Golembert Release Date

24 Aug 2026Developer post

July-August 26 Update

Belated Buon Ferragosto! 🏖️😊 We celebrated the triumph of our favourite first emperor as they intended on the Romagna coast for a week. But what did we do the other weeks?? What we did in the last 2 months: 1. We received a lot of playtesting feedback! 📝😗 5 people playtested

Belated Buon Ferragosto! 🏖️😊

We celebrated the triumph of our favourite first emperor as they intended on the Romagna coast for a week. But what did we do the other weeks??

What we did in the last 2 months:

1. We received a lot of playtesting feedback! 📝😗

5 people playtested our demo and sent us more than 6 hours of playtesting footage that resulted in almost 100 individual feedback points we fixed/implemented!!!

We are playtesting in waves to implement the feedback between them and we will increase the number of total playtesters per wave in the future. So if YOU want to playtest Golembert before its official demo release at the end of this year, join our Discord to request a key!

2. We uploaded a new devlog! 🎞️🥳

Alicia made stunning a new devlog about the last two months of her development process! It covers the Herbit Settlement, portraits for NPCs like Susu, Tomo, and Crane, as well as the latest Gardening UI Rework and a short sum up of our current playtestings. Definitely check it out on YouTube if you haven’t already!!!

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And what are we currently working on? 🤔

1. We are increasing our playtesting capacities! 🔋

Because so many people requested a demo key in our Discord server over the last two weeks and because of the recent positive (meaning: very little negative) demo feedback, we will increase our playtesting wave sizes. So far only 4 people playtested a build at a time. We will probably go up to 6. That may mean: more feedback or feedback footage to look through, OR: the same amount of feedback because the demo got better. Let’s hope for the latter one!

If you want to request a key too, feel free to do so in our Discord server!

2. We are fixing our clipping issues! 📎

Currently the whole island is still one big sprite. That means that permanent obstacles like balustrades or low wall aren’t rendered behind the main character because they have no separate layer order identity. We will fix that by cutting out all objects that should be rendered in front. Easy!

And that’s it already for this month! 😊

If you would like to playtest our game before its demo release to give us feedback, you should consider JOINING OUR DISCORD SERVER so you can JOIN OUR beta playtesting program NOW!!!

You still have a month left to make this summer count,

xoxo Inspirationbert

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13 Jul 2026Developer post

June 26 Update

🏝️ Hey guys, the year is already half over, so I'm hurrying up to get this post out! 🥵 What we did last month: 1. The first members of our Discord server playtested our demo! 🥳 This month, we launched our semi-public demo playtest on Discord . That means the first people from

🏝️ Hey guys,

the year is already half over, so I'm hurrying up to get this post out! 🥵

What we did last month:

1. The first members of our Discord server playtested our demo! 🥳

This month, we launched our semi-public demo playtest on Discord. That means the first people from outside our extended circle have now tested our demo!!! The feedback has been very good so far (and there were no game-breaking bugs during the Discord playtests too - though there were some in other playtests lol (((but they occured on Linux which is not supported))))

Would you also like to try out the demo before it becomes available to everyone at the end of the year? Then join our Discord server via this link and request a key! 🔑

2. We added more music to the game! 🎻

Since the orchestral recording sessions in March, our composer Luca has been hard at work making additional recordings with guitarists, mandolin players, cellists, and on his own piano to expand the musical range of Golembert. Depending on the mood, you can now experience our soundtrack featuring everything from soaring brass to the laid-back sounds of the mandolin.

Would you like to hear that? Then consider joining the next playtest on our Discord hehe 😇

And what are we currently working on?

1. We are working on the Herbit settlement! 🏙️

Now that our demo is technically complete and contains everything intended, we are turning our attention back to the full game. While the demo does not allow you to build the Herbit Settlement, from which expeditions to other islands can be launched, the full game will let you not only build it but also expand it. We are currently creating the visual assets for these expansion.

2. We’re adding Susu’s portraits! ☠️🦜

All the demo's NPCs (Helio and Herbit) and Golembert already have their portraits implemented. In the full game, in addition to these two characters, you will also encounter the Trade Co. franchisees Milly and Maynard (who also already have their portraits implemented) and the pirate captain Susu very early on. The latter does not yet have portraits in the game, so we are currently adding them.

And that’s it already for this month! 😊

If you would like to playtest our game before its demo release to give us feedback, you should consider JOINING OUR DISCORD SERVER so you can JOIN OUR beta playtesting program NOW!!!

Don’t forget to watch High School Musical 2 or Mamma Mia! this summer,

xoxo Coach Golembolton 🏀

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08 Jun 2026Developer post

May 2026 Update

Hey, June 🪲 Don’t make it bad Take the and make it better Remember to let into your heart Then you can start To make it Better (loosely quoted from J. Paul 'Macca' McCartney's song Hey Jude, written in June 1968) What we did last month: 🤗 1. We received playtesting feedback &am

Hey, June 🪲

Don’t make it bad

Take the [past month] and make it better

Remember to let [this post] into your heart

Then you can start

To make it

Better

(loosely quoted from J. Paul 'Macca' McCartney's song Hey Jude, written in June 1968)

What we did last month: 🤗

1. We received playtesting feedback & implemented it! 🔧

We sent out some demo keys and quickly received 4.7 hours of playtesting footage with audio commentary/feedback from 3 different playtesters this month (🤯). Because they all tested out everything one can do in the demo (and therefore generated superb feedback), the feedback implementation and fixing took veeery long (4 weeks 🥵). BUT it fixed stuff like:

Left and right clicking wasn’t distinguished in a understandable way. Now left clicking means: use, right clicking means: interact.
Harvesting plants in raised beds didn’t delete their internal save. When picking up the raised bed and replanting it the harvested plant still existed.
Plants didn’t indicate if they are in reach of an Olla/sprinkler before placing. Now they do!
There was no interact priority leading to overwatering plants while refilling an Olla (when hovering over both at the same time). Now plants always have priority, which means: you cannot place or pick up an object, refill an Olla, or seed when the plant UI is showing (this may lead to workarounds in the future lol).

2. We added some of the last missing ingame assets! 🎨

Some ingame assets like the Potion Crafting Desk or the Sleep Capsule were still prototypical up until now and got their final visuals. Watering Cans and Ollas got different sprites for their different item tiers, Marker Items and Essences got some polish, and the garden debris got its own visuals (borrowed the art from the decorative limestone slabs before that).

And what are we currently working on? 🤔

1. We are working on our next demo beta build! 🏗️

We have the next 4 waves of playtesters already filled, therefore we want to get the next demo build ready soon. If you want to be part of any playtesting wave before the game’s demo release at the end of the year, consider joining our Discord! 😊

2. We’re polishing demo-relevant UI assets! 🖌️

The demo is almost done but there are still some UIs (e.g. the advanced plant UI, wiki panel, questlog, basic plant UI, olla UI) that need at least a small coat of polish to be done. After that we’ll be switching back to the full game production (from the current demo production) in a couple of weeks.

And that’s it already for this month! 😊

If you would like to playtest our game before its (demo) release to give us feedback, you should consider JOINING OUR DISCORD SERVER so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program in the next couple of weeks!!! 😇

Enjoy the time that you have,

xoxo Go-Kart Lembas-Bread

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08 May 2026Developer post

April 2026 Update

May the forth be with you! 💫 Or… the eighth? Anyway, it’s May! So may I inform you of the duties we fulfilled in the bygone April. What we did last month: 1. We set up our Discord server ! 🌐 We FINALLY set one up! If you’re interested in playtesting the demo or just want to sta

May the forth be with you! 💫

Or… the eighth? Anyway, it’s May! So may I inform you of the duties we fulfilled in the bygone April.

What we did last month:

1. We set up our Discord server! 🌐

We FINALLY set one up! If you’re interested in playtesting the demo or just want to stay updated on the game and its progress, consider joining our Discord server! We are currently still playtesting the game with people we know BUT we will transition into semi-public playtesting in the next couple of months with… you??? 😗

2. We made a new devlog! 🎞️

YEESSS!! 🥳 Alicia made a new devlog about our latest milestones: our soundtrack’s Live Score Recordings, Helio's House rework, and our new Discord server, as well as how things stand development wise. Be sure to check it out on YouTube!!!

