Lenja making WATERFUL🌱

✨️ finally officially announcing my first game ✨️ WATERFUL: a peaceful nature-builder where you dig riverbeds to guide water through desert valleys 🏜️ make tiny ecosystems blossom! 🌴 grow a variety of plants 🦊 discover animals in the new habitats ⚙️ unlock contraptions to reach new areas

look at what my game has been looking like lately 🥹🌱✨ #cozygame #indiegame #gamedev

I've added some notes to my tutorial that you can also collect in your sticker book!! Would you know what to do? 🌊✨🌱 #indiegame #cozygame #gamedev

Incledible news: 25.000 of you have wishlisted WATERFUL 😱🤩 Your support means everything to me since this is the only chance to tell Steam that this is a game people might enjoy and therefore shows it to people. So thank you all SO much!! 🫶

Gamescom 26 recap! 👾👯‍♀️🎇 Had the best time showing my little game at this Cologne madhouse they call Gamescom! I received so many kind words about my game and got to hang out with super cool new and old friends. I'm so incredibly honoured to be part of this wonderful gamedev community 🥰

So so excited to announce that I'm teaming up with the super lovely folks at @wholesomegames.com! WATERFUL is now officially part of Wholesome Games Presents 🥳🤩😱🎉✨

I fell in love with dry landscapes while traveling and now I'm making a game about it! In WATERFUL you guide water through tiny desert valleys and let plants grow. Discover the animals attracted to the new habitats and solve tiny puzzles. Can you see the resemblance?

OMG! GARBAGE COUNTRY won the Grand Prix Prize at BIC festival 😭🥹 We’re so honored 💕💕 Thank you to BIC and also tysm to all the players who stopped by and played our demo!!! We’re headed to gamescom next, so we’ll see ya’ll soon :) #GarbageCountry #indiegamedev #indiegame #gamedev

The first WATERFUL playtest is over and I've gotten incredibly helpful and lovely feedback! Thanks to everyone who participated 🙏 😊 Here's some of my favourite.

Playtest is starting NOW!! 😱🥳✨ If you have requested already, check your mails! And if you haven't, head over to Steam and do it now! You can play until august 13. AAAah, this is scary but exciting, can't wait to hear what you think!!

Officially announcing my very first WATERFUL playtest on Steam! 🎮✨🥳 The playtest will run all throughout the Wholesome Games Celebration august 6-13 🌱 You can sign up already to be the first to play!

Our annual Steam event, the Wholesome Games Celebration, starts August 6 at 10am PT! We've curated 150+ discounts, demos, new releases, and world premieres. This year's event includes titles like Paralives, Fields of Mistria, Planet Zoo, and more!

Wow!! @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social did an article about WATERFUL 🤩 That's huge, thank you!!

Cosy in GSA: Several studios from Germany, Switzerland and Austria have presented their games at the @wholesomegames.com Showcase. Featured: The Last Leviathan DLC for @strayfawnstudio.bsky.social' The Wandering Village, @tinyroargames.bsky.social and more. www.gamesmarket.global/german-austr...

Wow that was fast!! Thanks for spreading the good news 🥳

OMG you guyss 😱 WATERFUL just hit 10.000 wishlists ✨️that's insane!! Thank you all so so much, your support means the world to me 😭 ❤️‍🔥

The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish is now available on Steam :o) We hope you enjoy <3 store.steampowered.com/app/3172760/...

Very nice summeries of games from @wholesomegames.com Wholesome Direct! Also great explanation of WATERFUL! Thanks a lot!

🔪announcing our new game🔪 - from the Duck Detective devs (us!) - Knives Out-inspired mystery thriller - fully voiced - It’s your grandma’s 84th birthday - someone’s trying to kill her… but WHO? Apple Crumble, coming 2026 to Steam

🌊Waterful - TBA @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social 🐦Rubber Bird - TBA @outretaupe.bsky.social 🐁Hela - 2026 🧀Little Cheese Works - Q3 2026 @littlecheeseworks.bsky.social

💧 Waterful 💧 Transform the dry landscape into a lush oasis 🌴 By solo dev @lenjamakesgames.bsky.social A peaceful nature-builder, dig riverbeds to guide water through tiny procedurally generated desert valleys 💌 email press@ / creators@ futurefriendsgames.com to get on the review list

WORLD PREMIERE: Collect every animal, tackle challenging terrain, or simply create a beautiful oasis in WATERFUL, a game about digging riverbeds to guide water. Create different shapes to grow plants and attract animals to new habitats. #WholesomeDirect2026

The Toukanas made a lovely clip of me visiting them in their office 🤩 Thanks so much again for having me 🫶

I am so happy the tree is done, this killed me 🤡 So here some fully geo node procedural stylized tree. The hardest part was nailing the style and shading. Nodes here: github.com/IRCSS/Blende...

Working on a sticker book for all the animals you can collect! Now I'm realizing that every game recently has some sort of book in it 👀 Are we fed up with books yet or is this fine?

Making the procedural cliffs almost made me gave up. Its so hard 😅If you can allow yourself baking maps, remeshing etc, the problem becomes trivially easy. But without it you are fighting the lack of resolution. Any ways semi happy with my current setup. next is trees

I've been busy getting my little 1-woman-company running. Feels a little overkill with all the incredibly clunky birocracy here in germany and there's not much progress on the game... But it feels kindo cool to be all officially a company now with my own little (wip) logo and stuff!

Had a lovely time co-working at @toukana.bsky.social 's office today! They're cooking up something really cool for the summer ✨ Thanks for having me 🫶

Just the level generator telling you all to hang in there today! Thanks, level generator 🫶

Look who's here in their favourite lookout spot 🌴

Instead of shrinking and dying, I tried making plants dry out so they can be "saved" when you get them their water back. That might lead to the level being covered in dry plants which I'm not sure is a good or bad thing 🤔

I was reworking some shader stuff when suddenly everything turned into a magical winter wonderland❄️✨ I had scrapped the idea of snow in my game but now I'm wondering if I tossed out a low hangig fruit🤔

The level generator is starting to create some pretty cute canyon valleys 🏜️✨ My camera controller is not a fan of those pillars though🥲

Back working on level generation. My approach is still to make a height map by stacking a bunch of noises in a shader and saving that as a texture for my terrain generator to munch on. Its going okay, creating real variation is hard! Also what are the level borders supposed to look like?

drake meme: ✋😒 fix bugs and create content 😎👉 f* around with water shader