Dorfromantik News

Feedback is essential for us to successfully add new features and improve Dorfromantik together with you. Of course, it helps us a lot if you are specifically trying to test features that we have listed up in the Beta Patch Notes for the current update.

🧪 Beta: If you also want to test new features earlier and help with your feedback the development of Dorfromantik, then find out here how you can participate in the public beta.

🌻 Community Feedback: We highlight items that we have implemented based on community feedback or suggestions. We look forward to your feedback in our Steam Community Hub or on our Discord server.

[h2]New Game Modes[/h2]
Yup, we're not done yet! We have the first look at some additional Game Modes you'll be able to choose from with 1.0! They will all come with their own leaderboards, as well, so all the more chances to get to see your name up there in the Top Spots!
Disclaimer: Quick Mode and Hard Mode are not fully balanced yet, and we will erase their Leaderboards for the proper 1.0 Release on the 28th.

[h3]Quick Mode 🐇[/h3]
Quick Mode allows for a short and snappy session of Dorfromantik. Try to beat your Highscore by collecting as many points as possible with a limited number of tiles to place!
This Mode has a hard limit of placeable tiles, like our demos did, and is meant as an finite alternative to Classic Mode.

[h3]Hard Mode 🔥[/h3]
Play a more difficult version of Dorfromantik in the Hard Mode - Fewer Quests, a steeper difficulty curve, and more complex tiles.
This Mode is meant for those looking for a bigger, badder challenge to tackle. With fewer Quests, tile placement becomes even more important, but will those complex tiles be helpful?

[h3]Monthly Mode 📅[/h3]
Monthly Mode offers a new configuration of Custom Rules and a fixed Seed each month. Enjoy the variety and compete with other on the Map of The Month!
This is our take on 'long-term' modes, like Daily or Weekly. We decided for the monthly challenge because this infers the least amount of FOMO, as well as Dorfromantik generally allowing for some longer lasting sessions and we'd like to give everyone enough to time to really sink their teeth into these!
If you have any interesting Custom Mode Seeds, we'd love for you to share them so we can start populating a list for the Monthly Mode alongside our own ideas!

Custom Mode
• Added Quick Mode with new Steam leaderboard
  
• Added Hard Mode with new Steam leaderboard
  
  Performance
• Improved performance of highlighting big groups (also performance of rotating a tile while connected to a highlighted group)
  
• Changed a few things to improve fast loading speed
  
  Clarity
• Added tooltips to all custom rules in Custom Mode, to menu tabs, buttons, some settings
  
• Changed tooltip priority order - setting Tooltips to "Basic" in the settings menu will only display menu & UI tooltips, setting it to "Detailed" will also display ingame tooltips (e.g. while hovering over Quest bubbles)
  
  UX
• Added particle effect for Undo
  
• Added particle effects to all creative mode tools
  
  UI
• Redesigned stats display
  
• Redesigned Game Over screen
  
• Unified layouts & translucent backgrounds throughout the entire game
  
• Changed challenge pin icons
  
  Bugfixes
• Fixed issue of a challenge fulfilled fx staying displayed and the game getting stuck when fulfilling a challenge after loading a save game
  
• Fixed Ingame camera turning off when loading a small world and quickly pressing the Fast Load button
  
• Fixed Arabic font in Custom Mode config screen
  
• Fixed Russian tilestack tooltip translation
  
• Fixed tileslots not reappearing when connecting a preplaced tile and undoing the connection
  
• Fixed tooltips not showing properly while loading a savegame
  
• Completed challenges can no longer be pinned
  
• Pinning a challenge now also works if not currently in Classic Mode
  
  Other
• Perfect placement ratio should now be displayed correctly while loading (older savegames need to be loaded once to initialize the value though)
  
• Removed "Load at Once" and "Group Highlighting" toggles
  
• Updated English & German translations

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Feedback is essential for us to successfully add new features and improve Dorfromantik together with you. Of course, it helps us a lot if you are specifically trying to test features that we have listed up in the Beta Patch Notes for the current update.

🧪 Beta: If you also want to test new features earlier and help with your feedback the development of Dorfromantik, then find out here how you can participate in the public beta.

🌻 Community Feedback: We highlight items that we have implemented based on community feedback or suggestions. We look forward to your feedback in our Steam Community Hub or on our Discord server.

Custom Mode
• New game mode in Game selection screen: the Custom Mode
  
• Start a new game in custom mode to open the configuration screen, where you can customize element probabilities and rules
  
• 🌻 Deterministic seed: The first part (first 6 digits) of the configuration string displayed in the configuration screen determines the order of generated tiles. This enables you to compete with others on the exact same map.
  
• 🌻 Copy and paste the configuration string to share your setup with others - the seed determining the tile generation order as well as all custom defined rules and element probabilities
  
• 🌻 Implemented customizable rules are: tile stack height, tile limit, quest probability, quest difficulty, flag quest probability, landscape density
  
  UI Improvements
• Reworked sliders & dropdowns in some parts of the menu
  
• Updated tutorial section in game mode selection screen
  
• Continued improving & unifying buttons

[h3]Note: The reworked UI is not final. Also, some features (like our predefined Custom Mode presets with separate leaderboards) are not yet included in this version.[/h3]

Stay safe! 💙💛

Feedback is essential for us to successfully add new features and improve Dorfromantik together with you. Of course, it helps us a lot if you are specifically trying to test features that we have listed up in the Beta Patch Notes for the current update.

