Glorious colours and messy sketchbooks
Growbot is the first game by illustrator Lisa Evans. A point-and-click adventure about a robot saving her home from a dark crystalline force, Growbot takes the adorable fantasy worlds of Evans’ static art and translates them into a space station you can play with, full of plants and aliens.
“I love creating detailed images, the kind where you can discover little hidden characters and subplots,” says Evans. “Part of the incentive to make a game was to indulge in this by allowing players to click around the images and explore them a lot more deeply.”
Although there’s a shared aesthetic between her illustrations and her game, the move from book spreads to playable spaces meant Evans had to rethink how someone interacts with the scene.
This story is from the February 2018 edition of PC Gamer.
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