Tavern Keeper 🍻 News

Hey, tavern keepers!

During Gamescom, we released a preview version of the Item Workshop, a level in Tavern Keeper where you can fully dedicate your time and creativity to design your own decorations. To celebrate, we held the first public Design Challenge! Here are the winners that will be added to the game:

[h3]First Category: Decorated Small Table, using up to 150 gold
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Lumber Chic, by löyly - Code TKC-a3f456c6


Rustic and elegant, the Lumber Chic small table truly brings a refined touch to your tavern at a small price - only 74 gold! According to löyly, no old-growth forest was harmed by making this furniture.


Sustainability Setting, by Rymanora - Code TKC-06985169


With table legs made of actual leg bones, Rymanora went all in the reuse and recycle mindset for this one. At 136 gold, our good skeleton friend Cuthbert definitely approves!


Makeshift Table, by Zoragna - Code TKC-3a8e50ae


The final winner is a table made of everyday tavern things: some barrels, buckets as seats, and pillows, to make it comfy! For 147 gold, Zoragna made this design stand out by using unusual pieces to create their own small table.


[h3]Second Category: Standalone decoration, no gold limit[/h3]

Travel Info, by whimsicalowl54 - Code TKC-14038fe2


The perfect decoration for any tavern for adventurers! The details on each tiny card, teasing hiking guides, musicals, and wine-tasting events, really make you imagine yourself picking the perfect activity for your trip. At 396 gold, whimsicalowl54 showed their love for fantasy worlds!


Skeleton King, by Cem - Code TKC-a7c83624


A king from ancient times, when the people of Tavern Keeper still had upper arms. We can see Cem put a lot of care into this design, moving the parts of the skeleton to sit on the pillow, and the arrow through the chest gives this decoration a nice finishing touch. It comes at 68 gold.


Makeshift Storage, by Nox - Code TKC-034810bf


For 136 gold pieces, Nox’s design gives your tavern a special place to keep some spices, potions and even leeches! We can definitely see this decoration at home in a storeroom or in the kitchen, giving the tavern a comfy mood.



You’ll be able to see these designs on the stage located in the Item Workshop the next time it goes live and they’ll be added to the demo to be unlocked during your playthrough. And of course, you can already import them to your tavern by copying the share codes above and pasting them into the “Import” menu.

[h3]🎉 Congratulations to all the winners 🎉
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A MASSIVE thank you to each one who participated in this challenge! We LOVED seeing the different concepts and ideas shared, from more modern-inspired designs to movie references and even creations that had their own storytelling.

If you didn’t win this time or couldn’t join, worry not, tavern keeper! The Item Workshop will be back in October and there will be plenty of Design Challenges in the future.


Much love!
Patty - Social Media Manager @ Greenheart Games 💚

📢 BIG NEWS, tavern keepers!

Check out our brand-new trailer and get a peek at the fantasy world that awaits you:

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[h3]The release date is here: Tavern Keeper 🍻 comes out on Steam Early Access on November 5th!
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After a decade of dedication and passion put into the game and all the heartwarming reactions to the Demo, we are thrilled to finally unveil the release date!

We’ll share more details of our plans for Early Access soon!

In the meantime, you can try out the Demo and test the Item Workshop, available now as a preview:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2833530/Tavern_Keeper__Demo/

Cheers,
The Greenheart Games 💚 Team

Tavern keepers, it's time to unleash your creativity!

To celebrate the preview release of the Item Workshop, we will host the first public Tavern Keeper Design Challenge from August 21st to August 25th!

There are two categories you can participate:

• A decorated small table, spending up to 150 gold. There’s no theme, so feel free to create a romantic corner or the setting for a good tavern game of cards!
  

• A standalone tavern decoration for any cost, let your imagination go wild! It can be a sword rack, a menacing statue, or a cabinet full of cute pigs like the one below:
  

After August 27th, the Tavern Keeper dev team will handpick the top 3 designs from each category to be added to the game for everyone else to see - of course, with your permission and attributed to you!

[h3]How to join[/h3]

• Share your design using the hashtag #TavernKeeperDesign on X, or post it on our Discord, in the Design Challenge forum, with the “Challenge Aug2024” tag;
  
• Use as many design pieces as you’d like to create your masterpiece;
  
• You can have multiple entries in both categories!
  

