Game of Grass news & patch notes

• Fix for Idle mode getting stuck after a long period of time.
• Fixed Blessing of the Sloth should now trigger mushroom growth as stated in the tooltip. (Was accidently checking for the final blessing being active instead of the Sloth blessing)

Added a couple of prestige upgrades to improve cash and essence gain in the late game.

• Added ball of yarn! Play with your kittens with the yarn! You can click the ball of yarn 5 times to get a buff that doubles base grass value and essence gain for a couple minutes.

• Added hay. Hay accumulates (up to 3) on the right side of the grass field. You can click the hay to feed your animals and gain a buff that also doubles base grass value and essence gain for 1 minute.

• The game has a proper icon now instead of showing up as a generic windows exe icon in the taskbar.

Hopefully the game isn't too easy now... I might tweak the numbers in the future, we'll see how it goes.

• Grass should grow back evenly now instead of just growing back the last cut grass. (Should fix the patchiness that could happen sometimes).
• Fix some bugs that could happen when switching save slots.

• Sneaky Cat will spawn more often but the duration of the buff reduced from 40s to 30s and it will only increase Essence chance by 4x instead of 10x.
• Added Cat Food prestige upgrade that will double the chance of spawning a sneaky cat when you fill the cat bowl by clicking on it (lasts 60 seconds).
• Added Fat Cat prestige upgrade that will make the Sneaky Cat larger and buff the Essence chance to 8x from 4x.

• You can move and resize the Blessing UI now.
• When resizing the shop windows the buy buttons should stay visible until there's no more space. It's not perfect but it should be better.
• Blessing of Space and Time changed from 1.5x to 1.35x speed upgrade. Also removed the Essence Gain multiplier from it and reduced the base cash value gain from 2x to 1.5x. (Let's be real it was overpowered)

• Added Crop Connoisser upgrade to double the chance of finding golden crops.
• Space Time Blessing no longer reduces other active blessing durations.
• Improved Triple Regrowth so that the staggered regrowths occur twice as quickly.
• Prestige Upgrade tooltips now show current essence count directly in the tooltip.
• Tweaked some of the blessing durations a bit.

• Fix for crash on start if your windows username has special chars
• Fix for indestructable tree bug
• Fix tooltip for tier 1 ponderers
• Crop Collector sorting so they draw properly in front of each other
• Fix for some blessing icons overlapping
• Smoothed out Marketing costs over the tiers

I'll push these changes to the main branch when less people are playing...I'm scared to break something. If you can change to the prerelease branch and confirm nothing breaks that'd be really helpful to know.

-Fix for crash on Play (if you have special chararcters in your windows username or Cyrillic chars)

-Slightly changed the way Weedsplosion works to make it prettier. It will now just explode 20 random grass/weeds instead of just weeds. The firework effect is more colorful.

-Collectors will now draw in the correct order (looks less janky. very realistic now)

Hello, everyone!

I'm super excited to say Game of Grass is Available right now on Steam!

I'm really looking forward to hearing what you all think of the game! I will be around just in case there are any bugs but I think the game is pretty solid. The pacing and balancing could still use some tweaks but at its core the game is a lot of fun!

When I initially started working on this game I just wanted to make something small and fun while being inexpensive. I ended up spending a lot more time on it than I anticipated (as is typical with indie games). The game was definitely fun and it got some attention so I think the extra time spent was warranted.

I would say the biggest inspirations for this game are Leaf Blower Revolution and (the) Gnorp Apologue. They were the main inspirations but I really wanted to do my own thing. Some other games played a part too. The recent Nodebuster / Digseum craze that led to these small incremental games. A little bit of some other games too - this game called Cursor Blade and a bit of Vampire Survivors. The side slash attack is basically the whip in Vampire Survivors. I just thought - "The whip is the best weapon in that game, but what sucks is the dodging." (I don't like dodging things). That game was advertising "mowing down your enemies" - so I just brought it back to actual mowing. Generally I like idea of the cursor as a weapon like in Nodebuster or Cursor Blade. Especially on PC it makes a lot of sense. Everybody has a mouse.

I think the game is unique - there's not really anything quite like it on the store. The price is cheap but not super cheap. It's a short game so if you're hesitant about spending that much for a short game just put it on your wishlist, I'm sure there will be deeper discounts in the future like a normal Steam game. I don't want anyone to be disappointed with their purchase. Definitely try out the demo before you decide. If you like the demo I'm sure you'll like the full game.

Now that I'm finished with this game I have some new ideas for the future! Perhaps a long-form idle spinoff? Perhaps a new game (I have a couple interesting ideas). Perhaps I'll chill for a bit. Feel free to follow me on Steam or join my Discord if you want to chat with me about things.

