TaleSpire News

[h3]Greetings once again![/h3]

Today we have a new update containing a Monster Mash and a revamped version of Dungeon01, which we've renamed Dungeon Cellar. The Cellar has been toned down on the "fluorescent yellow/green" and beefed up with more polygons, giving it more of a physical look. These changes need to be felt, so be sure to revisit any creations you may have that feature these tiles!



[h3]Content Pack 24 Contains :[/h3]

• Unicorn
  
• 2 x Sphinx
  
• 2 x Troglodyte
  
• Revamped Dungeon01
  

[h3]Other Fixes :[/h3]

• Symbiote popup scale fixed (contents were 80% of the correct size)
  
• The Prison Cage door is animated to open and close
  
• Three old doors have been deprecated and replaced with re-sized versions for a better fit.
  

We hope you enjoy your time with these mythical beings and the new foundation for delving underground.

Till Next time!


BUILD-ID: 11988135 - Download Size: 105.2 MB

Hey folks!

The title says it all, we are shipping an official Mac version of TaleSpire seven days from now, on the 24th of August.

With that release, it will be possible to play TaleSpire on Windows, Mac, and Linux[0]. Naturally, Symbiotes, and the other modding features coming in the next few months, work across all three platforms, so nothing should stop us all from playing how and where we prefer.

As with our early Windows versions, the Mac build has its limitations. The big two of which are performance and architecture.

Apple has made it clear they are moving their machines to Apple Silicon. Due to this direction and the size of our team, we are sticking to only supporting that architecture.

While being very capable, we don't feel we have tapped into the power available in M1's GPU. We will be digging into improving performance in future updates, especially as we look into doing the same for lower-end Windows machines.

Thanks to all of you for stopping by. We are delighted to finally bring TaleSpire to all of you who have been asking for Mac support for so long.

This is far from the last significant announcement for the year. We will let you know as soon as the next one is ready to talk about.

Happy Adventuring.



[0] Linux support is via Proton, which has served us wonderfully so far.

In this update, we have a fix and a feature.

Let's start with that feature. GMs can now right-click on rulers made by other players and turn them into AOEs.



We have also fixed a bug where switching back to the TaleSpire window could cause 'jumping' due to inputs that occurred while TaleSpire wasn't focused. Thanks to all the folks who provided info on this, it's been a long-term bug, and it's good to be squashing this one finally.

That's it for today. We've got lots more coming this year, but we'll save that for the dev-logs.

Ciao

In this way, overdue update, we're featuring more of the assets from our "Help Design" Tier on Kickstarter. It's been so much fun continuing to work with "Help Design" Tier backers to get their props in-game. Thanks again for making it such a blast to work on these.


Here is the patch content, along with some screenshots featuring this unique set of props:


[h3]"Help Design" Tier Pack 01 includes the following:[/h3]



[h3]Props:[/h3]

• Giant Dragon Head and ribs.
  
• An Animated Tome on a Plinth
  
• A mysterious animated device
  

[h3]Other fixes:[/h3]

• Fixed some mods not appearing correctly in the community mod browser
  

We still have some characters/creatures and the Adventures remaining from this particular set of Kickstarter Tiers. We'll be continuing work on those shortly.

On other Art related news! The focus of late has been on the Mega Dungeon, which will feature pieces for building round towers and diagonal walls! Going out late next week, we have a revamp of the Dungeon01 set, renamed Cellar, releasing with another Monster Mash.



We hope everyone enjoys this mashup of exciting props!

Till next time!


BUILD-ID: 11896768 - Download Size: 59.8 MB

Today's update brings a new feature to Symbiotes and a bunch of asset fixes. It contains:

• Fixes for various typos in tags and asset names.
• Fixed asset thumbnails for Moorgoth floor tiles, which previously didn't match the actual asset.
• A fix for the cases where "{thing}" appeared instead of a readable name when players requested to interact with specific assets.
• Replaced thumbnails for sci-fi ship hull assets where a different angle made them more legible.
• An optional popup mode for Symbiotes. This helps Symbiote creators handle logins for some sites.

Many sites use providers like Google, Facebook, or Twitch to handle logging in to their services. These login systems often pop up a temporary window where the user logs in before being handed back to the original web page. Previously, Symbiotes couldn't handle this, so using some online systems popular in the ttrpg space was impossible.

This is now fixed. Symbiote creators can now add a single entry to their project's manifest to tell TaleSpire how to handle websites trying to open a new window. It can be ignored, opened in the same view, or (the new addition) opened in a modal view over the Symbiote. Creators can find more info in the documentation here: https://symbiote-docs.talespire.com/manifest_doc_v1.html#link-new-tab-behavior



Seeing a steady stream of Symbiotes being added to the repository has been a delight. We are yet again excited to see what Symbiotes arrive now this critical shortcoming is being resolved. As always, big thanks go out to the community, especially those folks who reported this issue and showed us what they needed.

Until next time,

Happy adventuring

p.s. This is a surprisingly hefty update at 2.4GB. We believe this a side effect of build changes we had to make for mac support. Update sizes should be back under control soon.