Tiny Bookshop News

Hello, dear bookworms, and happy Gamescom season!

[h3]You can come see us face to face at the Indie Arena Booth of Gamescom 2024, on August 21st – 25th![/h3]
Just head to Hall 10.2, and find our booth among the other awesome indies, at number S4!


[h3]We are also nominated for two Gamescom awards, and YOU can help us win![/h3]

If you'd like to vote in the Gamescom awards, we are nominated in the categories Most Wholesome and Games for Impact!

[h2]Vote here! (Only from Wed 21 to Thur 22)[/h2]

Simply login with your Koelnmesse account and vote in the 14 available categories.
The voting will only be available online from Wednesday, August 21 until Thursday, August 22, 2 pm CEST.

[h3]While you are exploring the Indie Area, why not participate in our cute sticker rally?[/h3]

By playing five out of 10 games of your choice, and collecting their stamps, you can receive a cozy sticker sheet! And if you play 6 or more of them, there will be an additional sticker in store for you!

[h3]And last but not least, here is a sneak peek at the new merch we have prepared for you at our booth![/h3]

We have a limited amount of brand-new 3D-printed keychains and pins of our seven genres! Thus, they will be distributed via a tiny raffle.
But even if we run out of them, there will always be some trusty stickers for you to take home!

Alrighty, that's all for now. But we are so so excited to see you at Gamescom!

Thank you everyone so much for taking the time to report this issue, and thank you for your patience. In this small patch, we've addressed a game-breaking bug for players playing in simplified-Chinese.

Please let us know whenever you encounter any issues with the demo! ✨
Pressing F2 and reporting bugs and glitches that way is a huge help for our tiny team to figure these things out quickly. 🙏

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修正了简体中文版本玩家的游戏中断问题 ✨
非常感谢大家花时间报告此问题，并感谢您的耐心。在这个小补丁中，我们解决了简体中文玩家的一个游戏破坏问题。

如果您在试玩版中遇到任何问题，请随时告知我们！✨
按 F2 键并通过这种方式报告错误和故障，对我们的小团队快速解决这些问题大有帮助。🙏
(请原谅我们的自动翻译，但对于小的和快速的补丁说明，这比依赖我们出色的本地化合作伙伴要快得多）。

[h2]Bugs:[/h2]
🔧 Fixed a bug causing corrupted save files in the newspaper, potentially causing some stuck loading screens
🔧 Fixed a bug when loading another scene, potentially causing some stuck loading screens
🔧 Fixed a minor-bug when loading scenes while animations are playing, potentially causing some stuck loading screens
🔧 Adjusted the box size of a tutorial hint so it remains readable in ES, DE, and FR
🔧 Added an auto-equip if users unequipped the shelf and quit in the customization screen
- Fixes stuck in stocking screen tutorial bug
- Fixes stuck in recommendation screen tutorial bug
🔧Fixed bug panel not showing up while between scenes
🔧 Fixed bug that allowed the boost arrows to stay visible after an effect stopped
🔧 Fixed typo in FR Tilde dialogue
🔧 Fixed typo in FR Gazette title
🔧 Fixed inflating birds when clicking too rapidly on them
🔧 Added an actual request behind Tilde's kinda rude context-less one
[h2]Polish:[/h2]
✨ Removed hyphenation from the dialogue text box
✨ Added 20 unique books for ES
✨ Added thank you for playing message on day 4, to better communicate the end of the demo on the map
✨ Adjusted spacing in the newspaper for bold texts
✨ Enabled resizing when playing the game in windowed mode
✨ Added version display to the escape-menu
✨ Bug reports now automatically include log messages, improving the bug fixing workflow
[h2]Notes:[/h2]
❗ Some crashes on devices without a dedicated GPU or an older GPU might be due to the demo being slightly too demanding on the hardware. We'll be optimizing the final version of the game of course, but for now, consider lowering the resolution in full-screen mode, lowering the Anti-Aliasing Settings, turning off Ambient Occlusion, and turning off VSync can all help improve performance and stability.
❗ Loading screen bugs can have a variety of causes with the same symptom, so yours might be gone, or still present after these fixes. Thank you so much to everyone who reached out and tried to help. Please still do, if you continue to encounter this bug, F2 + contact info is the best way to figure this out.
❗ Because this patch contains fixes that address save-file corruption, it will reset your saved game.

Thank you everyone for the kind words, we were absolutely blown away! We are incredibly thankful for having such a thoughtful and passionate community!

And thank you everyone for your thorough and diligent reports!

Dear loyal and devoted bookworms,

What you heard at Wholesome Direct is true! The time has come! Your pleas have been answered!
[h3]TINY BOOKSHOP NOW HAS A PUBLIC DEMO![/h3]
🎉 🎉 🎉
We are so excited to finally share some of the new gameplay with you all! If you'd like some more info on what that demo entails, here is all you need to know:

• How do I play the demo? — Download it right here on Steam!
  
• When can I play it? — Right now! Until the end of June.
  
• What languages will it be available in? — English and German.
  French and Spanish are added as well, but they have not been thoroughly tested, so please feel free to give us your feedback!
  
• Is there gamepad support? — Yes! And we are quite proud of it!
  
• How long is it? — You can play for 3 days in-game, which equals to about 30 minutes in real time. And after the credits, you can still continue decorating your bookshop!
  
• What can I do in it? — Firstly, you will be introduced to the game mechanics with our brand new tutorial. As always, you can explore locations, talk to our characters, browse the newspaper, customise your bookshop, and of course sell books.
  For the first time, you can also learn more about locations in your journal, master challenges and quests, and recommend specific book titles to your customers!
  
• Where can I go if I have questions? — We have set up a brand new community Discord server for our marvellous fans right here! Join your fellow book worms in discussing the game and share your feedback with us, the developers!
  
• How can I help improve the game? — Since the game is still in development, this demo may contain some bugs, typos, mistranslations, or inconsistencies. If you notice any, it would be helpful if you could report them via our custom bug reporting tool, by pressing F2! We will provide a more detailed guide to bug reporting in a follow-up post today.
  We'd also love to hear your ideas, suggestions, concerns, or praise ;) over on the Tiny Bookshop Discord.
  

We are so excited to hear your thoughts on the game, and thank you all for your incredible patience! We hope you have fun with our little demo, and would love to see you all soon over on Discord.
Lots of love,
Your neoludic Team

[h2]Hi there! Seems like you've run into a problem with our demo! Here's how you can report it to us and help us improve the game for the future.[/h2]

🪲 The best way to report a bug is when encountering it. Pressing F2 in-game to bring up our in-game bug-reporting tool.


This allows us to learn where the bug occurred, along with automatically taking a screenshot, and collecting info on which type of device this happened on. You’ll still have to give our six-legged friend a good name and a detailed description of how you got there, to better help our team find it.
In case we have follow-up questions, it would be fantastic if you could share a way to contact you, but no pressure!
Lastly, you can tell us how urgent this bug is, so we can get to the really bad stuff first.



🪲 If this is somehow not an option for you, or you’d like some help from us because you can't continue the demo, or you’d like the community’s help in figuring something out, then you are welcome to share it on our brand new community Discord server (join here). In this case, please include a screenshot/video/gif of what happened, a detailed description, some information on your current device, whether you played with mouse or with gamepad, and how we can replicate it.

Thank you for taking the time to help us out! It's the best way to ensure an amazing finished product. We wish you lots of fun with continuing the demo! 🧡

Cheers,
Your neoludic Team