Thicket — Focus Timer

Your garden is a real place now The old garden was ridiculous, and we would like to explain how ridiculous. You bought one bench. That bench then appeared in every garden you had ever had, and every garden you ever would have, at the same time, forever. Then you ran out of things to buy, and carried on earning seeds for a shop with nothing left in it. Now a thing goes on the day you buy it. Four things a day, and you can buy another bench next week for a different day. Your Tuesday can have a pond. Your Wednesday does not have to. We have given back every seed you ever spent in the old shop. All of them. Every last one. You are not losing your garden — you are getting your seeds back and a better one. Press and hold anything to move it Hold a thing in your garden and it lifts into your hand, like a very small bench. Drop it wherever you like. It stays there, on that day, every time you come back to it. This one started with a nine-year-old telling us that her hut kept standing in front of her smallest tree. We drew the hut behind the tree and announced that we had fixed it. She was not impressed. She was also completely right. Eighteen things to put in it, most of them redrawn Six new ones: three stones, pale toadstools, bluebells, a hedgehog, a birdbath and a fire pit. The hedgehog does nothing at all. That is rather the point of the hedgehog. We also drew the old ones again, because several had been floating slightly above the ground since the day we added them. Nobody ever mentioned this. We are choosing to believe you all thought it was deliberate. Pinch to look closer We drew twenty different trees. Every one has its own shape, its own bark, its own way of standing. Then we showed them to you at about the size of a grain of rice. You could tell it was a tree. That was as far as it went. Now you can pinch your grove and look properly. The trees are drawn again as you zoom, not blown up, so they stay sharp all the way in. This goes for the ones that died, too. They look wonderful. We are sorry. There is a Fit button for when you are done admiring bark. The month works too, which is where it helps most. Thirty trees on one small patch of grass was always a bit of a squint. One thing to know: while you are zoomed in, swiping moves around the grove instead of changing the day. Tap Fit and swiping goes back to normal. We tried very hard to give one swipe two jobs. It went badly. Your trees have stopped wandering off Finishing a session used to rearrange your whole grove. You grew a tree in the morning, came back after lunch, and it had moved house. Nothing was broken, exactly. Your grove simply could never settle down and be a place, which is the only job we ever gave it. It settles now, and it is staying. The rainforest, after seventy-five hours Three new trees for the deep end. A Mangrove that stands on its roots like legs, as though it might wander off. A Cacao that grows its pods straight out of its trunk, which is odd to watch and much odder to draw. And a Tree Fern, which is older than nearly everything near it, and rather carries itself that way. The Cacao asks you to focus on a hundred different days. Not long days. A hundred days when you simply turned up, which is a much harder thing to fake. If you have seventy-five hours in this app: well done, and possibly go outside. Also in this one A month now has a field of its own, so the start of one looks empty and then fills up. At night your benches and huts finally get the moonlight — before, they were still lit by the sun, a different sun, apparently, from the one that had set. Putting something on a day with no trees used to take your seeds and then draw absolutely nothing, which is a magic trick nobody asked for. And loading a backup no longer quietly eats the second of anything you bought twice, which it had been doing with a straight face. Now go and put your phone down.