3. We received playtesting feedback & implemented it! 📝

We again received approximately 2.5 hours of gameplay video footage from 2 external playtesters, which yielded 55 individual feedback points, 54 of which we fixed (Compost tiers saving & loading still doesn't work properly). In addition, we did some internal playtesting and implemented 33 minor fixes.

Here's a selection of some of the implemented external feedback fixes:

Ingame time didn’t process due to an AmbientManager.Tick error on first start of the game (!!!game breaking!!! but is now fixed)
Crop UI didn’t show if plant is complete or not (has a percentage displayed now)
Compost wasn’t auto-watered by rain
Seeding on rain should result in instant perfect watering
Quest reward is now spawned on player position if inventory is full

And what are we currently working on?

1. We are trying to get more playtesting feedback! 📝

Based on the feedback of the last two months, we've reduced the size of our demo (previously it took up to 2.5 hours, now around 40 minutes to complete). We're currently sending this smaller version out to our wider network and aim for two feedback and implementation iterations this month. 😇

2. We’re polishing demo-relevant assets! 💅

Besides polishing the code and gameplay (which is what playtesting is intended to achieve), we're also polishing our art assets. The UI and environment clipping, in particular, should be improved in the coming months.

And that’s it already for this month! 😊

If you would like to playtest our game well before its (demo) release to give us feedback, you should consider JOINING OUR DISCORD SERVER so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program mid/end of this year!!!

Have a great start of summer, summer, SUMMER,

xoxo Golembella Montez, Vice-President of the West High Scholastic Decathlon Team

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13 Apr 2026Developer post

March 2026 Update

Happy Easter, fellow Chrisians! Just as Christ yeeted himself into heaven a few weeks and a couple years ago, we’re again cranking out a new Update post for you , my beloved . What we did last month: 1. We recorded our soundtrack with the Filmorchester Babelsberg! Thanks to the s

Happy Easter, fellow Chrisians!

Just as Christ yeeted himself into heaven a few weeks and a couple years ago, we’re again cranking out a new Update post for you, my beloved.

What we did last month:

1. We recorded our soundtrack with the Filmorchester Babelsberg!

Thanks to the super cool people from the as well Berlin-based AudioCreatures, we were part of their live recording sessions with the Babelsberg Film Orchestra this month. We spent two days at the film studios and had two 30-minute recording slots to record the 5 main tracks of our game with real humans. Having a 100% non-AI and hand-made soundtrack was/is really important to us to match our hand-made visuals and implementations. Therefore we were super stoked to hear our music live for the first time!!!

Around 50 people were involved in these recordings, most of them the truly fantastic musicians from the film orchestra. Both days were incredibly exciting and fun. Luca, our composer, and Markus from AudioCreatures did a fantastic job. There's even a short video of the live score recordings on YouTube that you can check out to get a feel for those two days!

2. We gathered a lot of playtesting feedback!

Fellow devs playtested our game and sent us gameplay videos with voiceovers that accumulated to 5 hours (!) of pure feedback with over 220 individual feedback points (of which we have implemented most) this month. Feedback we got and implemented were for example:

There should be a visual grid displayed when placing stuff on grid
Crops should display their neighbourhood range as radius (on hover over and before planting them)
Pots can only be picked up when hitting them on points that touch the ground (feels weird)
Items disappear when clicking them in a specific order (leftclick item A, rightclick item B)
Key rebinding is not working (still not fixed)

Overall the game still features a lot of information that is still not that easy to understand. How do you pick up stuff? How does neighourhood work? How does the compost work? These were question that arose during the playtest and were partly answered by themselves through playing. But these are still questions that could be answered more quickly with more targeted ingame guidance and information. We're working on that!

3. We weren't accepted for the Steam event we applied for.

Unfortunately, we were not accepted for the Steam event for which we wanted to produce our first official trailer. Therefore, trailer production is on hold for now, and we will reapply for a larger event at the end of the year with our demo and trailer as the entry fee. Hopefully we will be accepted then!!!!

And what are we currently working on?

1. A new devlog!

Alicia is currently working on a new devlog that covers our latest milestones like the before mentioned Live Score Recordings. We had a longer break from posting vlogs then we wanted to, mostly because Lion had a lot to do with bugfixing and playtesting and didn’t feel like making a video (he’s a bit burned out from YouTube video making). But that only means that this upcoming devlog will be even more fabulous!!!

2. Our future Discord server!

Additionally, we are tweaking our already set up but not yet public Discord server so that YOU can join it next month! The announcement will be part of the new devlog (so there are several reasons for you to watch the next video). The server is mostly meant to be a feedback and playtesting server – so if you have any interest in that, consider joining it!

And that’s it already for this month!

Next month we will (as mentioned) post a new devlog and launch our Discord server. So stay tuned for that!

If you would like to playtest our game well before its (demo) release to give us feedback AND have a chance to receive our game for free, you should consider following us on any social media so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program mid/end of this year!!!

Don’t forget to add yeast!
xoxo Golemon

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10 Mar 2026Developer post

February 2026 Update

O ano só começa depois do Carnaval! ‘The year only starts after Carnaval!’, was the motto of the month this February and girl, we started things! What we did last month: 1. Finished Helio’s House re-render! As mentioned in last month’s Update Post, we adjusted the layout of Helio

O ano só começa depois do Carnaval!

‘The year only starts after Carnaval!’, was the motto of the month this February and girl, we started things!

What we did last month:

1. Finished Helio’s House re-render!

As mentioned in last month’s Update Post, we adjusted the layout of Helio’s House. It’s a little smaller than before but much cozier and more space efficient. Before the re-render, the whole right side of the house wasn’t used for anything, while the sleep capsule of Golembert had just little space behind Helio. Now, the right side accommodates the sleep capsule and Helio’s fire bowl in the center of the house has more room to breathe.

2. Implemented playtesting feedback!

We finished the implementation of all the feedback we got from January’s playtestings. Remaining feedback we implemented was for example:

Permacrops (plants that can be harvested multiple times) were fully harvested on their first harvest
The Herbit wasn’t clickable when obscured by crops
Plant outlines weren’t animated/insync with their plants

3. Polished the game!

We also polished/added stuff that were not mentioned/related to any playtestings. These were for example:

We added all Milly & Maynard dialogue portraits
We added a custom cursor & a new font to potion crafting
We reworked multiple UI panels, for example the Compost Panel, for better readability

And what are we currently working on?

1. Implementing new feedback & preparing a new build!

We already sent out new keys to fellow devs for playtesting this March – so stay tuned for March’s Update Post next month! But as a small teaser, these are some fun bugs they found:

Rightclicking an item and then leftclicking another filled item slot deletes the content of the latter and fills it with the former (what)
Item Tooltips only worked partially (because they didn’t reset themselves/thought that they were always showing after showing once)
Preview plants before planting them weren’t displayed as snapped to grid when using the grid (I still don’t know why this happened, it works in our Steam builds)

2. Working on our first official trailer!

As I mentioned in our 2026 Outlook Post, we hope to have our first official trailer ready in April or May to participate in a Steam Event. For that, we are currently cutting the visuals and recording the live score!

And that’s it already for this month!

If you would like to playtest our game well before its (demo) release to give us feedback AND have a chance to receive our game for free, you should consider following us on any social media so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program mid/end of this year!!!

Aproveite o Carnaval!

xoxo Guilhermbert

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17 Feb 2026Developer post

January 26 Update

Happy Chinese New Year! Today the Year of the Fire Horse has started which stands for movement – and movement is what we want to bring to our development process this year! (hopefully at least) So... What did we move last month? 1. We finished & playtested an early version of

Happy Chinese New Year!

Today the Year of the Fire Horse has started which stands for movement – and movement is what we want to bring to our development process this year! (hopefully at least) So...

What did we move last month?

