Summerhill, One Year Later 🐑

On the 8th of June 2023, after many years of preparation, we announced our brand-new sheep herding puzzle-adventure game, Summerhill, during the Day of the Devs: Summer Games Fest Edition showcase.

For almost 10 years, we’ve been known exclusively as the developers of the Alto’s Adventure series, so it’s been thrilling to finally start talking about our next project as a studio.

One year later, and we’re still hard at work crafting the world of Summerhill - our most ambitious project to date. While there will be much more to share in the future, for now we thought we’d give you a small recap of what we’ve been up to.

We’ve been visiting various game industry events, to chat with our peers about the world we are crafting. Our studio has expanded, assembling a crew of talented and experienced game devs from around the world, each of whom has been instrumental in bringing Summerhill to life. You can meet a few of them in our latest team introductions here.

Towards the end of 2023, we teased a fresh take on Summerhill through a new piece of artwork created by the exceedingly talented Alarkio, who you may recognise from his very popular series of paintings and illustrations on social media. We look forward to continuing to work with Alariko as we bring Summerhill to life!

The eagle-eyed among you may have spotted we’ve already given Summerhill’s Steam page a new lick of paint, featuring Alariko’s artwork 👀.

Outside the world of Summerhill, we released a special version of Alto’s Odyssey: The Lost City for Apple Vision Pro, and in case you missed it, we brought The Alto Collection to Steam - where it feels right at home on Steam Deck!

Last but not least, we wanted to give a heartfelt thank you to everyone who’s joined us on Summerhill’s journey so far. Since we announced last year, we’ve received a lot of excitement and enthusiasm for the game, which has given us a great deal of encouragement as we carry on with development ♥️.

You can keep up-to-date on Summerhill (and say hello to us!) by joining us on Twitter / X, Instagram, TikTok, Threads and YouTube. If you like very infrequent, longer form reads, you can also join our mailing list.

Most importantly, if you haven’t done so already, please make sure to add Summerhill to your Steam wishlist. Doing so will ensure you receive the biggest (and most exciting!) news about the game, and you will be notified when the game releases. As a small studio, it’s by far the most impactful way you can support our team, as wishlists help us reach a wider audience that may be interested in our sheep herding, coming-of-age folktale.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2324410/Summerhill/

We cannot wait to share Summerhill with you all ♥️ 🐑.

Best wishes, The Land & Sea Team.