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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Incledible news: 25.000 of you have wishlisted WATERFUL 😱🤩 Your support means everything to me since this is the only chance to tell Steam that this is a game people might enjoy and therefore shows it to people. So thank you all SO much!! 🫶

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Gamescom 26 recap! 👾👯‍♀️🎇 Had the best time showing my little game at this Cologne madhouse they call Gamescom! I received so many kind words about my game and got to hang out with super cool new and old friends. I'm so incredibly honoured to be part of this wonderful gamedev community 🥰

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

So so excited to announce that I'm teaming up with the super lovely folks at @wholesomegames.com! WATERFUL is now officially part of Wholesome Games Presents 🥳🤩😱🎉✨

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I fell in love with dry landscapes while traveling and now I'm making a game about it! In WATERFUL you guide water through tiny desert valleys and let plants grow. Discover the animals attracted to the new habitats and solve tiny puzzles. Can you see the resemblance?

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Some more of my favourite feedback from the WATERFUL playtest 🎮🌱✨ Reading the extremely lovely responses from the playtesers still makes me SO happy! 🥹 Thanks so much everyone! 🙏

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thomas "noio" 🏔️ vandenberg @handle.invalid · 18/08/2026

OMG! GARBAGE COUNTRY won the Grand Prix Prize at BIC festival 😭🥹 We’re so honored 💕💕 Thank you to BIC and also tysm to all the players who stopped by and played our demo!!! We’re headed to gamescom next, so we’ll see ya’ll soon :) #GarbageCountry #indiegamedev #indiegame #gamedev

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The first WATERFUL playtest is over and I've gotten incredibly helpful and lovely feedback! Thanks to everyone who participated 🙏 😊 Here's some of my favourite.

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Playtest is starting NOW!! 😱🥳✨ If you have requested already, check your mails! And if you haven't, head over to Steam and do it now! You can play until august 13. AAAah, this is scary but exciting, can't wait to hear what you think!!

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Officially announcing my very first WATERFUL playtest on Steam! 🎮✨🥳 The playtest will run all throughout the Wholesome Games Celebration august 6-13 🌱 You can sign up already to be the first to play!

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Wholesome Games @wholesomegames.com · 27/07/2026

Our annual Steam event, the Wholesome Games Celebration, starts August 6 at 10am PT! We've curated 150+ discounts, demos, new releases, and world premieres. This year's event includes titles like Paralives, Fields of Mistria, Planet Zoo, and more!

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Super stoked to be part of another fantastic Wholesome Games Festival on Steam 🤩 Can't wait to do my very first WATERFUL PLAYTEST during the celebration 🌱✨

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've made some changes to the sticker book so it can hopefully explain better where to find which animal. I liked the old photo album vibes but I think the cutout shows better what shape is needed to create the biome. Which version do you like best? 🤔

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The new key art and some screenshots of my tiny oasis building game WATERFUL ✨️

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Wow!! @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social did an article about WATERFUL 🤩 That's huge, thank you!!

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Wow that was fast!! Thanks for spreading the good news 🥳

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

OMG you guyss 😱 WATERFUL just hit 10.000 wishlists ✨️that's insane!! Thank you all so so much, your support means the world to me 😭 ❤️‍🔥

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Very nice summeries of games from @wholesomegames.com Wholesome Direct! Also great explanation of WATERFUL! Thanks a lot!

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Happy Broccoli Games @happybroccoligames.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

🔪announcing our new game🔪 - from the Duck Detective devs (us!) - Knives Out-inspired mystery thriller - fully voiced - It’s your grandma’s 84th birthday - someone’s trying to kill her… but WHO? Apple Crumble, coming 2026 to Steam

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Rose @rosedoltan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

🌊Waterful - TBA @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social 🐦Rubber Bird - TBA @outretaupe.bsky.social 🐁Hela - 2026 🧀Little Cheese Works - Q3 2026 @littlecheeseworks.bsky.social

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KrisWB 🌱 @kriswbennett.co.uk · 06/06/2026

💧 Waterful 💧 Transform the dry landscape into a lush oasis 🌴 By solo dev @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social A peaceful nature-builder, dig riverbeds to guide water through tiny procedurally generated desert valleys 💌 email press@ / creators@ futurefriendsgames.com to get on the review list

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

✨️ finally officially announcing my first game ✨️ WATERFUL: a peaceful nature-builder where you dig riverbeds to guide water through desert valleys 🏜️ make tiny ecosystems blossom! 🌴 grow a variety of plants 🦊 discover animals in the new habitats ⚙️ unlock contraptions to reach new areas

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Wholesome Games @wholesomegames.com · 06/06/2026

WORLD PREMIERE: Collect every animal, tackle challenging terrain, or simply create a beautiful oasis in WATERFUL, a game about digging riverbeds to guide water. Create different shapes to grow plants and attract animals to new habitats. #WholesomeDirect2026

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The Toukanas made a lovely clip of me visiting them in their office 🤩 Thanks so much again for having me 🫶

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Shahriar Shahrabi | شهریار شهرابی @ircss.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I am so happy the tree is done, this killed me 🤡 So here some fully geo node procedural stylized tree. The hardest part was nailing the style and shading. Nodes here: github.com/IRCSS/Blende...

