TaleSpire News

This update brings small improvements to the unique-creature panel by adding delete and a way to jump to the creature regardless of where it is in the campaign.

This patch is currently only on the polymorph branch as it relies on some UI improvements that have not made it to release yet.

No worries though, as soon as polymorph goes public, these fixes will too.

Have a good one folks

The Polymorph feature has now reached Beta. Let’s talk about what this is and whether you will want to check it out now or wait for the full release.

The whats and the whys

Polymorph allows you to give a creature multiple models (morphs) that you can switch between at will.

While the feature will not be getting major functionality changes before release, it still needs small improvements, and we want to track down as many bugs as possible.

This Beta allows people who don’t mind braving an unfinished feature to try it out without any risk to their existing creations.

We do this by allowing you to opt into a separate branch of TaleSpire. This branch has its own servers, so none of your existing campaigns or boards are available, and nothing you do on the branch will break your boards outside the branch.

Is it for you?

We wouldn’t recommend it if you don’t enjoy messing around with unfinished and broken things. But if you do, then check out the guide linked below.

Polymorph Beta Guide

When will it release to everyone?

We aren’t setting a fixed date as it depends on what bugs we find and which we feel need fixing before release. It will be at least one week, though[0].

And that’s all!

Thanks for checking this out folks.

p.s. The slab in the header gif is the Drowned King's Hall by Gal'Manis


[0] We are giving at least one week as we want to give makers of unofficial mods a chance to update their work.

Hi folks,

Just a quick hotfix for this evening. When we replaced the Alt-Enter (toggle fullscreen) implementation, we fell afoul of a bug in Unity's input system. Their bug means the state of the Alt key is not reset if you Alt-Tab away from the window.

We found a setting that mitigates this, hopefully without opening us up to more fun bugs. This hotfix delivers that to you.

Earlier today, we also tweaked which dependencies Steam automatically installs, which we hope will fix the dll issues some Windows 11 players were seeing. If it doesn't work for you, please do reach out to us.

If all goes to plan, then the polymorph beta will be in your hands tomorrow.

We'll keep you posted.

Dev-log from https://bouncyrock.com/news

Hey folks,

This week polymorph is going to become available for testing. We are rolling this feature out differently than usual, so I thought it would be good to explain the process and why we are doing it.

Also, now that I have moved house, I finally have decent internet speeds again, so it’s time to bring back developer streams. Details are towards the end of this log.

Polymorph Beta

The short version is that we will be making polymorph available on a beta branch of TaleSpire so that the brave and wreckless can try it out and report bugs before we push it out to everyone else.

We’ve wanted to start doing this as it allows us to catch critical bugs without doing damage to existing creations.

-AND-

We also know that even though they are unsupported, there are folks out there hacking the game to make mods. We’d like to give them a bit of time to update their work to fix anything that isn’t compatible with changes to the game.

To this end, the polymorph beta will be opt-in and take place on an entirely different backend from the one you are currently playing on. And that backend will only last for the duration of the testing. That means that when we release the feature to everyone, the test backend will be shut down, and everything that was on that branch will be cleared.

The process to opt-in will be something like this:

• You will open the Steam beta properties for TaleSpire
  
• You’ll enter a password we give out later this week
  
• You’ll be given the option to opt into the beta
  
• If you do, the game will update, and then you will be on our testing build and backend
  

Opting out is as simple as setting the beta back to “None.”

We’ll have full instructions and warnings out on the day.
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Dev Stream

Dev Steam World Clock

Yup, we are finally doing a dev stream again. We will be live on twitch.tv/bouncyrock this Thursday at 11pm Norway time (click the link above to see the time in your timezone.

This will be a general catchup. As usual, you’ll have the opportunity to fire questions at us too.

That’s all for today

That’s all the news for today, there has been plenty of code and art work going on, but we can save that for another dev-log.

Ciao!

Disclaimer: This DevLog is from the perspective of one developer. So it doesn’t reflect everything going on with the team

We had some issues last night where the Hero Forge Library wasn't loading. This patch should address this issue.

Thank you all for your patience.