Hello everyone!


We're on our final two days on the Kickstarter and your support is needed, thank you. :)



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Hello!

We're already 20% funded and we're responding to some common feedback, read it on Kickstarter! :)


https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eatcreatesleep/among-ripples-shallow-waters-restore-the-world/posts/2765208




Stay tuned and thanks for the support so far!

Hello everyone,

Our Kickstarter campaign for the spiritual sequel live and will be up for a month. It's critical to get some early backers so please help us, even if you can only spare one (1) dollar that helps us. We're already 10% funded under 2 days and with your help we'll get to 100% soon enough. :)




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Thank you for the help!
//Martin and the team

Hello everyone,

Our Kickstarter campaign is now live and will be up for a month. It's critical to get some early backers so please help us, even if you can only spare one (1) dollar that helps us a lot.


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Thank you for the help!
//Martin and the team

Hello everyone!

The Kickstarter for our Among Ripples sequel goes online tomorrow, Tuesday, 15:00, UTC+1. You can subscribe to the Kickstarter page if you want to get notified when it goes live. Please also remember that helping us early in the campaign is important to us succeeding so even if you can only spare one dollar pitching in that early is great to get the campaign going. Thank you!






Coming soon page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/eatcreatesleep/among-ripples-shallow-waters-restore-the-world




Stay tuned!

Hello everyone,

Our Kickstarter campaign for our spiritual sequel Among Ripples: Shallow Waters goes live in less than three weeks! Before then you can try our demo if you haven't already and subscribe to our newsletter.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8qsiQIiGss


There's a lot of great let's plays you can watch too if you want to wait with trying the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUfotT1E4AA


See you in three weeks!

Hello everyone!

Valve just approved our demo and you can now download it on the coming soon page for Among Ripples: Shallow Waters. Hope you enjoy.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096090/Among_Ripples_Shallow_Waters/


Please remember that this is a proof of concept prototype so it's not an optimised game, older computers may have problems running it on higher resolutions. The finished game will of course be much more polished. :)





Happy holidays!

Hello everyone,

We have now uploaded the new demo for you to try out. In the new sandbox maps you can explore more of the possibilities of the game. Each map has its own season.









[h2]Download the Demo Here[/h2]* itch
* Gamejolt
* IndieDB
* Our server if you sign up to the newsletter



[h2]Unlock the Full Demo[/h2]We have added three new sandbox maps with different seasons and a new toxic trash gameplay mechanic. To play these you need to subscribe to our newsletter. Everyone who are already subscribed can download the new demo and login with your email to unlock the new demo. What the game does is simply ask Mailchimp (our newsletter provider) if you're subscribed and if Mailchimp says yes you're good to go. :)





[h2]Coming to Steam Soon[/h2]We were not able to upload the demo in time, Valve will review it for release here on Steam for a few days. We will update you when it's finally online here. But if you're really itching to try it you still have four other ways! The demo will be available on the Among Ripples: Shallow Waters page soon.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096090/Among_Ripples_Shallow_Waters



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Happy Holidays from the Eat Create Sleep team!

Hello everyone!

We're happy to announce that we will be launching a Kickstarter campaign in early 2020 and want you all to help us get the word out. You can try our public demo out now, if you sign up to our newsletter (sign up here).



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KickstarterWe will be launching a Kickstarter campaign for Among Ripples: Shallow Waters in early 2020, we will let you know a few weeks in advance when we launch. The best way to keep yourself updated is to join our new newsletter!


Demo and NewsletterYou can download the demo to PC, Mac or Linux if you sign up to our newsletter here. We will only post updates about once a month and you can unsubscribe whenever you want.

Join our Discord and talk about what you'd like to see in the game and the Kickstarter campaign, stay tuned!

Hello everyone!

A lot has happened since we last spoke, we're starting to get the funding for the project together. We haven't found a publisher yet but if we play our cards right we will make it anyway, maybe we'll find one later down the line. The important thing to know is that we're progressing on the development with Among Ripples: Shallow Waters!


PrototypeWe have worked a lot on improving the visuals as you can see. New interface and better watercolour shaders!








