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Hello frens, really underestimated how long it would take to get a streaming setup up and running. Even built a whole new PC for it! Should have a new Smol Kobold Garden build out today or tomorrow along with my first stream starting later this week or so.

First thing I had to sort out was my PC. it was built on the early AM3 platform using a ryzen 5 chip. Good enough for moderate gaming and work but if I wanted to do all that while streaming I knew I needed to upgrade. The occasional ...

Streaming the Path Forward

Thank you all again for your continued patience! As promised, the weekly update videos will be coming soon. I’ve been using this time to figure out how to make them in a timely and consistent way, and I think I’ve found a good solution. Alongside that, I’ve been working on an update for Smol Kobold Garden, bringing much-needed features that should be out imminently.

Smol Kobold Garden Update

The first thing you’ll probably notice here is the terra...

Update #00 - The Nameless Update

Hello friendbolds new and old, thank you for your continued patience so far. Just wanted to give an update on whats up and what to expect going forward with - Smol Kobold Garden (currently in Steam Early Access) and the main Kobold Garden (coming soon) - and even this Patreon!

Figuring out where to go from here has taken a bit longer than expected. In this time I have been refining how the great Kobold Garden resurgence can best be played out and I think I found a good sweet spot where...

「申し訳ありませんでした」

Some may have known that Kobold Garden was going to have a playable demo for the current Steam Next Fest. I unfortunately had to make the executive decision to pull out as I was unable to finish the demo in time.

Most foundational systems were complete such as picking up and petting kobolds, the levels, the shop, but other aspects were not. Most animations look unfinished, the only minigame was bare bones, and there was no music at all. I feel the impression most would get from playing...

April Update: Upcoming Demo

Thank you everyone who was able to show support in buying the Early Access version of Smol Kobold Garden on Steam! I've been struggling a bit for awhile now but the additional support has helped me get back on my feet! This month has been the most hectic I've ever had to deal with in releasing Smol Kobold Garden, getting updates ready, and preparing a Kobold Garden demo for Steam Next Fest, but overcoming these challenges will allow the foundations to be laid for an easier and fun way to deve...

Smol Kobold Garden Release!

OUT NOW!

Our cozy game Smol Kobold Garden has officially launched in Early Access on Steam!

Dive into a chill garden full of kobolds for just $9.99 with a special 10% off for the next week only!

store.steampowered.com/app/2361070/Smol_Kobold_Garden

YIP-EE!!!

Smol Kobold Garden Early Access Trailer

Smol Kobold Garden’s Steam page is now live! ✨

🦎 Raise small friends called kobolds
👋 Compete in mini-games to earn shop rewards
🪴 Decorate and customize your own Kobold Garden

Welcome to a cozy creature raising sim! Releasing soon on Steam Early Access - Wishlist Now 🔗 store.steampowered.com/app/2361070/Smol_Kobold_Garden/

Welcome to the KIU

Hello friends, family, colleagues, and that one guy in the back. Today I come to you not as a game developer. But as a game developer who has yet to release a single video game...

[dramatic pause]
[that one guy in the back coughs a little too hard]

Well? That's all about to change...

[crowd cheers loudly and fades into an orchestral theme song]

You have all given me a great opportunity many wish they could be in. I truly am grateful for this but lately I feel my...

omobold concept

Rough design concept for the omobold, a robotic kobold.

I wanted to see how a hologram or no-mouth face would look like more clearly before committing to a 3d model. Not sure which I want to go with but i feel the hologram version would be more popular so I'm leaning to it.

They serve as a tutorial dump for new players. They use a helicopter mode to follow you around and spout basic game actions and tips if you get near them.

State of the Kobold Game

There has been some delay which pushed me from being able to release in February. But with this I can in 100% confidence say that Smol Kobold Garden will release in March!

This has given me some time to work on the trailer and things. I'm not really happy with the trailer. I feel half of it barely makes any sense but I don't want delay the game further because of this, so it will have to do.

In this trailer I wanted to show off upcoming mini-games that will be worked on as we bu...

Kobold Concepts

I've been having a hard time conceptualizing how things should look in the main Kobold Garden game without having the actual kobold design finalized so here's my first attempt at it. Going with a cartoony style while feeling physically realistic in 3d. This may change a bit as I polish but I feel this is close to what the final model may be like.

Releasing Soon! | SKG Devlog 01

November Update

Sorry for he lack of updates so far. Again, again, again. When theres so much going on I seem to get tunnel vision'd easily trying to get everything in as fast as possible. But it's all coming together!

Currently the kobolds just cycle through their animations but the plans to get them to cycle specific ones with percentages according to their mood and what they know. Like dancing is a learned skill when raised enough so most wont dance at first.

Kobolds struggle in water if the...

Stats and Transporter Update

Hey everyone, thank you for your patiences so far.

I was really gunning for this month to be THE month but had a lot of setbacks pile on one after the other with the worst being the sickest I've been in literal years. But I've fully recovered and am ready to push this game out for you all as soon as possible.

I was still able to get some things done in this time though. The placeholder boxes in the middle of that garden in these pics is a functioning kobold transporter! it's mai...

July Update

In polishing and getting the build ready, I've decided to go all in on more detailed graphics. Since Steam builds are aimed for PC, they can handle a lot more graphically compared to phones so I've added more detailed trees and grass. I've been slightly concerned with how smol kobold garden might look too different from main kobold garden when compared. I feel these changes helps give it a better garden feel while bringing it closer graphically to the eventual main game.

