Fixed an issue with the Steam integration that was causing immediate crashes on Apple Silicon devices (I think).\n\nAlso fixed some minor UI issues that occurred at extreme aspect ratios, and found and fixed a bug where window size changes made in the nursery were reset when returning to your pot.

Just some quick fixes in response to early feedback from the Crystal Gyroscope Update.

• Viridi will now launch in windowed mode by default.

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• The ESC menu has a button to toggle between windowed and fullscreen modes.

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• Viridi will attempt to remember your selected mode and resolution and will re-launch in that mode.

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• The bottom/main menu, spritz, and hoist buttons will now shift around as you resize the window, to keep a functional, good-looking layout. The minimum width of this menu area has been expanded to support even longer plant names.

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• The ESC menu will now unhide UI when it opens. (There is a semi-secret function of the Z key hiding/unhiding the UI. ESC will force unhide, which I think will be easier for people when they accidentally hide the UI without knowing what\'s up.)

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• The rename UI will now properly close when you click away from a plant without finishing rename.

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\nThanks for your feedback and your patience! Let me know if anything else is busted.

Our first Viridi update since 2018 . Hello from the future!

We\'ve updated the engine and done some selective optimizations, so the game should run a little smoother. We finally have a 64-bit OSX build!

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There are two new pots, \"The Dansk of a Lifetime,\" and \"Bronzino.\" If you don\'t know, you can change your current pot while keeping all the plants by using the \'Repot ___\' option in the Nursery.

We\'ve added a new environment, the Elven Throne. This environment will be unlocked for free for anyone with the achievement \'The Elven Artefacts\' from https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061610/Tenderfoot_Tactics/\"" style="color:#bb86fc;text-decoration:none;">Tenderfoot Tactics . It\'s a tough one, you basically have to beat the game, heheh. You can also buy the Crystal Gyroscope in the Nursery to gain access to the Elven Throne.

Other changes:

• The ESC key, when pressed in the pot scene, will now bring up an \\[Exit Viridi] button, so you no longer have to just alt-F4 out of the game.

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• The bat now only has a chance to come out on Halloween (it was bothering some people).

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• Snow has been tweaked to look a little nicer imho.

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• There is now a toggle button to disable/enable weather events (looks like a ) in the primary menu, next to the music toggle.

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• It\'s easier to select the snail now. You used to only be able to click the soil near them, but now you can click them direct, even if they\'re on the back side of your pot.

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• Tweaked the plant name UI to better support longer names.

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• Added credits in the Nursery.

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Thanks so much for all your support over the years!

Wildflower is being worked on by the team that made Viridi, and incorporates Viridi-like gardening into a broader, witchy RPG. Check it out! We think you'll love it!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1764340/Wildflower_From_the_Embers

The game!! The game we've been working on for years and years!! It's out!

Join me on the Tenderfoot Tactics game page where I'll soon be streaming myself playing, answering your questions, and blushing at your praise.

- Badru
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061610/Tenderfoot_Tactics/

A party of goblins, granted magic by an ancient spirit, wanders the archipelago, fighting back the terrible Fog.

Tenderfoot Tactics is a big, exploratory, open world tactics RPG with a focus on elemental magic and complex, cascading side effects.

The entire dang Viridi team is working on it, and it's coming really soon! October 21st!

Check it out, and throw it a wishlist to be notified when it releases:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061610/Tenderfoot_Tactics/
twitter.com/tenderfoot_tact
facebook.com/TenderfootTactics
instagram.com/icewatergames/
discord.gg/B82BDEv

A game about making games.

A collaboration between half of the Viridi team (Michael Bell on sound and music, Badru on code) and a newer Ice Water Games member, Galen Drew.

We hope you enjoy it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/969540/Pattern/

Hello!!

We've just announced today that we'll be self-publishing Tenderfoot Tactics through Ice Water Games. This might not seem like a big deal, idk. It's a big deal for us though!