1. We finished & playtested an early version of our demo!

As mentioned in last month’s update post, we plan to release the demo of our game at the end of this year. We finished the demo implementation-wise – visually there are still some area/asset reworks missing (Potion Map, Helio’s House) while others still need polishing. After that, we playtested the demo internally (meaning: we both played the demo on Steam separately for 1h+) and externally with 4 trusted playtesters (2 fellow devs & their non-dev partners).

2. We implemented playtesting feedback!

These 4 trusted playtesters then sent us their feedback in mostly written but also audio-visual form (a top-notch hour long video with commentary). Feedback we got and implemented were for example:

Too much info at the start of the game! The game fires hints that point to the ingame wiki which both overwhelmed the players. We reduced the number of hints and removed the hint's wiki button (because the wiki entry texts were the most overwhelming part (we will rework the wiki help texts in the future too)).
Start/spawned crops do not feel interactable. Therefore we added outlines to all interactable objects.
The plant UI was too overcomplicated. We reduced its information.
The plant colliders were a bit waggly. We added custom polygon colliders to all plant stages.
The wiki hierarchy UI with a list of buttons with the wiki entry’s content name on it wasn't that fun to use. We reworked the lists with content that could be visualized (like items with icons) to display their icons in a grid for a better overview and less reading (and scrolling).

3. We reworked Golembert’s idle animations!

Golembert had a very turned up idle where they would look in alternating directions every couple of seconds. We chilled that idle down to a simple breather with looking sideways variations every ~10 seconds.

And what are we currently working on?

1. Finishing the pending feedback implementations & preparing a new build!

There are about 13 minor external feedback points and around 14 internal fixes still pending. After implementing those, we plan to upload a new build and start our 2nd demo playtest with 4 other trusted playtesters.

2. Rendering Helio’s House!

Helio’s House render is still not fully finished. After that the final design of the Potion Map is the only major ingame area missing. Then we'll start working on our official demo trailer!

And that’s it already for this month!

If you would like to playtest our game well before its release to give us feedback AND receive our game for free, you should consider following us on any social media so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program mid/end of this year!!!

xoxo Gogodoll

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15 Jan 2026Developer post

2026 Outlook & Dec 25 Update

Happy belated New Year! Hope you all ‘slipped well’ into the new year, as we say in Germany! Because the development process of Golembert is now entering its final (couple of) stages, we thought New Year would be a good opportunity to present to you our current outlook for 2026-2

Happy belated New Year!

Hope you all ‘slipped well’ into the new year, as we say in Germany!

Because the development process of Golembert is now entering its final (couple of) stages, we thought New Year would be a good opportunity to present to you our current outlook for 2026-27!

Our 2026 Outlook

The two major and most important plans this year are to:

release our first official trailer & announce the release date of our demo in July (at best at Wholesome Direct 2026)
release our demo in December (at best at Wholesome Snack 2026)

More minor but still important plans this year are:

the live score recordings of (at least a big portion of) our soundtrack in March
the start of our closed playtestings in late spring
the start of our open playtestings in late summer

In 2027 we then plan to:

participate in the February 2027 Steam NextFest
announce our full release date in July
release the game in the fourth quarter of 2027

Hope you are all as excited as we are for this!

Additionally to our outlook, here’s a short update on what we did last December and what we are currently working on:

What we did last month!

1. We playtested approximatley 36% of the game!

We playtested 36% of the game’s main quests for 6h 30m until we reached some immersion breaking bugs. Examples of bugs we encountered and fixed were:

you lost your poker-like card game against Crane twice if you clicked the ‘accept loss’ button too fast (what)
inventory tooltips sometimes didn’t close (because they didn’t recognize that the mouse already exited their trigger) when moving your mouse away
some UI panels weren’t scaled accordingly when changing resolutions (because they weren’t anchored)

2. We added dialogue portraits for Helio, the Herbit, Susu, and Milly!

6/8 main quest relevant NPCs (+ Golembert) now have portraits assigned to their main quest dialogues! The NPCs portraits are final & will be assigned to their sidequests in the future. Additionally there are 3 sidequest relevant & 5 questless NPCs that still need their portraits. Then all portraits are done!

And what are we currently working on?

1. Making the game demo ready!

So far we focused more on the overall game but currently we are refining more demo-relevant things (meaning: mostly things you see/experience in the first 1.5h of the game). We also introduced a ‘soft stop’ to the demo by hindering NPCs from giving you quests from a certain point on. That way you can technically play the demo for as long as you want (since you can run your garden without quests too).

2. Rendering the house interior and reworking Golembert’s animations!

Because some functionalities were redundant/didn’t make it into the final game (for example having a garden layout desk were you can change the general layout of your garden instead of decorating it yourself), our current house interior isn’t up to date anymore.

Additionally we are finally reworking Golembert’s walk & idle animations!!!

And that’s it already for this month!

If you would like to playtest our game THIS SUMMER (well before its demo release!) to give us feedback AND get a chance to receive our game for free, you should consider following us on any social media so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program THIS YEAR!!!

xoxo Bertrand Bertington III, Baron of Bert

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01 Dec 2025Developer post

November 25 Update

Happy belated Thanksgiving! We’d also like to thank you for giving us your attention and jump right into... What we did last month! We mainly: 1. Uploaded a new devlog! Finally!!! In our 15th devlog , Alicia discusses her current dialogue portrait design process and shares how he

Happy belated Thanksgiving!

We’d also like to thank you for giving us your attention and jump right into...

What we did last month!

We mainly:

1. Uploaded a new devlog!

Finally!!! In our 15th devlog, Alicia discusses her current dialogue portrait design process and shares how her expression drawing pipeline looks like. Be sure to check it out on YouTube!

2. Playtested approximately 30% of the game!

We playtested for 5h and finished 30% of the game’s main quests until we reached some game/immersion breaking bugs.

Game breaking bugs we encountered and fixed were:

A main quest relevant letter wasn’t loaded active (though the save file said it should load as active)
The letter system (which is relevant for mid-game) overall did some weird stuff (deactivated itself when it shouldn’t, pushed the wrong dialogue) – hopefully it’s fixed now! (but it’s a bit confusing for us too)
The compost couldn’t be watered anymore because it thought it was still being watered
Time valuation didn’t consider week/season changes properly therefore time stopped progressing after a week change (which means: plants didn’t grow anymore)

Some game immersion breaking bugs we encountered and fixed were:

You weren’t able to replant an excavated plant (stage 3 tomato lol)
You’d always scroll through your toolbar when scrolling through all the plants you are currently hitting with your cursor (which made it impossible to water/fertilize obscured plants you can only reach that way because you'd always scroll past your watering/fertilization item inventory slot)
The Olla (our version of sprinklers) UI wasn’t calculated every frame making it clip in the center of the screen sometimes
Ollas lost all their water/were set to 0 water when picking them up and placing them again
Higher tier fertilizer (and fertilizing potions - that one isn’t fixed yet!) weren’t using their higher value when they were added to plants
The static ingame storage boxes at the beach didn’t save & load whether they were unlocked (therefore locking all your stored items)

Besides that some less relevant things we did were:

Reworking plant neighbourhood to work without rigidbodies for better performance
Reworking our textual questlog to a visual questlog to make quest goals easier to understand and fulfill
Adding UI to display additional plants hit with your cursor to encourage scrolling through your crop selection
Moving the hit detection of Ollas (clay sprinklers) from their individual objects into a manager script (as we did with plants in August)

And what are we currently working on?

Our focus for next month is:

1. Working on the dialogue portraits of Milly, Maynard, Susu, Tomo, and Crane!

Since making/implementing Helio’s and the Herbit’s portraits took around a month, making and implementing the portraits of Milly, Maynard, Susu, Tomo, and Crane will probably take two months. After that only the portraits of our main villain, 4 side NPCs, and 3 super-side NPCs (without any quests) are still missing!

2. Trying to playtest the main quests up to the 36% mark!

Playtesting really is a step by step process. Therefore we only aim for small steps regarding our ingame progress (36% from the current 30%) to focus on bugfixing. After leaving the mid-game letter-based main story there will be a quest line based on physical present NPCs (which will have no letter-based bugs and therefore will be easier/faster to playtest) again, before coming back to letters at the start of the end-game (and then again return to a regular NPC quest line).

