Fascination Sobre Mudborne Game
It’s pelo coincidence that two of the frog’s traits map to the temperature + moisture of your cultivators…
Ell is currently getting distracted by making Mudborne (a spiritual sequel of sorts to APICO) that had a new demo released in 2024 and is scheduled to release in early 2025, after which Snacktorio's full release will be worked on.
Mushrooms require precise heat and moisture conditions before they'll grow, so while certain mushrooms grow in extremely common conditions, you'll need to keep your eyes peeled as conditions change throughout the day.
Act quickly, for failure to manage your situation will cause a rapidly-spreading merciless threat to the entire facility itself - a Rift Breach
Those are the main areas, but there’s also some other bits and bobs that’ll be included or expanded upon in the full game, such as:
It originally started as a gamejam entry for FletchFest 2023, with the theme of ‘pond’. Ell had always joked about ‘what if APICO but frog?’ before, and this seemed a perfect opportunity to play with the concept and how to take things in a new direction.
For a hint at which mushrooms you'll need to alter genetics required to open Reflection Ponds, check out the little signs just beside the pool itself - these offer a hint at which mushrooms to use in your magic mud to create the frog that opens that Pond.
You awaken from your hibernation to find your pond abandoned and empty. Through a combination of crafting minigames, menu management and puzzle solving, experiment with genetics to breed new frogs and recover what was lost.
Like most things in Mudborne, you'll also need to pay attention to which realm a mushroom in the table below grows Mudborne Game in, since the waking and dreaming worlds have their own mushroom variants, each of which have unique effects, so be sure to explore both realms in all conditions - you never know what you might find growing.
The game is still in development, with a release aimed for 2025. You can follow along with progress and devlogs in the Discord, be sure to give it a wishlist to be notified of release! You can play the demo below.
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Mudborne is being created by ellraiser, one half of the indie-dev studio, TNgineers. A spiritual successor of sorts to APICO, Mudborne instead focuses on genetic manipulation and generational puzzles to create and discover all sorts of frog species, with experimentation being encouraged.
In the grass on sunny days, with a Heater and a high Umbrage frog, as well as a Hydrator and a high Saturation frog.
When you spot them, mushrooms need to grow from spores before you can collect them, which takes a bit of in-game time. This can be frustrating as the weather conditions change, so look for new mushrooms right when the weather changes, since you may have a relatively small window to find them.
There’s other bits that I don’t want to spoil, but I think that should give you a good idea of what to expect!