Dawn mist over the farm: the shed, the house on stilts and the yerba rows half lost in pink fog.Morning on the farm: red earth, green yerba rows, the drying shed with its brick chimneys.Noon: hard light, short shadows, the crew at work in the shed.Golden hour: long shadows across the red earth and a warm haze over the forest.Dusk: the whole farm in orange light and haze.Twilight: violet light, the dryer’s fire glowing in the shed.Night: blue moonlight, the fire still burning under the arch dryer.

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Kowal & Co.: Legendary Yerba

Grow yerba mate in the red earth of Misiones. Dry it over a wood fire, let it rest, and sell it under your family’s name.

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A drying shed at the edge of the forest

Misiones, in the far northeast of Argentina: red earth, the Atlantic forest on every side, and yerba mate in rows between the trees.

Lucía Kowal inherits her grandmother Wanda’s drying shed, a small crew who knew Wanda for decades, and a notebook that doesn’t tell her everything.

Dawn mist over the yerbal and Wanda’s house on stilts, the drying shed beside it.

From the leaf to the shelf

  1. Pickers among the yerba rows under the trees, bundles of leaf on the platform by the shed.

    Grow

    Yerba grows in rows on the red earth, under the trees you keep for shade. In the harvest season the pickers cut it by hand.

  2. The shed at noon: the flash-firing drum on its brick firebed, the arch dryer and the coarse mill.

    Process

    Fire the leaf in the drum, dry it over wood smoke, mill it and let it rest. Then grind your own blends and pack them under your brand.

  3. The order board: order slips from different buyers pinned on kraft paper, with their terms.

    Sell

    Every buyer means something different by good. Take the orders you can meet, and get the bags on the truck in time.

  4. The restored casona with its white pillars and tile roof, visitors at the door and their van on the red road.

    Run the place

    A crew with names and shifts, storms that stop the picking, land to buy, and an old estancia to bring back.

The people on the farm

  • Illustrated portrait of Lucía Kowal.

    Lucía Kowal

    Inherits the secadero.

  • Illustrated portrait of Ramón Benítez.

    Ramón Benítez

    Leaf picker. Knew Wanda for forty years.

  • Illustrated portrait of Nati da Silva.

    Nati da Silva

    Farmhand. Quick, in two languages.

  • Illustrated portrait of Tito Duarte.

    Tito Duarte

    Fire-keeper and mechanic.

The cover of Vaivenes, by Lumbre, redrawn in pixels for the game: a beach at dusk under a few stars, a small fire on the sand.

The soundtrack

Vaivenes, by Lumbre

The songs of Lumbre’s album, reworked for the game as instrumental electronic ambient folk.

Guiará – Lumbre

0:00 / 1:40

The original album

On the farm

  • The whole chain: harvest, fire, dry, mill, age, grind, pack.
  • Buyers with their own idea of good, and a reputation with each.
  • Your own brand, built bag by bag.
  • A named crew, seasonal pickers, shifts and morale.
  • Storms, seasons, and stock that gets better with time.
  • Land, power, ruins to restore, visitors to host.

Frames

Small pixels, on purpose

In game: the shed and its machines drawn in chunky pixels with warm outlines.
The raw 3D render of the same view: smooth voxel shapes with no outlines.
Drag to compare the raw 3D render with the game.
Rendered small
A 3D world drawn 360 pixels tall, outlined and enlarged with hard edges.
Built from data
Every model is voxels written as data. Every sound and voice is synthesized.
Simulation first
A deterministic world, ticking ten times a second. Godot 4, in English and Spanish.

In development

No release date yet. The store page will be here.

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