![]() There is a couple instances where what I needed to do was unclear (e.g. Objectives are straightforward and effortlessly achieved, simply a matter of moving about until one of the targets present itself. ![]() Levels are quick, each lasting no more than maybe half-an-hour at most. Means less time spent searching and more spent moving forward. Directing the focus toward interaction rather than problem solving is a nice change. Never does it attempt evolution, content with what it is, as it should be. Whatever the upshot, its sure to delight and weird out. Perhaps it’s causing an insect to jump with each click, or maybe a causing a two-man band to play a myriad of instruments. It is a game that quite literally is about pointing and clicking specifically on everything around you to see what results bear forth. Botanicula embraces the point-and-click concept to its fullest. Puzzles, while present in the form of brief trade and fetch quests, merely act as an extension. ![]() Vibrant and listless locales illustrate the life and desolation through dull colors and bustling backgrounds, respectively.īotanicula is about interacting. The abstract and incomprehensible rule, creatures ranging from based in reality to the alien and out-of-place (e.g. Stiff animations abound, everyone and everything animates about with the grace you’d expect from moving about flat figures in a hopping sort of motion to fabricate movement. Botanicula invokes the aforementioned through its odd art and world.Ī paper cut-out aesthetic depicts the diminutive setting. ![]() Short in length and abstract in delivery, their works embody the general spirit of indie games: that sense of the strange and foreign, something obviously made by a small team, the feel of something that wouldn't be possible in a big-name project. An adventure game without all the unnecessary fluff, that entertains not through difficulty but charm, its hooks the plain elegance of the elements that form the basis of the genre.Īmanita Design traditionally crafts adventures of the low-key sort. Long, convoluted puzzles give way to easier, clearer conundrums. Knowing something is up, they quickly elect to take the seed to safety, and possibly take out the spiders along the way.īotanicula is a point-and-click adventure, but of a lighter variety. A nasty spider then descends upon it, eating the seeds, causing the arachnid to grow in size, before moving to the trees “veins.” One seed escapes, however, and lands in the hands of a motley crew of assorted creatures (a walking stick and mushroom are the only describable ones). The eight-legged monstrosities siphon the life out of all that surrounds them, feeding indiscriminately on whatever they can get their grubby little mitts on. I say this not as an arachnophobe, but because in the microscopic world of Botanicula, they're total jerks. The group has made games for the BBC, Nike, and the Polyphonic Spree.Spiders are evil. They have received numerous awards and recognition for their games, including the 2009 IGF Excellence in Visual Art Award, Gamasutra’s Best Indie Game of 2009, and PC Gamer's Best Soundtrack of 2009 for Machinarium, as well as the IGF Excellence in Audio Award, Game of the Year from, IndieCade: Best Story/World Design Award, and the Mac App Store Best of 2012 for Botanicula, amongst others. The group operates out of Brno, Czech Republic. This print measures 12’’ x 16’’.Īmanita Design was founded in 2003 by Jakub Dvorský. In this darker scene from the game, the organic characters and branchwork contrast with the brooding abstraction behind, offering an image that is a hybrid of landscape and narrative snapshot of microcosmic lives. Botanicula focuses on a microcosmic culture in crisis where flora and fauna seamlessly blend together in a style that is both disarmingly childlike and deeply complex. Amanita Design released Botanicula in 2012 and once again positioned themselves as the leader of new mechanics and style in the point-and-click puzzle adventure genre.
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