No words can describe the pleasant meditation of cultivating and watching things grow. Mother nature has given the world all the materials needed to see beauty take root and grow for all the world to see. The beautifully crafted new iOS game called Prune is Zen in all respects.
Today's gaming world isriddled with excessive music and excessive graphics. Prune is just the opposite. The award-winning game Prune is a simple, cultivating game made to "Cultivate what matters", encouraging the player to "cut away the rest'. Such simple words can resonate to everyday life. The game is a small, beautiful application that lets players shape and cultivate their own bonsai trees. Check out the trailer on the website, or straight up download and enjoy the game from the iOS App Store.
The small, minimalist game can be downloaded through the iOS App Store for $3.99 and supports iOS 6 or later. The objective is simple and beautiful in its concept: grow and shape a bonsai tree into the sunlight while "avoiding the dangers of a hostile world". The player is encouraged to bring new life to a barren landscape, and uncover a story deep beneath the soil. The simple objective, coupled with the minimalist soundtrack is enough to bring peace and tranquility to an otherwise turbulent real world.
The game is developed by Polyculture, an independent game developer fronted by Joel McDonald, based in Madison, Wisconsin. The very simple concept of planting trees grew into a mobile app that is Prune today. The game stays true to its very simple, minimalist concept of planting seeds and watching it grow. A digital version of the Japanese art form of miniature tree planting, Prune was a relatively small concept that grew into a reflective app that has the ruminative potential of resonating outside of the digital landscape.
Prune is available for iOS devices on the iOS App store for $3.99.
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