Trash Release Date

16 Mar 2026Developer post

Trash @ The Game Expo Melbourne

Hello Our Garbage People! We were lucky enough to showcase our Trashy game at the wonderful The Game Expo In Melbourne this weekend! For two days we were able to meeting with players and fans and enjoy having them play Trash! TGX is Melbourne’s latest convention, providing an inc

16 Oct 2025Developer post

Play Our Steam Next Fest Demo!

Hello Our Garbage People! If you haven't noticed, our #NextFest demo is live now! And this one's a time challenge! Think you got what it takes to clean up the world (or a very small part of it) in 10 minutes? Comment down your best completion time below! Team best is 2:15! Don't

13 Oct 2025Developer post

Rubbish Dump #9: New Teaser Trailer

Hello Our Garbage People! This Is Charlie, your friendly creative director for this rubbish game! The game has come so far and it's time we showed it off. We created a new trashy teaser trailer for your enjoyment! So what are you seeing in this trailer? Lets show you some of it a

09 Oct 2025Developer post

Trash @ PAXAUS25

Hello Our Garbage People! Trash is at PAX for the next 3 days! How exciting! We will be unveiling a brand new Trashy Expo Demo for you enjoyment. PAX Aus is a celebration of gaming and gaming culture featuring thought-provoking panels, a massive expo hall filled with the best pub

08 Oct 2025Developer post

MIGW 2025 Stream

Hello Trashy Human! It's a very special week for us; Melbourne International Games Week! If you didn't know, Trash is an Australian game being created in MELBOURNE! So we just love this wonderful week. Here is a sneak peak of our latest Demo about to go live for you all to play!

29 Aug 2025Developer post

Rubbish Dump #8: Healing The World

Hello Our Garbage People! This Is Charlie, your friendly creative director for this rubbish game! Recently I’ve been working on the flora for the different biomes that are going to be in Trash. I’ve been working hard on making each plant unique, yet consistent with each biome. It

03 Oct 2024Developer post

2024 Melbourne Internation Games Week

Hello Rubbish People! We're thrilled to be part of a dedicated Melbourne International Games Week livestream event, initiated by Creative Victoria. For a limited time only, You can play our latest EXCLUSIVE DEMO! Join us on the event page and store page, discover some Victorian-m

14 Mar 2024Developer post

Trash GDC Demo out NOW!

Hello Rubbish People! Our Trashy Team is flying all the way over from downunder to sunny California! We will be meeting many cool people in the industy and showcasing at heaps of of events including: - Courage XL - Pocket Gamer Connect - Australian GDC Reception - Courage On Tour

21 Sep 2023Developer post

A TRASHy Melbourne Internation Games Week

Hello Rubbish People! We're thrilled to be part of a dedicated Melbourne International Games Week livestream event, initiated by Creative Victoria. For a limited time only, You can play our latest EXCLUSIVE DEMO! Join us on the event page and store page, discover some Victorian-m

14 Sep 2023Developer post

Rubbish Dump #7: New Gameplay Trailer

Hello Our Garbage People! We are ecstatic to inform you that we have a new gameplay trailer live on the page! So we transition into seeking our next stage of development funding, we thought it important to show off some of the work we have been doing on the game! A lot of thought

Hello Our Garbage People!

We are ecstatic to inform you that we have a new gameplay trailer live on the page! So we transition into seeking our next stage of development funding, we thought it important to show off some of the work we have been doing on the game!

A lot of thought went into the structure of the trailer and we’d like to give you a sneak peek behind the curtain of how the proverbial sausage is made. The structure was divided into 5 parts. The aim of the trailer is to give viewers a rough sense of Trash’s game loop

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Part 1: Establishing The World

The trailer opens with the podcast recording of the cultist E-Corp CEO denying his role in the downfall of the planet and humanity at large. Helping establish the setting of the game and highlighting the fall of humanity.

Part 2: Emergence Of Resin Life

Next we begin establishing the concept of resin life, with emphasis on the player characters known as Morphites. These are the Trash based lifeforms that the players play as throughout the game.

