Dear Tinkerers,
It's been a few weeks since our latest dev blog, and we wanted to give you an update on where we are currently at. We’ve been working hard to optimize the overall experience of Tinkertown, especially from a technical perspective, and we will continue to do so for some time.
This means that our programmers are putting almost all their time into transforming the game backend towards a database structure, and optimizing the performance. Still, we're taking what time we have left to improve other features in the meantime.😊
Therefore we’re now releasing patch 1.0.8.!
Looking at your feedback on Steam and Discord, you mentioned that new quests and follow-up quests were hard to spot. In 1.0.8, we’ve added an indicator on each NPC to show whether there’s a new quest, and updated the icons within the quest UI.
One of the other bigger requests from you was some sort of guidance system that helps players through quests. A way of making it easier to find the right places, monsters and required materials and items.
Unfortunately, the current Tinkertown backend does not support such a system, but the new database structure in development will let us add it. This support feature will be implemented from the start when we release the new backend in the future!
What’s next for Tinkertown?
The 1.1 update will include the promised NPC Rewards, from decoratives to friendly critters, monsters and whatever more we can cook up until then!
We also have a certain creepy holiday coming up soon, maybe that will be reflected in Tinkertown…
That brings us to the last, and most important bit: your feedback!
We’d love to focus our work on the issues you feel need to be tackled the most, please let us know your thoughts in this feedback form. Your feedback is invaluable to us, and we will make sure to follow up on the results of the form in a future Steam post.
Thanks for your continued engagement!
Your Tinkertown team