Virtual Cottage News

Hi!

Over the past two years (oh my, time is flying!) we have received hundreds of messages, about why Virtual Cottage can not be showcased in the profiles, or why it would not count in the global achievement and game collector count.

For that to happen, games need to generate an undisclosed amount in sales (which is hard if your game is free 😉 )

We stand by our statement that Virtual Cottage will always remain free so we decided to make a paid DLC instead. But not just any DLC. A lot of you wish for more music. So we're giving you 24 new, never-heard-before tracks that were exclusively produced for Virtual Cottage by LØNÆR! This doubles the number of songs that are currently in the game!

The majority of the proceeds from this DLC will go to LØNÆR and with enough sales, not only will you support a great artist, but you will also finally be able to showcase Virtual Cottage in your profiles!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2106700/Virtual_Cottage__LNR_Collaboration_Music_DLC/



These new features are now available for everyone who owns Virtual Cottage:

• We added a playlist - allowing you to turn off unwanted songs.
  
• A ceiling lamp has been installed in the cottage to switch between different contrasts
  
• The laptop brightness has been reduced
  
• Plus various tiny background things have been improved

Thanks for being on this journey with us ♥
Simone & Josef

Visuals: removed the Christmas decoration

Game: we implemented a fix, limiting the framerate. If your Framerate is still above 30, please let us know!

Hey Cottage Dwellers,

We'd like to inform you that we've launched the Steam Page for our third commercial title: Feed All Monsters!

A lot of you send us messages asking how you can support us. This would be the best chance to lend us a hand. ːconhappyː

Please wishlist Feed All Monsters!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1597720/Feed_All_Monsters

Cheers and thanks for your continued support!

Hello everybody,

we want to squeeze in a tiny update with some quality of live changes before the holiday season kicks in.

- Support for Japanese and Korean glyphs
The font now supports input in these two languages. If you know about a font that contains even more glyphs, please let us know ;)

- Sound sliders
Changing the volume of a deactivated sound will now automatically activate the sound. This should help solve some confusion about the states of the "white noise" for newer users

- A new music track
Rizzugoi - i'm in love with a ghost

- Holiday decoration
We fetched that one box from the basement with the holiday decoration. This will probably be around until mid January. There's also a small hidden message for you.


We all wish you a great holiday season and hope that you will get the best out of it, given the difficult circumstances. Stay safe! :)

Cheers,
DU&I

Greetings everyone!

Yes, it has been a while, but finally here we are with a new update.

CHANGES & ADDITIONS

• Toggle between cat and dog
  
• To-Do List
  
• Dynamic light
  
• Interface adjustments
  
• Graphic updates
  
• New music added
  

Toggle between cat and dog:
To celebrate the launch of our game Dogs Organized Neatly , you can now invite Sally into the cottage. There's a button on the top right of the screen where you can now toggle between the cat and the doggo.

To-Do List:
A lot of you were asking for that feature, and finally here it is. In the top right of the screen is a button to show the To-Do List. You can create multiple tasks, edit them, cross them of the list or delete them. In case you "hide" the To-Do List, don't worry - your tasks will not be lost.
Please be aware, that currently all tasks get lost once you close the app. We'll try to improve on that in a later update.

Dynamic light:
Before this update, the cottage changed basically once an hour. But now with the dynamic solution, the light in the cottage will change in real time. So for example 5pm will look different than 5.15pm.

Interface adjustments:
The app now adjusts to your screen size. This should be helpful for those of you who have Virtual Cottage open as a tiny window on their monitor.

Graphics update:
The interior of the cottage, pets, character and effects have all been updated to a bigger resolution. This should make Virtual Cottage look better on bigger monitors as well.

New Music:
The track "I'm so tired" by Rizzugoi was added.

KNOWN ISSUES:
Due to the graphics rework, some of the interface elements might be pixelated at higher resolutions.

WHAT COMES NEXT:
We've reworked a lot of smaller things on the project and have set it up for the following things:

• Customizing the characters hair, skin and sweater color.
  
• Allowing players to set the fairy lights to a custom color.
  
• Adding a light switch so the PC isn't the only light source at night.
  
• Saving the last activity you entered for the next session.
  
• Continue working on the interface to make it less pixelated. Also resizing buttons etc.
  
• Giving players the ability to turn off animations.
  
• Toggle summer / winter automatically by setting the hemisphere
  
• More music
  

ON A SIDE NOTE:
Virtual Cottage is and always will be free! In case you want to support us, please check out our commercial games Cats Organized Neatly and Dogs Organized Neatly !

Thank you!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1597730/Dogs_Organized_Neatly
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369340/Cats_Organized_Neatly/