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[growbotgame]

About:
Growbot is a 2D point-and-click adventure game being developed in Unity for PC and Mac. You play as Nara, a student growbot on her first day of training on board a space station. Before you can begin learning about your new home's ecosystem of alien flowers and strange creatures, an attack by an unknown force infests the station with large and quickly growing crystals. With communication cut off, you venture out of your room in search of help. Along the way you must make new friends, fix the station's strange machinery, and discover the origins of the crystalline force spreading throughout the station.

Work completed:
Level 1 and 2 of Growbot have been completed and I’ve made several rounds of bug fixes and adjustments to puzzles following playtester feedback. The latest build takes most people around two hours to play, and represents about half of the planned content.

Work to be done:
I have two levels left to complete. Level 3 takes place underwater within a coral reef, and level 4 within engineering.

Screenshots:
A selection of screenshots from level 1 and 2.










Team:
My team currently consists of me, Lisa, although I hope to grow this in the future. I'm an illustrator with a background in children's picture books. I began Growbot as a way of learning new skills, and out of a love of world building.

www.growbotgame.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/growbotgame
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Indiedb: www.indiedb.com/games/growbot

I have a playable build of Growbot available for Windows and MacOSX if anyone is interested in testing the game and giving feedback. Please email me at [email protected] if you’d like a download link, or you can sign up to a mailing list here if you want (very) occasional updates with new builds or news when the game is finished: http://growbotgame.com/mailinglist Thanks for reading!

[Poya]

Wow really like your work and will definitely be following this. It reminds me of games like Machinarium...a good mix of cute and weird, and lots of character.

[growbotgame]

Thanks @Poya! I love Amanita's games.

[hyperduck]

Wowww yes I feel the level of detail that I remember from Machinarium in this, incredible level of detail indeed, can't wait to see/hear/smell more!

[Pixel Noise]

Wow this is beautiful!

[ashtonmorris]

Wow amazing art style! 

[SimonFelix]

Looks fantastic! Love the art, reminds me of Machinarium, but still has a very distinctive feel

[growbotgame]

Thank you for the kind comments!

[jamesprimate]

Wow this is stunning work! Great name too, made me immediately curious.

[growbotgame]

Wow this is stunning work! Great name too, made me immediately curious.

Thank you so much!

[growbotgame]

Growbot’s first level takes place in the living quarters on board the Ventral Station. An attack by an unknown force has infested the station with strange blue crystals and left Nara, a student growbot on her first day of training cut off from her crewmates. In order to find them Nara must make sense of her new environment and appease Wee Ted, Chief of Security on board the station.

Each ‘level’ of the game is on a different floor of the station, and the environment changes significantly as you advance.

Level 1 Screenshots:





Level 1 Gifs:






Level 1 Trailer:




Level 1 Let’s Play video 1:




Level 1 Let’s Play video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKjgs4Dq_Gk

www.growbotgame.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/growbotgame
Facebook: www.facebook.com/growbotgame
Indiedb: www.indiedb.com/games/growbot
Mailing List: http://growbotgame.com/mailinglist

[growbotgame]

Growbot’s second level takes place within a garden environment. There are new characters to meet, mysteries to unravel, and a richer understanding of the narrative to be gained. The puzzles on this level are more challenging and can be solved out of order to help support a more personal approach to exploration. An unknown crystalline force continues to attack and infest the station, threatening to destroy the garden’s ecosystem. Nara must repair the strange machinery on this level in order to restore and protect it.

Level 2 Screenshots:





Level 2 Gifs:





The Cloud Machine video:




www.growbotgame.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/growbotgame
Facebook: www.facebook.com/growbotgame
Indiedb: www.indiedb.com/games/growbot
Mailing List: http://growbotgame.com/mailinglist

[Bakuda]

This game looks absolutely charming!  I love how lush and bold the colors are.  And the piano in that trailer was simply beautiful!  Who do you have doing your music?

[growbotgame]

This game looks absolutely charming!  I love how lush and bold the colors are.  And the piano in that trailer was simply beautiful!  Who do you have doing your music?

Thank you! The piano song in the trailer is called A Rush of Emotion by SchwartzSound, which I licensed from audiojungle.com. The game doesn't have any music in it yet, but I hope to work with a musician at a later date to help bring the game alive.

[growbotgame]

This is the introductory cutscene to Growbot, which will hopefully give players more context of the world before they begin playing.





Introductory Sequence Screenshots and text:
This is the asteroid Kew, home to a small population of Growbots.


Tonight a young Growbot named Nara is leaving home for the first time to begin her Captaincy training on board the Ventral Space Station.


Ventral is one of 6 stations which together protect Kew.



Nara is moving there to learn how to tend to the Power Flowers which grow at the core of each station.


After Lieutenant Kino has shown her to her room, Nara drifts off to sleep, unaware that outside the station another visitor is arriving.


Introductory Sequence Gifs:



www.growbotgame.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/growbotgame
Facebook: www.facebook.com/growbotgame
Indiedb: www.indiedb.com/games/growbot
Mailing List: http://growbotgame.com/mailinglist

[jamesprimate]

this looks so lovely i cant even handle it. do you plan on doing a kickstarter or something? id support day 1.

oh and as a musician i just want to say: please please please work with a really good musician on a fantastic original soundtrack for this and dont compromise on it by licensing already available music or libraries etc, the potential here is just so so high!

[sidbarnhoorn]

This looks lovely! Looking forward to seeing it develop further.

[growbotgame]

this looks so lovely i cant even handle it. do you plan on doing a kickstarter or something? id support day 1.

oh and as a musician i just want to say: please please please work with a really good musician on a fantastic original soundtrack for this and dont compromise on it by licensing already available music or libraries etc, the potential here is just so so high!

No plans for a Kickstarter at the moment, but thank you for your support and kind words!

[growbotgame]

This looks lovely! Looking forward to seeing it develop further.

Thank you!

[growbotgame]

I thought I'd post these development sketches and drawings from level 1 and 2 of Growbot









www.growbotgame.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/growbotgame
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Indiedb: www.indiedb.com/games/growbot
Mailing List: http://growbotgame.com/mailinglist