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Endless Seasons and Romance Update - Out Now!

[h3]Hello hello, cozy coven! 🔮[/h3]

Our very first content update, Endless Seasons and Romance, is out now! ✨👏 Read on to learn a little bit more about what you’ll be able to do with the new content! 🌈

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🌸 Pop back into Fairhaven as the town gets ready for their Spring Fling! Help prepare for the festival and enjoy everything it has to offer!




🍂 Advance your training with the coven and take over as Keeper of the Wheel, with the power and responsibility to change the seasons at will!



🌹 Married someone from Fairhaven or Ravenwood? Expect more spouse dialogue and romantic dates!



There are also plenty of other little surprises for you to discover that we won’t spoil, but if you want a little more detailed information about everything new in the update, you can see the patch notes below! ✨

[h3]🌸 Full Patch Notes 🌸[/h3]

1.3: Endless Seasons and Romance
Released: December 23, 2022

Welcome to our Endless Seasons & Romance Update!

  • Pop back into Fairhaven as the town gets ready for their Spring Fling!
  • Advance your training with the coven and take over as Keeper of the Wheel, with the power and responsibility to change the seasons at will!
  • Married someone from Fairhaven or Ravenwood? Expect more spouse dialogue and romantic dates!


Need the details?
  • All characters have a lot more dialogue in year 2 and following the post-credits sequences.
  • Tara's spouse may surprise her with a gift from time to time, or offer to help out around the farm.
  • There's an additional “affection” interaction on spouses, for a once-per-day relationship boost (but you can be as affectionate as many times a day as you like!)
  • Several date opportunites become available for spouses once their relationship meter is refilled. More date locations unlock as you complete each date. Not all date locations will be available at all times, or for all characters.
  • If Tara has previously broken up with someone, or rejected their initial romantic overture, she now has the option to rekindle their chance at romance with them, by gifting them a bouquet of flowers.
  • Once the “Un-Love Potion #9” quest has been completed, Tara can drink an Ardour-Cooling potion to immediately have the option to break up with a partner.
  • Once the “No Stone Unturned” quest has been completed, some of the ancient goblin machinery in the mines can be repaired, allowing gems to be located in certain levels once per day (at a small cost!).
  • Once the “Seasons Greetings” quest has been completed, an additional interaction becomes available on the Wellspring, which allows Tara to perform further season change rituals once all the requirements for the season have been completed.
  • Need some help with this update? Check our Update FAQ.


If you need any support or need to report a bug, you can submit a support request via the main menu of the game, or by going to this website. For feedback, support, tips and tricks, and community, be sure to check out our Discord server! 🌈

[h3]Happy Holidays, and happy playing!
✨The Studio Drydock Team[/h3]


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Wylde Flowers Nominated for Three Gayming Magazine Awards

[h3]Hello, hello, cozy coven! 🔮
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We got some very exciting news last week: Wylde Flowers has been nominated for three awards from Gayming Magazine! 🌈🎉

We have been nominated for:
  • Best LGBTQ Character Award (Tara Wylde)
  • Best LGBTQ Indie Game Award
  • Gayming Magazine Reader’s Award

You can see all of the amazing Gayming Magazine Award nominees here! 🌸



Gayming Magazine is a publication that highlights queer pop culture, and they’ve written several amazing articles about Wylde Flowers in the past, including:





Naturally, we’re absolutely thrilled and honoured to have been nominated for these awards! 💐 Good, authentic LGBTQ+ representation was of the utmost importance to us when making Wylde Flowers, and we think we’ve created something to be proud of! ✨



And lastly, a request from you, our lovely community! 💖 Since the Gayming Magazine Reader’s Award is a public vote, it would mean the world to us if you could vote for Wylde Flowers! You can vote by clicking here🌸

Wishing you and yours a comfy, cozy day,
[h3]✨ Audrey and the Studio Drydock Team[/h3]



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Endless Seasons and Romance Coming December 23rd

[h3]Hello, cozy coven! 🔮 [/h3]

We have a ✨BIG✨ surprise for you all!

Our first content update is launching Friday, Dec. 23! (Yes, NEXT WEEK!) 🎉



In this FREE update, you will be able to:

🍂 Change the seasons after the main storyline ends
💖 Deepen your connection with your sweetheart
✨Experience an extended storyline



We are SO excited to share this new content with you all! For now, here is a little teaser for you. Enjoy!

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[h3]✨ Audrey and the Studio Drydock Team[/h3]

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First Wylde Flowers Update Coming Soon 🌸

Hello, cozy coven! 🌸

How are you? What’s new?