Part 3: Crafting Forms & Gain Abilities

Here we show a fundamental loop of gameplay for the viewer. We introduce the concept of collecting resources and using them to craft and attach forms. Forms grant players abilities to help them survive and thrive in the Trashy World.

Part 4: Explore An Open World & Solve Procedurally Generated Challenge Zones

Here we show the players exploring Trash's open world biomes, specifically the starting Valley Biome. They make their way into the game's procedurally generated challenge zones, procedural mazes constructed from an array of unique puzzles. These include jump puzzles, hunts, turbines, winding pathways, creature nests ect.

Part 5: Cure The World

Here we show that solving Challenge Zones removes hazards, allowing resin life to flow. Ideally we would show the features that are unlocked but we are not ready to show this yet! So you will have to stay tuned!

Thanks so much for reading! You can support Trash by watching the trailer, showing your friends and most importantly WISHLISTING! Stay tuned for more garbage updates!

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10 Jul 2023Developer post

Rubbish Dump #6: We're Coming To GamesCom

Hello Our Garbage People! Super exciting news for Trash & Bin Chicken! With the aid of our fantastic State funding body VicScreen , we are heading to GamesCom in Cologne, Germany! GamesCom is the world's largest gaming event and Europe's leading business platform for the game

22 May 2023Developer post

Rubbish Dump #5: Crafting & Resources Overhall

Hello Our Garbage People! I’m Hayley , one of the programmers helping to bring trash to life, and I’m here with a slightly late but exciting rubbish dump! Last week was a busy one as we were frantically bug fixing and polishing the latest version of trash to showcase at the ACMI

15 May 2023Developer post

Rubbish Dump #4: ACMI Audience Lab

Hello Our Garbage People! This weekend we spent two days with the public and a few other game developers here in rainy Melbourne in a lovely space, the Swinburne Studio at ACMI. The museum had invited us to participate in their Audience Lab event which brings together games, film

24 Apr 2023Developer post

Rubbish Dump #3: Making New Hazard VFX

Hello Our Garbage People! This is Seb speaking! I'm a Technical artist at Bin chicken studios and I'm here to share with you a kinda pretty but also slightly dangerous update on the Hazardous areas of Trash! We've been hard at work to get the hazard system in the challenge zones

14 Apr 2023Developer post

Rubbish Dump #2: New Animated Trailer

Hello Our Garbage People! I'm Yee , a 3D animator at Bin Chicken and I have been working on a *hush* *hush* animated trailer for Trash ! With the help of Charlie our Creative Director, I was able to tell the prologue of Trash through animation. It will give you a brief peek into

04 Apr 2023Developer post

Rubbish Dump #1: Public Testing

Hello Our Garbage People! Welcome to our first ever Rubbish Dump dev post! We want to make a greater effort to keep all you wonderful people updated on Trash's development, and what better way to do this then updating you here! We have some exciting news to share with you. We hav

29 Sep 2022Developer post

Melbourne International Games Week 2022

Hello Garbage People! We are taking part in the Melbourne International Games Week official Steam livestream event! We will be streaming exciting content all week including; Talking about Trash. A detailed Development Update . A Let's Play of the current Public Alpha Demo. Exciti

06 May 2022Developer post

Taking Out The Trash - Demo Update

First, a thank you! Thanks so much to all our fans and players out there who played Trash’s early Public Alpha Demo and gave us such helpful and wonderful feedback! After the release of Trash’s Holiday Update , we took a brief dev holiday ourselves in order to refresh our wasted

First, a thank you!

Thanks so much to all our fans and players out there who played Trash’s early Public Alpha Demo and gave us such helpful and wonderful feedback! After the release of Trash’s Holiday Update, we took a brief dev holiday ourselves in order to refresh our wasted brains (our creative director was starting to wonder whether he was in fact himself, a trash based life form). Since returning we have spent a number of months looking over all the feedback and finding ways we can improve the demo before we move towards our next stage of development.

What is this trash all about?

The Taking Out The Trash Update isn’t a content update, rather a chance for us to add the things you asked for and make Trash easier to pick up and play! The update aims to improve player experience and give you your friends a funner, trashier time! As always the demo can be played either solo or cooperatively online with up to 3 friends!

