Gnomes News

[p]Hello Gnomies,[/p][p][/p][p]Firstly, thanks for all of your support over the last couple of weeks and welcome to all of the new Gnomies who picked up the game during the Steam sale. If you haven't already, please leave Gnomes a review on Steam (it helps us more than you can imagine!)[/p][p][/p][p]If you've managed to conquer all of the maps in the game we've got great news for you. We're currently seeking playtesters for our next content update. If you're interested, come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server and let us know you'd like to try out the new content![/p][p][/p][p]Todays update is some performance, balance and QoL improvements.[/p]

• [p]Coal and Fools Gold now give a maximum of 4 gold per day (increased by 1)[/p]
• [p]Improved FPS performance (should drastically stabilize late game)[/p]
• [p]Added copy + paste build function and area build function (see .gifs below)[/p]

[p][/p][p]Coming soon:[/p]

• [p]New maps[/p]
• [p]New guilds[/p]
• [p]Localization across 11+ new languages including: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Italian, Turkish.[/p]

[p][/p][p]If you have any issues or feel like hanging out with us and the Gnomies - come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server and let us know you'd like to try out the new content![/p][p][/p][p]Cheers,[/p][p]Tommy and Patrick[/p][p]DYSTOPIAN[/p]

[p]Sup Gnomies,[/p][p][/p][p]Just a quick hotfix addressing some of the issues in the latest update:[/p]

• [p]fixed jackhammer volume (soz about your ears Gnomies) [/p]
• [p]fixed jackhammer not giving gold[/p]
• [p]fixed achievements (again)[/p]

[p][/p][p]Thanks everyone who reported the bugs! If you have any more issues or feel like hanging out with us and the Gnomies - come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server [/p][p][/p][p]See you soon! [/p][p]Tommy and Patrick [/p][p]DYSTOPIAN[/p]

[p]Sup Gnomes,[/p][p]
First of all we wanted to shout out to the wiki crew over here on the community Discord server - if you haven't already Come and Join the Gnomes Discord Server [/p][p]The wiki is now fleshed out and well organized. Thank you for your contributions and thank you to those who contacted us with issues and patiently tested debug builds for us - without you it would have been much harder / impossible to track these down. Check out all their hard work here: https://gnomes.wiki.gg/wiki/Gnomes_Wiki[/p][p][/p][p]We also wanted to thank all the Gnomies for your ongoing support, this week we hit a really exciting milestone of 25000 Gnomies! [/p][p][/p][p][/p][p]If you haven't already, please leave us a review, it really helps us out a lot![/p][p][/p][h2]What's going on in this update?[/h2][p]We've been busy addressing feedback and building the infrastructure to allow us to expand the game. Primarily we have focused on solving some rare video issues that some players have been suffering from. We've also put in place a new UI system that will finally allow us to localize the game into different languages. (Our next major update will feature a bunch of new languages.) We've also made a bunch of QoL changes like "click and drag box pickup of multiple entities" as well as massive improvements to the UI of the different menus.[/p][p][/p][h2]Changelist[/h2][h3]New Relics[/h3]

• [p]Coal[/p]
• [p]Sapphire[/p]
• [p]Jackhammer (Replacing pickaxe and hatchet)[/p]

[h3]Balance[/h3]

• [p]Ice Wand and Dirtmancers Wand are both now 1g to use[/p]
• [p]Mead now -100% xp but its cheaper in the shop[/p]
• [p]Gold top now -100% xp[/p]
• [p]Recycling bin is now more expensive[/p]
• [p]Sawmill now costs 8g to build[/p]
• [p]Flannel shirt is buffed[/p]
• [p]Morel now gives +1 damage per mushroom[/p]

[h3]Technical/UI/QoL[/h3]

• [p]Added box select to pick up multiple gnomes / moveables at once. Hope you like this one.[/p]
• [p]Cheats mode added (click the left eye of the Gnome in the main menu 5 times to activate or deactivate)[/p]
• [p]Redid all text/typesetting,[/p]
• [p]Redid text menus,[/p]
• [p]Redid Map/Guild/Daily Run screens + Daily run new features,[/p]
• [p]Global/Friends view,[/p]
• [p]Leaderboard pages,[/p]
• [p]Performance improvements for endless - There's still more to be done but let us know if its any better[/p]
• [p]Backend changed to SDL3 - this should fix the flickering issue which several people have reported,[/p]
• [p]Loading system has been improved - the game should now launch faster and with no white screen,[/p]
• [p]Redid timestep / game tick system - should be a bit smoother, can simulate faster than framerate now[/p]
• [p]Changed some default hotkeys - speed up and down is on Q and E, end turn is now Enter so people don't get rekt for pressing accidentally space - if you liked the old hotkeys feel free to change it back and let us know your preferences[/p]

[p][/p][p]If you have any issues with the update or feel just like hanging out with us and the Gnomies - come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server where you can chat with us directly![/p][p][/p][p]Cheers, [/p][p]Tommy and Patrick [/p][p]DYSTOPIAN[/p]

Ahoy Gnomies,

We'd like to congratulate our friends over at Hoolignomes for finally releasing their game "Union of Gnomes" into 1.0 on Steam - if you haven't already head over to their page and pick up the game for 35% off this week!

To help them celebrate we have included Gnomes and Union of Gnomes in a brand new bundle called "You've been Gnomed" that will let you get 10% off both games!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/53222/Youve_been_Gnomed/

In other news - we have been a bit quiet for a few weeks now, but we have a massive update in the pipeline which is going to include a completely revamped UI, massive QoL updates and a bunch of new languages!

See you soon Gnomies,
Tommy and Patrick
DYSTOPIAN

Sup Gnomies,

We've done a lot of patches in the last week, trying to be reactive to all the feedback we've had about video and compatibility issues. We've had close to 20,000 different people on different machines playing Gnomes since launch and we underestimated how the quirks of our custom engine would behave with all of your different systems. Thanks sticking with us and for those of you who took the time to help us troubleshoot the issues!

Here's what's new:

• VSync is now disabled by default (it can be a factor in some driver issues e.g. the flickering)
  
• Settings is now stored in settings.json which is human editable if you need to change settings without opening the game (If settings.json isn't there, launch the game and it will be generated)

This update will cause settings to reset to default, but will hopefully be the last time we need to worry about it!

If you have any more issues or feel like hanging out with us and the Gnomies - come and join us on the Gnomes Discord Server

Cheers,
Tommy and Patrick DYSTOPIAN