Let's PlayTogether with our lead programmer, Tomas I sat down and played our latest prototype. Next time we promise the recording will be even better. ;)


https://youtu.be/2JCoRzDaz6M


Keep in TouchIf you also want to see this game happen please let the world know by wishlisting it and keeping tabs on what we do on our social media. The bigger following we have the easier it is to convince the people with money. It's also easier for you to keep tabs on where we are. ;)

Social media

• Discord
  
• Twitter - Studio
  
• Twitter - Among Ripples
  
• Facebook
  
• YouTube
  

Hello everyone! We're pleased to share our new previsualisation trailer for Among Ripples: Shallow Waters (formerly known as Among Ripples 2).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghSYSpPSf_g


We're still in discussions with publishers and investors so we haven't started full production yet but we're spending our time experimenting and pitching. We hope to go into full production in the end of this year. Stay tuned!


For now we recommend to follow our Discord for news: https://discordapp.com/invite/ecs


You can wishlist the game here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096090

Hello everyone!

Eat Create Sleep has together with a lot of other developers organised a sale that celebrates games that explore and talk about nature. We will offer Crest for sale with 40% discount. Although Among Ripples is free we've also included it to make more people aware of it. The sale starts today, Monday, at 23:00 CEST and will continue until Thursday this week. Check out a lot of interesting games, both famous, old and new!


http://store.steampowered.com/app/341710/Crest/




Also, you can now wishlist our next game, Among Ripples 2! We've updated the link inside of the first game as well so that's why you're seeing an update to it. We've not changed anything else. Please note that the game is still very early in development, but we'd appreciate if you provide feedback so follow the game and tag along on the ride. :)


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1096090/Among_Ripples_2/



Hope you find something on the sale!
//Martin & ECS

Hello everyone! To celebrate that we've been working on Among Ripples 2 for around a year (in secret) I want to share this short clip of the three prototypes we've made since April, 2018.

As you can see the first prototype resembled the first game with "2d side-scroll view" but having tried it we felt it was limiting and went for a more classic tycoon approach with a 3d world. In the second prototype we achieved this and in the third we refined the game concepts and really tried to emulate the watercolour look we've always pushed for.

As usual, feel free to join the discussion on our Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/ecs


Have a nice weekend!
//Martin & ECS

Hello everyone,

Here's some news about the game. We're still in talks with several publishers and hope to sign something soon, this would bring a lot of stability the team has never seen before and we can develop the game in (relative) peace and quiet.


We did a mockup for the interface, it's a bit crowded, it will change a lot.






The base game would take place in Sweden but we wan't to add more campaigns set in other parts of the world. Here's new concept art for the Hebrides in Scotland.




Previously we also did concept art for the Red Sea and China.






We have begun early development on the proper game, so all of the actual content looks very unfinished. Within 8-10 months we hope to be at the same level as the prototype. Usually you build prototypes with duct tape and glue and it's not something you want to build a complete game on, so you basically start from scratch and use what you've learned.

Lastly I want to show you the life of pikes. the team added a first person camera to the animals before we wrapped up development on the prototype, you can't control it, but it looks very interesting imo!



We will be posting more of these on our social media, won't spam you here. And currently we have a poll on Twitter for which animal to do next.


The best place to follow development and interact with us right now is Discord, feel free to join.

https://discordapp.com/invite/ecs



Stay tuned for more!
//Martin & ECS

Hello everyone! We're back from Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, USA. Things are looking good for us, it's very likely we will sign with a publisher within the year, hopefully in summer in a few months.

We also wanted to share this mockup render of how we want the final game to look like, what do you think? Also, if you missed our latest trailer here it is again!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tGtF5HAqjk



Stay tuned and take care!
//Martin and ECS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tGtF5HAqjk


Here's more footage from our latest prototype. Among Ripples is going 3d in order to fight pollution and eco disasters in more dimensions than before!

