Hey, y'all! Just a quick heads-up: we'll take the demo down today at 22:00 CEST / 13:00 PT / 16:00 ET.
What will happen then? We'll press the big "De-Activate Demo" button in Steam's secret control center. According to that button's bio, this will prevent new downloads, and also prevent existing players from launching the demo.
If you have any builds to finish or sheep to pet, there's still a few hours left 💕
The demo will disappear, but your builds (save files) will stay on your computer, and you'll be able to load them into the full game once it releases. If you don't plan to reinstall your system or switch computers until Tiny Glade ships, all shall be fine. Otherwise, read on:
Your saves also exist in Steam Cloud, and would normally work in the full game even if you change computers or delete your local files, but there's a gotcha. The demo relies on Steam's automatic cloud storage solution; we've run into technical issues with it, and will reimplement the functionality ourselves (by manually using Steam Cloud APIs). We'll do what we can to make the transition seamless, but it's not fully under our control.
If you'd like to back up your save files manually to feel extra safe, they're located at:
- Windows: %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Tiny Glade\Steam[your steam ID]\saves
- Linux: ~/.local/share/Tiny Glade/Steam/[your steam ID]/saves
In case of Windows, if you enter %USERPROFILE% into File Explorer, it should expand into something like C:\Users\yourname. On Linux, "~" is your home directory.
That's it for now - we'll post a larger update (very) soon 🖖
Cheers,
Tom & Ana