Hope you’re all having a lovely morning! I keep saving up all these updates so today is a nice big one again ahah!

Game Update

So going from the 1.3.2 update to 1.3.5k is a pretty big jump, I wanted to wait to update the demo until I had a lot of stuff ironed out with testers but there's so much that maybe I should have updated sooner.

New content highlights in 1.3.5:
Check the full changelog here!

- 9 new portraits per npc
- 2 new petal events per npc
- lots of little stuff!
- Please note that old saves may not be compatible, please back up your save file first and contact me if you experience problems!

Moonlight in Garland will be moving into public Early Access on AEST October 24th 1:30PM!

After thinking long and hard about what I want the rest of the dev process to look like I’ve decided to take the Early Access route as I think it will give me enough time to do things gradually, at a reasonable pace and not work myself into an early grave. It will also give us time to play together as a community so you can give feedback on what works/doesn’t and we can make Garland really special together. I know people have mixed feelings about Early Access but for me, Garland is a culmination of dreams I’ve had since I was a kid, it’s a long term project and there’s a <lot> of balls to juggle with not many hands so I want to be able to make sure it’s exactly right.

See the full roadmap here.

If you haven't already, please come join the Garland community on Discord!

Melbourne International Games Week

I'm so excited that Garland has been included in the #MIGW23 Steam Festival as part of @GamesWeekMelbs ! AAAAH!!! 

Between 21- 28 Sept there are sales, demos and talks from heaps Victorian devs (including me!!)! There are so many amazing games there so go have a look and play all the demos: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/migw2023

Garland’s demo will also be available again on Steam during the festival and I’ve recorded a playthrough which will be playing on the main stage several times through the festival. 

My talk will be on main stage in these slots:

• AEST: 5am Sept 27th/PDT: 12pm 26th
• AEST: 1pm Sept 27th/PDT: 8pm 26th
• AEST: 9pm Sept 27th/PDT: 4am 27th
• AEST: 1pm Sept 28th/PDT: 8PM 27th

Set a reminder here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/MIGW/announcements/detail/3704829977956492508

And if you miss it, it will be on the MIGW Youtube channel afterwards. I was VERY nervous filming so I hope it turned out ok hahaha!

As always thank you so much for everything, I'm really excited for the next few months to see where it all goes!

See you in Garland <3