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Plants are a good staple model to put in any level. They can be dotted almost anywhere and add a bit of variety to a scene.

1.  Start with a good old clay sausage. Make it the length of your desired plant. Taper the end by rolling it a bit more than the rest of your sausage. Repeat the process with smaller sausages of clay to make your branches.  

2. Flatten out another chunk of clay to cut your leaves out of. This isn’t the only way to make leaves but I find it is the easiest way to make three pronged leaves . Cut your leaf shape into the clay, making sure you cut all the way through.

3. Peel your clay leaves out once they are cut. Add any vein detail you want using a knife.

4. You’ll be left with your flattened clay looking like this!

Finally, once you have a big bunch of leaves you can warm up the end of a leaf you want to stick to the plant between your fingers. Press that end on to a branch and the leaf should stay put. After you’ve stuck on all your leaves you should end up with a little tree/plant like this one. To add extra berries or flowers just roll up little balls of clay and stick them on to the branches.

There are many special things about Star Wars for the Nintendo Famicom. Anthony has witnessed them all and is not afraid to share his experience with this old school classic.

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Over the last couple of weeks Sarah has been working on an amazing bit of fan art for the game Overgrowth by Wolfire Games. Here she describes why she made the ninja rabbit from Overgrowth and includes photographs of how she made this kickass bunny.

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Ever since our interview with Erik Svedang, the creator of Blueberry Garden, we have been monitoring when we are likely to be able to play the game. After a bit of a delay, the IGF Seamus McNally Grand Prize winner has finally been released on Steam. For the bargain price of £3.99 ($5.00) you can fully immerse yourself with this amazing interactive fairy tale.

It has been described as a relaxing yet intense experience which we feel sums it up perfectly. You wander about a living world, with plants and animals living in symbiosis all around you, eating fruit and flying through the level, working out how to move forward.

There is a demo available on steam so you have no excuse for not having a breeze about the world immediately!

In part II of Anthony's confession's he talks about his adventures to the Jingu Gaien market in Japan and what were some of the gaming gems and gaming turds he managed to pick up there. 

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No release date has been announced yet and only a few measly details have been leaked about Eternal Eden 2 but it is enough to get us excited. From what we have read we know it will support a female lead called Japhee, gifted with the power of clairvoyance and thrown into an adventure where you can use your gift to glimpse the future. Sadly that is all we know at the moment, we can only hope that some more tasty morsels about the story will be announced soon.  

For those of you who have not had a chance to play the JRPG Eternal Eden yet, now is the best time to don your adventurers cap and have a go. The original Eternal Eden is a 2d Role Playing game created by Blossomsoft and based on the Eden story from the bible. You play the part of Noah (a good, strong biblical name), who lives in a world where nothing gets old, nothing gets sick and pies are the staple diet. All goes to pot however after you and your mischievous friend make a pie out of forbidden fruit and feed it to the pie hungry princess. Queue a dilemma of biblical proportions that only serious puzzle solving and intense questing can fix. 

Read part 1 of Anthony's confessions about collecting old game consoles and the games that inspired him to be a game designer.

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