Little Garden

Devlog

• Week 13 - Francisco
  June 04, 2021 by Scohui

  As my colleagues have mentioned, this will be our final devblog. Thank you so much for those who have stuck around since the beginning, and those that have come around during our journey. Looking back... Continue reading
• Week 13 - Manuel
  June 04, 2021 by Manuel Domingues

  Hello everyone, welcome to another weekly devlog! Sadly this might be the last devlog we do, but we can't help but reflect back on the jorney we had making Little Garden, it was hard at times and it w... Continue reading
• Week 13 - João
  June 04, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello everyone! Welcome to our last devlog! You can now play our game by downloading it on this page! You can also check the full story of the game written by our writers. If you play the game, please... Continue reading
• Week 12 - Manuel
  May 28, 2021 by Manuel Domingues

  Hello everyone, welcome to another weekly devlog! This week we worked on polishing the game, putting art, sprites and preparing it for the big show at MOJO. We will also make a trailer and gameplay vi... Continue reading
• Week 12 - Francisco
  May 28, 2021 by Scohui

  This is the last week before our reveal of our game at MOJO, and we have reached a somewhat final build of the demo game (it's missing assets and perhaps some bug clean up but feature wise, it is done... Continue reading
• Week 12 - João
  May 28, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello everyone! During this week we've prepared a playtesting plan for the prototype that will be released on sunday on this page. We'll be making 2 videos: one trailer and one gameplay video. These t... Continue reading
• Week 11 - Manuel
  May 21, 2021 by Manuel Domingues#dev log, #devlog, #devblog, #dev, #announcement, #weekly, #week

  Welcome everyone to another weekly devblog! This week we established player progression thoughout the game. The player will experience stronger enemies and will gain experience with each encounter. We... Continue reading
• Week 11 - Francisco
  May 21, 2021 by Scohui

  This week we established the game progression and player progression for our game in our report. This establishes how we want our game to develop over the course of the play session, and how our playe... Continue reading
• Week 11 - João
  May 21, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello everyone! During this week, we've addressed progession on our game. There will be 3 different zones with different enemies. As the player progresses, enemies get stronger and more challenging. B... Continue reading
• Week 10 - Francisco
  May 14, 2021 by Scohui

  This week we discussed how we would want game progression and player progression be reflected in our game. We decided we would have the player go from A to B, with different zones along the way offeri... Continue reading
• Week 10 - Manuel
  May 14, 2021 by Manuel Domingues#dev log, #dev, #log, #update, #week, #weekly

  Welcome to another weekly news of Little Garden! This week we discussed about progression and better backend/frontend relation and development. We have also been talking and receiving lots of pictures... Continue reading
• Week 10 - João
  May 14, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello everyone, During this week, we've discussed how we are going to approach progression in our game. We want to have different zones, with each one having different kind of enemies. We're also prog... Continue reading
• Week 9 - Francisco
  May 07, 2021 by Scohui

  This week we finished our presentation prototype and received feedback from users. We've got a lot different suggestions from different users and we're planning on going over all of them for the next... Continue reading
• Week 9 - Manuel
  May 07, 2021 by Manuel Domingues#devblog, #dev, #blog, #prototype, #functional

  Welcome everyone to another weekly devblog! In this week we finished our first functional prototype, a simple unity made game where you can walk around, talk to NPCs, open the inventory menu and try o... Continue reading
• Week 9 - João
  May 07, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello everyone! During this week, we've finished our control and presentation prototype! We've collected very precious feedback from the players that tested our prototype and we've already improved ou... Continue reading
• Week 8 - Francisco
  April 30, 2021 by Scohui

  This week we worked on creating a playable prototype of our game using Unity. We have some things done now for the exploration and combat but we hope to dive even deeper in the developing this coming... Continue reading
• Week 8 - Manuel
  April 30, 2021 by Manuel Domingues

  Hello everyone, welcome to another weekly devblog! This week we started the development of our playable prototype. In this prototype we will implement the core features of the game, mainly the walking... Continue reading
• Week 8 - João
  April 30, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello everyone! During this week we've started developing the first playable prototypes for our game! We're focusing mainly on the controls schemes and user interfaces, while already implementing some... Continue reading
• Week 7 - Francisco
  April 24, 2021 by Scohui

  This week we ran our workshop with our focus group in which we let them vote on a few concepts and ideas for our game that they preferred to do the most. We also asked them to create an UI layout that... Continue reading
• Week 7 - Manuel
  April 23, 2021 by Manuel Domingues