The BIG question we often get these days is “will there be more Wylde Flowers content?”

The short answer is YES! Our little team is working on content updates as we speak!! ✨

What will the updates cost? Nothing! Our content updates will be completely free and available across all platforms (Steam, Nintendo Switch, and Apple Arcade). 🎉 FYI we have been using community feedback to inform these updates! 👀



For now, we do have one exciting bit of info to share! Our first update is called Endless Seasons and Romance. 🌸 In this update you will be able to change the seasons after completing the main storyline to continue playing and experience some of the game’s content you may have missed the first go ‘round! 🎉

We are also adding content to deepen your romantic experience in the game! 🌹 You will be able to take your sweetheart on dates around Fairhaven and there are new repeatable affection animations to experience.

Endless Seasons and Romance will be coming to all platforms in early 2023! 💖



We're very excited to share more about this and other updates when we can! I can assure you our team is bursting to show you more of what we’ve been working on! 🌈



In other news, we are very excited to share that Wylde Flowers has won the award for Apple Arcade Game of the Year!

We are so thrilled and proud, and so grateful to you for being such an amazing and supportive community! 🌸

[h3]✨ Audrey and the Studio Drydock Team
[/h3]

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Breaking Conventions: Tara as the Set Protagonist

[h3]Hello, cozy coven! [/h3]

We have another blog post for you today, covering a topic we get asked about ✨a lot✨.

The question: Why can't I create and customize my own character to be in Wylde Flowers?

The tl;dr is:
🌸 Wylde Flowers is Tara’s story, from Tara’s perspective
🌸 Tara being set allowed us to create a cast of fully realized characters
🌸 Tara has her own specific voice actor

The longer version is this blog post. 💖

Wylde Flowers is a farm and life sim in many ways, but at its core was designed as a narrative game that tells a strong, emotional story that deals with real-world themes. To successfully blend farming simulation gameplay with a story focus our team intentionally breaking some conventions you might be used to seeing in-game a.k.a making your own character.

Wylde Flowers opted to create a set protagonist, Tara Wylde, who you as the player will control for the duration of the game. Having a set protagonist helped in a huge way to make our world and its characters feel real and interesting.

I had the opportunity to talk to Wylde Flowers’ Narrative Director Desiree Cifre about why this choice was made, and how it allows for deeper storytelling. Enjoy! 🌸



Audrey: Can you give me a brief glimpse into what it was like to design the narrative for Wylde Flowers? What makes it unique in the life sim genre?
Desiree: Wylde Flowers checks a lot of the boxes of the cozy life sim genre, like a cute art style and gameplay centered on restoring a farm. What sets it apart is the depth of the story and characters. Alex and Amanda told me that while they wanted the game to be approachable for casual players, they also wanted the world to be populated with characters that felt like real people, and for the story to focus on real-world themes. I spent a lot of time when I first started working on the game writing in-depth bios for all of the characters, and connecting their backstories to the major themes of the game. We ended up with 70 pages of just the bios before any dialogue was written, and that's not including the fae characters who were added later! Our cast is very diverse, and with the coven, I wanted to include different witchcraft traditions from around the world, so it was a lot of research.



Audrey: Players in this genre are used to being able to customize their character - can you tell me about why we chose to have a set protagonist for Wylde Flowers?
Desiree: In order to make the non-player characters feel like real people, the first thing we had to do was break with genre convention by making the player character an authored protagonist. The downside of a player-generated protagonist is that NPCs have to be written as broadly as possible to account for the wide range of choices the player might make. The NPCs can have quirky personalities and catchphrases but they can't have specific responses to the player character's traits. You are limited in what the NPCs can say because they have to be written in a way that says very little about the player character. Making Tara an authored character opened up a lot more possibilities for how they could relate to her, and the history they might share with her and with her grandmother, Hazel.

Audrey: How does having Tara as the set protagonist affect the romance in the game?
Desiree: Making Tara an authored character also made the romance in the game feel more realistic, because it allowed the NPCs to have set sexual orientations. Tara can only date characters who are into women her age, and she although that might be limiting it also gives the player the sense that the NPCs are real people with agency and preferences. It was definitely controversial for some players - sorry Violet and Thomas shippers! - but we think in the end it makes the romances feel more satisfying. The NPCs are choosing Tara as much as she is choosing them.



Big thanks to Desiree for all of her insight and for letting us get a glimpse of the process of writing Wylde Flowers! 🌈

Please feel free to let us know in the comments if you have any further topics you’d like us to cover about Wylde Flowers! 🌸


[h3] ✨ Audrey and the Studio Drydock Team[/h3]

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