We speak to Big Indie Pitch runner-up Yaldi Games about making the world a more wholesome place

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The Big Indie Pitch is a regular event run by the makers of Pocket Gamer and PC Games Insider. It sees indie developers engage in a speed-dating-styled pitching competition for fame and those sweet, sweet promotional packages.

The event gives indies five minutes to pitch their games to a panel of press, publishers and industry pundits. The judges then pick three winners and everybody gets valuable feedback.

The indie view

The Big Indie Pitch is getting bigger and bigger as we bring it to events all across the world. To give you an idea of what the event is like, who attends the events and the games on show, we've sat down with a number of past Big Indie Pitch contestants to offer their views.

Today, we're speaking to Elena Höge from Yaldi Games, who submitted Wholesome - Out and About to The Very Big Indie Pitch at Pocket Gamer Connects London 2022 sponsored by Jagex Partners, and walked away as the runner-up.

Sophia Aubrey Drake: Tell us a little about yourself and your indie studio - who is on the team, and what are their inspirations?

Elena Höge: Yaldi Games is a small but ambitious indie studio consisting of a team of 6. We have 2 amazing artists (one of them is actually my sister), 2 programmers, a tech designer and myself. I founded the studio with the inspiration to make games that go beyond digital. We want our games to integrate real life in a meaningful way and through that enrich our players' lives.

Tell us about Wholesome - Out and About that you pitched at the competition.

Wholesome is our first title - it’s a relaxing life simulator about living in harmony with nature. Explore, forage, garden, cook, craft and make friends with people and animals - it’s like Zelda BotW meets Stardew Valley. But we go beyond