🧪 Beta: If you also want to test new features earlier and help with your feedback the development of Dorfromantik, then find out here how you can participate in the public beta.

🌻 Community Feedback: We highlight items that we have implemented based on community feedback or suggestions. We look forward to your feedback in our Steam Community Hub or on our Discord server.

UX Improvements
• 🌻 Added "Fast Load" button to loading screen
  
• Added "Load At Once" option to settings menu (this makes fast loading even faster, but freezes the game and causes it to become unresponsive until loading is completed)
  
• Challenges can be pinned / unpinned by clicking their ingame icon
  
  
  Bugfixes
• 🌻 Fixed creative mode loading getting stuck in games transferred from classic mode
  
• 🌻 Fixed challenges getting registered multiple times and not getting unregistered when switching between savegames. This could result in challenge fulfilled effects being triggered multiple times, but also in other faulty behaviour, like tiles not being placed but counting for score
  
• 🌻 Fixed preplaced tile quests not triggering immediately when directly fulfilled or failed while the preplaced tile is connected
  
• 🌻 Fixed issue caused when undoing a turn where a new challenge was unlocked
  
• 🌻 Fixed #9999999999 being displayed as leaderboard rank when starting the game
  
• Fixed "Clear Progress" button
  
• Fixed autosave screenshot in Save Games screen not being set up correctly
  
• 🌻 Perfect placement ratio is no longer displayed in stats while loading the game, which had caused it to use wrong values for calculation and display percentages over 100%
  
• 🌻 Fully completed challenges are no longer displayed ingame (only during the session in which they were completed)
  
  
  Other
• Improved loading time & memory usage for maps with large tile stacks
  
• Added key rebinding for Creative Mode > Generate Matching Tile tool
  
• 🌻 Undo now also resets the tile rotation, so it no longer breaks the Heavy Weight challenge
  
• Added experimental "Highlight Groups" toggle to Settings > Other to evaluate group highlighting performance issues

💛 Once again, we would love to thank you for helping us testing these changes and providing lots of feedback!

💛💙 Stay Safe!

Feedback is essential for us to successfully add new features and improve Dorfromantik together with you. Of course, it helps us a lot if you are specifically trying to test features that we have listed up in the Beta Patch Notes for the current update.

🧪 Beta: If you also want to test new features earlier and help with your feedback the development of Dorfromantik, then find out here how you can participate in the public beta.

🌻 Community Feedback: We highlight items that we have implemented based on community feedback or suggestions. We look forward to your feedback in our Steam Community Hub or on our Discord server.

Creative Mode Improvements
• 🌻 Added "Generate Matching Tile" tool. Use this tool and select a tile slot to generate a tile that perfectly fits all its surrounding edges
  
• Improved feedback for locking the tile stack
  
• Added animations to creative mode tool previews
  
  Challenge System Rework
• 🌻 All challenges are now permanently active
  
• Challenges are displayed ingame sorted by their completion ratio
  
• Click on a challenge in the reward screen to pin it, displaying it before other (unpinned) challenges regardless of its completion ratio
  
  Tutorial Improvements
• Improved score explanation phase
  
• 🌻 Added phase explaining perfect placements
  
• Improved tutorial ending
  
  UX Improvements
• 🌻 Asynchronous save game loading, watch the world being created while it's loading
  
• 🌻 Added "Run in Background" toggle to Settings > Other
  
• 🌻 Added "Highlight Matching edges" toggle to Settings > Other
  
• Improved feedback for all buttons
  
• Added new perfect placement feedback effect
  
  UI Overhaul
• 🌻 Reworked the game mode selection & save game screen
  
• New and unified button & icon graphics
  
• Unified and improved button behaviour
  
• Display current game mode in main menu, only display highscore & rank if the current gamemode has them
  
  Other
• Added field quest tile (2A) with two field edges
  
• Improved visual variety of forests in the Standard biome, as well as villages in the Lavender biome

💛 Once again, we would love to thank you for helping us testing these changes and providing lots of feedback!

💛💙 Stay Safe!

We are happy to announce that, after a year of Early Access, Dorfromantik is going to celebrate its Full Release on April 28th!

We'd like to thank you for all the Feedback, Bug Reports, High Scores, and beautiful Landscapes you helped with and created during Early Access. This is just the start as we are already working hard on what comes after. We will not be done with Dorfromantik come Full Release and hope you will continue to accompany us on our journey!

We won't go into detail about what might lie beyond the horizon except one thing:
There will not be a cooperation with Netflix for a Dorfromantik show, and Chris Pratt will definitely not be playing a mouse cursor. You know who you are! 😉


As we previously stated during the Early Access phase, we would like to thank all players who have already put their trust into us and Dorfromantik with the current, reduced price. It is always a hard decision to support a new, unproven studio that has put out an Early Access title, so we honestly appreciate your trust!
With the Early Access phase coming to a close on April 28th, we will be raising Dorfromantik's price on March 29th in order to be able to offer a Launch Discount with the full price. For this, Steam requires us to increase the price at least 30 days in advance, as you can read here for yourself.


Thank you all for your continued support!
💛💙 Stay safe!