Adventures With Time

It’s day 1 of PAX East in the indie MEGABOOTH and we have been busy showing The Gardens Between!

The reception has been very positive - we’ve had players say they love the art style, it’s calm gameplay and they have been eager for our pins!

Great news!! The Gardens Between we will be at PAX East in Boston this March, 2017!

Come and play The Gardens Between and grab some of our pins, we would love to see you.

We have collaborated again with Mattea Davies (who has a divine instagram, by the way), a talented set designer to make our booth look a bit lush and beautiful :) 

Say hi in person or on Twitter:  @TheVoxelAgents

Here’s a quick intro to those on the team who will be at the booth:

Matt Clark, Co-Director of The Voxel Agents and programmer on The Gardens Between @mrmattyboom 

Brooke Maggs, writer, narrative designer and producer on The Gardens Between. Her website is: www.burningglasscreative.com; Twitter: @brooke_maggs

Josh Bradbury - Designer and Animator on The Gardens Between. He also does many other amazing things over at joshalanb.com; Twitter: @joshalanb & tumblr: @joshalanb

Love from everyone in the studio!

Colour palettes have been essential to the storytelling for The Gardens Between. Our artist, Jon, has been inspired by contemporary architecture and Japanese Gardens when designing these beautiful environments. 

More of Jonathan Swanson’s wonderful artwork can be found here: www.softscience.com.au and instagram and @_SoftScience

The Gardens Between, PC & Mac, late 2017  Arina and Frendt gaze out of their treehouse.

The lantern does all kinds of wonderful things in the Gardens :)

Coverage on The Gardens Between over at http://ind13.com 

Josh Bradbury - Designer and Animator on The Gardens Between. He also does many other amazing things over at joshalanb.com; 

Twitter: @joshalanb & tumblr: @joshalanb 

Brooke Maggs, writer, narrative designer and producer on The Gardens Between. Her website is: www.brookemaggs.com; Twitter: @brooke_maggs

Matt Clark, Co-Director of The Voxel Agents and programmer on The Gardens Between @mrmattyboom

Simon, Co-Director of The Voxel Agents and Executive Producer on The Gardens Between. Simon will also be speaking at GDC on Tuesday 28th Feb about The Voxel Agents’ latest title, Train Conductor World @simonjoslin

We can’t wait for another whirlwind GDC and look forward to seeing you!

The Gardens Between team is very excited to share our official announcement trailer with everyone today! Check out the new website!

As you can see, the game is coming along so well and we couldn’t be prouder of this gorgeous thing we started making two years ago.

We want to extend a special thanks to our graphic designer, Sarah Mangion, for helping the logo and logotype - we couldn’t be happier!

The Gardens Between is an adventure puzzle game about friendship, what it means to grow up, what must be let go what should never be left behind. 

Best friends Arina, a headstrong girl, and Frendt, a boy wise beyond his years, fall into a lush world of mysterious gardens. The vibrant world grows around objects from their past to form curious combinations of time and imagination. 

Together they traverse a bittersweet story of friendship where the forwards and backwards traversal of time makes cause and effect malleable. Memories surface as the duo stargaze, illuminating the meaning and depth of their friendship.

We’ll be keeping you up to date with the game development so please share our news with someone you think will love our game and follow along here on tumblr and on our other socials:

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Thank you! 

Design for a little jumper mate in The Gardens Between. 

We have been creating puzzle objects! 

It has been an amazing year at the studio on The Gardens Between. 

You may have noticed we have been deep in the development hole, building, planning and getting amazing results. 

Here are artboards for the various moods and tonal shifts that happen throughout the story. 

I was on a panel last week at Geelong library for Deakin University’s Working With Words event! I has the opportunity to speak all about writing for The Gardens Between and what it’s like writing an adventure puzzle game with no text or speech. 

There were lots of questions about game writing, getting into it and praise for there being a female protagonist in The Gardens Between. :)

It was a pleasure to be on the panel with Libbie Chellew, a script coordinator for Wentworth, Aneyz Lindop, a publicist working at Penguin. Thanks to Maria Takolander for being a wonderful moderator and pulling this power panel together!