GrowBud🪴

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We've been hard at work building GrowBud, a cannabis farming side-of-your-screen cosy desktop companion.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3923900/GrowBud/

Steam

GrowBud

GrowBud - your bud-growing buddy that keeps you company while you work or play. Grow and master 30+ authentic cannabis strains while progressing through clubs, unlocking equipment, and building your ultimate strain collection.

Strain Discovery & Mastery
Discover 30+ authentic cannabis strains, each with unique growing requirements. Grow p…

Release Date

Q4 2025

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Steam Next Fest has been an amazing opportunity to gain more feedback from new players. The latest update refines the experience a lot based on that feedback.

✨ Polished UI/UX
⚡ Faster progression
🎯 Clearer controls
🏆 Enhanced rewards
🆕 Malawi Gold strain unlock

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3923900/view/582778112589169296

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💡 With Unity Recorder you can record in-game footage with alpha using the Apple ProRes 4444 XQ (ap4x) setting. Just make sure to also enable Alpha Processing in your URP Asset. Set the output to a RenderTexture on your camera and hit record.

This took me a while to figure out, so hopefully someone finds this useful.

Steam pages now support webm (with transparency) in place of gifs which are massive and quality-restricted. Webm is a tiny format with excellent quality. Once you have your .mov from the Recorder output, use MOV to WEBM Converter (Nerd or Die) to convert the file to webm for your Steam page.
https://nerdordie.com/product/mov-to-webm-converter/

When I'm crafting a new social media video, I'll often just go into Play Mode, set up the shot, turn off extras like HUD UI, adjust the scene for the intended display aspect ratio, and then use some of the modular animation/tween scripts and triggers to bring it all to life.

Timeline is another great tool for this but I find just throwing it all together in play mode in one go the most effective.

Shout out to DOTween and Feel 🙌