![]() “That’s what I did on that day, and it made me really happy, and I felt like, that’s something the world needs, so I’ll try to make it. So I knew, in that moment coming down that mountain, that’s when I decided I was going to make a game that had real plants, real mushrooms, real recipes and crafting instructions, because we could potentially inspire people to actually then go out and recreate those activities,” Höge says. And then that way you actually move more you spend a whole day outside, and it feels like fun. “Exploring a forest is always so much more interesting than just walking down a given path. I went foraging with my parents on this Bavarian hill, and we were scrambling up the slopes - they were very steep slopes - but I found quite a few interesting mushrooms for the first time… that was such an exciting activity,” she continues, likening the experience to a treasure hunt and a detective game, because of the need to carefully identify the mushroom you’re looking at to avoid any dangerous ones. Foraging was kind of like a window that allowed me to see through to nature and the ecosystem and how everything ties together. “So when I went foraging with them at that point, when I was grown up, that was the point that I realised how much it connects you to nature. ![]() Usually when we went outside, we went hiking or we went for a walk, and especially as a kid that was quite boring you don’t have the same appreciation for nature as a child and as a young adult,” Höge says. “My parents had started foraging, and that’s not something that we had ever done before. This core aim, and the founding of Yaldi Games, was partly inspired by an experience Höge had in 2019, a few months before founding the company in 2020. Any games I want to make in the future should all have really fun gameplay (that’s like common gameplay, not ever educational)… and then this little piece of knowledge integrated into things and then use them in your real life.” That’s kind of the model of the company, the mission is we want to make games that inspire real-life activities. “I thought it was adorable, I loved how the word was written, so that’s why I called the company Yaldi Games, because excitement and joy were just the things that we’re trying to create within the games, but also inspiring real-life experiences. the word means something like ‘excitement’ and ‘joy’, it’s like ‘yay’ but the Scottish version of it,” Höge tells us. “‘I called the company Yaldi Games because that’s a Scottish word. It’s in development and is published by Yaldi Games. What is Wholesome - Out and About?Wholesome - Out and About is an open-world life-sim with farming and exploration elements, and a big focus on encouraging a real-world appreciation of, and engagement with, nature.
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