Tiny Glade Demo has now been out for about a day and we'd like to thank you all for such a heartwarming reception 💘 We’re inspired, touched, grateful – all at once! 😄 and we’re absolutely floored by the beautiful dioramas you’ve been creating. THANK YOU for being such a wonderful community! 💚
The demo will be stay up throughout Cozy & Family Friendly Games Celebration and Steam Next Fest. So at least until June 17th!
Next steps
Our plan is to continuously patch the demo while it’s live, mainly focusing on crashes and bug fixes 👨🔧👩🔧
Startup crashes
Right now, our top priority is investigating startup crashes that prevent folks from getting into the game. It's the first time we release a build to a large number of people, so there is bound to be some issues. Thank you for reporting these to us and bug kudos to those who helped us debug them 🐛🔫
There’s a range of potential causes and we’re looking into them. Meanwhile, here are potential solutions that might help (thanks to kaceby and BasicallyRybread for finding some of the workarounds!).
Vulkan-related errors or crashes
We’ve seen issues where the game fails to load the Vulkan driver even though it’s available in the system (Tiny Glade uses Vulkan for rendering). We’ve also noticed that ReShade messes with Vulkan - if you’ve ever used ReShade, it may have left registry entries that now cause Tiny Glade to crash.
Tom has just pushed an experimental build that might help with both of those issues; If you'd like to give it a try, it's under the "static-vulkan" beta. In your Steam Library, right click on Tiny Glade Demo, select Properties, then under the Betas tab, to the right of "Beta Participation" select "static-vulkan".
Windows 11 & HDR
We’ve heard reports that HDR on Windows 11 causes the game to crash. Here is how you can disable it.
Laptops with an AMD processor and an NVIDIA graphics card
If you have a laptop with an AMD processor and an NVIDIA GPU, these are the steps you can try to work around the crash.
We will look into ways of simplifying/automating these steps. Meanwhile, please let us know in the comments if any of these worked for you 🙏
Feedback
While we are mostly focusing on bug & crash fixes in the upcoming weeks, please keep the feedback and suggestions coming! 😄 Hearing your thoughts really helps us know what to prioritise (or de-prioritize) and what rough edges are the most prominent 🙇♀️ For example, we have plans to change the Time of Day UI, but it's great to hear the same desire voiced by the players.
Building tips & tricks
If you haven’t yet uncovered all the little interactions between the building elements in Tiny Glade, may I recommend this tutorial/guide by freakout3516 🤩 Concise, to-the-point and wonderfully put together!
Okie-dokie… *checks the notes* I think that is all for now 🙌 Thanks again, folks! Hope you have a wonderful day!
Love,
Ana, Tom, Oda & Martin
PS: anyone else getting photobombed by sheep? 😁
(photo by ovolord 💙)