How We Built a Quest Around Curiosity in Adorable Adventures

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Category: ID@Xbox April 30, 2026 How We Built a Quest Around Curiosity in Adorable Adventures Steven ter Heide, Creative Director, Wild Sheep Studio Hi, I’m Steven ter Heide, Creative Director at Wild Sheep Studio working on the cozy animal-adventure game, Adorable Adventures .

In Adorable Adventures , we set out with a simple intention: to create a cozy exploration game that captures the feeling we have when wandering through nature: relaxed, curious, and wonderfully distracted. We realized that to achieve that feeling, the story needed to be grounded in a perspective that naturally encourages slow, playful exploration.

That led us to Boris, a young boar who finds himself separated from his family after a forest fire. Everyone is safe, just scattered across the park and the fire is only part of the backstory. The adventure that follows is gentle and carefree. This setup gave us a clear structure for the main quest: helping Boris find his siblings and bringing the family back together.

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