We are now pitching the project to publishers and hope to have funding soon so we can kick production into full gear. You can always join the discussion on our Discord: https://discord.gg/ecs


Stay tuned! :)

Hey everyone,


We're finishing up on Crest's last big patch and are continuing work on Among Ripples 2, we will have something new to show of the prototype soon. But before then have some more concept art, on the house! ;)

We're posting a lot more on Twitter, feel free to go there:
https://twitter.com/AmongRipples


And you can always join the discussion on our Discord:
https://discord.gg/ecs



Stay tuned and have a nice weekend!
//Martin and the ECS Team

Hello everyone,


We're happy to announce that we're working on a sequel to Among Ripples now, and we want to hear from you what you want from it. The first game was mostly a small experiment, that's why we never charged for it. But since the game "blew up" on Steam with over 500 000 downloads and a lot of praise from you and press we felt that people want this kind of game. And now when we're done with Crest (we're releasing a big patch at the end of the month, but feature-wise it's complete) we want to explore a proper sequel for Among Ripples, to make the idea justice.

The new game is more like a traditional tycoon game with isometric perspective (the screenshot above was an early art test), but still the calm gameplay you like. Bigger and better, more play hours, things to explore and a campaign mode. We can't say anything more at the moment, it's really early in production and a lot will change.

Buuuut... join our Discord and follow the development of our new game, there's more "secrets" there. ;)

https://discordapp.com/invite/ecs



Stay tuned for more and thanks for your ongoing support!
//Martin and ECS

Crest - an indirect god sim is now available on Steam for PC, Mac, Linux.

Welcome to Crest, an indirect god sim where the only way to interact with your followers is by issuing commandments written in a pictographic language.

How these commandments are interpreted and remembered is not set in stone. What you communicate and what experiences your followers have with the environment is the basis for their religion. Over time, commandments can develop different associations and completely change their meaning. After all, your followers still have free will and will sometimes do what they think is best for them, regardless of what you had in mind.

Consequences of your actions may not always be clear and you will need to be aware of the ever-changing environment and your people's disposition, amongst others their disposition towards you. Expressing yourself is the key of Crest; you will do so through your people and the world they shape.

We've been working on Crest for the past four years and would be really grateful if you'd take a look at it.

Thank you,
Eat Create Sleep

http://store.steampowered.com/app/341710/Crest__an_indirect_god_sim/

Crest - an indirect god sim is now available on Steam for PC, Mac, Linux.

Welcome to Crest, an indirect god sim where the only way to interact with your followers is by issuing commandments written in a pictographic language.

How these commandments are interpreted and remembered is not set in stone. What you communicate and what experiences your followers have with the environment is the basis for their religion. Over time, commandments can develop different associations and completely change their meaning. After all, your followers still have free will and will sometimes do what they think is best for them, regardless of what you had in mind.

Consequences of your actions may not always be clear and you will need to be aware of the ever-changing environment and your people's disposition, amongst others their disposition towards you. Expressing yourself is the key of Crest; you will do so through your people and the world they shape.

We've been working on Crest for the past four years and would be really grateful if you'd take a look at it.

Thank you,
Eat Create Sleep

http://store.steampowered.com/app/341710/Crest__an_indirect_god_sim/

If you've enjoyed Among Ripples in the past, please take a moment to add Crest to your wishlist:


http://store.steampowered.com/app/341710/Crest__an_indirect_god_sim/

We've poured our hearts into Crest over the last three years and your support would mean a lot to us. <3

Wow! 3 years and people are still playing Among Ripples & uploading videos about it! Thank you very much for playing this little experiment we did years ago when we were still students.




To show you our appreciation for all your support, we decided to give you a little present. If you navigate to your Steam Library folder of Among Ripples, you'll find that we added the beloved background song for you to listen to whenever you want. If it's not there, please activate automatic updates for Among Ripples or restart Steam.

Among Ripples has now also a Twitter account. Keep an eye out for any upcoming announcements in the near future... ;)

In the past years, our little team has grown to the respectable size of 10 and we're close to finishing our second game, Crest - an indirect god sim. If you like deep sims with easy controls, it should be right up your alley.