Ice Water Games is a label that most of the Tenderfoot team has been a part of since it was first founded to publish Eidolon. It's a collectively owned and democratically run project, and publishing through it rather than signing with someone else means betting on ourselves and investing in a communally owned resource. IWG's history has been artier and less dorky than Tenderfoot, and by doing this I hope we're both saying: Tenderfoot is arty, actually, in the ways that matter and also, arts outlets should be treating 'lowbrow' fantastical genre work as serious and worth playing.

Probably more exciting, our Steam page has all new screenshots and a fresh gameplay recording with the new UI. Check it out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061610/Tenderfoot_Tactics/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/969540/Pattern/

Tenderfoot Tactics: The Foreverlands is live now: https://sonofbadru.itch.io/foreverlands


The Foreverlands is an ancillary tale told in the world of Tenderfoot Tactics. It also serves as a demo of the first handful of classes and the combat systems in their current state (still in development).

Thanks for looking!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061610/Tenderfoot_Tactics/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1122880/Stones_of_Solace/
Have fun!

Just a little announcement that upcoming label project Stones of Solace now has:

• a release date (in only 2 weeks!)
• a Steam page
• and a price (FREE!)
  

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061610

I haven't been very loud about Tenderfoot until now because I've been waiting to get this teaser together to show off the open world, which is part of what makes it stand out among TRPGs. (I mean, also the combat is super deep and interesting and fun.)

Anyway I'm really excited about it! It's a small team but all of us also worked on Eidolon and Viridi. Wishlist it! It really makes a huge difference!

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

Hi! I'm Badru!

I started Ice Water Games, lead the Eidolon team, did a bunch of colors and design and code on Viridi, and uhh did some other stuff too!!

I just made a Steam Creator page for myself here , if you want to follow my work:

And hey also! I'm working on a new thing with some past collaborators (which may or may not end up coming out under the IWG label) - Michael Bell's doing the music and Isa Hutchinson's helping a bunch with design. It's a big open-world TRPG about wizardly goblins and fae spirits and elemental magics. Wishlist it if you're into the stuff we've worked on in the past?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1061610/Tenderfoot_Tactics/?curator_clanid=35059002
And also give it a follow! I think I'll be posting development updates over there very soon :)

Hi friends! A new project from Ice Water Games was just released today! Check it out!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/993500/Ritual_of_the_Moon/
There's more information, and links to mobile storefronts on our website. (Just iOS for now, sorry, but follow us on the social media of your choice for an update once it's on Android!)

Savor the simple pleasure of building and maintaining a fire. Best enjoyed during seasonal gatherings and cold, dark nights.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/933080/Fire_Place/
Do check out the demo - meant to be a satisfying version of the thing on its own, a cozy addition to any fall party.

Happy Equinox!

Happy January everyone!

We heard that the quickly flashing day-night cycle that played at startup if you'd been gone a very long time was physically uncomfortable (or even a seizure risk) for some people, so we made a minor graphical adjustment.

Now, if it's been any more than 4 days, while your plants will still grow to reflect it, the time playback animation will only show 4 cycles.

Love from Seattle!

Happy January everyone!

We heard that the quickly flashing day-night cycle that played at startup if you'd been gone a very long time was physically uncomfortable (or even a seizure risk) for some people, so we made a minor graphical adjustment.

Now, if it's been any more than 4 days, while your plants will still grow to reflect it, the time playback animation will only show 4 cycles.

Love from Seattle!

From today's patch:

• Three new pot options
• New seasonal and weather effects
• Fixed some visual bugs
• Updated the engine to fix a Linux issue
  

From today's patch:

• Three new pot options
• New seasonal and weather effects
• Fixed some visual bugs
• Updated the engine to fix a Linux issue
  

Hi again friends!

Changes from today's patch:

• Significant changes to the new look: light is more focused, shadows are more saturated, plants maintain more of their local color
• Fixed a bug which caused some plants to change colors
• Some visual inconsistencies in the Grove environment have been addressed
  

Hi again friends!

