Wayward Strand

Hi everyone! It’s incredible to think that it’s already been a year since we put Wayward Strand out into the world. We’ve been so chuffed with the response that you all have had to this experience we created together, and thought it’d be lovely to reminisce ab…

Greetings, fellow Wayward Strand enthusiasts! We're here to share some exciting news and updates with you about the game and our studio, ghost pattern. We've had a lot going on lately, from GDC talks to award nominations, and we're thrilled to share all the de…

Hello! It's Goldie! I hope you’re cosy and wrapped up in various blankets, hoodies, oodies, onesies or jumpers right now, because it’s time for the Steam Autumn Festival! My very witty title would have worked better if they’d called it the Steam Fall Festival,…

Wayward Strand is now available on Steam - the ship is in flight! You can get it right now, and for the next few days, at the introductory price of 10% off. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1080450/Wayward_Strand/ We've been floored by the early reviews that…

Hi everyone! IT IS LAUNCH WEEK First up, check out this short and sweet video which shows some emotional content from the team Second up, It's AGDAs time, baby! We are incredibly honoured to have been nominated in a few categories - as well as given an honoura…

G'day! As per usual, let's get right down to the meat and potatoes of this post: our cast! Here's the announcement in video form We want to start off with a huge shout-out to our four studios - Original Score in Melbourne, ZigZag Post in Sydney, Innenhof in Vi…

Hi everyone! There’s been some news, which is a bit of a relief for us. I’ll cut to the chase: we’re delaying the release of Wayward Strand. We will now release on September 15! It was a difficult decision to make, because this project has gone on a long...

Hello, It’s Goldie here! Just a short post today, to let you all know that we’re part of Steam NEXT this week. Thank you for having us, Steam! During Steam NEXT, our lovely demo will be live - This will be the last time that this demo is available. Bon voyage …

You’re here! Welcome! It’s thrilling for our little team to see so many of you coming to visit our Steam page. We’ve just announced our launch date, and we can’t wait to finally be able to share the game with you. I’m Georgia, one of the lead writers for Waywa…

Hi everyone! We're chuffed to announce that we're being featured, along with a bunch of other really exciting games, in the upcoming Steam Big Adventure Event, organised by Hitcents! As part of the event, we'll be doing a live-stream to our Steam page and to T…

First of all: We have a new demo, available to play right now! Wayward Strand is a part of the Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) showcase, which is starting now - Sep 30th, 10am PDT / Oct 1st, 3am AEST. We'd love to invite you to check out our demo, wh…

After my last post, on how we’ve integrated ink and Timeline, there was some interest in how we use Unity’s Timeline tool to do things like trigger animations on characters. Over the course of making Wayward Strand, we've developed a solution for this that we'…

Hi there - I’m Jason, a member of the team making Wayward Strand. Now that we’re getting closer to finishing and releasing Wayward Strand, we thought we’d start sharing a bit more of our development process as it happens. As we’ve been developing Wayward Stran…

May 20th is the 10th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day! To celebrate, we're announcing that the wonderful Cameron Hopkinson (they/them) is providing accessibility consultation and advice for Wayward Strand, and that we will be hosting a live-stream whe…

Hi, it’s Goldie, from Ghost Pattern! #LudoNarraCon is nearly here for another year, and we are very pleased to announce that we’re once again going to be taking part. It’s happening April 23rd-26th! We’ll have a bunch of different streams during the festival w…

Our research channel on Slack dates all the way back to 2016 and is chock-a-block with interesting tidbits and influences on the game. Join the Ghost Pattern team as they do some real-time project archeology! Light spoiler warning, even we don’t know what we’r…

Maize will noodle about in their home recording studio, making new music for Wayward Strand. This stream will uncover Maize’s process of composing works on the guitar, through to the next steps towards a finished track. They’ll also be chatting about all thing…

Set design and dressing is a key part of the narrative experience. Join art director Goldie as she updates and creates new textures for some of the lovely props in Wayward Strand, and talks about the various influences on our gentle, ‘ligne claire’ art style.