Trash Goblin News

Updated Demo, Brand New Features, Fixes - Christmas has arrived in Silver City!



It's the most wonderful time of the year, so we've decorated the shop as Christmas edges closer. It's so cold that even the famous canals in Silver City have frozen over, and while the nights close in the team have been working hard on some bug fixes and improvements to the demo we thought you'd enjoy!



And that's not all. Aimon has hidden a special gift for you - a new Trinket - somewhere in the workshop. They didn't have time to wrap it, but it's the thought that counts!

Changelist:

• Holiday Cheer - Lots of decorations and presents everywhere, plus a new seasonal sack! We may have even snuck in a new hidden trinket as well...
  
• Wintery Wonderland - It's been getting cold out there (and even snowing) so it's an even better time to get cozy inside your workshop!
  
• Cleaning with the sponge is more effective, with a wider area of effect which should make it less fiddly.
  
• Sponge visuals have been updated with improved & more dense suds for more squishy washy fun
  
• Moving your mouse over the Trinket Icons in the Stash Book now displays the name of the Trinket! Shoutout to Funreaver on the Steam forums for that one!
  
• Slight Tutorial rewording to better explain putting down Tools.
  
• Added sparkles to the coin bag to make it a little more obviously interactable.
  
• Fixed the annoying Alert Icon
  
• Adjusted the 'wet mat' effect while cleaning, it now appears more slowly
  
• Adjusted Trinkets so that they behave a lot less erratically when handling them/putting them down
  

We really hope you enjoy this bumper update, let us know what works and what doesn’t! We’re still working away at the game and still listening and learning from you all.

Of course if you're vibing with the Demo, we invite you to come and back the game's Kickstarter - it's going really well and we want more Goblins to join us there! We listen, we talk, we're open and we share development as much as we possibly can to build a better game with you.

We’ve been teasing this for a long time and we’re finally here! You can join all the other Goblins and pledge your support right now - as little or as much as you want - to get amazing rewards and behind-the-scenes access to the development of your new favourite game!

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Not only that but you can play the demo right here, right now on Steam! We’ve been toiling away on it for weeks, and taking it to EGX a month or so ago was part of the plan to make it as great as possible for this very moment! Just go to the store page and find the big ol' 'Download Trash Goblin Demo' button and give a little click. It looks like this:



Of course, we invite you to get even more involved than that!

Come and talk to us about the game on discord!
Not to mention giving the game a follow.
Wishlist it too maybe?
Perhaps even sign up to the mailing list!

Trash Goblin is going to be seen as part of the amazing Wholesome Snack: The Game Awards Edition livestream this Wednesday! And we're excited to say we've got a demo coming soon too... keep an eye out!

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We're also featured as part of the Wholesome Snack Steam event running right now, and we're in esteemed company - please do check it out and take a look at all the incredible games!

I know I know, it feels mean to limit this to anyone able to get to London but we’re so excited to have you play Trash Goblin so soon!

EGX is an amazing games event running from the 12th to the 15th of October (that’s right, it starts next Thursday!) and we’re going to be on the show floor with the very latest demo build of Trash Goblin for anyone to come and tinker with!


^us trying to impress you at EGX

Fair warning; we’re going to be taking so many notes and asking everyone who plays what they like and don’t like so be sure to get real with us! We’ve been planning this demo for a while and the team is hard at work making awesome stuff for it - and we’re focusing on making sure the chipping of Cruft and the sponge-based Cleaning gameplay is all super satisfying and scrunchy and that time just evaporates when you’re playing.

Just yesterday we had a team play and all wrote down everything we wanted to tweak or change - we call it snag list - and are already hard at work on making it as close to perfect as we can!


^Here’s a little peek at something in the demo that isn’t in the trailer. When you run out of time in the day, trying to do more work shakes the clock - because Goblins don't do crunch!

We continue to be blown away by the response on socials and across the whole internet about Trash Goblin! If you know someone who’s likely to just go nuts for this cosy little game we’re making, please do let them know about it!

Like last time we’re pushing the Kickstarter hard - trying to get those numbers up! - and every time anyone shares the links we get a new surge of people so please do whatever you can to help us spread the word!

And as ever, here’s how to get involved with us on various other channels:
Tiktok Discord Twitter using #TrashGoblinGame
Mailing list

Trash Goblin was announced to the world just two weeks ago today, and the response has been amazing! Humbling, exciting, and so heartwarming we can barely string two sentences together.

In particular, two things have blown us away - the support on twitter from Wholesome Games, and on TikTok from Cozy Tea Games.


^us, when we saw the response

First up was Wholesome Games, who tweeted our announcement trailer pretty soon after we did, and wowzers it got a lot of traction. You can see it right here, but suffice to say we were very excited by the 120,000 views it got. If one of those Goblins is you, say hi in the comments! 👋

You can see the Cozy Tea Games post here, and so far it's had over 160,000 views! Incredible! If you're one of the Goblins who saw us there, leave a reaction 😎

Both of these big pushes - plus countless others by all kinds of wonderful people across TikTok, Youtube and beyond - have contributed to an amazing amount of wishlists and followers here on Steam, and that's the dream - the more we get, the more successful our launch will be.

And that brings us on to our upcoming KICKSTARTER! We don't want to announce our plans yet, but we've got some very exciting news bubbling away, we're doing lots of planning for backer rewards and the like, and are looking forward to recording a new trailer for the launch of the campaign.

In the meantime, Trash Goblin's Kickstarter "Coming Soon" page is up and we'd love it if you hopped over and gave us a follow.



The higher the number (and the faster it grows!) the bigger launch we can have, and it also means Kickstarter takes notice which will double down on the excitement and noise generated when we go live. By clicking that green button, you'll get told the moment we go live, and that means you'll get Early bird (or should that be Early Goblin?) access to a bunch of limited rewards.

And just because we're nice, as a gift for reading all this way and clicking on that Kickstarter button, here's something we've not shown before!


^ A shiny coin our Goblin has found... but is it currency, or commemorative?

We intend to post every fortnight from now on, to keep you up to date with everything Goblin-y going on. Keep your eyes peeled, and spread the word!