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Hi everyone! It’s been a little bit since the last devlog-worthy update, but we’re back with a bunch of small features, small improvements, and important bug fixes! Let’s get right into it.
First up, we added a few new objects into the game, most of which are variations of or spins on existing objects!
First up, there are now larger versions of the evergreen and cypress trees! This will be especially nice for people wanting to make a map (or a lot) with a deep forest, or a mansion with glorious rows of cypresses in front of it.
Ever since the game first came out, there’s been a "grass with flowers" tile available to place. This, I felt, was always a little clunky, but at the time it was implemented, the rendering engine wasn’t nearly as feature-rich as it is now. Because of that, having objects batched statically was impossible, while having tiles was.
In rendering, putting something in a static batch is great for performance. That’s because an object is only drawn once, and then that draw data is preserved and put on the screen several times. Compare that to dynamic batching (or no batching at all), where objects are drawn anew every frame, and you can see where the performance improvement comes from.
All that to say: the flowers that you can see on the "grass with flowers" tile are also available separately as a placeable object now, so you can put them on any natural tile you like.
We also added bowls. There’s no new food in them (yet), but they’re bowls! Not that interesting, we know, but they’re very much meant for when we add foods in the future that don’t make sense on a plate at all, like cereal or soup.
Over the last few months, the lovely mameketchup has been making steady progress on the Japanese translation of Tiny Life, and we now feel that it has enough content translated to be added into the game! You can find it, like all other localizations, in the options menu’s general tab.
Thanks so much again to mameketchup, without whom the game wouldn’t have a Japanese version to speak of at all.
Okay, this is maybe a bit of a weird one.
In the little free time that I’ve had recently, I’ve been playing a lot of OpenRCT2 again. RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 was one of the first games that really got me into video gaming, and its isometric perspective is also a main inspiration for the visuals of Tiny Life (despite the fact that RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 and 2’s art is actually created from 3D models and just happens to look a bit like pixelart due to the low pixel density).
I’m bringing this up because, in RollerCoaster Tycoon, people that went on intense rides may start feeling nauseous and, as a result, throw up onto the ground. And while playing the game, I guess I thought: wow, wouldn’t that be lovely to have in Tiny Life?
Yea.
Anyway, when your Tinies have had enough brew to start feeling very brewed, they may throw up, which, thankfully, also makes them feel a little bit better.
You then have to clean it up off the ground, or your Tinies will be pretty unhappy about their surroundings, for obvious reasons.
Isn’t that just a lovely feature?
That’s it for this update! I’ve been really into working on smaller features as well as improvements for the game recently, so I haven’t gotten around to starting on a new big thing yet. I’ve really been wanting to add gardening for a while, but it’s not on the public roadmap, and it’s been a while since a new feature from that was implemented. Because of that, I kind of want to tackle social events first, which’ll also pave the way for fun events like birthday parties and weddings. Feel free to let me know what you really want to see next, from the roadmap or otherwise!
Lastly, here’s the full changelog for you to peruse, as always.
❤️ Ell
Additions
Improvements
Fixes
API
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