Besides that we are also trying to:

Bugfix current high priority/potentially game/immersion breaking bugs
Bugfix older low priority bugs
Check for performance issues

And that’s it already for this month!

If you would like to playtest our game well before its (demo) release to give us feedback AND receive our game for free, you should consider following us on any social media so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program mid/end next year!!!

Because this is the last Update post in 2025 (the December Update will be posted in January 2026) we already wish you Happy Holidays and a Good Rutsch in the New Year (as we say in Germany)! Have a healthy and happy new year.

We are very happy to have you!

xoxo Baloneybert

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03 Nov 2025Developer post

October 25 Update

Happy belated Halloween! Our last Update Post might not seem very long ago (which in fact is true because I posted it two weeks late in case you didn’t notice) so therefore this post will be as short and sweet as a Halloween treat! Or will it??? So what did we do last month? 1. W

Happy belated Halloween!

Our last Update Post might not seem very long ago (which in fact is true because I posted it two weeks late in case you didn’t notice) so therefore this post will be as short and sweet as a Halloween treat!

Or will it???

So what did we do last month?

1. We added a Night Theme!

As mentioned in last month’s update, Luca wrote a magical Night Theme we implemented into the game this month. It’ll play every night/evening from around 9 pm until 12 pm and signal you that it’s time to pack up your tools and finish your garden work for today. (You can still stay awake until 1 am and will not lose any progress for falling asleep in your garden, just in case you’re wondering.)

2. We playtested approximatley 24% of the game!

We finally playtested up until the 2h 30min mark of the game which is around 24% of the main game’s playtime (meaning: if you only consider/do main quests and nothing else). The only game breaking bugs we encountered (and fixed) were:

You weren’t able to input nails into the recipe of the main quest relevant Repair Potion. This happened because the crafting system only considered garden yields and their similarities (because most potions just need x red crop yields for example). Stupid!
Absolved quests didn’t load properly. That one was partially the cause of us not continuing our save files/not playtesting longer than an hour. This funnily (and stupidly, again) happened because the absolved quests weren’t saved properly! We tried to save/load them as a temporary scriptable object in a way that didn’t work. But now it does!
The skip time-function called when waking up from sleeping miscalculated the time to skip when changing weeks (sleeping from Sunday to Monday). Therefore the old (before sleeping) and new (after sleeping) phases (1/96 time segments of a day in our game) didn’t match up, meaning the old phase was higher than the new phase (767 from last week vs 128 from this week), meaning that the game’s time system didn’t work anymore. The function now consideres week changes too lol.
Falling asleep in the Herbit Map breaked the game’s UI so that you couldn’t exit the Herbit Map anymore. AHHH!!!

3. We technically finalized the Herbit Map!

After visually finalizing it last months we added some transform position feedback animations, some unnecessarily crazy expedition agent paths to the map’s islands, and made the ingame tooltip system work with both world and UI objects (before that only certain/auto-filled UI elements had working tooltips lol).

And what are we currently working on?

1. We’re still working on dialogue portraits!

We already made the first/most important 5 portraits of Golembert, Helio, and the Herbit and will add them to the game this month and/or once we have a couple more ready to implement. Next up to add are Susu, Milly, and Maynard!

2. We’re trying to improve our quest information design!

We stopped playtesting after 2h 30min mostly because the main quest got so complex that we needed more information in the game to fulfill it. The specific quest that I’m talking about requires you to make 2x Unbinding, 2x Neutralize Magic, and 2x Dissolution of Contract Potions. All three potions need an Expedition Item (scissors, soap, and notary’s hair) as well as 5 different garden yields in total. That’s a lot of information you need to know to fulfill this quest!!! Therefore we are trying to make more potion crafting information available in the ingame wiki as well as in the ingame questlog so you don’t have to go through the crafting panel ten times to check which specific red crop yield tier you need.

3. We’re trying to playtest to a certain point!

Now that we reached the 24% main quest progress mark anything is possible, lol. Our goal for this month is to get to 36%! (wish us luck)

And that’s it already for this month!

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Remember to start your Christmas preparations early this year!

xoxo St. Golembert

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18 Oct 2025Developer post

September 25 Update

Oh, I almost forgot to post abou- DO YOU REMEMBER?? THE TWENTY-FIRST NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER??? 1. We added the first tracks from Luca! Two months ago we shared with you that Luca Storz , the composer of Couch Monsters, REKA, and Dino Party, joined our team to work on our soundtrack!

Oh, I almost forgot to post abou-

DO YOU REMEMBER??

THE TWENTY-FIRST NIGHT OF

SEPTEMBER???

1. We added the first tracks from Luca!

Two months ago we shared with you that Luca Storz, the composer of Couch Monsters, REKA, and Dino Party, joined our team to work on our soundtrack! Since then he already composed an epic Joe Hisaishi-like main theme, some naturally flowing garden themes, an upbeat Herbit map theme (based on the main theme), and a wonderful night theme, meaning: he wrote 4+ songs already, which are all in-cre-di-ble!!!!!!!!! His songs are already implemented in the game in their ‘primitive’ Sibelius form (directly exported out of a composing software). They will be recorded properly later next year and then we’ll finally be able to share them with you! :-)

2. We added some progression! (tower locked, ship arrives mid-week)

In its current prototype-y form all areas of our game were always fully accessible at the start of the game. Because that certainly is a bit overwhelming (e.g. meeting 7 NPCs in a day) and people tend to like to work towards things, we added a little bit of geographical progression to our game! Meaning: we made the Watchtower in the Upper Garden accessible after a certain quest and made Susu’s ship arrive on a later day of the week (but we might change that to a certain quest fulfillment day+1 too). Therefore you will now meet all NPCs over a longer period of time, learning about their specialities day by day (not all at once).

3. We finalized the Herbit Map!

The Herbit Map now has a fully functional map (good), with 22 islands you can send expeditions to (to get items and seeds), cute Herbit mission agents sailing a boat (when you send them out), different sea monsters, wave animations, and a Herbit standing by for if you need help (he will give you a walkthrough/tutorial of the whole expedition system). Nice!

4. We bug fixed & playtested the game!

We playtested the game in the editor and in a Steam build up to the (magical) 12% main quest progress mark again and fixed some stuff! Some bugs we encountered (and fixed):

You always started a conversation with the Herbit when rightclicking a plant. That happened because the Herbit mostly walks from plant to plant and is therefore (because of his small size) often hidden behind plants. Therefore I thought it was a good idea to add a ‘start a conversation-listener’ to every plant you’re hovering over when the Herbit stands behind it. Sadly, that variable was never reset to null, therefore triggering on every plant rightclick. Lol!
It was really hard to water certain plants in pots because the distance between you and them (meaning: their pivot, meaning: their center/bottom point) was too big. We simply changed the distance calculation to player position to the closest point of the plant’s collider (easy).

Some fixes we implemented:

We made the Herbit Map, Potion Crafting, and Compost tutorials less annoying by only making them show after clicking the Help-button. Before that each of these panels started talking to you on their own (which was really annoying). Past me thought that was a good idea!
We added the possibility to hold SHIFT when hovering over a crop and scrolling through all crops you are currently hitting with your mouse. That’s a bit weird at first but it helps when you placed your plants too close to another and/or your plants were growing bigger than you thought, obscuring each other and therefore making all plants in the backrow unhittable (HOLLA).

And what are we currently working on?

1. We’re working on dialogue portraits!

Now that the Herbit Map is visually (mostly) done, we moved on to some dialogue partner portaits! So far we only had the base expression of every NPC in the game. That’s why Alicia wanted to add all of Helio’s, Golembert’s, and the Herbit’s expressions to the game in the next couple of weeks! Each NPC will have around 10+ expressions so the final game will have at least 120 portraits! (wow)

2. We’re trying to playtest to a certain point!

To be honest with you: playtesting and actually finishing a game is such a chaotic mess. That’s why we are still playtesting the game!!! (which we’ve been estimately doing since February this year?!?) I am just as confused by that as you are. We haven’t played through the whole game so far (just through around 12% of it) and that’s really the main goal in this departement. I’m almost certain that we will not reach that goal within this year but we’ll hopefully up our game (he) in the next couple of weeks!

