Let's get comfortable talking mental health
✨ Empowering players & parents ✨
The UK Is experiencing a worsening children’s mental health crisis, with recent figures showing 1 child in 6 presenting with a mood disorder or mental illness (NHS 2020 Survey).
This issue has only worsened during the lockdown, with both parents and children feeling overwhelmed and isolated. Now more than ever we need children’s media that tackle mental health themes for a young audience.
A Hero's Guide To Gardening is an interactive comic book for kids designed to develop players emotional literacy. We are designing the game in consultation with mental health professionals and teachers to ensure we are discussing the subject with care and sensitivity.
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Meet the Characters
Learn more about Noomi, Oriel, Grace, and Cosmo: Their feelings, their gardens, and what they learn together during their summer at Camp Pitch Pine.
The Story
⚔️ Our Hero in Training ⚔️
The player follows the story of Noomi as she sets off on her first summer at Camp Pitch Pine, where she hopes to become a hero adventurer.
Things don’t go according to plan and instead, she finds herself put in charge of three struggling botanists. Noomi must get to know them and help solve the problems that plague each of their gardens.
Through playable stories and dialogue with the characters and creatures Noomi meets at camp, players discover different expressions of emotion and learn strategies for coping with fear, anger, and sadness.
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Gaming & mental health
✨ An Interactive Story ✨
Games are an incredible medium for getting kids talking about their mental health. Instead of passively watching or reading a story, they are active participants, using their own reasoning and decision making to shape the game’s narrative.
Our aim is to change the future of children’s mental health by making it normal to talk about it, to empowering adults and caregivers to have these conversations and giving children an emotional toolkit that will help them face the stresses and anxieties of being a kid in the 2020s.
Videos
A HERO'S GUIDE TO GARDENING - TRAILER 2021
Take a peek at the latest artwork and gameplay for A Hero's Guide, launching May 2021.
ARTWORK & GAMEPLAY - MAY 2020
Art and game design development from May 2020
ARTWORK & GAMEPLAY - APRIL 2020
Art and game design development from April 2020
EXPERIMENTS IN PLAY - SEPTEMBER 2019
First rough draft prototype of A Hero's Guide to Gardening. Recorded at Experiments in Play at Goldsmiths College London.
GET CLOSER - JANUARY 2019
A Hero's Guide To Gardening started as a quick little prototype called Get Closer, made during Global Game Jam 2019.
Supported by Sky
Sky Women in Tech Scholarship
The development of A Hero's Guide To Gardening has been supported by the 2019 Sky Women in Technology Scholarship.
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