Magical Greenhouse v0.2.0 ✧ Release Note ✨🌿🎉

A Bit of Context ⭐️

Magical Greenhouse is a cozy simulation game where you manage your own Potion Shop. Buy some magical plants, create potions and sell them to grow your business ! I started the project as a solo dev (Lya Mgtt, I'm a designer) for a game jam (November 2024) and then at the beginning of this year, Yorack (a real developer) joined the project, and he worked on the refactoring of the game so we can create and work on a clean slate.

Release note v0.2.0 :

- Technical Improvements
- New feature, the Store, where you can sell your production
- Feature Updated, Craft (4 Potions + UX improvement for crafting)
- Feature Reworked, Quests (removed and pending rework)
- Bug corrections (watering and harvesting plants)
- Content added (21 plants that you can buy and grow, new decors, help modal, tooltips, sound effects and animations)

Release Note Detailed :

Technical Improvements :

I started the project on my own (I'm a designer), but I couldn't finish everything I expected for the end of the jam. Also, working on a 6 months jam was more complicated than expected, because of the quantity of technical debt I was creating and implementing as a designer trying to code. So I asked Yorack (the real developer) to help me, and he worked on the refactoring of the game so we can create and work on a clean slate. Turned out it was the best idea, because even if it took us 5 months of refacto, we now have a clean Godot project that we can scale and continue to work on. Appart from making our lives easier, the refacto side effect was to correct most of the bugs in the jam version.

New Feature, the Store :

In the jam version, the only way to sell your potions was to go online and to sell your potions. You could also fill quests, but only 2 quests were available at the time. Now, you can go to the Store by clicking on the Store icon in the HUD, and then you can select which items you want to sell. Appart from selling the potions, you now can also sell your ingredients, if ever you need more coins or if you don't need them.

Feature Updated, the Craft :

The Craft feature can be accessed through the Workshop button in the HUD. Once in the Workshop, you can open the Grimoire to start craft potions. You can consult the list of the potions and select the one you want to craft. The Workshop scene is now way faster to load, and some visual feedbacks has been implemented to the craft selection (you can't select more that you can craft, buttons are getting disabled when you reach the max quantity that you can craft). Currently, 4 potions are available, but we'll implement more in the next version of the game.

Feature Reworked, Quests :

In the jam version, the quests were available to earn money from the potions. But as we progressed on the project, we decided that having a physical shop was really important to sell the potions. Also, as we want the project to become a commercial one, and we think that the difference between the demo version and the commercial version will be the stories and quests we're working on. The quests rework is also a big piece of rework, so for now the quests are not available anymore in the game, but they'll come back soon !

Bug Corrections :

The following Bugs have been fixed :
- Watering and Harvesting Plants
- Go to next day / Sleep  (it wasn't clear enough, players did not understand the feature)
- Music is turned on by default

Content Added :

New contents are available in the 0.2.0 version :
- 21 plants new plants that you can buy and grow
- new decors : in the Store and in the Greenhouse
- new help content : help modal and button tooltips
- new sound effects and animations : water / harvest / buy / sell sounds and night animation

What's Next ?

What you can expect for the version 0.3 :
- New Plant Management Feature
- New Energy System
- New Contents (decors and potions)

We hope you'll be excited for what coming next, don't hesitate to share your feedbacks !
There will be much more to come in the incoming months :)
Thank you so much for reading, leave a star in the comments ⭐️ if you're one of the survivors who made it this far !!