A Rubbish List of Changes

UI

New player objective system

New Resource pickup notifications

New ingame directional signs

New player interactions

Improved UI visuals & designs

Improved & simplified ingame language

Updated Splash Screens & Menu Layout

Player Character

New player form VFX

New player resource pickups zones

New player form use opportunities

Improved player interaction mechanics

Improved player camera mechanics

Improved player movement and jump mechanics

Cinematics

New internal Challenge Zone cinematic cameras

New external Challenge Zone cinematic cameras

New game progression cinematic cameras

Improved cinematic demo ending

Environment

Improved object & environment colliders

Improved player start zone

Improved resource VFX

Improved Challenge Zone visuals and decals

Optimisation

New Flora LOD system

New graphics and resolution settings

Audio

Objective complete fanfare

Audio zones for environmental VFX

We appreciate your support & hope you find the time to give Trash a play! If you do, you can give us feedback here:

Twitter
Feedback Form
or in our community page!

Have a rubbish day!

And now, a massive list of fixed bugs!

Resources Bugs

Client: Challenge Zone resource collection error ResourceManager.DestroyResourceObject

Client: pickup resource incorrect tally in UI

Client: picking up resource while host is in menu (in-game) doesn’t update inventory counts

Client: pickup resources count 0

Resources duplicating when returning to open world

Some resource sites spawn too high (scrap metal, resin, tape)

UI Bugs

Camera adjustments

Control sensitivity broaden & add y-axis UI

Remove player HUD resin counter

Host 'failed to load' on open load game UI. Didn't prevent loading game

Chat creates null error when closed & other player sends message

Chat text colour markup

Chat - clients can't see their own messages

Hunt CE causing client to d/c on load

Client loses mouse on main menu when kicked by host

Client hangs on load screen when trying to join Host in CZ

Join CZ0 - client loading UI doesn’t disable

UI scale for 4:3, 5:3, 16:9, 16:10

Interact UI doesn't disappear for non-interacting client

Inventory UI Resource UI updating pickup count instead of totals

Inventory UI Client resource counts not updating when entering game

Remote client loading into open world after leaving CZ still has CZ menu

Challenge Zones (CZ's) Bugs

CZ6 state 2 triggers when CZ5 completed

CZ6 ending cinematic run order

CZ3 end zone is available before pulling lever (oil ending)

CZ Oil ending trigger can be activated & ending state 2 audio can still be heard for other players

CZ0 returns to state 1 after completing CZ for the 2nd time

CZ1 timer doesn’t reset from CZ0 time

Client doesn't get CZ0 cinematic camera when completing CZ0

When client loads in, CZ0 in state 1 - should be state 2

CZ prevent 2 HuntCE in a row

Challenge Elements Bugs

Hunt removing object from slot causes slot data to be reset

CZ1 - client disconnected when host picked up Hunt pickup

Increase VFX size on resources & hunt components

Open World Bugs

Breakable wall at CZ2 isn’t breakable

Megamite proximity not triggering for client

Added Pipe fast travel interact

Open World Bugs

Deformer not displaying ‘in store’ or ‘in use’ numbers for client

Crafter not displaying inventory resources properly after crafting

Clearer descriptions in crafter and deformer

Disconnect null error When a player is using crafter and another player picks up a resource

Player Character Bugs

Glide Form: recalibration

Boulder Form: player does not reappear

Player interact rework

Jump power recalibration

Client pickup hunt parts incorrectly aligned in body

Reduce player movement - sprint & walk

Picking up items - reduce distance & narrow target

Networking Bugs

Host/Client disconnect sync

Spawn scene object error on client join new game OR change scene

Audio Bugs
Quitting from CZ end zone - music doesn’t reset
Jump audio plays multiple times if player hits space repeatedly while jumping
Audio for Oil in CZ0 state 1 still happening when state 1 in deactivated

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03 May 2022Developer post

May 6 Update Announcement

Waited long enough for an update? Following a short hiatus, the Trash team is back together and sending out a big update to the Public Demo! After our little time away from the game we have spent the last months preparing a Player Experience update based on all your wonderful fee

10 Dec 2021Developer post

Trash Public Alpha Out Now!

