Travellers Rest News

Greetings, Tavern Keeps!

There is a new update for you, but also there is also some important news that we want to share with you.

Many fans may not know that so far Travellers Rest has been created by a single developer and artist - Louqou. During this time the game has received an amazing response and grown a dedicated fan base and we all thank you so much for the support. Louqou, however, has realized that being a solo developer will not allow him to develop the game at a pace and quality you all deserve. Wanting what's best for the game and its fans Louqou has decided to pass future development onto another development studio. He apologizes for the delays in development this has caused. However, this big change has allowed us to redefine the scope of the game, such as including plans for new animations, art style, character models, and even maybe the highly requested feature - multiplayer in the future!

[h3]New developer[/h3]
Louqou decided to entrust us, Isolated Games, with the development of Travellers Rest. Alex, who was already working with him, will continue alongside us doing the great job he has been doing with Louqou helping us to improve the game.

Isolated Games is a little indie studio from Barcelona, we are currently developing Between the Stars, a space action RPG game, and we are looking forward to working on Travellers Rest and taking it to another level. In order to develop it properly, we hired new staff to form a development group that will be dedicated exclusively to Travellers Rest. In the past, Louqou did all the art and programming of the game by himself, and now with the incorporation of specialists from different areas, we expect to significantly improve the quality of the game.

We have been working on it for a month and this will be our first update. We really love working on Travelers Rest to improve it, and we have been reading all the feedback that the community has left on the forums and Discord for a while to understand what is more adequate for the game according to the community.

We've negotiated with GOG com and the game is now available there DRM free! Also, everyone who has Travellers Rest now has a discount available for Between the Stars in the Isolated Games Bundle.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/20465/

[h3]What will come[/h3]
We have a lot of plans for Travellers Rest.

• We'll improve the artistic style of the game. We are currently re-drawing all the assets with a higher pixel density in order to have much more detail. No more ladies that seem like men!
  
  
• We'll improve all the animations of the game. The new animations will look beautiful and smooth.
  
  
• Gamepad support! We're currently working on it and it will be ready soon!
  
  
• A new balanced crafting and farming system. New ways to get resources: fishing, cutting down trees, mining rocks...
  
  
• New construction system. Expand the tavern your way, add new dining rooms or kitchens.
  
  
• A bigger world! Every one loves to be focused in their taverns, but we would like to add the option to explore the world and get to know new characters.
  
  
• Multiplayer. It would be great to work in your tavern with friends, wouldn't it?
  

To give you an idea of the new artistic style that Travelers Rest will have, we'll leave you with a small sample of the art tests that we are doing. Do not hesitate to leave your opinion in the comments below, we would like to know what you think about the new changes!


[h3]Update v0.3.4[/h3]
This first little update brings you some new decorative objects for your taverns, HDR colors with bloom and color correction, and we remade all the UI in order to bring you gamepad support in the next update.

• We've added 28 new items:
  
  • Children of the Sun Banner
    
  • Republic Banner
    
  • Space Pirates Banner
    
  • Lion Banner
    
  • Rose Banner
    
  • Frayed Banner
    
  • Small Wooden Framed Painting (4 variations)
    
  • Big Wooden Framed Painting (3 variations)
    
  • Vertical Wooden Framed Painting (5 variations)
    
  • Elegant Wooden Framed Painting (4 variations)
    
  • Indoor Cactus
    
  • Indoor Bush
    
  • Indoor Plant
    
  • Indoor Lily
    
  • Candle
    
  • Elegant Candle
    
  • Chandelier
    
  • Shining Chandelier
    
  • Red Basic Rug (3 variations)
    
  • Blue Basic Rug (3 variations)
    
  • Purple Basic Rug (3 variations)
    
  • Red Shaggy Carpet
    
  • Blue Shaggy Carpet
    
  • Purple Shaggy Carpet
    
  • Elegant Red Rug (3 variations)
    
  • Elegant Blue Rug (3 variations)
    
  • Elegant Purple Rug (3 variations)
    
  • Sack
    
• We've added 12 new paintings.
  
• Now the picture of the paintings and the rug styles can be changed using "cycle colors" function (Q key).
  
• "Cycle colors" key has been modified. Now you have to press Q to use it.
  
• The whole UI has been re-made in order to support gamepad navigation in the future.
  
• We added color adjustments. bloom and materials with HDR colors.
  
• We added a fire particle effect in candles.
  
• We updated Unity to version 2019.4.20.
  
• We fixed the brown screen lock.
  

Greetings, Tavern Keeps!

First of all we wanted to briefly touch base with you about why we've taken two months to get this update out. During December, there was a complication when a team member caught covid and spent the better part of a month very ill. This severely hampered production and development of the game up until January when he was able to get back to work.



There are a number of new exciting features in this update. You will now be able to access the Wardrobe and change your clothing and accessories.

You will also be able to upgrade the Tavern size in this update, which has been a hugely sought after feature! You'll also be able to auto-hire people to work on your Tavern consistently now. There's also a new staff member you can hire, the Housekeeper, who cleans your rented rooms. Last but not least we've taken care of a few nasty bugs!

Expect more consistant updates from here on in!



[h3]v0.3.3.0 Change Log[/h3]

• You can now auto-hire staff.
  
• You can now upgrade the tavern floor to be larger.
  
• There is a new staff member available. The House Keeper. This staff member cleans your rooms for you every morning.
  
• There is now a button available to match your beard and hair color.
  
• There is now a wardrobe available to change your clothes and accesories.
  
  
• We've fixed a bug where saves are incorrectly ordered when restored through Steam Cloud.
  
• Now the player can exit locked customer rooms.
  
• Now if there is no translation detected in a line of text it will appear in English.
  
• We've fixed a bug in the magic broom that caused it to become stuck.