Changes from today's patch:

• Significant changes to the new look: light is more focused, shadows are more saturated, plants maintain more of their local color
• Fixed a bug which caused some plants to change colors
• Some visual inconsistencies in the Grove environment have been addressed
  

Hi friends!

Sorry for the long silence! We’ve been distracted preparing Viridi for mobile. Now that it’s finally out (android / iOS ), we’re able to bring all of the updates back to our beautiful and faithful Steam community.

Some of the more major changes:

• New background: the Apartment!
• Major visual unification overhaul - new custom shaders, cleaned up textures, lots of visual inconsistencies fixed
• Cat House background updated/improved
• New diverse snail colorations in different environments
• Tab key now cycles through plants
• Connection difficulties now reported to user in Nursery
• Bug fix: dead/dying plants no longer animate their death on each load
• Succulents now grow at a slightly more realistic pace
• Succulents are now significantly more resilient
• Overwatered succulents return to a Sated state much more quickly
• Various flowering issues fixed
• Default plant sizes tweaked
• Links to various social media and support email added to Nursery
• Plant selection/camera tweaked/improved
• Improved feedback for Vacation Mode - a Welcome Back screen on return
• Lots of bug fixes small and large
  

Hey everyone this is just to let you know that in order to prepare Viridi for mobile platforms I changed the format of the UI. This in turn changed the size and location of the UI elements. I tried to keep the sizes close to the original, but everything is gonna be a little off anyways.

Okay I'm pretty sure I have the flowering nailed down now. Again sorry that this has taken so long, hopefully this will be the last of it.

Still if anything peculiar shows up please send the files immediately to dev@icewatergames.com.

(FYI to get the output log you can right click on Viridi in your library click on properties --> local files --> browse local files --> Viridi_Data)

Sorry that this has taken so long to address. This patch will fix the major memory leak problem. Also this patch will try and correct the bug with flowers disappearing too quickly. Unfortunately I am not positive what exactly is causing the flowering problem.

If anyone continues to experience crashes or flowers disappearing too soon please send the output log and crash file to dev@icewatergames.com.

(FYI to get the output log you can right click on Viridi in your library click on properties --> local files --> browse local files --> Viridi_Data)

Hey I just uploaded a Viridi build that will allow mac users to name their stuff again.

Due to high demand for the return of looping music the mute button now toggles between looping music, playing only one track, and mute.

We have reached our first major update.

• New Environment
• A new succulent, Lithops optica 'Rubra'
• Vacation mode
• The grove environment now uses music from the grove in Eidolon
• Flowering achievements
• Achievements for "throwing your plants in the garden", formerly deleting plants
  

• You can now use z to name stuff and it won't disappear your UI
• The nursery allows you to zoom in and manually rotate plants
• Plucking weeds doesn't also select a different plant
• The snail farts when you pick it up
• Music does not constantly loop anymore
  

• Camera locks more quickly & precisely while placing plants.
• Zoom partially enabled while moving plants and snail, for increased precision.
• Fixed a bug where backup saves weren't being properly reverted-to in some instances.
• Spritz button is now disabled briefly after being pressed, to avoid accidental overwatering-deaths due to doubleclicks/lag.
• Spritz/Thirst values tweaked so that spritzing once while Sated will never kill a plant.
• New plants now start at the same size as starter plants, instead of automatically starting at the full size their space will allow (to help preserve pot space for easier rearranging).
• Confirmation window on plant deletion clarified to exaggerate severity even further.
• Flowers now last about a week (and some new flowers added).
• Snail freed from trailing-plant prison—now moves freely, incorporally through all biological matter.
  

• Achievements added for maturing your plants
• Arrow keys now zoom/rotate, for those of us without mice.
• Scientific names are written a little smarter
• Mac fullscreen mode should be easier to escape
• Subtle tooltips added to many UI elements to increase clarity
• Plant deletion text altered to emphasize permanence & severity
• Stealth-fixed some bugs I don't want you to know about
  

We're launching! It's now! We've got a bottle of champagne and we're excited to share our project with the world.

I've just put our release trailer live on the Store page.

Enjoy!

-Kevin