  Hello everyone welcome to another weekly devblog! This week we did a workshop with users about some game concepts and ideas, we did zen voting and let users add their own ideas if they fit. This helpe... Continue reading
• Week 7 - João
  April 23, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello everyone! During this week, we've made our virtual workshop! Our participants were a great help to us and gave us a lot of ideas for our game! The concept of the game is now more clear to our te... Continue reading
• Week 6 - Francisco
  April 16, 2021 by Scohui

  This week we have prepared a workshop to run with our focus group, so that we can a much stronger input from them to our game. They'll be doing individual voting on different game elements and creatin... Continue reading
• Week 6 - Manuel
  April 16, 2021 by Manuel Domingues

  Hello everyone, welcome to another week of updates on Little Garden! In this week we have prepared a little workshop with users to get some ideas known and to get some new insights from the users. Thi... Continue reading
• Week 6 - João
  April 16, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello everyone! In this week, we've finished setting up everything for our virtual workshop. It will be a voting based workshop, where the participants vote for their preferred approach of each aspect... Continue reading
• Week 5 - Francisco
  April 09, 2021 by Scohui

  This week we finished and presented our low fidelity prototypes to our focus groups. It was really fun to come up with these mock ups and we are excited to see it come to life in the near future. And... Continue reading
• Week 5 - Manuel
  April 09, 2021 by Manuel Domingues

  Hello everyone, welcome to anothe dev-log! In this week we have made some protoypes of the game and asked some people to try them out, with their reviews we made a small report and hope to improve and... Continue reading
• Week 5 - João
  April 09, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello everyone! In this week we've finished working on our low fidelity prototypes. We've also asked the member of our focus group to try them and give some feedback. Besides that feedback, they have... Continue reading
• Week 4 - Francisco
  April 02, 2021 by Scohui

  Welcome to our 4th weekly devblog! This week as we enjoyed our Easter break we were tasked to begin working on our low-fidelity prototype for our game. I was more specifically tasked to prototype the... Continue reading
• Week 4 - Manuel
  April 02, 2021 by Manuel Domingues#dev blog, #dev blog 4, #Low-fidelity, #prototypes, #Low, #fidelity

  Welcome everyone to another weekly dev blog of Little Garden. In this week we have started making low-fidelity prototypes, i in specific started making prototypes for exploration and UIs of various th... Continue reading
• Week 4 - João
  April 02, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello everyone! In this week we have started building low-fidelity prototypes for Little Garden! I've been assigned to develop prototypes for the exploration part of the game. I've come up with a pape... Continue reading
• Week 3 - Manuel
  March 27, 2021 by Manuel Domingues#week 3, #dev blog, #design doc, #design document

  Hello everyone, welcome to another week of Little Garden's development blog! In this week, we finished and delivered the first stage of the Design Document. We talked with people to be apart of our fo... Continue reading
• Week 3 - Francisco
  March 27, 2021 by Scohui

  This week we finished up a design document to define our a game a bit better. We also figured out a bit better who we're making the game for, and we already have the help of some people we know to che... Continue reading
• Week 3 - João
  March 27, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello everyone! Sorry for the 1 day delay on this week update. In this week, we've covered some possible scenarios for a player of our game and the core gameplay loops, which include storyline, explor... Continue reading
• Week 2 - Manuel
  March 19, 2021 by Manuel Domingues#Week 2, #Dev blog

  Hello everyone, welcome to Little Garden´s week 2 Dev blog! In this week´s development i´ve studied a bit about similar games or ideas to our own, mainly Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for... Continue reading
• Week 2 - Francisco
  March 19, 2021 by Scohui

  This week we discussed between us which engine we would be using to create our game. We are split between RPG Maker, due to our game following the formula RPG Maker is known to have, and Unity, for it... Continue reading
• Week 2 - João
  March 19, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello everyone! In this week, we did some research about 2 of our inspirations for our game: Darkest Dungeon and Pokemon Ruby/Emerald/Sapphire. We looked at their strengths and weaknesses and how we c... Continue reading
• Introduction - Manuel
  March 12, 2021 by Manuel Domingues#introduction

  Hello, my name is Manuel, together with João and Francisco i'm making a game called Little Garden (name subject to change). I have played video games since a young age, having a sega and a gameboy co... Continue reading
• Introduction - João
  March 12, 2021 by stelyt

  Hello! I'm João. I have played games since I was a little kid. In this semester, I have the opportunity to develop a game, along with my 2 colleagues, Manuel and Francisco. Our game is called "Little... Continue reading
• Introduction - Francisco
  March 12, 2021 by Scohui#week 0

  Hello! I'm Francisco, one of the developers of our project Little Garden (placeholder name). I have played games ever since I was very very young. I've always liked a huge variety of games but have sp... Continue reading