participation
yes
Game Engine, Platform, Format
Unity engine, HTML
Generative AI Disclosure
no








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