A HERO AND A GARDEN coming to consoles august 28!

hi! i'm excited to announce that A HERO AND A GARDEN is coming to switch, ps4 & xb1 on august 28!!

first off, i want to make it clear though that even though i have a console release coming up, i'm still going to continue making my free games (like my new one which will be released for free once i'm finished it, i'm working really hard right now to make it ready for the end of the month ahhh). i don't have any concrete plans for console ports in the future, and if i ever do decide to make a game that will be paid-only, i will let you all know first 💜  

i've been working on the A HERO AND A GARDEN port since last october so i'm so excited (excited enough to use the word excited multiple times in this post!) to finally be able to share this news with you all... i've been wanting to talk about it forever but i had to keep it secret, but now the info is out and the game will be out this week! i'm so nervous!

for a quick info dump about a hero and a garden, i originally made it in a month for nanoreno 2019 and honestly even know i'm amazed i was able to finish it in one month, since it was the first time i've ever made a game of its size. (for reference, one night hot springs and spring leaves no flowers were both made for two-month-long yuri game jams while last day of spring was made maybe in a month and a half when i was feeling really unhappy about something the government did, and they're about 1/2 as long textwise as a hero and a garden.) 

it was also the first time i had such a heavy emphasis on gameplay and honestly it was a lot of learning for me! i didn't know how to do any of the stuff that i wanted to do and it was so incredibly frustrating... i screwed up so much of the code. 

because of all that though, a hero and a garden is one of the games i'm proudest of making so i'm really so excited (sorry i used the word again) to be able to share it with people on console!! and of course, i am also so grateful for all of your support that helped me get here. i don't know that i would've even had the courage to try to reach out to a publisher if i didn't have people like you supporting me and letting me know that there actually are people who like my games and want to play them... so thank you all so much. (sorry to get sappy but i really do appreicate you all!)

i want to make a post more properly later that goes into more detail about stuff i did for porting but that'll be a bit later because i am trying to finish my current game for the end of this month (this timing is honestly not great, i don't know what i was thinking when i started this game jam) but i hope you'll all enjoy A HERO AND A GARDEN on consoles as well as the new game i plan to release later!!

if you have any questions about the port/porting process/a hero and a garden send me them in a comment or a message and i'll answer them in a later post too 💜