Press Kit — Botany Manor

Fact Sheet

Developer: Balloon Studios (Devon, UK)

Publisher: Whitethorn Games (Erie, Pennsylvania)

Website: www.botanymanor.com

Platforms: Steam, Xbox Series, Xbox One, Xbox Gamepass, Nintendo Switch

Target release date: 9th of April 2024

Steam Wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1425350

Visual Assets: Drive

Tagline

Unearth the mysteries of Arabella’s forgotten flora.

Short Description

Welcome to Botany Manor, a stately home in 19th century England. You play as its inhabitant Arabella Greene, a retired botanist. Explore your house and gardens, filled with botanical research, to figure out the ideal habitat for a collection of forgotten flora. Grow each plant to discover the mysterious qualities they hold…

Features

Botany Manor is a first-person puzzle game set in a Victorian English manor.
It's 1890, and you play as botanist Arabella Greene, who is working to finish her botanical research book 'Forgotten Flora'.

Explore a complete historical English manor and its grounds, researching how to grow rare plant specimens from seed. There are many rooms and gardens to discover, all set inside a beautiful countryside surrounding.
The manor is filled with mysterious clues for you to discover, including books, posters, letters and fascinating Victorian contraptions.
The plants you grow are fantastical, but still inspired by real phenomena in nature, so some of them require you to think outside the box. Using what's available to you in the manor, you must create the ideal conditions for each plant.
Room by room, you learn more about the life and career of Arabella, and the challenges she faced as a woman navigating her scientific career.
Botany Manor is a relaxing and peaceful environment, feel free to stop and smell the roses.

Developer Bio

Botany Manor is the debut game from Balloon Studios. The studio is founded by Laure De Mey, who previously worked at the award-winning ustwo games on Assemble with Care and Alba: A Wildlife Adventure. Laure was also named as BAFTA Breakthrough UK in 2020, and was part of Apple’s Macbook Pro campaign in 2019. With Balloon Studios, she has set off on her own journey to cater to underrepresented audiences like herself, and deliver welcoming game experiences for people who want to escape to peaceful, historical worlds.

Developer Team

Balloon Studios is currently working with contractors to realise Botany Manor. The team is small but passionate, and though not everyone has been working at full-time capacity, each and everyone has contributed an important piece to the game. Below is the full list of credits.

Creative Director / Tech

Laure De Mey

3D Art

Tim Steer

2D Art

Kitt Byrne

3D Animation

Jim Bending

Audio

Thomas Williams

Additional Art & Design

Isabella Rodolfo