Welcome to Echo Grove . . .

. . . a puzzle game about a little blind cat called Bo. Due to a big storm in the forest where he lives, he can't take his usual route home to his boyfriend, Love. Help Bo navigate his way through the forest and get home safely. And don't forget the blueberries!

The idea behind this game is to try to convey to the player how difficult life as a legally blind person can be when accessibility is not kept updated, functional or prioritized. 

Fun facts about Echo Grove!

• Cozy puzzle game
• Third person isometric view
• Single player
• About 1 hour of gameplay

Echo Grove was made based on a real type of blindness called Cortical/Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI) which in Bo's case causes him to have tunnel vision. Bo is not fully blind, but still needs his cane to help guide him via sound and feel. We chose to convey this by using light, which strays away a bit from reality, but the game is meant to convey an experience to those that are not legally blind.

We especially wanted to make the game's message conveyable to younger children who may have never thought about these things before but have their whole future ahead to make change! 

How to play

Trust your ears to follow the musical flowers' subtle hum, leading you safely through the darkness. 

Drag and push the boxes and minecarts around the marked (brown) areas to solve the puzzles.
Some boxes and minecarts need to be pushed into holes so that Bo can walk over them. 
Minecarts can only be pushed or pulled in one direction and will move as far as they can go when you push them. 

Some boxes will have stones on them that fall down after you move the box. After this that area will be blocked by the stones.
And don't forget to pick up the blueberries!

Keyboard & Mouse Use WASD on the keyboard to move Press and hold the Right Mouse Button to grab objects Press the Left Mouse Button to interact

Controller Use the left joystick to move Press ◻ / A button to grab objects and interact

Team

We are Blueberry Soup Games, a team of students from Södertörn University in Sweden. This is our 2nd year game project, and we are happy to share it with you! ♡

Game artists
Matilda Nimreus Silfverswärd - Carrd
Max Alvthin - Linkedin | ArtStation
Ida Lennegren - Linkedin | ArtStation
Karen Farag - Linkedin
Lisa Huttunen 
Johan Friberg

Game designers / Programmers 
Oscar Färnström - Linkedin
Ludvig Svärd - Linkedin 
Jesper Andersson - Linkedin

Music 
Johan Friberg

Additional credits
Lupin Johansson

And a special thank you to our wonderful teacher Sergej ♡

System Requirements 

MINIMUM tested (may work on other systems):
• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system 
• OS: 64-bit Windows® 10 
•  Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-7300HQ 
• Memory: 8 GB RAM 
• Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 
•  Storage: 500 MB available space