Hi friends! We've been reading your posts in the forum and have worked to address some of your feedback. It seems some of you have had issues with saving your games, so we've modified how all that works. We also implemented Steam Cloud so that your trees carry across to other computers! This should (at least) fix all of the problems we've heard about. If you follow us on Twitter, you probably know that Bonsai is our first game and that we built it with jMonkeyEngine. Since the release, we've become a bit more proficient with JME, and have made some improvement to the graphics. Specifically, we added in dynamic lighting and shadows, so on the high graphics level your trees will really pop. Surprisingly, Bonsai can be a pretty intensive game for your graphics card. Early in the game, there are not many branches to draw, but due to the growth of the tree, your video card will eventually need to draw a lot of things on the screen to keep up. For this new release, we also reduced the quality of the low graphics level in order to help lower end video cards run Bonsai. We hope these changes make Bonsai better for you all! Some of you are really awesome gamers and we've appreciated hearing from you and seeing your support!

Hi friends! We've been reading your posts in the forum and have worked to address some of your feedback. It seems some of you have had issues with saving your games, so we've modified how all that works. We also implemented Steam Cloud so that your trees carry across to other computers! This should (at least) fix all of the problems we've heard about. If you follow us on Twitter, you probably know that Bonsai is our first game and that we built it with jMonkeyEngine. Since the release, we've become a bit more proficient with JME, and have made some improvement to the graphics. Specifically, we added in dynamic lighting and shadows, so on the high graphics level your trees will really pop. Surprisingly, Bonsai can be a pretty intensive game for your graphics card. Early in the game, there are not many branches to draw, but due to the growth of the tree, your video card will eventually need to draw a lot of things on the screen to keep up. For this new release, we also reduced the quality of the low graphics level in order to help lower end video cards run Bonsai. We hope these changes make Bonsai better for you all! Some of you are really awesome gamers and we've appreciated hearing from you and seeing your support! If you still don't own it don't fret, you can get it for 33% off on Steam through this weekend!

Just in time for Friday, Bonsai trading cards are here! Get your cards, badges, emoticons, backgrounds, and more!

Just in time for Friday, Bonsai trading cards are here! Get your cards, badges, emoticons, backgrounds, and more!

Hi friends, we've added some new things to Bonsai! In this next release, you are able to grow a Birch tree and you have the ability to water trees. Watering makes them grow faster for a period of time, so be sure to water your trees every so often if you want them to grow quicker. We've also listened to your feedback and have made a frame-rate limiter which can be configured in the settings menu. In the first release, we chose to limit the frame rate to a minimum of 10 frames per second. Your tree would continue to grow until your video card could no longer render it faster than 10 frames per second. Unfortunately, some folks thought this felt a little sloppy and it gave the impression of Bonsai being a resource hog. Now, we gave you the ultimate control over how large your tree can grow! The lower you set the minimum FPS in the settings, the larger your tree will grow! Bonsai has only been on Steam about a week and already we're seeing some great pictures in the online community. It looks like some of you are having fun seeing what shapes you can grow your tree into! We're very happy that you're enjoying Bonsai, so keep sending us your feedback and we'll continue to make it into a game you enjoying playing for a long time to come!

Hi friends, we've added some new things to Bonsai! In this next release, you are able to grow a Birch tree and you have the ability to water trees. Watering makes them grow faster for a period of time, so be sure to water your trees every so often if you want them to grow quicker. We've also listened to your feedback and have made a frame-rate limiter which can be configured in the settings menu. In the first release, we chose to limit the frame rate to a minimum of 10 frames per second. Your tree would continue to grow until your video card could no longer render it faster than 10 frames per second. Unfortunately, some folks thought this felt a little sloppy and it gave the impression of Bonsai being a resource hog. Now, we gave you the ultimate control over how large your tree can grow! The lower you set the minimum FPS in the settings, the larger your tree will grow! Bonsai has only been on Steam about a week and already we're seeing some great pictures in the online community. It looks like some of you are having fun seeing what shapes you can grow your tree into! We're very happy that you're enjoying Bonsai, so keep sending us your feedback and we'll continue to make it into a game you enjoying playing for a long time to come!