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Buds ๐ŸŒธ

@BudsTheGame

A visual novel and plant care sim that will re-spark your flame for everyday, human interaction! ๐ŸŒฑ Made by UCSC GDA ๐ŸŒฑ Logo: @silvremist ๐ŸŒฑ Icon: @chiisagi_art

budsgda.itch.io/buds
Joined February 2020
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Play Buds here: ๐ŸŒฑ budsgda.itch.io/buds ๐ŸŒฑ Coping with the recent loss of your sister, you decide to move to a new city for a fresh startใƒผand there, you find yourself budding unforeseen friendships. #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #VisualNovel #MadeInUnity #StudentGame
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๐ŸŒฑ Character Profile #1 Meet Shiori, the friendly employee at your local bookshop! ๐Ÿ“š Theyโ€™re very polite and happy to help you with finding a book, though you might be surprised to find that they do have a much more timid and hesitant side as well.
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โ€” Shiori's Development We were aiming for a friendly and approachable character, who also had trouble opening up themselves. To capture this, their final design includes warm colors and clothes that covered them up. During development, Shiori was known as "Retail Friend." ๐Ÿ’–
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๐ŸŒธ Shiori's VA: @Tincollar ๐ŸŒฑ Reference Sheet: @p0tat0d0g1 ๐ŸŒฑ Style Guide: @chiisagi_art ๐ŸŒฑ Game Sprite: @DoughboiRises ๐ŸŒฑ Flower Sprite: @p0tat0d0g1
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Hello everyone! ๐ŸŒฑ Itโ€™s been about several weeks since Buds went live, and we wanted to give everyone some time to play before we posted a bit more content. That includes โœจconcept artโœจ coming soon! We hope youโ€™re enjoying the game, and thank you for such a warm reception ๐Ÿ’–
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Buds Is it a platonic visual novel about loss, or is it a plant care simulator? Why not both? (free game #227, by @budsthegame) โฌ‡๏ธ budsgda.itch.io/buds
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Feeling like making new friends in faraway cities like in Buds? Now you can do the same in ACNH with these wonderful Buds shirts! ๐ŸŒบ Design by scarves-of-plenty on tumblr and discord โœจ
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Theyโ€™re based off of our actual T-shirt designs here!
Buds ๐ŸŒธ (@BudsTheGame) profile pictureBuds ๐ŸŒธ@BudsTheGame11 Jun 2020
Our team has been working very hard for the gameโ€™s final release, and now we'd like to present our Buds shirt graphic! โœจ Design by @chiisagi_art ๐ŸŒท in collaboration with @joannthelong ๐ŸŒป and @silvremist ๐ŸŒน
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We would like to make a small correction that the artistโ€™s discord tag is actually ScarletScarves#7709, and we apologize for the typo!
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I just finished playing @BudsTheGame ; - ; I'm so happy, and emotional cuz I can't believe we were able to add so much over the summer!! Please please go check it out, I'm so so glad to have been part of such a great team and can't believe WE MADE A GAME!! #indiegame #indiedev
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๐ŸŒธ Buds is LIVE !! ๐ŸŒธ We hope you enjoy the game!! Thereโ€™s more extra content that weโ€™ll be posting afterwards as well, so be sure to stick around!
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Thanks to the hard work of our team, we will be officially releasing the final playable build of Buds today as a great way to start the week!! We hope you're ready! โ˜€๏ธ
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Thatโ€™ll be it for our character profiles! If you missed any, feel free to check our page since each character has two parts to their description so far. We actually have quite a bit more in store thoughโ€”weโ€™re not stopping there! Tune in for more very soon โœจ
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๐ŸŒฑ Character Profile #2 Meet Senko, the gamer daughter of the family running your favorite ramen shop! ๐ŸŽฎ It might be hard to get her attention considering how focused she is with battling other players, but the banter you get is amusing nonetheless.
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ใƒผ 1v9. ๐Ÿ’ฅ Read up on Senko with some more fun facts right here!
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Happy Monday! โ˜€๏ธ To get everyone warmed up for Buds, we will be introducing the main characters every week as well as their development over the course of the past year! They are few, but wholesomely made. ๐Ÿ’– To start, here they are as lovely artwork by @silvremist !
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Hello, everyone! We apologize for the silence, as we were working deep into summer production. We have a lot of new content to share very soon! We also decided that we will be skipping straight to a full game release as well. Best of luck to everyone in the new school year! ๐ŸŒฑ
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Summer production continues as we work our way towards a demo release, but weโ€™re not stopping there! Follow us for more updates while our team works hard behind the scenes to reach for a full game release as well ๐Ÿ’
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Hello #PitchYaGame ! ๐ŸŒผ Buds is a visual novel and plant care simulator to help those struggling with loss to cope by forming meaningful connections with others. Everything is inspired by the 80s anime / music style too! We hope youโ€™ll look forward to our demo release soon! โœจ
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