Dorfromantik News

Hi all!

We are very grateful for the feedback for the demo so far and would like to return the favor, so we are giving away Steam Keys every day during the Steam Game Festival.

[h2]When can I join?[/h2]
Starting today at 18.00 CET (09.00 AM PST) we will pick 2 winners each next day until the following day of the festival end on 10.02 at 18.00 CET (09.00 AM PST).

[h2]What can I win?[/h2]
We are giving away Steam Keys for Dorfromantik, which will go into Early Access on March 25. We assign the Keys as follows:

• 🎁 1x Steam Key per day for Best Highscore of that day
• 🎁 1x Steam Key per day for a randomly chosen participation

[h2]How can I enter?[/h2]
Play the free demo of Dorfromantik during the Steam Game Festival and take a screenshot of your highscore. Submit your screenshot as reply to this thread or on Twitter as reply to this tweet.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1455840/Dorfromantik/

[h2]Can I participate on more than one day? [/h2]
Yes very much so, we look forward to seeing what you have built! However, out of fairness, it is only possible to win once.

[h2]Anything else?[/h2]
Have a wonderfully relaxing time with Dorfromantik and we look forward to your submission!

Team Toukana :)

During the Steam Game Festival we show you gameplay footage of Dorfromantik, recorded by our community in the past weeks (special thanks to Raptor, Nookrium, Randomise User and The Geek Cupboard). We love to see what you all are building with Dorfromantik, so feel free to post your own gameplay footage of the current playable Demo in the Community Hub and show us what you have built.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1526040
Play our exclusive new Demo during the Steam Game Festival February 21, 🎁 win steam keys for Dorfromantik and as always wishlisting the game helps us a lot to get a chance showing Dorfromantik to a bigger audience as a small team, thank you very much for your support! 💛

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Team Toukana :)

Hi everyone!

We are very happy to announce the Early Access launch of Dorfromantik for March 25 2021.



[h2]Why Early Access?[/h2]
Originally, we had set ourselves a timeframe of about a year for Dorfromantik, with the release falling on mid-late 2021. However, in our view Dorfromantik is already in a perfectly playable and stable state with all core features and lots of polishing already in place.

Dorfromantik is a peaceful and wholesome game and many of you are telling us that even the prototype helped you unwind in these globally harsh times. This has convinced us to bring Dorfromantik to the community earlier than we had originally planned. An Early Access release allows us to do this and improve the game with updates and the feedback from you, the players.

The Early Access version offers enough content to enjoy for many hours and will bring you a beautiful, relaxing experience. Also it can be a great distraction while sitting through boring Zoom calls 😉

[h2]How long will Dorfromantik be in Early Access?[/h2]
We don't want to drag out the development of Dorfromantik unnecessarily, but continue to work towards the mid-late 2021 target for the full release.

[h2]How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?[/h2]
The core mechanics of Dorfromantik are complete for us and we would now like to build on them with more complexity and variety. Next to a creative mode, we envision more biomes, more unlockable tiles (some with special behaviour), more options to collect points and more supported languages. But we also want to communicate quite openly and transparently where we don't want to go with Dorfromantik, namely: 4X strategy, trading & resource management, combat and multiplayer.

[h2]What will the state of the Early Access version be on March 25?[/h2]
Dorfromantik is currently in a perfectly playable and stable state. There is a playable tutorial to learn the game mechanics and a classic game mode where you can improve your own highscore. There will be 3 playable biomes and 10 unlockable tiles on the Early Access release.

[h2]Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?[/h2]
Yes, we would like to thank everyone who is already supporting us during Early Access with a reduced price for that period.

[h2]How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?[/h2]
We are a small team of 4 Game Design students and have set ourselves a clear goal with Dorfromantik for the year 2021. We are happy with the current core gameplay mechanics and don't want to make any more big changes to it. We will read through all the community feedback and address it if we think it fits well with our ideas for Dorfromantik. We can also imagine leaving specific feature requests to the community via voting to decide what will be in implemented for the final game. Please note that we will mainly use the Community Hub in Steam for all of this and communicate in English or German.

[h2]Playable Demo & Steam Game Festival [/h2]

Don't forget that you have the chance to play our exclusive new Demo during the Steam Game Festival February 21. Just visit us on our Steam Store Page during the festival and download the demo there.

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As always wishlisting the game helps us a lot to get a chance showing Dorfromantik to a bigger audience, thank you very much for your support! 💛

Team Toukana :)

Hi everyone!

We are happy to announce that we will take part in the upcoming Steam Game Festival: February 2021 with Dorfromantik from the 3rd to 9th of February.

You will have the chance to play our exclusive new Demo during the festival here on Steam. Just visit us on our Steam Store Page during the festival and download the demo there.



It has many new improvements over the older version such as:

• 🏡 new and improved menu & UI
  
• 🎵 new Sound and MUSIC!
  
• 💬 new in-game tutorial
  
• ⌨️ new and more intuitive keyboard controls
  
• 🎁 we also added 10 more tiles to the demo tile cap as thank you 
  

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🙊 We also have a big upcoming announcement at the launch of the festival on February 3rd. As always wishlisting the game helps us a lot to get a chance showing Dorfromantik to a bigger audience, thank you very much for your support!

Team Toukana :)