Gardens

Gardens (Gardens Interactive) is a distributed, remote-first video game studio founded in 2021 by veterans of Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, Sky: Children of the Light, Blaseball, Dustforce, Guild Wars 2, and Firewatch. The studio builds lush, living worlds that bring players together to cultivate lasting friendships, and is developing an upcoming shared fantasy adventure — an ever-evolving online multiplayer sandbox set in a shapeshifting, unpredictable wilderness filled with mystery and magic, designed around meaningful moments shared between strangers. Co-founded by Chris Bell, Lexie Dostal, and Stephen Bell and based primarily out of Portland and Los Angeles, Gardens raised a $31.3M Series A co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. As a game studio, Gardens publishes no public developer API, SDK, or developer portal; this profile captures its identity within the API Evangelist network.

Gardens is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Gaming, Game Studio, Video Games, and Interactive Entertainment.

Gardens’ developer surface includes engineering blog, YouTube channel, and 11 more developer resources.

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyGamingGame StudioVideo GamesInteractive EntertainmentMultiplayerIndie GamesLightspeed Portfolio

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Composite quality — 9.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 7

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

Careers

Press

LinkedIn

Bluesky

Bluesky

Instagram

Instagram

Scroll for all 7

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

TikTok

TikTok

Steam

Steam

Source (apis.yml)

aid: gardens
name: Gardens
description: 'Gardens (Gardens Interactive) is a distributed, remote-first video game studio founded in 2021 by veterans of
  Journey, What Remains of Edith Finch, Sky: Children of the Light, Blaseball, Dustforce, Guild Wars 2, and Firewatch. The
  studio builds lush, living worlds that bring players together to cultivate lasting friendships, and is developing an upcoming
  shared fantasy adventure — an ever-evolving online multiplayer sandbox set in a shapeshifting, unpredictable wilderness
  filled with mystery and magic, designed around meaningful moments shared between strangers. Co-founded by Chris Bell, Lexie
  Dostal, and Stephen Bell and based primarily out of Portland and Los Angeles, Gardens raised a $31.3M Series A co-led by
  Lightspeed Venture Partners. As a game studio, Gardens publishes no public developer API, SDK, or developer portal; this
  profile captures its identity within the API Evangelist network.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gardens/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-industry: gaming
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://gardens.dev/favicon.ico
tags:
- Company
- Gaming
- Game Studio
- Video Games
- Interactive Entertainment
- Multiplayer
- Indie Games
- Lightspeed Portfolio
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gardens-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://gardens.dev
- type: Blog
  url: https://gardens.dev/blog/
- type: Careers
  url: https://gardens.dev/careers
- type: Press
  url: https://gardens.dev/press
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://gardens.dev/privacy-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gardens-games/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/gardensdevs
- type: Bluesky
  url: https://bsky.app/profile/gardens.dev
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@GardensDevs
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/gardensdevs/
- type: TikTok
  url: https://www.tiktok.com/@gardensdevs
- type: Steam
  url: https://store.steampowered.com/developer/GardensInteractive
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence