Tiny Glade News

Hello hello! 🌻

We hope you all had a great first day with Steam Next Fest. It was wonderful seeing your hilltop houses yesterday.

Today we bring you a new #TinyDaily theme, which is 🎶🥁🎶

[h2]Secret Garden 🍃🌼[/h2]

We look forward to seeing what you all create! Share your builds in the replies, or if you share on Twitter, mention #TinySecretGarden so we (and others) can find it 🧡

Cheers,
Martin and Oda

We know from personal experience that sometimes you need a bit of inspiration to get doodling, and so we thought what a better way to kick off Steam Next Fest than to introduce some daily building themes! ✨ Each day of the festival we will share a new prompt, which will hopefully awaken that dormant creativity in those of you who struggle with a builder’s block (or perhaps you’re just looking for a fun challenge 😏)

Our very first theme for #TinyDaily will be 🎶🥁🎶
[h2]House On A Hill 🏠[/h2]

Share your build in the comments 🙌 If you share your builds on Twitter, make sure to mention the prompt #TinyHouseOnAHill so we (and others) can find them! ❤️

We look forward to seeing your creations and we’ll be keeping a close eye on what you all post.

Lots of love,
Martin and Oda

Good day, folks! It’s been slightly over a week since we released the demo, and we’ve had an absolute blast seeing your creations, reading your messages and investigating bugs and crashes (wait, mmm, maybe a teeny bit less of a blast with that last part 😜). Thank you for being such a wonderful community and infusing us with a ton of positivity and inspiration 💚

As a li’l thank you we’ve decided to add a new feature to the demo - a first person mode 🥳

It’s still a work in progress, and we don’t check for collisions with what you’ve built - so be careful walking through walls 😄👻 But we made sure you can still pet the sheep, walk up the hills, and our sound designer Martin even added footstep sounds on a short notice (thank you, Martin!)

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You can find this new mode in the toolbar, under photo mode’s camera categories:



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Another li’l announcement is that our audio duo Oda & Martin are organizing #TinyDaily - a daily building theme for y’all 💚 Each day of the Steam Next Fest they will share a new prompt. The prompt will be shared in Tiny Glade Steam News Hub, and also displayed in the main menu in the bottom right corner. The very first theme is 🎶🥁🎶 House On A Hill 🏠 Share your creations here.



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What else… *checks her notes* Oh yes! We’ve partnered with other indies for the duration of Steam Next Fest, and we made a small section on our Steam page called “Check out our friends’ games”. If you liked Tiny Glade, chances are you might like these too!


(House Flipper 2, Airborne Empire, Minami Lane)

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Okie dokie, I think that is it for now 👐

Thanks again for all the good vibes, and we wish you happy building!


(screenshot by Charlietzen 💚)

Love,
Tom, Ana, Oda & Martin

Hello, lovely peeps! Here comes another patch:

[h2]Shiny new stuff[/h2]

* First person mode! You can find it in photomode toolbar, next to other camera modes.
* Daily theme button in main menu (for more info, check out our recent blog post)
* Ported our crash reporter to the Rust `iced` GUI toolkit, and gave it some emoji sparkle 🥳✨

[h2]Nerdy technobabble[/h2]

* (Windows) Fixed crash on AMD graphics cards when entering exclusive fullscreen mode
* (Windows) Fixed unusable display adapters being shown if Parsec's virtual display driver is installed
* (Linux) Removed a number of shared library dependencies
* Fixed glitch characters being displayed in the driver selection screen in some locales
* Fixed Vulkan layers being forced on instead of allowed

Love,
Tom & Ana

Hello, folks! In this update we're deploying a whole rainbow of changes, primarily focusing on startup crashes due to other apps interfering with Tiny Glade's rendering. See here for some background. There's also a few fixes of our own bugs, and a handful of improvements too ✨

[h2]A gentle cleanse of "implicit Vulkan layers"[/h2]



* Automatically prevent graphical overlays, FPS counters, ReShade-likes, etc. from injecting themselves into Tiny Glade. This should fix a bunch of startup crashes.
* Added a "Vulkan extension settings" launch option in Steam, so you can re-enable anything you need. OBS and Valve stuff are allowlisted by default.
* Added a "Graphics card selector" launch option in Steam, which causes the graphics card/driver screen to pop up.

Please let us know if you encounter any new graphical issues, or whether this fixed the startup crashes for you 💕 Just in case, the previous version is available under the "1_3_1" beta in Steam.

[h2]Misc[/h2]

* We'd heard reports that ivy was still levitating inside arches, so we've done some additional gardening 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾
* Added a time of day speed setting 🌞🌙 You can now have very long or short day cycles! (You can find it in Settings -> Game)
* Doubled firefly count at night because who doesn't want more fireflies!
* Making a new glade will now load the starting glade instantly (instead of showing a super quick creation process which can look noisy)
* (Windows) Enanced our crash reporter to also catch heap corruption errors

[h2]Fixes[/h2]

* (Windows) Fixed the game window not showing on old graphics cards/drivers. Tiny Glade still won't work on those, but at least now you'll get an information screen.
* (Windows) Fixed a crash when a monitor's ICC profile path contained invalid Unicode characters.
* Fixed a crash when loading odd font files from the system. We now bundle our own fonts, and only use those.
* (Linux) Fixed a bug where the graphics card selection screen would be black until you moved your mouse.

Thank you for sending us crash reports! 💚 They've been very helpful in identifying these issues.

PS: aaaand we're also preparing a small feature update for the upcoming Steam Next Fest 👀👣 Stay tuned!

Love,
Ana & Tom