Contemplation Games

Garden and a Goat just hit Alpha! Plant plants, attract animals, and restore ecosystems! store.steampowered.com/app/3156550/Ga… We'd love to hear your feedback here or in our Discord (where we'll have signups for future playtests): gardenandagoat.com/discord

We've pulled in another developer! Emmy Krum (linkedin.com/in/emilia-krum/) who is also finishing up a degree and graduate work at Worcester Polytechnic and is joining us for some work in Unreal. One of the first things Emmy worked on is this advanced foliage effect!

New team member! William Smith (smithwm210.github.io/portfolio/). Will is finishing up a degree at Worcester Polytechnic and is going to help us with community/marketing. In his spare time he's been reviewing custom Mario Maker levels on YouTube for 7 years! youtube.com/watch?v=R0tNYa…

Check out this new cover art Julia made for the game. We'll be adding this to our Steam page soon. We are so happy with how this came out! (Julia is the best!)

We are really happy to announce our game in development! It's called Garden And A Goat and is a nature, nurture, and animal collection bunch of fun. Jump in our Discord to watch the work in progress and let us know your thoughts! gardenandagoat.com/discord

A last introduction! Anam Sajid (linkedin.com/in/anamsajid06/) is an excellent Unreal dev we were connected to through IGDA contacts. Do you want to pet all the animals? Anam is making sure we can pet all the animals!

Another introduction! Our audio and music director is Keith Zizza. Keith joins us with decades of games industry experience with major studios. He's been doing some of our sound effect design in Unreal with tools for design time adjustment like this:

3rd introduction… our Engineering Lead is Will Teixeira (linkedin.com/in/willteixeir…) Will set up the foundation of our game in Unreal and has been working on crazy stuff like making the grass grow, which this is just the start of!

Another introduction: Our Visual Design lead is Julia Krawiec (instagram.com/ringarune/). She's been doing amazing work laying out the game style and concept art for everything. Here's the tree concept she made and the model she and Tyler are building!

A first introduction: Our 3D model and animation lead is Tyler Jones. Tyler mainly works on Hollywood productions and even has an IMDB page (imdb.com/name/nm6201901) One fun model being sculpted this week is a key stylized tree asset that's very cool!

Let's kick this off. Over the next week or so we'd like to introduce some of the great team we have working on the project at the moment. We are up to 6 of us now and it's a really fun set of talents and experience!