Our FREE Co-Op Multiplayer Public Alpha of Trash is OUT NOW here on steam for you & 4 of your friends to play online together! Trash is an open-world multiplayer action-adventure game created in Melbourne & funded by Film Victoria . We are releasing this free alpha in ord

Updates & announcements

Hello Our Garbage People!

We were lucky enough to showcase our Trashy game at the wonderful The Game Expo In Melbourne this weekend!

Thanks so all the wonderful people who played for your kind words and encouragement... you are TRASH!

Hello Our Garbage People!

If you haven't noticed, our #NextFest demo is live now!

Comment down your best completion time below! Team best is 2:15!

Don't forget to Wishlist Trash!

Hello Our Garbage People!

This Is Charlie, your friendly creative director for this rubbish game! The game has come so far and it's time we showed it off. We created a new trashy teaser trailer for your enjoyment!

I hope you enjoy the trailer, watch this space for more updates from the rest of the team at Bin Chicken as we continue to work on “Trash” and bring our vision to life!

Don't Forget To Wishlist!

Hello Our Garbage People!

Trash is at PAX for the next 3 days! How exciting!

What can you expect from us:

So please come and say hi or if you can't make it... you are TRASH! Haha, no we understand, Melbourne is literally at the bottom of the world... So instead you can support us with a wishlist ːsteamthumbsupː

Hello Trashy Human!

It's a very special week for us; Melbourne International Games Week!

Hello Our Garbage People!

This Is Charlie, your friendly creative director for this rubbish game! Recently I’ve been working on the flora for the different biomes that are going to be in Trash. I’ve been working hard on making each plant unique, yet consistent with each biome.

I hope you enjoyed my garbage talk, watch this space for more updates from the rest of the team at Bin Chicken as we continue to work on “Trash” and bring our vision to life!

Hello Rubbish People!

Please support Trash by WISHLISTING us today!

Hello Rubbish People!

So what are you waiting for, download it today, for FREE!

Hello Rubbish People!

Please support Trash by WISHLISTING us today!

Hello Our Garbage People!

We are ecstatic to inform you that we have a new gameplay trailer live on the page! So we transition into seeking our next stage of development funding, we thought it important to show off some of the work we have been doing on the game!

Part 1: Establishing The World

Part 2: Emergence Of Resin Life

Part 3: Crafting Forms & Gain Abilities

Part 4: Explore An Open World & Solve Procedurally Generated Challenge Zones

Part 5: Cure The World

Thanks so much for reading! You can support Trash by watching the trailer, showing your friends and most importantly WISHLISTING! Stay tuned for more garbage updates!

Hello Our Garbage People!

Super exciting news for Trash & Bin Chicken! With the aid of our fantastic State funding body VicScreen, we are heading to GamesCom in Cologne, Germany!

Thanks so much trashy people!

Hello Our Garbage People!

I hope you enjoyed my garbage talk, watch this space for more updates from the rest of the team at Bin Chicken as we continue to work on “Trash” and bring our vision to life!

Hello Our Garbage People!

Thankyou to everyone who came along to the ACMI Audience Lab event on the weekend, it was a lot of fun!

Hello Our Garbage People!

This is Seb speaking! I'm a Technical artist at Bin chicken studios and I'm here to share with you a kinda pretty but also slightly dangerous update on the Hazardous areas of Trash!

So for a quick overview of what the system is:

You can keep an eye on the Audience Lab page here and sign up for emails to be notified when the event info goes live:

Hello Our Garbage People!

You can keep an eye on the Audience Lab page here and sign up for emails to be notified when the event info goes live:

Hello Our Garbage People!

Welcome to our first ever Rubbish Dump dev post! We want to make a greater effort to keep all you wonderful people updated on Trash's development, and what better way to do this then updating you here!

Hello Garbage People!

We will be streaming exciting content all week including;

First, a thank you!

What is this trash all about?

A Rubbish List of Changes

We appreciate your support & hope you find the time to give Trash a play! If you do, you can give us feedback here:

Have a rubbish day!

And now, a massive list of fixed bugs!