And that’s it already for this month!

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Juanín, ¿por qué nunca me traes el café a tiempo? ¡Así no se puede trabajar, hombre!

xoxo Tulio Triviño

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08 Sep 2025Developer post

August 25 Update

Salt air, and the rust on your door I never needed anything more… than an August update post? Well. ’What Taylors did we swift this month?’, you might ask. 1. We bug fixed & playtested Golembert! We playtested the game in the editor and in two different builds up to the (magi

Salt air, and the rust on your door

I never needed anything more… than an August update post? Well.

’What Taylors did we swift this month?’, you might ask.

1. We bug fixed & playtested Golembert!

We playtested the game in the editor and in two different builds up to the (magical) 12% main quest progress mark (about 1h of gameplay - only for time reasons). There weren’t really a lot of bugs popping up (meaning: no bugs that made the game unplayable lol) but a lot of stuff needed to be improved guidance and timing wise (tutorial and general hints for example). So that’s what we did!

Because just stating 'we did bugfixing' is a bit bland we wanted to share some (funny?) bugs with you we encountered (and fixed):

Olive seedlings were so tiny-tiny and thin that you almost couldn't hit them with your cursor making them almost unwaterable (we gave all plant stages custom collider)
When starting a new game the scene manager wanted to create a new (auto)save file even if the save path didn't exist - which always is the case when starting the game for the first time
Plants that are obscured by other (further forward) plants were super flimsy to hit with the mouse. We outsourced the 'Am I hit by the mouse?' function from every plant to a manager that checks 'Is the mouse hitting a plant?' every frame instead (which works a lot better but isn't the most unflimsy still)

Some fixes we implemented:

We added feedback sounds for menu buttons (cute)
Get a hint on how to move on game start (duh)
Auto-stop watering if overwatering for the first (and second) time (overwatering partially happens because the whole Crop UI is still not explained super well - future to do!)

2. We added more customization items!

We added 17 new customization items (pots, raised beds, lamps, decorative plants & items) to try out different decoration set styles (made of rough clay, painted/glazed clay, some made out of wood). Milly & Maynard for example will sell/gift you more industrial produced decorative items, while Susu is all about wood & planks, while Helio will have a lot of clay pots for you in store. So look forward to probably 100+ different pieces of furniture at release!

And what are we currently working on?

1. We’re working on a new build!

We actually do all the fixing & playtesting to make a new build, playtest it, write a list of fixes, and… do it all over again. Our next build will probably be refined enough to send it out to some of our friends again for them to play (something we didn’t really do since 2023, lol). After we implemented their feedback (probably October) we'll expand the circle of potential playtester to potential customers - so stay informed on our social media if you want to participate in that!

2. We’re still finalizing the Herbit Map!

Last month Alicia made concept designs for and first renders of the whole Herbit Map and all of its islands. While the map is already ingame and rendered, it still needs a final render & polish. It also needs some minor implementation adjustments because some of the islands were moved (not really a biggie).

And that’s it already for this month!

If you would like to playtest our game well before its (demo) release to give us feedback AND receive our game for free AND get a Steam gift card as a compensation for your efforts then you should consider following us on any social media so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program next year!!!

Best before June 2027,

xoxo Berthold Brecht

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07 Aug 2025Developer post

July 25 Update

CAESAR Is the name giver of July. Pliny (the Elder) traced his name back to the word caedere, to cut. So what do we do in July? We cut it out! And with ‘it’ I mean the all-monthly update on our playtesting and bugfixing process. Boring! This monthly update will only focus on NEW

CAESAR

Is the name giver of July. Pliny (the Elder) traced his name back to the word caedere, to cut. So what do we do in July? We cut it out! And with ‘it’ I mean the all-monthly update on our playtesting and bugfixing process. Boring! This monthly update will only focus on NEW STUFF!!!

So what new stuff did we do this July?

1. We hired Luca Storz as our composer!

With our game steadily moving into its last 1.5 years of production we finally hired a composer for it! His name is Luca Storz and he worked on the grand soundtracks of Couch Monsters, Reka, and Dino Party! He was always person number 1 on our shortlist of people we wanted to ask to make our soundtrack – so we’re super stoked to have him!! He will really bring out the Ghibli in Golembert and Joe the Hisaishi in you with his compositions if you know what I’m saying.

2. We uploaded a new devlog!

Alicia made a video about the design process of the Beach area of our island! It shows how she designed its environment, props, as well as characters (smol crabs e.g.). Be sure to check it out on YouTube!!!

WOW, so much (meaning 2) new stuff!!!

And what are we currently working on?

1. We’re working on an updated pitch deck!

Up until now we already made two decks back in 2022 and 2023. But now we wanted to try again! Pitch decks are used to apply to publishers. While we do not need a publisher funding-wise, we wanted to check if there is one who could help us outreach-wise. Let’s see what happens!

2. We’re finalizing the Herbit Map!

Besides the island (upper/lower garden, the tower, the harbour, the beach – all mostly done) and the Potion Crafting Map (still WIP), the Herbit Map is one of the three biggies regarding environment design. Therefore we’re trying to (partially) tackle it this month! It consists of the (upgradeable) Herbit Settlement and the map of your archipelago. On the archipelago map you can send out Herbits (who live in the settlement) to other islands to get you (cheap) seeds and items.

And that’s it already for this month! (at least regarding new stuff we did lol)

Next month's post will again incorporate our (confusing) playtesting & bugfixing percentage update. Will we reach our goal of playtesting 24% of all our main quest??? You'll find out next month!!!

If you would like to playtest our game well before its (demo) release to give us feedback AND receive our game for free AND get a Steam gift card as a compensation for your efforts then you should consider following us on any social media so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program next year!!!

Until then:

Enjoy the rest of your summer,

xoxo G-bo

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07 Jul 2025Developer post

June 25 Update

It’s Update time! And this time I calculated fancy numbers for it! So what have we been up to this June? 1. We playtested and bugfixed ??% of the game! Like last update it’s hard to calculate a proper number of just how much of the FULL game is already playtested. That’s because:

It’s Update time!

And this time I calculated fancy numbers for it!

So what have we been up to this June?

1. We playtested and bugfixed ??% of the game!

Like last update it’s hard to calculate a proper number of just how much of the FULL game is already playtested. That’s because:

12% of all Main Quests and 6% of all Side Quests are currently fully tested and approved. BUT
from all 6 main mechanics (gardening, bartering, potion crafting, expedition management, questing, composting) 3 are fully (100%), 2 are mostly (50%+), and 1 is to some minor degree tested (let’s say 0% for math’s sake). And
from all 6 side mechanics (Herbit pathfinding, garden customization, Crane’s card mini-game, yield tier transformation, bottle posts, storage management) 1 is fully, 3 are mostly, and 2 are to some minor degree tested.

That means: 12% of all main quests, approximately 67% of all main mechanics, and approximately 42% of all side mechanics are fully playtested. Adding that up means that we’re at around 40%?? Not sure about that! From now we will just take the lowest number (main quest playtest percentage) as our playtest milestone marker. But know that there are different (and hard to equate) layers to our testing level.

2. We finalized the Harbour and the Beach areas!

Now 4/8 (50%) of all our areas are fully rendered! (Main Garden, Watchtower, Harbour, Beach done, Upper Garden, Herbit Settlement, Potion Crafting Map, Helio’s House to go). Besides the island areas there are also a lot of UI panels that still need finalization – so don’t rejoice too soon!

3. We added Yield Tier Transformation!

Wow, that sounds fancy! But it’s actually just a side mechanic that enables the player to simply merge lower tier yields into higher tier yields at a 2:1 ratio. This gardening bypass may sound like a contradiction to our efforts to make gardening somehow complex (and important). BUT it’s an easy fix for early game misunderstandings regarding yield tier improvement and it broades the general gameplay to different (less invested) playstyles.

Wow, so many numbers! But what does it mean???

