Edwige Lelievre
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Edwige Lelievre
@edwigelel.bsky.social
Game director of "The Abbess Garden", a cozy & historical gardening game🌿
Steam page https://store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/The_Abbess_Garden/
Newsletter https://theabbessgarden.eo.page/newsletter
Researcher CHCSC lab, Univ of Versailles 📚
(she/her)
🌸The Abbess Garden 🌸

Discover our cozy and historical gardening game!
store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/... (with a demo!)

Features:
🌿 Collect real plants
💦 Water, soil and proximity systems
🔍 Explore your garden
🕵️‍♀️ Wholesome and thrilling spy plot
💖 Queer romance

#PitchYaGame #cozygame
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Working on Sage (sauge) flower's this morning for The Abbess Garden :)

store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/...

#cozygame #indiegame #gardening #blender #gimp
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Big day! The Abbess Garden, our little game, has its demo available in the #SteamNextFest 💖

If you think you might like a cozy gardening game set in 17th-century France, with real plants, a thrilling spy plot, queer romance and court drama, try our #indiegame!
store.steampowered.com/app/3873090/...
October 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Quick reminder: there is a Discord server for The Abbess Garden now! 🌿
It's small and we try not to spam. I am sharing our progress regularly (mostly daily)

If you want to chat with the team and see what we are up to, it's here: discord.gg/d6uGFjvU 💖

#gamedev #indiedev #cozygame
September 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The Cozy Job Simulator festival has just started on Steam!!! If you are into cozy games & simulation, that's worth a look :) As always there are unreleased games (with demos) and games on sale!

We participate as Agnès (our main character) is a gardener ;) (and it's obviously a #cozygame!)

🕵️‍♀️ 🌿 ⛏️
September 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I am back to work, adding new plants to The Abbess Garden :) Currently working on borage which is rather hard but very nice to do! This is the flowering version (there are 4 others ;) seed, sprout...)

#indiedev #blender #gimp #cozygame #gardening
September 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The Steam festival BackToSchool 2025 has just started! It's about games you can learn from and productivity tools 🙂

store.steampowered.com/curator/4469...

The Abbess Garden is "Environment and Nature"🌿

Learning about real plants is cool! Check the fest and our demo!

#indiegames #cozygame
August 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The frogs: hidden object game ;)
August 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
On Monday, I visited a very nice garden in the Loire Valley called Les Jardins Haute Couture (Huismes). I highly recommend it! Come for the flowers, great cakes, cocktails, and the frogs! The owner is super nice too :)

#gardening #garden #bloomscrolling #loirevalley
August 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The Debut Festival has begun! It includes only games that are the first from their studio! So if you are curious about new indies, take a look!

Our cozy and historical gardening game "The Abbess Garden" is one of these games :)

store.steampowered.com/developer/gm...

#debutfestival #indiegame
August 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Maybe, I just clicked on the "Release Demo" button for The Abbess Garden and maybe you can play it now 😱

store.steampowered.com/app/3873090/...

(it's a cozy and historical gardening game ;) )

#indiedev #cozygame #gamedev
July 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
So... I created a Discord server for The Abbess Garden 😱

Creating one was recommended by several indie friends and asked by some players, so here we are:
discord.gg/As3FDRNzpG

Many thanks to @wirdelle.bsky.social who helped me figure out what to do ^^

I hope you'll like it!

#cozygame #indiedev
July 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
I was very happy to meet The Abbess Garden's composer, Laurene Telennaria, at a ren fair today :) It had been a while!

We work remotely and she is super busy with all her jobs (metal singer, harpist, game composer, jeweller) so getting to see her is very precious 💎
July 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I like de Champaigne a lot! He works at Port-Royal Abbey a lot, so we use his paintings as a reference for our video game set in Port-Royal-des-Champs in 1643 (The Abbess Garden).

Here is @joylilworld.bsky.social's take on the Abbess Angélique based on Champaigne (younger, so a different dress)
July 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The Abbess Garden is part of the Moonlite Madness Showcase by @nevermoreniche.bsky.social, beginning in a few minutes!!! 🎉 🥳

You can watch it on:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=70dA...
www.twitch.tv/nevermoreniche

#indiegame #cozygame
June 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Close up on the flowers and a very fluffy specimen at the bottom ;)
June 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
My albizia is blooming :) It lasts for a while but when it starts it's always very impressive. This tree likes to be dramatic!

#naturephotography #bloomscrolling
June 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The virus seem very much unaware it's the summer already and I have a bad cold... So this morning I got me a tea with sage, marigold, thym and honey ;)
June 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Tududu 🎉The closed beta is here!!! Anyone can now request access and playtest our game on Steam :)
store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/...

#cozygame #indiedev #playtest
June 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
They are very well hidden but my garden is filled with wild strawberries at the moment! They are very good, with a stronger flavour but more subtle than domestic ones (less sweet and acidic) 🍓🌿
June 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
🌸The Abbess Garden 🌸

Discover our cozy and historical gardening game!
store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/...

Features:
🌿 Collect plants
💦 Water, soil and proximity systems
🔍 Explore your garden
🕵️‍♀️ Wholesome and thrilling spy plot
💖 Queer romance

#PitchYaGame
June 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Oh we must live in a similar area ;) It's also in full bloom at my place!!! (on the left in the picture ^^)

Happy you recognised it easily :)
June 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I'm adding more plants to the garden :) Here is a small stylised salvia sprout (all plants have 5 stages of development), created in Blender for The Abbess Garden 🌿

#Blender #LowPoly
June 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM
May in the garden 🌸🌿☘

#naturephotography #bloomscrolling
May 31, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I like the little hats the california poppies have before they bloom ;) #naturephotography #plantsarecute
May 31, 2025 at 6:18 AM