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Working on a sticker book for all the animals you can collect! Now I'm realizing that every game recently has some sort of book in it 👀 Are we fed up with books yet or is this fine?

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Shahriar Shahrabi | شهریار شهرابی @ircss.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Making the procedural cliffs almost made me gave up. Its so hard 😅If you can allow yourself baking maps, remeshing etc, the problem becomes trivially easy. But without it you are fighting the lack of resolution. Any ways semi happy with my current setup. next is trees

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I've been busy getting my little 1-woman-company running. Feels a little overkill with all the incredibly clunky birocracy here in germany and there's not much progress on the game... But it feels kindo cool to be all officially a company now with my own little (wip) logo and stuff!

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Had a lovely time co-working at @toukana.bsky.social 's office today! They're cooking up something really cool for the summer ✨ Thanks for having me 🫶

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Just the level generator telling you all to hang in there today! Thanks, level generator 🫶

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Look who's here in their favourite lookout spot 🌴

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Instead of shrinking and dying, I tried making plants dry out so they can be "saved" when you get them their water back. That might lead to the level being covered in dry plants which I'm not sure is a good or bad thing 🤔

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I was reworking some shader stuff when suddenly everything turned into a magical winter wonderland❄️✨ I had scrapped the idea of snow in my game but now I'm wondering if I tossed out a low hangig fruit🤔

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The level generator is starting to create some pretty cute canyon valleys 🏜️✨ My camera controller is not a fan of those pillars though🥲

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Back working on level generation. My approach is still to make a height map by stacking a bunch of noises in a shader and saving that as a texture for my terrain generator to munch on. Its going okay, creating real variation is hard! Also what are the level borders supposed to look like?

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

3D unwrapping this little fellow feels wrong somehow 😬 🥺

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Finally got an excuse to use Unity's VFX graphs (instead of good old particle systems out of habit) and I must say they are pretty neat. The ability to combine them with Shadergraph shaders did it for me! So I can both have flying behaviour and flapping wings in this little bee swarm VFX I made 🐝 👌

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thomas "noio" 🏔️ vandenberg @handle.invalid · 30/09/2025

drake meme: ✋😒 fix bugs and create content 😎👉 f* around with water shader

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Researching water mechanics I found these cool water wheels that romans used to transport water upwards! 🤩 They're called "noria" and are solely driven by the river's current. I loved them so much I needed them in my game too!

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

My postcards made it all the way to New Zealand!! Thank you @cuddlepunk.bsky.social for those photos 🥰

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Made some postcards with screenshots of my watery game for a playtesting event. Of course they arrived half a day too late and now I'm stuck with 300 of them 🤦 They'll probably be outdated by the time I get to the next event too so... anyone want to get a postcard from me? 😅

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I did it people, I got the funding for my watery game! 🥳 That means I can actually make this into a real thing and bring it to you on Steam 🤯 This already is a dream come true, thank you MBB for believing in me and everyone here cheering me on 🥹❤️

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

So on a scale from 1 to Niagara - how many waterfalls are enough waterfalls? 🤔

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Tall waterfalls! And ripples under them. Also: grass adjusts nicely to the new color variations in the terrain now.

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Experimenting with different colors for each height level of the terrain 🎨

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Lenja making WATERFUL🌱 @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I've been working on waterfalls for my watery game! 🌊 Here's some WIP footage:

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thomas "noio" 🏔️ vandenberg @handle.invalid · 08/06/2025

Officially announcing my new game: GARBAGE COUNTRY. A lonely road trip through the ruins of a forgotten world. feat. vast wastelands, tower-defense battles, upgrades, mysteries, & lots of driving.

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Sentiment Games | Deck of Memories @sentimentgames.com · 18/06/2025

Tapping, swiping, poking—diorama interactions are coming! 🎮💥 Inspired by #Hearthstone, we’ve added water, grass & dust VFX—3D elements are next. What would you love to mess with between moves? 🌊🌱💨 #WishlistWednesday #GameDev #IndieDev

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