Evergrove

🌿 An Educational Adventure in Data Science! 🐞

About the Game

Evergrove was once home to the Great Data Archives, a powerful database storing vital information on every bug, beetle, and butterfly in the land, but after the disappearance of Professor Byte the archives were shattered, scattering data across the world. Now, Evergrove’s creatures roam freely, but their information is lost, and without it, scientists can’t study or protect them!

That’s where you come in. As a Data Explorer, you’ll team up with Byte the Firefly to rebuild the Great Archive, learning essential data science concepts along the way!

Features

✨ Learn through Play – Organize data into tables and understand key concepts like records, variables, and categories.
🔍 Engage with Virtual Insects – Use the BugScanner 3000 to analyze bugs and fill in missing data.
🖥️ Built with Godot – Developed as part of our 2025 Computer Science Capstone project.

Why This Game?

Data science is a rapidly growing field, but most students don’t encounter it until much later in their education. Evergrove: The Lost Data Archives is designed to introduce middle school students to data literacy in an engaging and accessible way. While this is a proof of concept, we hope to expand the game with lessons on data cleaning, visualization, and analysis in the future!

User Manual

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JglxoCD9LgmA5xCS-_VFxYuatIop8Nm1U663883mTa4/...

Developer Manual

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aGdghDOkTSpOU0i3jHNJnsO2xMgkbh0tXeYvCKdeiLw/...

Development Team

Developed by a team of computer science students as part of our senior capstone project at Southwestern University.

Credits

Game Engine Used

Godot – https://godotengine.org/

Godot Plugins Used

Godot Git Plugin by Godot Engine – https://github.com/godotengine/godot-git-plugin

Dialogue Manager Plugin by Nathan Hoad – https://github.com/nathanhoad/godot_dialogue_manager

Assets Used

Sprout Lands Asset Pack by Cup Nooble – https://cupnooble.itch.io/sprout-lands-asset-pack

Godot Dialogue Manager by Nathan Hoad – https://github.com/nathanhoad/godot_dialogue_manager

Music Used

"Morning" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tutorials Used

Godot Docs – https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/index.html

Barry's Development Hell – https://www.youtube.com/@Barrys-Development-Hell

Rapid Vectors – https://www.youtube.com/@rapidvectors

Gwizz – https://www.youtube.com/@Gwizz1027

Coffee Crow – https://www.youtube.com/@CoffeeCrowDev

Writing & AI Assistance

Background image generated with the help of ChatGPT (DALL·E)

Itch.io page description drafted with feedback from ChatGPT

Game logic, GDScript troubleshooting, and implementation support with help from ChatGPT