Dorfromantik News

Check out our Winter Update Announcement to get a quick overview of new features and content:
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1455840/view/4894847933369444539





🌻 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.

New Content
• 🌻 Added the "Midwinter" biome, a cozy, snowy winter biome. During the holidays, the new biome will be unlocked by default, afterwards it will require Landscaper V to be completed.
  
• Added Challenge Puzzler VII
  
• Added Challenge Heavy Weight VII
  
• Added Challenge Landscaper V
  
• Added 3 new achievements corresponding to the new challenges above
  
  Localization
• 🌻 Updated German, French, Spanish, Latinamerican Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Ukrainian and Arabic translations
  
  Performance
• started reworking handling of objects in memory - this decreases RAM usage and loading times by up to 40% and improves general performance
  
  Usability
• 🌻 added biome configuration to enable or disable biomes in Classic mode
  
• turned Creative mode configuration into an overlay instead of a menu page
  
  Bugfixes
• 🌻 Preplaced Tiles no longer appear in Creative Mode
  
• 🌻 Completed challenges now show their correct progress on their menu card and ingame icon
  
• 🌻 Non-perfect lake edges (e.g. forest / lake, village / lake) no longer count towards puzzler challenge
  

💛 We would like to give a big Thank You to you, the community. for sticking with us. Especially after the Halloween Update when we had to shift our priorities a bit away from Dorfromantik for our final thesis. We know that 0.4 is not our largest update, but we hope you will enjoy it regardless!

🤍 No matter what or if you celebrate, we hope you can spend time together with people you care about and pass on some love. We all deserve it!

- Team Toukana

Hi everybody,

The end of the year is just around the corner and we would like to give you a short overview of what you can expect for the winter holidays for Dorfromantik.


Finally we get to share it with you! Thanks to you, our wonderful community, we were nominated as one of 5 games for this year's Steam Awards in the Sit Back and Relax category.
We are very honored and of course we hope that we can win, so that we can finish a wonderful year of Dorfromantik together with you. You can help us by voting for Dorfromantik in the Sit Back and Relax category. Voting will be possible from next Wednesday December 22nd and throughout the Winter Sale continue.

Thank you already very much to everybody who takes the step to vote for us! We are very grateful 💛


We have completed a new content update for you to coincide with the Winter Sale and the voting period for the Steam Awards. Starting next week, you can expect our winter update if you want to play a relaxing session of Dorfromantik over the holidays.
What we can already reveal, there is definitely a new biome, which we may have already teased here somewhere ;) To hopefully get some uncertainties out of the way right away, as some questions came up regarding the previous content update for Halloween:

• The Winter Biome will be unlocked for everyone directly in the game during the Winter Sale.
  
• After that, it will still remain permanently in the game, but needs to be unlocked like all other biomes by completing the Landscaper challenge.
  

We'll share more information with you next week about the update with the start of the Winter Sale.


The Winter Sale will start next week Wednesday, December 22 and will last 2 weeks until January 5. During this time you can buy Dorfromantik and the soundtrack with 10% discount or give it to someone as a gift. We've also teamed up with our friends to put together games that we all love and think fit Dorfromantik very well into a wonderful Serene City Builder Bundle, which will be discounted combined.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/23122/Serene_CityBuilder_Bundle/


While we will put out a proper Showcase announcement - We have heard you!

From now, until January 14th, we will be running a special Winter Edition Community Showcase! Build us a scene that makes us want to go walking in a winter wonderland, Go ham with the new Midwinter Biome, maybe sprinkle in a secondary one where appropriate.
Voting will start on January 10th, submissions as usual via Discord or, once we set it up, the Community Showcase Announcement comments.


Of course, no End-Of-Year post would be complete without wishing all of you awesome people happy holidays. No matter if/what you celebrate, we hope you can be with your loved ones, despite everything that is still happening in the world, and just take a break from all that less than wonderful stuff.
Us six Toukans certainly will take some much needed and, hopefully, well-deserved time off, to recharge our batteries and creativity tanks. There is only one way to go after New Year's, after all, and that is the way towards Version 1.0!

Eat well, take plenty of naps, and enjoy. We've all earned it! 💛

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.

New Content
• 🌻 Added the "Midwinter" biome, a cozy, snowy winter biome. During the holidays, the new biome will be unlocked by default, afterwards it will require Landscaper V to be completed
  
• Added Challenge Puzzler VII
  
• Added Challenge Heavy Weight VII
  
• Added Challenge Landscaper V
  
• Added 3 new achievements corresponding to the new challenges above
  
  Usability
• 🌻 added biome configuration to enable or disable biomes in Classic mode
  
• turned Creative mode configuration into an overlay instead of a menu page
  
  Performance
• started reworking handling of objects in memory - this decreases RAM usage and loading times by up to 40% and improves general performance
  
  Bugfixes
• 🌻 Preplaced Tiles no longer appear in Creative Mode
  
• 🌻 Completed challenges now show their correct progress on their menu card and ingame icon
  
• 🌻 Non-perfect lake edges (e.g. forest / lake, village / lake) no longer count towards puzzler challenge

[h2]UPDATE 0.4.0.1b[/h2]
2021-12-17 - We deployed a small bugfix patch and some updated localization localization files:

Improvements
• Preventing Landscaper V achievement from being automatically triggered
  
  Localization
• 🌻 Updated Dutch translation
  
• 🌻 Updated Japanese translation
  
• 🌻 Updated Spanish translation
  
• 🌻 Updated Latinamerican Spanish translation
  
• 🌻 Updated Swedish translation

💛 We would like to give a big Thank You to you, the community. for sticking with us. Especially after the Halloween Update when we shifted our priorities away from Dorfromantik for a bit. We know that 0.4 is not our largest update, but we hope you will enjoy it regardless!

Yup, that's right! After some chaos last week, we finally have our last showcase winners of 2021!
Check here for all the deets:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1455840/view/3117049348997935233

Hey everyone,
We are back for another day of Dorfmas right here on Steam! And there might be something on Reddit, too.

We are riding a wave of positive Highs currently. Last Thursday we won the Award for "Best German Game" at the German Developers Awards, which is awesome. We are still all quite shocked and in disbelief! In addition, both Polygon, as well as The New Yorker put us on their 2021 GOTY Lists which is very humbling.

We'd like to celebrate with you a little bit today, so we'll be giving away another Steam Key. To enter the giveaway, comment this News post, and tell us which Special Tile (except Bridges and Land-Train-Stations) you want to see us add to the game! We will pick one random commenter on Wednesday Afternoon CEST!

As usual, if you know someone who might be interested in this chance - Let them know! ;)