To stay updated with everything we're doing:

• Follow us on Facebook & Twitter
  
• Have a chat with us on Discord
  
• Sign up for our, major announcements only, Newsletter

Hello all. It's been two years since we launched Among Ripples on Steam already and what a fantastic journey that's been. While I'm writing this the game has almost been downloaded by a half a million users. Wow. As we've said prior this started out as a student project when our studio Eat Create Sleep was nothing more than a dream. We never anticipated that this game would have such a huge impact and originally we had no plans to release it on Steam, but, it proved to be worth it.

We want to thank you all for playing Among Ripples, giving us feedback, praise and constructive criticism. While we've been working on our current game project – Crest it's always been comforting to look back at an earlier success and draw strength from that.

And with this two year anniversary we want to tell you that our plan is to one day make a sequel, yes, Among Ripples 2. Please note that we're still in development of Crest and 2017 is meant to polish, iterate and finish that game and make it great. AR2 is nothing but a dream at this point, but from the praise the first game got we want to make the idea justice with a sequel.

If you want to follow us for any news regarding our upcoming projects you can sign up to our newsletter or follow our dev blog at our website.


Thanks for the fish,
Martin and the rest of Eat Create Sleep

Hello all!

We've been busy with developing Crest, it has been out on Steam now in Early Access for two months. We think you would find Crest interesting since it's also a management game with indirect control.

We'd really appreciate it if you support us and buy the game, you can get it for 5 dollars now.

We've also updated Among Ripples to the new version of the Unity engine. Among Ripples is now running on Unity 5. We don't promise that this will solve any possible problems you've had, but the engine is more optimised than ever. We've also added the option to turn the sound off, as many of you have asked us to do. Lastly we've implemented an ad in the menu that links to Crest. We got to eat too you know.

We promise that we will remove this ad when Crest exits Early Access. And it's not displayed outside of the menu. This is how the menu looks like now.








We hope you will keep in touch with us as we're continuing developing new experiences, you can see more of what we're up to on these platforms:

http://eatcreatesleep.net/
https://twitter.com/EatCreateSleep
https://www.facebook.com/eatcreatesleep
https://www.youtube.com/user/eatcreatesleep



Thank you for your continued support and praise for Among Ripples. We really appreciate it!

Hi all,

We've just released our second game, on Early Access. If you liked Among Ripples and want to play another management game we recommend you to try it! It's a god game focused on expression and exploring the concept of religion and free will.

An update has been released that lets you run the game in the background, as requested in the forums.

When we started working on Among Ripples it was a student project and we were just a team of two working on it. We were not entirely sure how big our reach with the game was going to be. When our team started getting bigger we decided to polish up Among Ripples and have it as a first launch for our studio to test the waters (if you excuse the bad pun). None of us was really expecting such a warm reception and level of engagement for our little game that we have gotten here on Steam.

Thank you for taking part in our game. Thank you for playing, writing, thinking, experimenting, discussing, exploring, recording, commenting, voting, rating, tagging, promoting. All of us on the team is very humbled by your contributions.

As some have pointed out in their reviews, this is a game that is modest in scope – and we are working on a remedy for that. We are working full time now on our next title Crest, which is a 'spiritual successor' (in more than one way) to Among Ripples. The elements of exploration, experimentation and indirect control we wanted to convey with Among Ripples are present in Crest and are severely taken up another notch. Crest's theme is religion, where you play as a God who writes commandments for your followers. Your followers will lead their own lives and how they will interpret your commandments are not entirely sure. You may find your followers will use your words to push an agenda that is very unlike your own.

For those of you who was disappointed with the scope of Among Ripples we hope Crest will be able to satisfy your appetite. We are aiming to launch Early Access for Crest in March and the full version will be out at the end of May. If you are curious you can check out our page for Crest at our website here, and if you want to be kept in the loop we are both on Facebook and our homepage is updated every week with our progress on Crest.

Some of you have requested to be able to play Among Ripples in a background window. This is a great idea and very easy to implement, so we have scheduled an update for tomorrow which will contain this functionality. Other than that our time will be spent on making Crest.

Thank you for your time,
Oskar Thysell
Lead Designer
Eat Create Sleep