It's also stil...

Exciting News! | SKG Devlog 00

Almost theeeere

Had some unfortunate last minute issues. I assumed this would just work but apparently if you lock the system cursor so a fake cursor can be used, the event system that handles all the cursor events still reads off the locked cursor. Meaning you couldn't click on any ui buttons. Nothing seems to change this, even forcing it to read from the fake cursors position so I wrote my own cursor handler that mimics clicking and dragging states of the real cursor. I didn't plan for this but it needed t...

Update

It's been pretty rough out here I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I expected to launch Smol Kobold Garden back in Febuary but with things falling though and me mostly over estimating what I would need done for a first release I'm still trying to finish that first build. The good news is we are really close to that finish line.

I've also been working on what the first few updates Smol Kobold Garden will be like when on Steam. They will mostly be first focusing on getting the kobolds fully ...

The Kobold Garden Movie

The Kobold Garden Movie is now in full production!

Kobold Crossing

"A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad." 

- a wise kobold

I've been looking at ways to give the Smol Kobold Garden world more style as I felt it was lacking a bit. I was also thinking of how the top down perspective has been used for so long in games. What are modern games doing to spice it up? Looking at how Animal Crossing warps the perspective to fit a sort of turning log world, I got to wondering if they made a new Animal Crossing,...

The Almost There Update

A lot has been happening in the background, thank you for your patience during this time! I've polished the garden to something that looks somewhat acceptable, I'm pretty proud of it right now! Each object like rocks, plants, bushes, and even trees are selectable and you'll be able to remove them with a shovel to help customize your garden fully.

I've also added another mini-game, this one is a clone of a game called suika or watermelon game. The idea is to combine objects, in this cas...

Spooky Scary Halloween Update!

Just kidding, been working on Smol Kobold Garden so much I haven't been able to plan for a fun Halloween update this year. But fret not! I come baring a load of new updates and changes to share with you.

I find one of the main appeals of chao garden is being able to customize and make your chao your own. So when it came time to making the smol kobold garden area, having a fixed area is expected but what if you could customize it in a similar manner as well? I have laid the groundwork f...

Minigame Progress

Been working on revamping the loot/pin minigame. I wanted to give a better sense of progression as you play so Instead of just giving you a list of levels, you'll be able to progress through multiple worlds in a similar manner to Super Mario Bros 3. Every world is procedurally generated so you'll never run out of worlds to run through. You could play forever! When a level is complete you get a ranking from 0-3 stars and those stars show up on the bottom of the levels tile.

Since the la...

The Smol Things

Hello everyone, here's an update with where Smol Kobold Garden is at currently.

I've been very hesitant with releasing Smol Kobold Garden in it's current state. The game looks very rushed because it basically was very rushed. I have been polishing it up as best as I can and I've also taken this opportunity to rewrite major parts of the game with it being early on still, it would benefit from these changes rather than later.

The largest change was switching from using a state mac...

Still Alive

Hello! Apologies for the radio silence again. It just kinda happens when I'm trying to figure out a lot of things, something I'm trying to work past. This month as most of you know was suppose to be the launch of Smol Kobold Garden.

Smol Kobold Garden was suppose to be done by April fools day as a not really a joke kind of joke, and to also be a small fun thing to play around with. As this version I hastily put together was nearing completion, I felt the state of it was quite lacking fo...

April Fools!

I was planning on having a minute long poorly made powerpoint video that felt like it was from the 2000s showing off smol kobold garden but I didn't finish what I wanted for it in time. I didn't get sleep to try and get more done but it didn't pan out so in the end I decided to just release a few pictures on twitter. Biggest issue I had was the dragging of objects. I kinda got tunnel vision and spent too long in wanting to finish it. I wanted spring like physics when you pick up an item and d...

Half Way There

With one week left I'm getting pretty nervous but the progress continues. The menu system is complete with all the menus and buttons working. Got a small foliage model done and textured. I've also added in the kobold egg model in and gave kobolds some basic ai. They can wander around the grass area pausing at different times then choosing a new point to wander to and repeats forever.

Using unitys built-in navmesh system, it builds the area where kobolds can traverse in blue. I then samp...

The Smolest Garden

Smol Kobold Garden has been off to a great start, what you see here is the main garden! The big structure there is just a big tree, I hope to have its roots look like it's spreading out more through the textures but I'm just using some placeholder textures for now. I've also pretty much turned off all unitys features while using low res textures and blob shadows to better emulate that n64/psx era aesthetic.

I wanted to capture the Yoshi's Island menu vibe with the garden rotating while ...

Smol Kobold Garden

In my spare time I've been trying to get into the Ape Escape series of games. I never got into them when I was younger but always wanted to. It's easy to notice its low poly geometry and think how easy it would be to make something like it while playing. Something about colorful low poly games inspire me to want to make something like it. That's when it hit me.

A long long LONG time ago I proposed a game that would be complimentary to Kobold Garden called Tiny Kobold Garden. While Kobol...

Some Bad News, Some Good News

Hello! Had a pretty hectic start to the month. The NPCs are complete and fully rigged, but I still have to get their rooms done for the bottom of the barrel area to be fully complete.

This isn't what I mean by bad news though. As the title suggests I have both some good and bad news still. So what do you want first? Bad you say? Alright here goes.

This may be completely new to some but on the steam page for Kobold Garden I had a set date for an early access release during the firs...