Essentially it means that we are done with a lot but still have to do a lot. How much that is? We don’t know!

So what are we currently working on?

1. We’re finalizing the island!

After the Beach finalization we’re moving on to the Upper Garden. Only after that we’ll have the time to really finalize our hybrid (Herbit Settlement, Potion Crafting Map) and regular UI.

2. We’re working on another devlog!

This time Alicia will talk about the design process of the Beach area. So a pretty current topic! If you want to stay tuned about this upcoming video consider following us on YouTube so you don’t miss its release!

3. We're (still) playtesting/working on a beta playtesting demo build!

The goal for June was to reach 20% of the game being playtested. Because that number is hard to calculate we’ll stick with the main quest percentage. We doubled that number from 6% (April & May) to 12% (June) and we’ll try to keep that pace. Therefore our July goal is 18% of all main quests! (with constant growth that means that the game will be fully playtested in August 2026 – that’s a very long time to go. Therefore we internally hope that someday we’ll leave the constant trajectory and start progressing exponentially. That goal would be reached at around 24% for July. Let’s see what we’ll hit!)

If you would like to playtest our game well before its (demo) release to give us feedback AND receive our game for free AND get a Steam gift card as a compensation for your efforts then you should consider following us on any social media so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program!!!

~Stay hydrated~

xoxo Goru Betto

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April-May 25 Update

MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE! Just as time progresses, we also progress in our development. The past segment of time spanned 2 months. So what have we been doing in these 2 months? 1. We playtested and bugfixed approximately 10% of the game! This approximation was calculated

MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!

Just as time progresses, we also progress in our development. The past segment of time spanned 2 months.

So what have we been doing in these 2 months?

1. We playtested and bugfixed approximately 10% of the game!

This approximation was calculated from the number of main quests playtested (6%) and a vague assessment of tested mechanics (+4%??) – therefore it is probably not a true indicator of our current playtesting status. But it's only meant to serve as a rough benchmark to show how far our playtesting has progressed. And therefore 10% sounds about right: Because though we playtested and fixed a lot we didn’t progress very far in the game (about 2h in each playtesting session), mostly due to balancing issues (quests took a lot of time!). We are working on better balancing and will (hopefully) return with an approximation of 20% next month!!!

2. We (mostly) finalized the UI!

We finalized most panels (main inventory, dialogue, trade, compost, sleep panel, escape menu in March; wiki, partially the Herbit map in April) to resemble the ‘open book’-like concepts we had in mind for them. There are still some UI panels to finalize (crafting, Herbit settlement, Crane’s card game) but we’re working on it!

3. We uploaded a new devlog!!!

The viewer vladrez suggested more gameplay and mechanics content as a devlog topic – and Lion made a video about just that! So if you want to check out the current visual and technical state of the game check out his vlog. It covers the plant management, compost transformation, dialogue processing & questing, potion crafting, (Herbit) expedition management, trading/bartering, and wiki mechanics of Golembert.

’Wow, that sounds like a lot and little progress at the same time.’, one might say.

And yes, that’s exactly how we feel. Though we worked through and finalized a lot of things, there is still SO MUCH to do before the game is ready! Therefore there is no time to waste: let’s continue with what we are currently working on!

1. We’re finalizing the island (& the UI)!

While there are still UI panels unfinished we also have some areas on our island that need finalization (the beach, harbour, and forest area for example). Both UI and island are therefore stuff we are currently working on!

2. We’re reimplementing an advanced crop info UI!

Because: who doesn’t love some good UI???!? No, seriously: while playtesting we realized that the information the player needs to achieve higher crop yields is not really accessible. Therefore we are adding a (hopefully very intuitively understandable) panel that you’ll be able to access via CTRL when hovering over a plant that shows you what yield tier this plant will yield on harvest and why.

3. We're (still) playtesting/working on a beta playtesting demo build!

We’re at (approximately) 10% as I mentioned but next month we strive for 20%!!! (which is double speed considering this update covers two months) Purely mathematically that means that our internal playtesting/fixing will be done in February 2026 BUT I put my whole trust in the Omnissiah that we’ll reach that point earlier. Fingers crossed!

If you would like to playtest our game well before its (demo) release to give us feedback AND receive our game for free AND get a Steam gift card as a compensation for your efforts then you should consider following us on any social media so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program!!!

Thank you for your existence!

xoxo Goji Berry

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08 Apr 2025Developer post

March 25 Update

MARCH HAS BEEN TERMINATED That means that 24,65753424657534% of the year have already passed!!! And what did we do in the last 8,493150684931507% of this year??? 1. We (partially) finalized our UI! Up until now we only had a prototypical GUI ingame. Therefore we finalized most pa

MARCH HAS BEEN TERMINATED

That means that 24,65753424657534% of the year have already passed!!!

And what did we do in the last 8,493150684931507% of this year???

1. We (partially) finalized our UI!

Up until now we only had a prototypical GUI ingame. Therefore we finalized most panels (main inventory, dialogue, trade, compost, sleep panel, escape menu) to resemble the ‘open book’-like concepts we had in mind for them. There are still a lot of UI panels to finalize (crafting, Herbit settlement, Crane’s card game) but we’re working on it!

2. We added Tomo & Crane to the game!

Tomo & Crane are Susu's two crew members you probably already saw in their concept art form in posts or videos from us. We now finally had the time to finish and implement their render and idle animation so that Susu isn’t alone on her pirate ship anymore! That also means that we have all (physical) NPCs ingame now except for one secret NPC that will only be available at the end of the main story!

3. We tried to make our game controller playable – but failed (a bit) :-S

We implemented the New Input System from Unity in our game and it works fine BUT we didn’t really think about controller playability when we designed the game’s UI (before that and in general). Though the New Input System makes it possible to use the UI with a controller it conflicts with a lot of useability we only designed for Mouse & Keyboard (and makes it frustrating to navigate ingame for all control devices). Therefore we will for now stick to our Mouse & Keyboard playability and will only consider trying to implement controller playability after our launch (or before it if we have spare time which is very unlikely lol but maybe??). That also means that our game will probably not be Steam Deck supported on launch. Sorry for that!

4. We uploaded a new devlog!!!

Under one of our previous videos a viewer asked how we produce our isometric artstyle – and that’s exactly what Alicia talks about in her new video! You should definitely check it out!!! If you have a question we should answer in a video feel free to comment it here or on any other social media.

But enough about the past! What are we currently working on?

1. We’re still finalizing our UI!

As I mentioned above the whole UI finalization process will still take some time.

2. We're (still) playtesting/working on a beta playtesting demo build!

Sounds boring – and may be a bit boring… but it has to be done! Currently we are playtesting and polishing all our 1st chapter main story quests (the main story has 4 chapters). Cleaning up all chapters will (like the UI finalization) take up some weeks/months. Then we’ll playtest our cleaned build with friends – and after that with you???

If you would like to playtest our game well before its (demo) release to give us feedback AND receive our game for free AND get a Steam gift card as a compensation for your efforts then you should consider following us on any social media so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program!!!

Thank you for reading!

(and your understanding)

xoxo Gogo girl

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03 Mar 2025Developer post

February 25 Update

O ano só começa depois do Carnaval!!! (in English: The year only starts after Carnival!!!) Because February is the shortest month of the year this update will (probably) be the shortest update of the year too! Or will it????????????????? What happened this February ? 1. We rework

O ano só começa depois do Carnaval!!!

(in English: The year only starts after Carnival!!!)

Because February is the shortest month of the year this update will (probably) be the shortest update of the year too!
Or will it?????????????????

What happened this February?

1. We reworked our Steam page!

Did you notice?? :-) We mostly rewrote/streamlined its text down to three lists: one about the general contents of the game, as well as one about specific things our game will definetly 100% include and one about specific things it will NOT include. So maybe check them out if you haven’t yet to curb or hype up your expectations!!! (pls be kind to us)

2. We set up a Discord server!

BUT we will not promote it/make it public for now because we do not really have anything to share that is not already publicly available through our Steam udpates, YouTube videos, or Bluesky posts.
BUT we will promote it/make it public AS SOON AS we have a beta demo build ready to share with you!

