Garden Ink

🌿 One More Month... Garden Ink Releases on September 10th!Hi everyone! 💚It feels a little unreal to finally say this, but...🌸 Garden Ink is releasing on September 10th! 🌸We've been working on this little world for a long time now and knowing that you'll soon be able to experience the full game is both incredibly exciting and a tiny bit terrifying. We honestly can't wait.As this is our last development update before launch, we wanted to share what we've been up to and also ask for one small favor.🛠️ The Final StretchOver the last few weeks, our focus has been almost entirely on polish.That means lots (and lots) of:🐞 Bug fixes✨ General polishing🎮 Minigame improvements and balancing⚡ Performance tweaks💚 Small quality-of-life adjustmentsThere isn't much new content to show this time around and that's actually a good thing! At this stage, we're making sure everything feels as smooth and enjoyable as possible before release. So we hopefully have less bugs to fix on release date.🎥 Developer InterviewA little while ago, Arne one of our developers joined schnitzel55555 and Edga_The_III for a livestream interview about Garden Ink, game development and our j

Hey guys!We are working hard on the full release:) Garden Ink is coming along really well. The release date will be announced soon, and we are polishing Garden Ink until we can see our own reflection on it (we are trying our best). We made many small improvements and thought it would be a great time to make one final update for the demo. Here's a vague list of things we changed/improved. fixed many little bugsreduced filesize by over 1.5gbmore qol improvementsoptions menu reworkbrightness sliderfixed some audio issuesadded controller support (incomplete)completely reworked merge compendiumupdated localization personal messageHonestly, we don't believe that Garden Ink will be a huge financial success, but we appreciate everybody who believes in us and will work hard not to disappoint you! Oh, and best believe, that Garden Ink is just the beginning. We will continue our journey and keep making games that make people smile. Thanks for reading all of this, you get a picture of my cat as reward:) -Arne

Garden Ink's April Dev UpdateHi everyone 💚The past few months have been big (and slightly surreal) for us, so here’s a quick update on what’s been happening with Garden Ink.First off: Thank you to everyone who played and shared the demo during Steam Next Fest! The response genuinely meant a lot to us and gave us a ton of useful insight moving forward. HighlightsWe’ve been nominated for the DCP (Deutscher Computerspielpreis)! The event is on April 29th, and we’re super grateful to be part of it. You can join the Watch Party on our discord for it!We showed Garden Ink at several events, including Caggtus, and got to meet some of you in person. Which was really special. Garden Ink also won the best presentation award at MAG-C and best game at Baltic Games Fest!What We Have Been Working OnA lot of the past few months were about iterating on what’s already there and reacting to feedback:Minigames (Kite Game especially) Improved flow and added a reward: if you find the little guys 3 times, you can place them as world objects.More world customization After unlocking the final biome, you can now move the ground itself.City biome expansion Added a lot more elements, making it feel fulle

Hey guys!Thank you so much for the feedback!Here's what we fixed/changedmoving the cursor to the edge of the screen will now move the cameradecoration objects (bushes/rocks...) spawn further away from signs tutorial videos should now work on mac and linux (previously just black)added a cool loading screenimproved loading time when loading a save filemore minor bugfixes and improvementsThank you guys for the ongoing support