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    CLOUD GARDENS

    Sep 10, 2020 3 minutes

    Developer/publisher Noio

    Format PC

    Origin Netherlands

    Release 2020

    No one could accuse Thomas van den Berg of being unambitious. Looking at the delicately hued, lo-fi dioramas scattered across these pages, you might find the following hard to believe: Cloud Gardens started life as a massively-multiplayer online game. “I do often have ideas on paper, but then I already don’t want to start on them because it’s too big, it’s already some crazy plan,” van den Berg grins sheepishly.

    While teaching himself Blender by modelling various plant life, he was also: players across the world would construct towers from junk, and help each other transform them into beautiful hanging gardens. “It was way too big for one person [to make],” he admits. “But the plants were cool, so I was like, ‘Can I not save some part of this year-long experiment, and have something to show for it?’”

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