Enjoy the game and have fun collecting all the things and 100%'ing the game! Let's go!!!

Hello everybody! The day is almost here! I will be releasing the game tomorrow at 10:15 EST!

Super excited and nervous for this day. Apparently I have a great fear of putting a lot of work into a game and then tragically dying just before releasing it so it'll be great to not worry about that anymore!

I'm going to fix a few remaining small bugs today (thanks to IdleCub for playing!!) and maybe update the screenshots in the store and test out the final build to make sure there are no major issues again.

That's another one of my fears - that there could be some game-breaking bug on release day that prevents everyone from playing. Anyways, hopefully nothing bad happens and everything is great!

LET'S GO - THE DAY IS ALMOST HERE!!! SEE YOU TOMORROW!!!

Hi, friends!

I'm happy to share that I've decided to release Game of Grass on July 31st at 10:15am EST - 2 weeks from now!

What is this game?

Just a game where you cut grass and it just feels satisfying. It really hits that lizard brain we all have. I definitely have it. You can really zone out playing this game. It feels good to play.

It can be played semi-idly. The number goes up more and more, but it's not just about the number going up, it's about the amount of stuff going on.

A lot of incremental games have a lot of flashy stuff going on but I wanted to see if I could take it a little further - I wanted to have a lot of stuff happening on the screen.

I wanted to see how far I could take it, so I made the game in C++ with Raylib (an open source C library for game development). Other than that, I didn't do anything fancy, but that's how the game runs so smoothly with so many thousands of things going on.

Overall, it's just a super chill game that feels good to play and I'm really proud of it.

Now what?

I may update the demo tomorrow just to bring it up to speed. I made the first 2 tiers quite a bit faster. The demo is a bit slow to start right now.

If you're not familiar with the game, try the demo - I think you can tell if you'll like the full game based on the demo. If you love the demo you will for sure love the full game.

If you have any questions let me know otherwise I'll see you all in 2 weeks!

Hi everyone, I wanted to give a little update about the game. I'll just let this be my outlet because I don't have anyone else I can really talk to about my game.

First of all, I wanted to thank all the YouTubers that covered the game. I am so accustomed to a complete lack of attention that it is quite shocking to have the opposite suddenly happen. I feel a lot of responsibility and pressure to make the game great because it seems to be somewhat popular.

So I've been working hard on the game for quite a while and I may be biased but the game is pretty amazing now. The dopamine levels released are second to none. I did a lot of experimentation adding things to the game. Some things worked some things didn't. I've added some more things to cut besides just grass. I didn't want to stray too much from the main pillar of the game - cutting grass; particularly making that feel very satisfying. The new things add to that feeling quite a bit and I think you all are going to love it.

I also added a prestige system to the game. Initially it was not part of the plan but I think it's become expected from this genre now. It's been a lot of work but I think it's turned out well. Some upgrades and special abilities have been moved into the prestige system and I think they make more sense to be there.

I basically just need to polish a couple things and then I'm going to do a lot of number-tweaking to try to make things balanced so I hope to announce a release date soon. The game will hopefully release in 3 - 4 weeks!

Things have taken a bit longer than I expected because I'm not using an engine. The downside of not using an engine is things generally take a bit longer to prototype and some players are still reporting issues running the game. I hope to fix most of them in the next demo update - probably within a week or so. I'm waiting on a device that will let me digitally sign the .exe file so that antivirus issue will go away (hopefully). The upside of not using an engine is the game runs like an absolute champ. I should probably test it out on a lesser computer but on my computer I get 144 FPS with some dips to 100 when a lot of crazy stuff happens. I grew up on the NES and that had some limitation where it could only draw 8 sprites horizontally at the same time. So this is pretty incredible that I'm drawing tens of thousands of sprites and the game is running so well. The grass field alone is 7000 sprites when maxed out. I can't wait for people to see the full version. It is totally insane.

Anyways, I'll keep you posted on the release date! Stay tuned for more news!

• Updated Titlescreen image.
• Bigger font for 4k monitors.
• Can move and resize the upgrade windows.
• Collectors won't target the same crops anymore.
• Walking path and grass chutes available in the demo.
• Improved reward for beating the demo.
• Probably more stuff I'm forgetting.

• Fixed shadowy shuriken so that it works on 60 fps monitors. Also the movement should be consistent now no matter what the frame rate.
• Fixed Butterflies upgrade to work properly now. The level was increasing 3 times for every one upgrade.
• Small performance improvement to drawing the rain.