IF you would like to playtest the game well before its (demo) release to give us feedback AND receive our game for free AND get a Steam gift card as a compensation for your efforts then you should consider following us on any social media so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting Discord program!!!

3. We added an ingame wiki!

And it was easier to make than we expected! Now you can access all game data within the game. How long does a Strawberry take to grow? How much water needs a cucumber? What items does a Strength Potion cost? All that is now ingame accessible at all time. Wow!

And what are we currently working on?

1. We're making the game controller playable and shortcuts self-assignable!

We would like to get the game SteamDeck ready and one step in that direction is making it controller playable in the first place. We would also like to enable the player to assign shortcuts as they wish. So we do it!

2. We're playtesting/working on a beta playtesting demo build!

This one is something that’ll take a couple of months because it includes a lot of finishing up and polishing BUT it is kind of the last step to a playable demo.

Again: If you would like to playtest the game well before its (demo) release to give us feedback AND receive our game for free AND get a Steam gift card as a compensation for your efforts then you should consider following us on any social media so you do not miss the start of our beta playtesting program!!!

3. We're making a new devlog!!!

Wow, really?? We are doing it again?!? Yes, we are. This time Alicia will answer a viewers question about how she made our (non-)isometric artstyle in a detailed 7min video. The video will probably be released on the 14th of March on YouTubes. So stay tuned!

And that’s it already!

Almost the shortest udpate we did so far, wasn’t it?

Anyhow: If you want to get more dev content about our game check out our official Bluesky account or our unofficial Bluesky account. Choose wisely!

xoxo Camembert

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11 Feb 2025Developer post

Dec-Jan 25 Update

Happy New Year, Miss Sophie! The year is already a month old (btw: are all years Capricorns because they were born at the 1st of January???) and I wanted to take the time I didn’t take directly after New Year’s to tell you all about: WHAT WE DID THIS MONTH(S)! 1. We added a lot o

Happy New Year, Miss Sophie!

The year is already a month old (btw: are all years Capricorns because they were born at the 1st of January???) and I wanted to take the time I didn’t take directly after New Year’s to tell you all about:

WHAT WE DID THIS MONTH(S)!

1. We added a lot of descriptive/helpful texts!

Well, descriptive/helpful texts sounds a bit cryptic now that I wrote it... What I mean with that is: we added tooltips for ALL items and objects, additional daily (random) hints (as an asynchronous tutorial expansion hmmkay), advanced tooltips (which give additional info about specific items like the fill amount of a watering can), an overview of all absolved quests (mostly just the quest description in past tense – very important to have!!!), and a lot of helpful dialogue for the compost, potion crafting and Herbit settlement panel (which you can also mute if they annoy you after a while lol). The ‘only’ texts that are now still missing are the FAQ-like Ask-dialogues of the main NPCs Helio, Susu, and Milly as well as the Wiki entries. We plan to add these in the next couple of months. Then all the words are said and done!!!

2. We introduced minor system adjustments!

Wow, again a very vague wording! To explain that further: we made pot/raised bed plants only consider their pot/bed neighbours in their neighbourhood value calculation (they considered all plants in a radius around them before), refined the pathfinding system of the Herbit by increasing the number of waypoints from 200 to 700 and ‘deactivating’ pathfinding nodes when they collide with a placeable object (for example a pot) and reactivating them once they exit the collider again (for example on pick up). We don’t really talk a lot about these minor adjustments because they are hard to reconcile (as the agenda item title shows), but also because we mostly do more important stuff we want to point out in these updates. This time we didn’t!

By the way I am currently setting up a personal dev account on Bluesky to share all these smaller work pieces in a more informal way then we do on our official account. So if you are interested in something like that consider following me! If not: consider follwing our official account then maybe ;-)

3. We made a new devlog!

Weirdly something we always declare in our third agenda item!!! This time it’s a walkthrough of our Unity setup. So if you’re interested how our in-engine setup looks like and how I work in it – check it out!

So what are your New Year’s Resolutions? Ours were

1. Set up a Discord server!

We plan to start Beta playtesting at the end of this year and want to have a Discord community hub for that. That’s why we are setting one up! If you want to playtest Golembert way before its release, be part of our development journey and even our credits, AND get a Steam giftcard for your service follow us on social media to get notified as soon as our Discord program starts!!!

2. Write the FAQ-like Ask-dialogues & implement and fill the Wiki

As I said we only need the FAQs and the Wiki for our textual content to be complete. That’s why we want to finish these parts up in the next two months. After that we can focus on finishing up the visual content and playtesting. And then we are hopefully done???????

3. Finishing up the UI!

We always had a self-made prototypical UI in our game but never really polished or finished it up properly. So that’s something we want to do within the next couple of months! After that there are still a lot of visuals that need to be finalized (partially the island, some NPCs, most customization) BUT here is also a lot of graphics we already finished completely (all item icons, plants, some NPCs). So we're out of the woods (I would say)!

Btw woods: woods you like to see or read more of our development? Then consider following us on Bluesky or YouTube!

Happy New Year again!

You still owe me $3.

xoxo Gonelli

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06 Dec 2024Developer post

November 24 Update

Hello world! As the great state poet and federal weirdo Tyler Okonma once said: ’CAN WE GO BACK TO NOVEMBER???’ Oh, of course we can, darling! So here’s a little recap for you about what we did this (last) month (November): 1. We added the Herbit Settlement! As you may recall fro

Hello world!

As the great state poet and federal weirdo Tyler Okonma once said:

’CAN WE GO BACK TO NOVEMBER???’

Oh, of course we can, darling! So here’s a little recap for you about what we did this (last) month (November):

1. We added the Herbit Settlement!

As you may recall from a video we made there is a small creature roaming your garden called Herbit. You can interact with, talk with, and even receive quests from it. At some point it may invite some of its cousins to your island – and they’ll start a small village!
These cousins can be employed (for some veggies) to sail over to the other islands of your archipelago to get new seeds and/or items for you. To improve the cousins abilities for expeditions you can expand their settlement by leveling up their chambers, lighthouse, storeroom, and harbour.
Though we still use placeholder assets for the settlement and the archipelago map the Herbit Settlement is fully functional and only needs some more hints, tooltips, and regular banter from the Herbit’s cousins to feel right :-)
Oh, but speaking of tooltips...

2. We added tooltips, adjustable difficulty & time scales, and other quality of life features!

Sometimes I (Lion) get a bit lost in details but these things were (mostly) really on my to-do-list! I swear!!!
But either way you’ll now be able to adjust the game’s difficulty in the settings. Lower difficulties make quests easier to accomplish by demanding less items from you to complete them, higher difficulties will demand more items.
You can also adjust the game’s timescale if you prefer to have a more chill game. Currently the standard time scale is already pretty low with 12min/ingame day but you will be able to speed that down to 24min/day or up to 8min/day.
We also gave interactable objects an outline on mouse hover over, added the possibility to use world tooltips, and added regular (UI) tooltips for items (so far). As Blink182 would say: ‘All the small things!’
But speaking of small things: we also have one BIGGIE for you this month again:

3. We made a new devlog!

And it’s finally one that was made by Alicia again!!! It’s about the design process of our upper garden/watch tower area. Therefore it contains the ideation and production of environment (the tower), vehicle (the Trade Co. ship that docks at the tower) AND character designs (Milly & Maynard are on the ship) – so it’s almost a whole ingame scene design recap! Be sure to check it out on YouTube as long as it is still hot!

But beside YouTubez we are also working on a game!

Oh, you already knew that? But I bet you don’t know what we are currently working on, do you? Well, then I’ll tell you...

1. We are adding tooltips over tooltips!

We already have some tooltips and hints in our game but currently we are trying to fill up their ranks. Meaning: we are adding descriptions for all placeable objects (pots, lamps, et c.), excavated items (plants you dug out with a shovel to place them somewhere else), as well as tooltips for all ingame interactables (compost, water well, sleep capsule, potion crafting desk). Additionally we want to make tooltips ‘expandable’ (via pressing SHIFT on hover over) to give additional info about specific items (e.g. the fill amount of a watering can, the approximate buy/sell value of an item, et c.) and add an overview of all absolved quests (currently there is only a UI window for your currently running quests). Exciting!

