Official Game Title: Terrorarium
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Publisher: Maxlinker
Developer: Maxlinker

Genre: Action Platformer, User-Generated Content
‍Rating: ESRB Everyone 10+

Number of Players: 1
‍Play Modes: Single-Player Mode and Maker Mode

Platforms: Windows PC
‍Release Window: July 28 2020
‍Regions: Worldwide

Website: gamesbystitch.com/games/terrorarium

ELEVATOR PITCH
Terrorarium is a game about wanton destruction, adorable gore and... gardening! Take on the role of an alien gardener whose all-consuming ambition is to win the coveted blue ribbon at the Intergalactic Horrorcultural Society Competition. There is no planet too remote, no plant too deadly, and no hazard too great to stand in her way of obtaining the rarest and most volatile specimens in the galaxy. The Gardener controls a small swarm of Moogu: a cute, invasive species who obey her every command. As obedient as they are stupid, the Gardener has no qualms about sending hordes of them to violent deaths in her quest to conquer each Terrorarium. Utilizing her deadly wit and unscrupulous competitiveness, players guide the gardener to total horticultural victory.

In Maker Mode, choose how the chaos unfolds. Design and publish your own levels with vicious creatures, treacherous hazards, plant monsters, lovely foliage, and destructible terrain. With these moveable, scalable, customizable assets, you can create a beautiful garden, a deadly maze, or a murderous gauntlet.

When your creation is complete, share the levels you build with your friends, frenemies, and the world so they too may see the horrors you have wrought.
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HISTORY
‍Terrorarium is a collaborative effort between Stitch Media and the Games Institute at the University of Waterloo. The project began as a brainstorming session between Stitch studio founder Evan Jones, studio director Wayne Shipley and game designer Adam Bradley, who wanted to make a game that reveled in the hilarity and joy of destruction. That first prototype was entitled Tiny Apocalypse. Inspired by the George R. R. Martin's short story "Sand Kings, "the team wanted to make a game where losing catastrophically was both fun and sometimes desirable. After a 3-day game-jam and a short proof-of-concept development phase, the game evolved from cruelly building and gleefully destroying tiny civilizations, into one where the same destructive impulses could be explored through the world of intergalactic gardening.  

With a new direction and title, Stitch Media began developing Terrorarium in earnest in early 2018. The team decided to approach community building as an integrated part of the development cycle from the very outset. They incorporated a strategy of radical transparency into their work, documenting their daily progress and process on social media, discussing the project on a development blog and streaming their creative process live on Twitch. They have also opened their dev process up to feedback and playtesting as early as possible, inviting playtesters into the pre-alpha process to incorporate player feedback right from the beginning.
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FEATURES:
• Visit alien worlds as The Gardener and hurl Moogu at vicious plant monsters
• Build the most terrifying and sophisticated murder garden in the galaxy
• 60+ customizable assets in our Maker Mode
• Conquer increasingly difficult puzzles in Campaign Mode
• Easily shareable levels, challenge your frenemies!
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OUR PARTNERS
‍Canada Media Fund
The Canada Media Fund (CMF) supports the creation and promotion of popular and innovative Canadian content, as well as of innovative software for current and emerging digital platforms. CMF guides Canadian content towards a competitive global digital environment by fostering industry innovation, rewarding success, enabling a diversity of voices and promoting access to content through partnerships with industry and the private sector.

Ontario Creates
Ontario Media Development Corporation (OMDC), an agency of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport is the central catalyst for the province’s cultural media cluster including book publishing, film and television, interactive digital media, magazine publishing and music industries. Interactive digital media production contributes over $1.1 billion in revenue annually to Ontario and supports 17,000 jobs. The Interactive Digital Media Fund was launched in 2005, and since then has supported over 400 projects with total funding of over $35 million.

The Games Institute - University of Waterloo
The Games Institute conducts research into the past, present, and future of games. Our researchers span the breadth of related disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences through engineering and computer science. With a research network joining multiple universities and multiple industry partners, we explore the human side of games and game-related technologies and interactions, with the constant goal of understanding the compelling user engagement that games deliver in fields ranging from entertainment, education, health, and business.

Mitacs
Mitacs is a national, not-for-profit organization that has designed and delivered research and training programs in Canada for 18 years. Mitacs is funded by the federal and provincial governments as well as university and industry partners. Mitacs internships connect companies and organizations with graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, who apply their specialized expertise to research challenges. Working with 60 universities, thousands of companies, and both federal and provincial governments, Mitacs builds partnerships that support industrial and social innovation in Canada. Open to all disciplines and all industry sectors, projects can span a wide range of areas, including manufacturing, business processes, IT, social sciences, design and more.

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