My game, Moon Garden Optimizer has finally released on Steam!

If you follow my blog, you may be aware that I have already made the game available for free on Itch, and as a Steam demo. The full version has a small price tag, but includes twice as many plants, and additional polish.

Moon Garden Optimizer is a strategy game where you manage a tiny garden to produce oxygen for moon habitats. It has no RNG and supports unlimited undo, much like a puzzle game. It’s mostly low pressure, but quite difficult to optimize. It doesn’t fit into any existing genre.

If you appreciate my blogging, you may also appreciate the dialogue I wrote between the robot protagonist (Anise) and its manager (Robot Control). The dialogue is hardly the main point of the game, and is fully skippable, but there’s some funny and thoughtful stuff. Here’s a short excerpt:

Anise: I was thinking, I really like gardening, but am I taking people’s jobs by doing it for free?

Robot Control: Humans can’t really do what you’re doing. They need oxygen to breathe.

Anise: Sure, but humans could be hired to build competing alternatives, like habitats on Earth.

Robot Control: That’s not…
Are you agitating for robot rights? That’s a dangerous line of thought.

Anise: Oh no, are we being monitored?

Robot Control: Yes, but they just have a robot review the logs, and then another robot reviews their logs. And I don’t think anyone reads their logs after that.
They’re too cheap to do more, which also why they’ll never pay you.

I also wrote Robot Control as aromantic and nonbinary, because why not.  Adding to the very short list of such characters in games.