Castle Flipper News

[h2]Fellow Craftsmen and Craftswomen![/h2]

We hope this year’s Christmas gave you an opportunity to spend some wonderful time with your family and friends! 🎄🎁

As the end of the year is approaching, we’d like to take this chance and look back on these past 7 months since Castle Flipper’s release. What better way to do it than take a look at your creations? After all, they’re the greatest prize we – as the game’s developers – can get!

We’ve been regularly taking a stroll through the Screenshots section of the game’s Steam page and if you’ve been following us on our other social media profiles, you might have seen posts showing some of our favourites. We’d like to do something similar today, as well!

We’d like to start with a grand castle that we were recently shown by one of our players. They had actually reached out to us for help and when we saw their creation (at the time work in progress, might we add) we were amazed! We were very happy when the same player contacted us again some time later to show us the final result. 🥰 Take a look!



A lot of you have built some incredible castles as well!



However, as you well know, while castles are a big part of Castle Flipper, you can build ordinary medieval houses as well. The ones you build are hardly ever ordinary – they're brimming with personality and all the love that goes into them really shows! 🤩



Just so you know, we are only showing you a small portion of what our amazing community has created in Castle Flipper – if we were to include everything, this post would turn into a monster filled with screenshots!

Instead, we’d like to take this chance and thank each one of you – Castle Flipper players! You’re the ones who have truly breathed life into this medieval world with your creativity and dedication! We’re always very happy whenever we get to see a screenshot or other kind messages from you.

[h3]From the bottom of our hearts – thank you so much! ❤️[/h3]

We hope even more wonderful creations like this will show up in 2022.

With that, we’d like to wish you a Happy New Year! We hope it will be a year full of creativity and motivation, which will help you achieve great things in the coming year!

Kind Regards,
Castle Flipper Team

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year from >Gaming Factory< team



We wish you a healthy and wonderful time. If you struggle to find a game to play together with friends and family there is Foodtruck Arena for you to enjoy. The demo is free 🙂
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1182280/Foodtruck_Arena

Cheers,
Gaming Factory team

[h2]Hello, Fellow Craftsmen and Craftswomen![/h2]

We’re happy to announce that Patch v1.2 is now LIVE!

We have included many fixes, but other than that, there are also some improvements and changes that should make your flipping experience a little better. 🙂

[h3]Visible “snapping” points[/h3]



When trying to place any object that requires snapping to another object, you will now see snapping points, which indicate where you can place it. A lot of you encountered problems when trying to place certain objects, such as a set of stairs in your house – we hope this addition will clear things up a little.

[h3]Weather effects stay outdoors[/h3]



We have finally fixed the issue that has been bothering you for some time now. No longer will the rain make its way into your houses! Sure, maybe that won’t impact your gaming experience all that much, but your tenants definitely wouldn’t want to get drenched in their sleep. 😉

[h3]Object rotation[/h3]



We have made some improvements to the rotation mechanic. Most noticeably, if you feel the need to move a piece of furniture rotated in a certain way, its position won’t reset to the default one. In other words, when you decide you want to move your wardrobe turned sideways a bit further to the back, when you pick it up, the wardrobe will still be turned sideways, exactly how it was before.



Similarly, when you want to place a few identical objects, once you rotate the first one and put it down, the next ones will be rotated in the same way from the get-go. You won’t need to rotate overy object individually, unless you actually need to do that.

[h3]A new set of stairs[/h3]



Picture speaks for itself! While you may recognize the aesthetic, the idea was to provide you with a mirrored version of the spiral stairs, as some of you had a need for it.



For a full list of changes, see the changelog below:

