Steam Next Fest's biggest city builder adds a new feature after "outright mad scientist-like" players kept trying to brute force it themselves
Jul. 16, 2024The cozy Tiny Glade just got even cozier
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Sometimes, they even loved the demo a bit too hard, breaking it a tad to jerry-rig new features and building options. But they won’t have to struggle so much anymore – the Tiny Glade developers just added half-timbered buildings directly.
To devoted players, these, Medieval-style homes are a big deal. Two-person developer Pounce Light noticed that “even in our early playtests, some folks have attempted assembling half-timbered buildings.”
“The methods have been creative, inventive, outright mad-scientist-like, but the demo players have really raised the bar!” Pounce Light continues in a July 15developer diaryposted to Steam. “We got so inspired that we figured we have to find time and make them real.”
So, they did. Players will be able to use Tiny Glade’s straightforward click-and-drag construction to adjust the half-timber style, exactly as they did with the demo’s original parapets.
The only difference is that the “half-timber pattern adapts to where you place windows, and the flat roof gets framed with wooden railings instead of battlements,” Pounce Light says in their dev diary. And you’ll be able to decorate all of it. Along with this change, Pounce Light has also added flag decorations with customizable colors and patterns, and fixed a “critical bug” where the sheep heart didn’t show up on first-person screenshots.
“I feel like it’s a whole new fantasy available in the game now,” Pounce Light said.
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Ashley Bardhan is a critic from New York who covers gaming, culture, and other things people like. She previously wrote Inverse’s award-winning Inverse Daily newsletter. Then, as a Kotaku staff writer and Destructoid columnist, she covered horror and women in video games. Her arts writing has appeared in a myriad of other publications, including Pitchfork, Gawker, and Vulture.
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