Winkeltje: The Little Shop News

Greetings Shopkeepers!

Autumn has truly begun now and that means sitting inside with your preferred hot beverage, while the customers come rolling in or while crafting your next masterpiece. Just lovely.



For a long time now, a highly requested feature was Click to Move, in this update you can now finally move just with your mouse. Click on a destination and you will walk there, or hold the mouse button to move in the direction of the mouse pointer. This feature can be enabled in the Settings menu (Settings -> Gameplay -> Accessibility).

We need your feedback to improve this feature, so don't hesitate to get in touch with us!


For the second update of the UI overhaul, we have tackled the settings menu, here you will find all new graphics, audio and gameplay options and some old and trusted ones! All with a shiny new look.
A major addition is the addition of a controls tab, here you can find all of the controls for keyboard and controller, accompanied with a convenient category drop down for context based controls.


6 wonderful new crafting decorations have been added to the game, 2 for each profession. You can unlocked these by completing objectives accompanying the corresponding profession. These will really add some style to your shop!


Last update we updated the engine for Winkeltje. If you took a break and haven't played since before Update 3818, but now decide you want to open up shop again there will be incompatibilities with any previous saves you've had. But all is not lost! Included in Update 3906 is a save converter which will convert your shop save file and make it ready for this version and beyond. Simply load that version from steam, load up your shop and you’re good to go to update to the latest (stable) version.

Instructions for how to do this can be found here: Fix: "Error loading save file. File is likely outdated."(https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791463886720/announcements/detail/1597010908188855828)

Let us know what you think in the comments or join the Discord (https://discord.gg/ZSMEenk) where you can talk to us or the rest of the community and where you can sneak a peek at the change logs as the game is being made.

For the full patch notes, you do not need to look further than just below this line!

• Community Request: Click to move - Turn on "Click to move" in the options and you can navigate your shop with your mouse. Just click and hold to follow the mouse, or click somewhere and walk there automatically.
  
• Community Request: Sprint toggle - An "Always Sprint" toggle has been added to the options. Turning this on will allow you to run around without holding down shift. If you still feel like walking after all from all that running around, you can always still hold shift.
  
• Furniture - 6 new crafting decorations have been added to the game, 2 for each profession. You can unlocked these by completing objectives accompanying the corresponding profession.

• Settings - The settings interface has been updated with a sleek new look!
  
• Settings - All settings options now have a description to them, so you can read what they will do.
  
• Settings - Selecting a language that has a translation completion of less than 80% should now show a button that leads to the 'Community Translations' post on Steam.
  
• Settings - Graphics - Shadows can now be turned on or off.
  
• Settings - Graphics - Anti aliasing can now be changed between different MSAA options: None, 2X, 4X and 8X .
  
• Settings - Graphics - Ambient occlusion can now be turned on or off.
  
• Settings - Graphics - Depth of field can now be turned on or off.
  
• Settings - Gameplay - Click to move can be toggled on here.
  
• Settings - Gameplay - Always sprint allows a player to toggle between having running or walking as the standard movement.
  
• Settings - Controls - A new screen which shows all the controls for keyboard and controller, accompanied with a convenient category drop down for context based controls.
  

• UI - Difficulty slider was causing an error.
  
• Objectives - "Upgrade 1 display" would trigger when unlocking a crafting station, it now correctly triggers only when buying a shop upgrade.
  
• Objectives - Removed an unnecessary Translate call when spawning objectives
  
• Shop Builder - Removed unnecessary fence post generation.
  
• Shop Builder - Stucco and brick window shutters are no longer stubborn and will open up the correct way.
  
• Navigation - Player should now always be able to move between furniture whenever the AI can as well
  

• Furniture - Particle dust around starter counter was not sized correctly.
  
• UI - The 'helpTranslate' button was not centered correctly.
  
• UI - Changing the language in game would not update the HUD.
  
• UI - Confirmation windows would only show the number of buttons of the first shown confirmation window.
  
• UI - Opening a confirmation window that pauses the game would not be correctly reset when deactivated.
  

Hello Shopkeepers!

With the summer holiday over and the days growing colder we once again spend more time indoors. And what better way to do this than with some new stuff to play with in Winkeltje?



This update marks the first update in a line of updates which will have some part of the UI updated to a new look. We are currently hard at work overhauling the UI to be clearer and just feel nicer in general, an added bonus is it becoming more modular for possible future features. In this update the Game Menu and Confirmation Window have both gotten some much needed love and are looking better than ever!


A much requested feature was a way to have control of the order in which crafting options unlock. With this update we added crafting skill points which can be gained at level 3, 9, 13 and 20 with which you can unlock crafting stations. Whenever you have unlocked a new crafting skill point the unlock window will open automatically, allowing you to unlock a new crafting station if you wish.


The Starter and Stucco and Brick set gain a few extra options, to help you create the shop of your dreams.


With this update we updated the engine for Winkeltje to Unity version 2019.2 to be able to make use of the awesome new features and fixes. To ensure there wouldn’t be any incompatibilities for shops caused by the engine upgrade we gradually updated the game with this in mind since version 3818. So if you’ve played in your shop since update 3818 you won’t have to do anything and you should be able to open up shop right away! Neat huh?