2. We are adding banter dialogue for the compost, potion crafting, and settlement UI panels!

As you may know (again) we implemented the (more complex) compost, crafting, and Herbit settlement UI in the last couple of months. They all came with new ingame mechanics (leveling compost chambers to access better compost soil tiers, ‘exploring’ crafting recipe ingredients through trial and error, leveling the Herbit settlement for better Herbit expeditions) AND all had a associated character sitting at the bottom of the screen in case you need any help (kind of like Window’s Clippit/Clippy). These characters (the ‘compost version’ of the Herbit, ‘crafting’ Helio, ‘settlement’ Herbit) currently only have tutorial dialogues/specific info to tell (like what compost value a selected item has in case of the Compost Herbit). That means: they still need some additional/banter and/or a FAQ-like dialogue if you need any additional help after the tutorial dias.

We are also planning to setup a Discord server in the next couple of months. Maybe even this month??!? Who knows!!!
By the way: did you know that we have a Bluesky account too? Maybe you should check that out!

That's it so far! We do not really have as much time to do stuff this month because of Chrisme and stuff but so do you! So keep that in mind and don't be too harsh on yourself. After all: it is Chrimse!!!

Have a nice last month of the year!

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xoxo Gogobee

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05 Nov 2024Developer post

Aug-Oct 24 Update

Griasz eich Gott! I am here to update you about medium level change & progress we made regarding our wonderful garage band game Golembert . W-w-w-w-whAT’s going on: 1. We removed all translations! After we added the machine translations of 7 languages we planned to release on

Griasz eich Gott!

I am here to update you about medium level change & progress we made regarding our wonderful garage band game Golembert.

W-w-w-w-whAT’s going on:

1. We removed all translations!

After we added the machine translations of 7 languages we planned to release on Steam we got the feedback that machine translations are bad and that we should feel bad. We definetly felt that and decided to remove all languages that the game wasn’t originally written in officially (it was written in German and English only). Unofficially we will keep the options to: a) edit the game’s translations .csv file (via Excel or even Notepad), and b) still select the 7 excommunicated languages ingame. That way speakers of these languages can easily add their own translation to the game and trade them with other players unofficially. We will (sadly) henceforth ONLY support the English and German version of Golembert because we do not have the budget to hire professional translators for other languages.

2. We (finally) finished writing & implementing ALL QUEST DIALOGUES!

Last month I wrote about all sidequest being added but now we also added the last couple of bottlepost quests (that you’ll receive via… bottlepost) and are now officially done with all the quest dialogues – hurray! Golembert will feature 76 quests (including 24 main quests). Depending on the way you calculate their playtime (we haven’t played through them all ourselves yet lol) they could lead to a minimum of 19h (15min/quest) of playtime!!! Unbelievable. Mom, get the camera!!!

3. We balanced our ingame economy!

Now that all the quests were ready to test we had to start giving them all reasonable quest goals. And what’s reasonable in times like these? Well, good question. To find that out we made a big spreadsheet that listed all the items (and the time they consume to be made and their water and soil cost), potions (and the items they need), and quests (and the potions/items they need) and divided them by the maximum amount one could (approximately) do within an ingame day – and that is how we came up with an economy. That’s probably how they did it back in the GDR too I guess lol

But enough about the past! What holds the future for us??

1. We are working on a new YouTube video!

Oh, we still are? We still are! So bear with us!!! Seriously the whole MA of Alicia really took a toll on our YouTube game. But we will be back for you in the near future! Until then you can still indulge in our old, well ripened devlogs from the past. They still are – I might say – a blast.

2. We are adding Compost & Potion Crafting help!

Guidance is really the most important thing in a game (write that down!!). Therefore we already added some casual ingame hints that guide you through the first steps of the game. But we don’t want the player to force read through a wall of text for some advanced concepts/mechanics – like our Compost or our Potion Crafting. That’s why we added/reused little helper NPCs for both mechanics/screens that will give you general or specific hints about compost input or crafting recipes. Sometimes they’ll even start a chat with you. Cozy!

3. We will add a Herbit Settlement!

As you may recall from a video we made there is a small creature roaming your garden called Herbit. You can interact with, talk with, and even receive quests from it. At some point it may invite some of its cousins to your island – and they’ll start a small village! Through it you will be able to send out Herbit Expeditions to other islands of your archipelago to get seeds and items you need. You will therefore also be able to upgrade the village to attract more Herbits, increase Expedition speed, and reach islands that are further away from you. And to make it look cuter of course!

Don’t let the worst get your best!

We recently had some bad Social Media experiences (for example when asking around in Reddit about whether using machine translations as an indie dev is okay) with some downvotes and aggressive comments. Experiences like that make the already tough experience of being a 2-person studio not really easier. But sometimes you have to remind yourself that people that want to make you feel bad probably feel worse – so don’t think too much about it!

Love y'all, appreciate y'all,
xoxo Jolly Bert

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Updates & announcements

Belated Buon Ferragosto! 🏖️😊

What we did in the last 2 months:

1. We received a lot of playtesting feedback! 📝😗

2. We uploaded a new devlog! 🎞️🥳

And what are we currently working on? 🤔

1. We are increasing our playtesting capacities! 🔋

2. We are fixing our clipping issues! 📎

🏝️ Hey guys,

What we did last month:

1. The first members of our Discord server playtested our demo! 🥳

2. We added more music to the game! 🎻

And what are we currently working on?

1. We are working on the Herbit settlement! 🏙️

2. We’re adding Susu’s portraits! ☠️🦜

Hey, June 🪲

What we did last month: 🤗

1. We received playtesting feedback & implemented it! 🔧

2. We added some of the last missing ingame assets! 🎨

And what are we currently working on? 🤔

1. We are working on our next demo beta build! 🏗️

2. We’re polishing demo-relevant UI assets! 🖌️

And that’s it already for this month! 😊

May the forth be with you! 💫

What we did last month:

1. We set up our Discord server! 🌐

2. We made a new devlog! 🎞️

3. We received playtesting feedback & implemented it! 📝

And what are we currently working on?

1. We are trying to get more playtesting feedback! 📝

2. We’re polishing demo-relevant assets! 💅

And that’s it already for this month! 😊

Happy Easter, fellow Chrisians!

What we did last month:

1. We recorded our soundtrack with the Filmorchester Babelsberg!

2. We gathered a lot of playtesting feedback!

3. We weren't accepted for the Steam event we applied for.

And what are we currently working on?

1. A new devlog!

2. Our future Discord server!

And that’s it already for this month!

O ano só começa depois do Carnaval!

What we did last month:

1. Finished Helio’s House re-render!

2. Implemented playtesting feedback!

3. Polished the game!

And what are we currently working on?

1. Implementing new feedback & preparing a new build!

2. Working on our first official trailer!

Happy Chinese New Year!

What did we move last month?

1. We finished & playtested an early version of our demo!

2. We implemented playtesting feedback!

3. We reworked Golembert’s idle animations!

And what are we currently working on?

1. Finishing the pending feedback implementations & preparing a new build!

2. Rendering Helio’s House!

Happy belated New Year!

Our 2026 Outlook

What we did last month!

1. We playtested approximatley 36% of the game!

2. We added dialogue portraits for Helio, the Herbit, Susu, and Milly!

And what are we currently working on?

1. Making the game demo ready!

2. Rendering the house interior and reworking Golembert’s animations!

Happy belated Thanksgiving!

What we did last month!

1. Uploaded a new devlog!

2. Playtested approximately 30% of the game!

And what are we currently working on?

1. Working on the dialogue portraits of Milly, Maynard, Susu, Tomo, and Crane!

2. Trying to playtest the main quests up to the 36% mark!

We are very happy to have you!

Happy belated Halloween!

So what did we do last month?

1. We added a Night Theme!

2. We playtested approximatley 24% of the game!

3. We technically finalized the Herbit Map!

And what are we currently working on?

1. We’re still working on dialogue portraits!