[h3]How to share a design[/h3]

Here’s a little tutorial on how to save your design and share it with other players!

• Go into Build Mode (shortcut: B), right-click your design, and select “Save as Template”
  
  
  
  
• Name your design and add a description, if you like! You can either save it as a variant of an existing item, in the case of the small table, or make it a standalone decoration.
  
  
  
  
• Save and share the image with everyone! You can add other players' designs to your game by entering their code in the “Import” tool.
  
  

We can’t wait to see what you’ll create!
The Greenheart Games 💚 Team

Hello, tavern keepers!

In July, we held the first Tavern Keeper Design Challenge with the members of the Greenheart Creator Club. The challenge was to create a piece of standalone decoration furniture that felt at home in the Riverbottom Tavern using Tavern Keeper’s Item Workshop and spending up to 100 gold.

And the winners are… 🥁 *drumroll* 🥁

[h3]Messy-Mossy Shelf, by SewAppalling
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Starting the winners’ list is this lovely shelf with seemingly no straight lines at all. The Messy-Mossy Shelf by SewAppalling captured our attention with its quirky design that fits perfectly with Tavern Keeper’s art style and we loved all the little details on the shelf. It comes in at 86 gold pieces.

[h3]Fairie Door, by Aleaty[/h3]

This small but mighty custom decoration adds a little mysterious vine-twisted fairy door to your tavern, complete with a mini-torch and some magical particle effects. Coming in at exactly 100 gold and 39 pieces, our team loved this clever idea from creator Aleaty.


[h3]Battle for the Swamp, by TheDuoDesign
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The final winner is a custom painting assembled from 11 pieces and titled “Battle for the Swamp” from TheDuoDesign - we loved the use of simple shapes to tell a fun story for the swamp region. At 11 gold it’s also a very affordable decoration that surely adds a bit of flair to any swamp tavern.

Congratulations! 🎉

These designs will be added soon to the game on a stage located in the Item Workshop, and you will be able to unlock these decorations in the Demo after reaching your first tavern star!

We thank everyone who participated and submitted entries. The creativity shown was truly inspiring! 💚


[h2]Item Workshop coming soon[/h2]

We have a big Tavern Keeper 🍻 announcement coming up next week, as part of gamescom 2024. Stay tuned!

Also, from August 21st to the 25th, we will update the Demo and unlock the Item Workshop for everyone to try!

The Item Workshop is a separate level that allows you to focus on creating your own designs and decorations, with near unlimited gold and no tavern-keeping duties. The level consists of a small tavern surrounded by tons of available design pieces. This makes using the clone tool in this level particularly useful as you can just look around and grab pieces from the floor rather than searching for them in the Design menu. The level also comes with example designs from both our team and our creator community.

Sounds exciting? Keep an eye out for a new Design Challenge coming next week to have your creation showcased in Tavern Keeper!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2833530/Tavern_Keeper__Demo/

A small disclaimer: This preview build of the Item Workshop lacks voice-overs as well as translations - we are still working on those!

Cheers,
The Greenheart Games 💚 Team

Life is really strange sometimes.

For more than ten years, we have worked on our second game and have never released a public Demo in that time. Last week, it was finally time to release the Demo!

Then, just three days after that, Steam announced the biggest changes to how Demos work in the existence of Steam. Demo's can now have their own Steam page, they can have user user reviews, they can appear in New Releases and, when you first release a Demo, you can now notify your wishlisters.

On one hand you could say this was incredibly unfortunate timing. We were just three days too early to make full use of all these features from the start but on the other hand, as luck has it, we are still *just* in the timeframe where we can notify our wishlisters.

Soo.. while we initially announced to take the Demo down again this week, given this unexpected situation, we won't just yet!

Instead, we published a Demo page and are notifying everyone who wishlisted the game.

Sooo hello! 👋 Nice to meet you all. The Tavern Keeper 🍻 Demo is here (for a little while longer).

Enjoy - we are super excited for you to give it a try!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2833530/Tavern_Keeper__Demo/

Patrick
And The Greenheart Games 💚 Team



PS: By the way: Thanks to everyone who left us a positive review, sent us messages or shared their experience! There is nothing that motivates us more to deliver you a great Early Access release in Q4, than seeing all the fun and joy you get out of the Demo already - and there is so much more to come!💚