Hello, villagers!

It’s been two weeks since our prototype went live, and we’re really grateful to everyone who has played it and given us feedback!

@aeiouYXH in the Discord asked, how often are we planning to update the game?

Well the answer is, we’d really like to put out an update, no matter how big or small, about every 2-3 weeks, just to make sure that bugs are getting fixed and new features are getting playtested! (We’ll also put out crash hotfixes right away after an update if needed!)

Without further ado, I present:

The Dress-Up Update!!

New Clothing Inspirations — ooh la la: The villagers have turned their attention from the buildings, to each other! They’ve got all kinds of inspirations popping into their heads for new hat styles and ways to dress up. We can’t wait to see the new stories you can tell with these items. This is just a taste of things to come, come hang out in our Discord and give us your ideas for future clothing and accessories!

Activity Inspirations — the Explorer’s Backpack: We’ve added our first “activity inspiration”! Inspirations will come in all shapes and forms, including letting the player inspire villagers to do certain activities! We’ve heard the people playing that sometimes the villagers just aren’t doing enough exploring, so now you can stir their wanderlust by giving them an Explorer’s Backpack! This mechanic is still in development, but we will be adding more items like this, so once again, please let us know how this is working for you!

Save Slots — fun for the whole family: Some of our players are kids, and it hasn’t been very cool having to share a single village among siblings! We’ve added save slots so you can have as many villages as you like now. The current existing village will get named “Old Town”, along side any new saves you create.

We hope you like it and have fun with it! And as always, come join us in our Discord, we’d love to hang out with you and see what you’re building!

Full changelog v0.3.0

New Features:

• Characters will now drop Clothing and Activity inspirations. Drop these on a character and they’ll put it on!
  • Faeries don’t put on clothing yet, and visitors won’t take activity items (the backpack)
• Save slots added in the main menu
• Explorer’s Backpack inspiration, will cause a villager to go exploring as soon as possible
  • The backpack gets “used up” after one exploration.
• Characters stop and look at the player when the mouse is pointed at them, making them easier to click on
• Inspirations now appear as balloons over the head of the character they came from, instead of being dropped on the ground. This is a design experiment and subject to change!

Changes and Improvements:

• Add a quit button to the main menu
• Tents are no longer “buildings”, fixing several bugs related to tents
• Building “decor” will disappear if it becomes invalid. This fixes doors and windows facing into other buildings, and bushes inside buildings.
• Improved the way “supports” appear on Basic Buildings, making them more sensible and reliable.
• Faeries will add decor to any terrain blocks that are missing it
• Characters produce inspirations more slowly the longer they’ve been in the town, to help with being overwhelmed after a while
• Save file upgrades from V1 to V2 — please let us know if you encounter any problems!
• Game now defaults to “windowed fullscreen”. Use <alt + enter> to toggle between fullscreen modes.
• Villagers are guaranteed to provide a “building-type inspiration” if the player currently has none.

Fixes:

• The .exe has the proper project name 😳
• Fix another case where roofs would get stuck in an infinite construction loop
• Fix a bunch of reflective materials that were meant to be matte
• Fix a common crash if a villager worked at a building/tent/garden/etc. which was removed while they were working

As always, we’d love to have your feedback, so please post a comment here or come join our chat!