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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 26/09/2026

(Yes, this too is the trees' fault. It'll make sense in context.) #treeshateyou #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 26/09/2026

I'm adding something extra evil to the game right now

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 24/09/2026

Laziness, in a way. I was trying to design some minor enemies for a different project, and since I already had the tree models, I figured I could just give them guns and then I wouldn't have to model a whole new creature. Then I kept making different variations until it turned into its own game

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 16/09/2026

Also, I love the way recent Zelda games show the whole diamond to highlight one button. Super helpful when I regularly use both Switch and Xbox controllers and mix up which button is which. It makes it clear even when my instinct is that A is down, that I should press the button on the right

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 16/09/2026

Echoes of Wisdom and the Link's Awakening remake have the prompt hover close to your character, which is most similar to what I ultimately went with, although I have it above the other object or character. It's probably what works best for a camera of this angle and distance.

A screenshot from Trees Hate You where the player character approaches a wooden sign. Floating above the sign is a prompt that says "A Read"

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 16/09/2026

It feels obvious in hindsight, but it seems like a good general rule to show related information close together. The Zelda series did corner prompts for a few other games like Wind Waker and Minish Cap, but now they usually put it around the bottom-center, close to the interaction itself.

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 16/09/2026

Nobody looks in the corner to see how they can interact with whatever is in front of them. OoT at least has the blue hover icon to show there *is* an interaction. I didn't even have that in my own project, so some testers would just assume nothing was interactable.

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 16/09/2026

Minor change I noticed in the OoT remake: they moved the A button prompt. It caught my attention because for my own games, I once tried to do button prompts the old OoT way and quickly learned why games have largely moved away from this.

Ocarina of Time remake on the left with the "A Talk" prompt appearing between Link and Saria. Similar shot of the original Ocarina of Time on the left, with the "A Speak" prompt showing in the top right corner

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 13/09/2026

Thanks, I'll try those adjustments and see how it feels

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 12/09/2026

I've been redesigning the main menu. Still a WIP, but I think it's at least more interesting than the vertical lists of buttons for everything that I had before. #screenshotsaturday #treeshateyou #indiegame #gamedev

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 10/09/2026

I was definitely tempted to announce for the 19th, but a few smaller games had the same idea while the 16th looked basically empty on the steam calendar. Plus I think the 16th works better for my own schedule.

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 10/09/2026

Nov 5: Ocarina of Time (Nintendo) Nov 16: Trees Hate You (Steam) Nov 19: GTA6 (PlayStation/Xbox) I was kind of hoping OoT would join us on the same week, but at least we get to share a month

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 28/08/2026

Or I could be completely wrong, and I'm setting my little joke indie game up for failure. I guess we'll find out in November!

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 28/08/2026

Trees Hate You is actually releasing on Monday, and it's a short game, so you could play and finish it in time for GTA6 on Thursday. But I suspect even the biggest game release ever won't be the *only* game anyone will play or talk about that month, especially when it's not even releasing on Steam

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 28/08/2026

This may likely change as we get closer, but so far Trees Hate You seems to be the most wishlisted Steam game announced to release that week (3rd most for the entire month). I guess GTA6 scared most people off.

Steam release calendar according to SteamDB. The most wishlisted games listed for each day are: 16th—Trees Hate You, 18th—Space Station Designer, 19th—Lord of Undead, 24th—Rec Room: A New Semester. The other days have no games listed, which I believe means no games are announced that day with enough wishlists to have a rank.

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 28/08/2026

We're getting Trees Hate You before GTA6

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 27/08/2026

Yesterday, we finally announced a release date for Trees Hate You: November 16 Thanks #FutureGamesShow for featuring our trailer at #gamescom! #indiegame #TreesHateYou

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 25/08/2026

It was basically my version of doodling in class. Crazy looking back and seeing this as the start of something I would stick with for decades and eventually turn into a career.

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 25/08/2026

I found one of my earliest attempts at game design. In elementary school, I would draw these "mazes" that were more like puzzle platformer levels, with keys, gravity switches, teleporters, trampolines, and slingshots. I invented strict movement rules so you could play the whole thing on paper.

A photo of some graph paper showing one of the "mazes" I made as a kid.

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 24/08/2026

I'm probably going to regret giving this hat a collider. #gamedev #TreesHateYou #indiegame

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 23/08/2026

If your first game doesn't succeed, don't give up! Every dev's first try is bad. It takes years of practice to make a game so stupid that it makes everyone say "*I* could've made *that*!" (They're actually talking about it)

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 21/08/2026

Can confirm that the secret to indie game success seems to be making an entire game around one silly, stupid joke.

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 15/08/2026

My recent dev focus has been on secret late-game stuff, and people have expressed worry that I'll spoil too much of the game. So for this #ScreenshotSaturday, I'll just confirm that I'm still alive, development is still progressing, and the trees still hate you. #gamedev #TreesHateYou #indiegame

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 15/08/2026

I'm honored to be part of this showcase. It just feels crazy to have enough momentum behind my joke of a game to even be considered for something like this.

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Future Games Show @futuregamesshow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We are excited to announce that the Future Games Show will feature a new trailer for Trees Hate You, a comedy adventure where every leaf and branch are the enemy!🌳 @tykenn.games Set a reminder to watch here: www.youtube.com/live/OfJj_tV...

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 25/07/2026

I've been converting the sisyphus level to a desert theme. Gotta invite all the pedants to point out that technically cacti aren't trees #ScreenshotSaturday #TreesHateYou #gamedev #indiegame

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Kolo @helloitskolo.com · 16/07/2026

If you fancy a giggle (& some trees) today... enjoy this video🌲 Best demo I've played all year, an infuriating & hilarious masterpiece. I raged at it for an hour & loved every second. The best & worst (complimentary!!) 10/10 would spend hours joyfully cursing it again. youtu.be/SARM1i05i60

YouTube Thumbnail with the text "Trees Hate Me". Kolo's face is in the foreground, expression scrunched up and eyes closed with three white question marks next to her head. the background is two images from the game demo Trees Hate You, one has a character's path blocked by a bending tree and the other shows a character it trapped under overlapping tree roots.

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 14/07/2026

Trees Hate You just reached 300,000 wishlists. It still feels so strange to be able to mention the dumb little joke game that I'm working on to a random stranger and have a chance that they've already heard of it.

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 12/07/2026

Today I discovered blend shapes and felt compelled to make a new kind of trap #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #TreesHateYou

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 16/06/2026

Trees Hate You is in the official #SteamNextFest trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4fj.... It's also on the event's Top Demos chart (for now at least). Of all my projects, I never would've guessed that it would be the dumb joke game with mean trees that would get this far. #indiegame #gamedev

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Steam Next Fest - June 2026 Edition: Official Trailer

YouTube video by Steam

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 13/06/2026

Trees Hate You will be in Steam Next Fest (June 15-22). Might be a good time to try the demo if you haven't already and you want to suffer. #SteamNextFest #TreesHateYou #indiegame

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 05/06/2026

Some time this year, not ready to announce anything more specific than that yet

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 05/06/2026

The trees are horrible and want to ruin your day. Be the victim of relentless tree bullies, fall for many traps, maybe find an axe, and try to escape this awful forest. There's a demo if want to start suffering early: store.steampowered.com/app/4171850/... #PitchYaGame #indiegame #TreesHateYou

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 30/05/2026

Me in 2025: "My games are too hard to explain and classify. I should make something that's more familiar and actually fits a genre." What I ended up making next:

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 25/05/2026

That'd be great, just link to the Steam page if you can. Besides that, I don't really have any guidelines for streaming the demo. And the music was custom-made for the game, so it shouldn't cause any copyright issues.

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 22/05/2026

Yeah, I reported a dozen of these on the google play store already, and then more appeared within hours. I haven't started on the apple app store yet, should probably do that soon. All I've released so far is a free demo. Hopefully someday I'll join these parasites in making money from my own game.

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 18/05/2026

A couple more hand tree attacks

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 16/05/2026

Finally starting to animate the hand tree + going back to glasses flying off your face when you're hit. #treeshateyou #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 10/05/2026

I'm thinking of maybe adding some fake checkpoints... #treeshateyou #gamedev #indiegame

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Templo @templomedia.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Our rage game + 3 indie rage games we’re loving right now: 🔥Hellbound Inc 🌲The Trees Hate You 🛶Paddle Paddle Paddle 🗻A Difficult Game About Climbing Got any other rage-inducing indie games we should try? @tykenn.games #indiegane #gamedev #ragegame

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 28/04/2026

People keep asking me about it, so to clear things up: *None* of 10(?) apps on the Play Store with the Trees Hate You title and an AI-corrupted variation of the cover art were put there by me, even the one with >100k downloads. The *only* places I've published the demo so far are Itch and Steam.

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Alpha Beta Gamer @alphabetagamer.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Why do trees have such a deep cedared hate for this poor guy? Trees Hate You is a tree am-bush indie game where all the trees are out to get you! Demo out now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4171850/... Gameplay Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfhM... by indie dev @tykenn.games #gaming

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tykenn (Trees Hate You) @tykenn.games · 15/04/2026

Not sure yet. I don't have a mac to test but I can probably figure something out.

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