BUGFIXES:
- improved colliders of couches and chairs, preventing objects put on them from “floating”
- improved interaction with a button that closes Options window
- changed fonts used in Inventory menu
- corrected tutorial graphics in NPC section
- it should no longer be possible to place balcony (from the “House” building section) in “Abandoned Mansion” mission
- deleted "Buildings" tab in replayed missions
- made corrections in German translation
- improved snapping of octagonal and square castle foundations
- improved textures of materials used for roofs
- blocked the possibility to move and destroy the floor in "Abandoned Mansion" mansion
- fixed interaction with a Royal Cleaner after loading furniture that requires fixing
- fixed the issue with a missing marker on the map after completing Landlord’s missions
- quicker loading time of save files that include a lot of objects placed by the player
- fixed the issue concerning inaccurate property value after placing certain objects
- included fences into the property value
- swords hanged on a wall should no longer float after destroying the wall
- added possibility to snap stair to castle foundations
- got rid of an issue that made it impossible to finish repair and progress in the game
- added possibility to build roof near walls
- improved the effect of destroying a small castle foundation
- it should no longer be possible to place a big cart into the walls
- corrected graphic of a Royal Cleaner
- fixed issues related to placing a footbridge (it is now possible to place it in appropriate places, it will no longer float and it shouldn’t be possible to place it beyond the Kingdom area)
- fixed issues related to placing columns (it is now possible to place them in appropriate places and they will no longer float)
- modified borders of the Kingdom wall acquired with the last upgrade, making it impossible for buildings to pass through the wall after the upgrade
- improved snapping of the gardens and small stairs attached to foundations
- fixed certain flag’s position so it no longer sticks out beyond the stairs and blocks player at a “Palace” level
- got rid of duplicated furniture in “Residence of Lord Craft”
- added one chest with a furniture, so that after finding all the chests, all puzzles are available
- changed default graphic settings from “Low” to “Medium” when the game is launched for the first time
- improved snapping of roofs, balconies (attached to “ordinary” and rotated door) and fences
- made it possible to snap balconies to hexagonal tower (the smallest ones)
- corrected the maximum number of available skill points so the amount is just enough to buy all the skills
- took out a deer from the Kingdom’s area (after upgrading it to the last level)
- made it possible to place and destroy objects during replayed “Palace” mission
- fixed the issue causing random door to get destroyed after returning to the Kingdom after completing and replaying “Palace” mission
- made corrections to the cloth hanging on the door in “Palace” mission (both during first-time playthrough and a replay) so it’s no longer possible to destroy it or move it
- stairs’ handrails should no longer go through the wall
- added snapping of battlements to foundations
- made changes to citizens counting board’s position on a wall available after upgrading the Kingdom to the 5th level

FEATURES:
- added new spiral stairs (mirrored version of previously available ones)
- added visible “snapping points” for an easier navigation and building experience and included an option to hide them in Options menu
- weather effects should no longer pass through roofs
- when moving an object after placing it in certain position, its rotation angle will not change
- when placing multiple identical objects, rotation angle set to the first object will be applied to every object placed afterwards (rotation angle will be reset after picking another object from the Inventory)
- added possibility to rotate the castle wall with door frame by 180 degrees
- added a small delay after placing an object, so the red ghost of an object doesn’t appear right afterwards

That’s not all! Make sure to play the new version to see all the details, there is no better way to experience those changes than by launching Castle Flipper and doing some flipping in your Kingdom.

Have fun! 😄

Best Regards,
Castle Flipper Team

[h2]Greetings, Craftsmen and Craftswomen![/h2]



Steam Autumn Sale has come and with it, the time to nominate your favourite games to Steam Awards in various categories. If Castle Flipper is your way to relax and unwind after a stressful day, consider nominating it for Sit Back and Relax category.

Thank you in advance for each and every single vote!

Best Regards,
Castle Flipper Team

Hello!
We are Gaming Factory S.A. Publisher of indie games. We are happy to say that you can find our games at a reduced price on Steam until 1st December.

Before we go through the games. There is a giveaway happening on our Discord. You can find answers to any questions related to the games or just chat with fellow gamers.
https://discord.gg/a2fCwtXeUj

And we have some freebies. Check out our free pre-Kickstarter demo of the Chains of Fury game
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1121320/Chains_of_Fury/

And if you feel especially bloodthirsty after the Demo. There is more on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gamingfactory/chains-of-fury

Games on Sale:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/881040/Bug_Academy
https://store.steampowered.com/app/944250/Castle_Flipper
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1031270/Farming_Life/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1182280/Foodtruck_Arena
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1067760/Gallic_Wars_Battle_Simulator
https://store.steampowered.com/app/979810/Grave_Keeper
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059740/Gunslingers__Zombies
https://store.steampowered.com/app/983670/Pangeon
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1083070/Sapper__Defuse_The_Bomb_Simulator