But say you took a break since before Update 3818 and now decided you wanted to open up shop again. If you were to go straight from pre-3818 to this version there will be incompatibilities with your save. But all is not lost! Included in Update 3906 is a save converter which will convert your shop save file and make it all ready for this version and beyond. Simply load that version from steam, load up your shop and you’re good to go to update to the latest update.

Instructions for how to do this can be found here: Fix: "Error loading save file. File is likely outdated."(https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791463886720/announcements/detail/1597010908188855828)

And lastly... with the end of the summer holiday a new internship period has begun, and so we welcome Densin onboard as a new Game Design intern for the coming period.

Read Densin’s introduction here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/949290/discussions/0/1635291505036745726/

For the full patch notes, you do not need to look further than just below this line!

• Community Request: Crafting Unlocking Choice - You now unlock crafting skill points when you reach certain levels (3, 9, 13 & 20), with these you can unlock the crafting stations in any order you wish!
  
• Shopbuilder - New wall options for the Starter and Stucco and Brick kits (3 total) for your corners and to spruce up the place.
  
• Engine Update - Updated the engine to Unity version 2019.2
  

• Game Menu - The Game Menu UI has been updated with a sleek new look!
  
• Confirmation Window - The Confirmation Window UI has been updated with a new look!
  

• UI - Bushes would not pulse red when placed in invalid positions.
  
• UI - Cloning a planter while hovering over the original would cause the farming UI to bug out.
  
• UI - Furniture unlocked by either level or objective would appear twice in the unlock menu
  
• Events - The plague event wouldn’t start before the 40th day of any year .
  
• Events - Events never took longer than 1 day to finish up after they were active.
  
• Events - Events didn’t have proper price normalization while an event finishes up.
  
• Trader - Traders would not correctly apply the modifiers for crafting resources.
  
• Trader - Player can no longer collide with the trader.
  
• Player - When pushed out of bounds, the game should now put you back faster and more consistently
  
• Shop Builder - When reverting the shop builder, pillars would sometimes not be rotated correctly.
  
• Shop Builder - Crate collision box was inside the floor, causing collision issues when changing the floor.
  
• Shop Builder - Stucco and brick Window shutters are no longer stubborn and will open up the correct way.
  
• Shop Builder - Walls with windows that should have shutters will now always have shutters when there is no floor on the other side of the wall.
  
• Shop Builder - "Cost" string will now translate correctly when swapping languages while in the shop builder
  
• Shop Builder - Stucco set wall had incorrect shadow casting settings that made some walls appear dark during the day.
  

• Norwegian - The game is now available in Norwegian! - Thanks to Birk Fjeldbo Berg
  

• Crafting - The initial crafting unlocks for crafting stations would not unlock correctly
  
• Shop Builder - Shelves would not be marked as invalid when they should’ve been.
  
• UI - Interactables would sometimes not de-highlight correctly when an object had multiple colliders.
  

You wanted to play Winkeltje and suddenly you shop does not load anymore? Converting your shop file may be the fix you are looking for.

In short, you will need to load and re-save your shop using Winkeltje v3906 in order to make the shop compatible with future versions of Winkeltje. Below are the detailed steps on how to do this.


First make a backup of your 'Saves' folder in case something goes wrong. This folder us usually found in a sub-folder of your Steam installation folder such as: "C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Winkeltje".

Hey fellow shopkeepers!

Another heat wave, another update. This time Winkeltje is receiving some new content for the Shop Builder. Each structure style has received a half wall and shutter version.




Something that has been planned for a while is updating Winkeltje's game engine to a newer version. This resulted in incompatible shop save files. Over the summer we have worked on a way to make sure you do not lose them. This Winkeltje update you can convert your shop save file and next Winkeltje update we will update the game engine.

What does this mean for you?

If you have played Winkeltje since update 3818, you will not have to do anything. If you have not played since then but would like to convert your save file at a later point, we will make Winkeltje version 3906 available as a separate branch on Steam. This way you can simply load a shop file and save it using version 3906 to convert the shop save file and make it compatible with future Winkeltje versions.

• Shop Builder - 9 New walls (5 half walls & 4 shutter wall types)
  
• Save File - Convert shop save file to be compatible with future versions of Winkeltje
  

• Graphics - Fixed an issue where the 3840x2160 resolution would not be applied correctly
  

Hey fellow shopkeepers!

These past weeks have been challenging to get an update out with a record breaking heat wave and 2/3 of the team on a summer vacation. Despite this, Winkeltje has another (albeit small) update.

New trader model!

• Trader - New trader model
  

• Farming - Increased the days it takes for plants to wither after they've grown to full size from 2 to 10.
  
• Storage - Lowered the base storage capacity in Creative Mode down to 15 to be in line with the other game modes.
  

• Shop Builder - Fixed collision of multiple objects so they will correctly be marked as invalid when removing shop tiles
  
• Shop Specialization - Shop Sign was not defaulted to the Winkeltje logo
  
• Customers - Customers would block raycasts, causing doors to not fade out as intended
  
• Scenarios - Game would not work correctly when no items tagged as "starter" are in the player's initial inventory
  
• UI - Switching to the Specialization tab in the Overview menu would not correctly update the info text.
  

• Brazilian Portuguese - Re-added.
  

• Optimization - Heavily reduced the amount of GUI refreshes done when placing furniture. This should remove the lag spike when placing things.
  
• Optimization - Spread out the pathfinding & accessibility checks when placing objects in a large shop over multiple frames.