Among Ripples: Shallow Waters

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Eat Create Sleep

Planned release: To be announced
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Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 09:48 GMT

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02 Jan 2025Developer post
Eat Create Sleep is No More
Hello everyone, We did not survive until 2025, ECS is shutting down, we tried to survive 2024 with work for hire, but unfortunately got screwed by bad faith business partners, we can't go into details publicly, but in short we were taken advantage of from bigger actors whilst doi
31 Jan 2024Developer post
See You in 2025
Hello everyone, It’s been awhile, and in short it's going to be a while longer. Due to the state of the industry we need to pause development for Shallow Waters and resume in 2025. But, you have a new demo to play now! As we said last year we’re not working with our former publis
20 Mar 2023Developer post
Important News
Eat Create Sleep is no longer publishing with Curve Games, we have both mutually agreed to not continue working together on Among Ripples: Shallow Waters. We want to explain to you what this means for the future of our company and the game (but don't worry, there's still good new
01 Feb 2023Developer post
Nostalgia Lake
Hey again! Eat Create Sleep here with another monthly update. Below we're going to show you some more concept art and game assets our team has been working on! HUD Design A rework mockup of the old placeholder HUD/UI. Looking more fresh and organized! Along with a mockup of the z
11 Jan 2023Developer post
Crabby Eco Land
New Land Below are some new level concepts ranging from 'eco'-land amusement park, farmlands, to industrial outskirts to clean up and revive. Characters and Missions Concepts and mockups of the mission briefing room, along with one of the campsites! Talk to your crew and see what
13 Dec 2022Developer post
December News
Alpha and Level Zero After putting together concept art and level design in the previous month, the alpha level has been created and playtested! Mostly featuring on mechanics and gameplay, below are some screens of the level in-game. Cleanup This level focuses on an abandoned saw
14 Nov 2022Developer post
November News
Hey again! Eat Create Sleep here with another monthly update on our game's progress. Alpha and Level Zero Concept art for the first level has been created, set in an abandoned sawmill. A block out of the level in game is done, and now all of the environmental details etc. are bei
13 Oct 2022Developer post
October Newsletter
Hello everyone! Regularly scheduled newsletter has returned, check out what we've been working on in the game here and make sure to subscribe if you'd like to get updates directly to your inbox: //ECS
26 May 2022Developer post
Collab With Publisher - ECS + Curve Games
Hello everyone! Martin from Eat Create Sleep here. In this newsletter I'm going to talk more about the biz, it means we're working with a publisher, and that the game is going to be able to reach its full potential, read more below. Working With Our Publisher We've been working w
23 Dec 2021Developer post
Among Publishing - Game's Future
Hello everyone! Martin from Eat Create Sleep here. We have great news to share, we have a publisher (who is a secret for now) so we don't need to do a new Kickstarter, we're gearing up towards a great launch, in 2023! Read the full newsletter here : We wish you a safe holiday, st
09 Nov 2021Developer post
We've Found Funding - Delisting Old Demo
Hello everyone, We don't need to do a Kickstarter to fund the game any more since we've found a great publisher to partner with. But we need to remove the old demo and honestly, it doesn't reflect where the game is any more (it's better!). We're just writing this short post to le
16 Dec 2020Developer post
Prototype Demo + Kickstarter in Spring 2021
Hello friends! Here’s a new update from us. The "Covid crater" coined previously is sadly still taking up space, but it won’t stop us from launching our new prototype demo, cinematic trailer and Kickstarter campaign in Spring 2021! What’s been happening? We’re continuing to survi
14 Oct 2020Developer post
Kickstarter - Early 2021
Hello everyone! It's been awhile, I hope you're safe. We're still working and things are finally settling after the "Covid crater" as a colleague put it. It's been a hectic few months since March, 2020. But now we're back to inform that we will launch a new Kickstarter campaign i
Hello everyone!
It's been awhile, I hope you're safe. We're still working and things are finally settling after the "Covid crater" as a colleague put it. It's been a hectic few months since March, 2020. But now we're back to inform that we will launch a new Kickstarter campaign in early 2021! Let's start with showing our work in progress intro to celebrate (soon you can see it in glorious three dimensions).
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What's Been Happening?
In short we've spent these months trying to survive, doing work for hire, applying for loans, grants and investments. We also spent two months pitching to a major publisher and almost got signed with a huge budget, but fell through. It's also been interesting to transition to a complete remote team, from being in an office for 5+ years. We're going to work remotely as long as the pandemic continues.
We've found more work for hire until the end of the year and our investors have given us some more money to keep going. We're in a position where half of the team can work full on with the prototype and prepare for the new release.
Improved Prototype
Since March, 2020 we've improved the feedback and are upgrading the visuals, the economy system and improved the animal AI and mechanics. It's still a proof of concept, but we're trying to show how we can iterate with feedback. There's still no insects though, sorry. ;) Check out the paintover below with our new "Eco Ship", a VTOL aircraft (vertical take-off and landing), it will complement our awesome eco van.
A New Kickstarter
We're doing a new campaign in the beginning of next year, early 2021. There are publishers who are slightly interested, but a lot of people in the game industry are on the fence, they want us to show numbers, some feel that games about the environment and ecology is too niche. If you ask me I think it's something that anyone on Earth can relate to in some way, but I digress. We're going to show everyone that Among Ripples: Shallow Waters is a game people want, and with you, our early fans we're going to make it!
Let's Stay in Touch
We've updated our social media presence, and right now we communicate through Twitter, Instagram and our newsletter mainly. If you want to stay up to date or check out cute pictures of our pets, that's where to be.

Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gJDx0T
Twitter: https://twitter.com/EatCreateSleep
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eatcreatesleep/
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See you soon! //Martin & Eat Create Sleep
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19 Jun 2020Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The best Steam Festival demos: management games
You know what takes a lot of managing? All the demos in the Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition . There are blimmin’ 900 of them. And coincidentally, I have gone through and collected some of the best demos on that theme. Rockets, monsters, pirates, wine and fish: what do all the
18 Jun 2020Developer post
Ask the Devs - They Will Ask Back (?!)
Hello old and new fans! We're part of Steam Game Festival and to celebrate that we're hosting a "you ask us, we ask you" session. You Ask Us The rules are simple, you ask us questions about the game, our game studio or general development questions and we will answer. We will hos
Hello old and new fans!
We're part of Steam Game Festival and to celebrate that we're hosting a "you ask us, we ask you" session.
You Ask Us
The rules are simple, you ask us questions about the game, our game studio or general development questions and we will answer. We will host these question sessions online until the 22th June, 2020. You can ask us questions on these platforms:

Here on Steam (just reply to the thread)
Twitter Post
Kickstarter Post
Facebook Post
Discord (in the #among-ripples channel)
We will answer these questions during the coming days on these platforms, but please be patient during the weekend, we need our beauty sleep. We will compile all the answers into a FAQ which we will post on our newsletter (sign up today!) next week. You need to sign up to get the full demo experience anyway so there's a nice bonus for you. ;)
We Ask You
In the same newsletter where we compile all answers from all platforms we're going to send you a few questions too, a questionnaire. We want to know what you think about some decisions and features. If you don't ask you'll never know, as they say. What you ask us first might change the nature of the questionnaire so your actions have consequences, they create ripples, as it were.
So please ask us questions until the 22th June and after that we'll send you newsletter folk a compiled list. We will be answering questions live-ish on each platform but only compile in the newsletter (hey, we got to collect eyeballs too you know).
Stay safe!
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30 Apr 2020Developer post
April Update
Hello everyone, We'll try to have these updates bi-weekly or monthly and will be collected on Kickstarter, you can read the new update here. Read Update on Kickstarter Page There you can read about the evolution of the mobile eco science van, new characters, new economic system a
23 Dec 2019Developer post
Demo Now Available on Steam
Hello everyone! Valve just approved our demo and you can now download it on the coming soon page for Among Ripples: Shallow Waters. Hope you enjoy! Please remember that this is a proof of concept prototype so it's not an optimised game, older computers may have problems running i
20 Dec 2019Developer post
New Demo Available
Hello everyone, We have now uploaded the new demo for you to try out. In the new sandbox maps you can explore more of the possibilities of the game. Each map has its own season. Download the Demo Here * itch * Gamejolt * IndieDB * Our server if you sign up to the newsletter Unloc
20 Nov 2019Developer post
Among Ripples: Shallow Waters - Kickstarter and Prototype Demo
Hello everyone! We're happy to announce that we will be launching a Kickstarter campaign in early 2020 and want you all to help us get the word out. You can try our public demo out now, if you sign up to our newsletter ( sign up here ). Kickstarter We will be launching a Kickstar
01 Nov 2019Developer post
Among Ripples: Shallow Waters - Let's Play & Updates
Hello everyone! A lot has happened since we last spoke, we're starting to get the funding for the project together. We haven't found a publisher yet but if we play our cards right we will make it anyway, maybe we'll find one later down the line. The important thing to know is tha
Hello everyone!
A lot has happened since we last spoke, we're starting to get the funding for the project together. We haven't found a publisher yet but if we play our cards right we will make it anyway, maybe we'll find one later down the line. The important thing to know is that we're progressing on the development with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters!
Prototype
We have worked a lot on improving the visuals as you can see. New interface and better watercolour shaders!
Let's Play
Together with our lead programmer, Tomas I sat down and played our latest prototype. Next time we promise the recording will be even better. ;)
https://youtu.be/2JCoRzDaz6M
Keep in Touch
If you also want to see this game happen please let the world know by wishlisting it and keeping tabs on what we do on our social media. The bigger following we have the easier it is to convince the people with money. It's also easier for you to keep tabs on where we are. ;)
Social media
Discord
Twitter - Studio
Twitter - Among Ripples
Facebook
YouTube
You can wishlist the game here on Steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096090?beta=1
We'll have more to share soon, stay tuned! :)
//Martin and the team
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