In its longer levels, and creative mode, more complex stories emerge as you assemble an environment piece by piece. No person would let this happen, and so you are left wondering how we get here. Every apartment is wholly embraced by the plants you place.
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It is all broken bridges, cracked brick, and rusted-out cars. The game is not explicitly post-apocalyptic, it isn’t explicitly anything really, but it does play with the aesthetics of the post-apocalypse. Lonely stories like this are common in Cloud Gardens. I would politely ask that you keep your messages strictly to the condition of your own apartment as that should be your primary concern. Hello Ellen, despite what you and “some of the tenants” believe you do not, in fact, own this building and you will certainly not be making any decisions about potential remodels, especially in spaces for which you do not pay rent. Someone sat in this chair and drank a bunch of beer, alone.
The game offers you beer bottles and you drop them beside the chair, causing the plants to grow and allowing you to complete the level. You plant the seed and vines wrap around that now-yellowing plastic. You’re given a small square with a white plastic lawn chair. Which is to say that it is a game about constructing environments. It’s what happens when memory fades into the walls of a place, and we try to find any meaning in that uncanny feeling of familiar-emptiness.Ĭloud Gardens asks you to place objects to make plants grow. willing to pay for materials and everything, just looking for sign off! thanks in advanceĮnvironmental storytelling, then, is the art of telling stories about people who cannot speak. i, and some of the other tenants i’ve talked to, have been interested in rebuilding that greenhouse on the roof to start a community garden. Hi again eric, thanks so much for your help with that water situation at the beginning of january. Where Umurangi Generations is great at telling stories through its environment, Cloud Gardens hands those tools to the player, and gently encourages them to tell their own stories. Does the graffiti make sense? Can I reconstruct the last time this room was used by the objects left scattered across the floor? Is the toilet broken? Why is the toilet always broken? It is the quiet stories like this that made me fall in love with games like Umurangi Generation, which uses its environment to craft a fully realised setting rife with all the messy breadth and depth of human experience.
Environmental storytelling has become a big buzzword in video games, often determining whether or not a game feels “real.”. With generative soundscapes by Amos Roddy, composer of the Kingdom Series.Cloud Gardens could be called a deconstruction. These objects contribute energy to the growing of plants, but you will also have to cover them in foliage to complete the stage, striking a balance between nature and the manufactured. You are given objects to expand the scene. As you overgrow the objects, a meter fills to show your progress. The player's task is to completely cover the scene in plants. This is a chill game where the player is allowed to delight in their own creativity. Players can dive into a relaxing sandbox mode with no goals, where they are simply left to delight in their own creativity and create beautiful scenes, or take on a “campaign” of six chapters, where the task is to strike a balance between nature and the manufactured by covering each scene with salvaged objects and lush vegetation. By planting seeds in the right places, they’re able to create small overgrown dioramas of brutalism and beauty, salvaging and repurposing hundreds of discarded objects to create unique structures for nature to reclaim. In Cloud Gardens players must harness the power of nature to overgrow lo-fi scenes of urban decay and manufactured landscapes.
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