Garden of Being
A place to be.
garden · journal of moods
A quiet gardening game, hand-drawn in oil pastel and scored with real field recordings, made over two years by a solo developer. Each garden you plant becomes a journal entry: a living scene you can return to, sit inside, and write beside if you want. No goals. No timers. A place to come back to.
Steam · itch.io
About the Garden
Garden of Being is a small contemplative game, part garden, part journal of moods, about planting something, sitting with it, and having a place to come back to.
While you are in the garden, it is alive. Insects move through the frame. Petals stir in the wind. Light does what light does in a scene drawn patiently in oil pastel. When you leave, the garden waits; it does not grow without you, it does not fade. It remembers. When you return, the scene is alive again.
"The garden is the primary record. The words are optional."
Every garden you plant becomes an entry in a quiet journal. You can revisit any of them: step back inside, sit a while, add a note beside the scene if you want to. Each one can be dedicated: to someone you love, to someone who is gone, or to yourself on a hard week.
The flowers are drawn by hand in oil pastel, petal by petal. The ambient sound is real: field-recorded, not a studio score. No goals. No timers. No AI-made anything.
- Flowers drawn by hand in oil pastel, petal by petal
- Gardens alive while you are in them, insects, wind, light, waiting quietly when you leave
- Journal of moods: the garden as visual record, with optional writing alongside
- Ambient sound from real field recordings, not a studio score
- Dedication layer: name a garden, share it, or keep it private
- Persistent gardens, step back in anytime exactly as you left them
- No goals, no timers, no enemies, no generative content
- Handmade in every layer, art, sound, code, by one person
- Offline-capable, no account required
Get in Touch
I made Garden of Being alone, over two years. Every petal was drawn by hand, in oil pastel. Every sound was taken from real places I could walk to. No generative art, no AI.
I didn't come from the games industry. This started as an art practice, pastels, field recordings, and slowly became a game because that was the form the art kept asking to take. It is the thing I wanted to make; it is also a place I wanted to be able to return to. I thought maybe someone else might want one too.
Inspired by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo
The Garden
Stills from the garden will appear here before launch.