Dendrite Bloom

Press kit

Dendrite Bloom press kit

Everything you need to write about the game. Questions or review access: message us on Discord.

Fact sheet

Game
Dendrite Bloom
Developer
Bellare Studios, Melbourne, Australia
Platform
Meta Quest 2, Quest 3 and Quest 3S
Input
Hand tracking only. No controllers.
Genre
Mixed reality spatial-reasoning puzzle
Players
Single player
Content
20 levels of ten puzzles, then the endless Infinite Bloom
Puzzle kinds
Holes, light and ink
Release
Coming to the Meta Horizon Store. Details will be announced on Discord.
Engine
Unity, Meta XR SDKs and OpenXR
Website
dendritebloom.com

Short description

Dendrite Bloom is a hands-only mixed reality puzzle game for Meta Quest. Fold paper with your fingertips, punch the stack and predict where holes, light and ink will land. Every answer grows a glowing connection in a living brain around you.

Longer description

In Dendrite Bloom you fold a sheet of virtual paper by pushing it with your index fingertip, punch a hole through the folded stack and picture the paper opening out again. You mark your prediction on a second sheet and press CHECK, and the paper unfolds over your answer to show every hole you found, missed or got wrong.

The game has three kinds of puzzle (holes, light and ink) across 20 levels that move from a single fold on a small sheet to short folds, diagonals, reverse punching, folding in your head and designing your own folds. After level 20, Infinite Bloom generates endless puzzles that adapt to the player and grows a spiral garden of neuron flowers.

Each checked answer becomes a connection between two neurons, bright and thick when it is right. Missed puzzles return for practice, and solving them strengthens the same connection, so improvement is visible in the room around you. There is no account, no ads, no in-app purchases and no timer.

Trailer

Watch the gameplay video on YouTube, or see it on the home page.

Images

Screenshots from the current build. Graphics are not final. Open an image and save it.

A five-petalled flower of glowing neurons above a coffee table in a living room.
An Infinite Bloom flower
A garden of glowing neuron flowers across the ceiling of a living room.
The garden above the player
A holes puzzle: the folded strip beside the prediction grid.
Holes puzzle
A light puzzle: a board of holes beside the sheet to mark.
Light puzzle
An ink puzzle: a folded sheet with two stains beside the prediction grid.
Ink puzzle
The Dendrite Bloom share image.
Share image

The mark in SVG (light backgrounds) and SVG (dark backgrounds), and the app icon as PNG.