- Beta Version 1.1 - 19 August 2024
A quick overview of fixed bugs, improvements, and new things added in this update. You can now change the day-night cycle speed to slow, normal, and fast. (Normal is slightly faster than what it used to be) Screenshot pose troll holding gnome above campfire has been removed, it wasn't removed after taking screenshots for the Steam page. The game now works fully from third-person! When interacting the camera will no longer zoom in but instead, you'll be able to accurately interact with everything from third-person. The position of the third-person camera has also changed slightly and moves with a small delay, giving a more cinematic effect. Rats no longer spawn in passive mode (Now Cozy Mode) Falsly copyrighted weather music during a storm has been temporarily removed. Crater gnomes no longer refuse to talk to player when player has died dirty. When you die of starvation food and water n…
- New Little Hats Roadmap 2024! - 1 February 2024
First of all, have you already seen the brand-new trailer!? Secondly, here is the new plan for 2024!During this year I will try my best to do an update each month starting in March. Here is a quick overview of what I roughly hope to add in each month: EDIT: Due to a variety of reasons I regret to inform everyone that I will have to postpone the updates planned from March to July. The game is not really being played at the moment and sales have gone down to less than seven copies a month. I am instead first working on a new smaller project with a similar aesthetic, with which I hope to earn enough to continue full-time indie game development. I am also hoping that this new project will help shine a light on Little Hats and revitalize the game and its community, bringing in lots of new players. I will share more about this new game in June and plan to have finished it in July. Please unde…
- New Little Hats Trailer! - 19 December 2023
After more than a year of updates, and now that the new beta update is finished, it was finally time for a new and better trailer! Please enjoy! If you haven't played the game in a while this'll give you a good idea of how much the game has changed and improved since last year! Trailer New Store Page Following the new trailer and the beta update, the store page will now also be updated in the following days. along with the Stean library graphics! Game Price Since the first version of the game was released there have been so many things added to the game and so much work has been done that it was finally time to raise the price a little bit.
- Beta Update #1 (The Big Beta Update!) - 9 December 2023
Dear Little Hats players! After about six months of full-time daily work, the Big Beta Update is finally ready to be played! Furthermore, after more than two years of Early Alpha, the game is now finally in Beta! This means that now the hardest work has all been done, now it's on to improving upon what we currently have in the game, fixing any and all bugs that are discovered, and test-playing over and over again to balance the game out until ultimate fun is achieved. I can almost say with certainty that it should be no longer than a year before Little Hats will go into full release! During the coming week I will be making a new trailer and the week after that I'll be making a new Devlog in which I'll showcase how I made the Lowlands part of the map. So stay tuned for that. In any case, enjoy the new update! And please let me know if there are things you don't like about, or do like, ab…
- Big Beta Update Slight Delay - 28 November 2023
Hello, Little Hats players! The Big Beta Update will be slightly delayed. Some things ended up taking longer, way longer than expected, mainly the giant new city in the lowlands. I also want to do just a little more bug fixing to make sure everything runs better next update. The new release date will be somewhere between the 6th and 13th of December. Here is a sneak peak at the new city which caused the delay, should be well worth it in the end ːsteamhappyː My apologies for the delay, and thank you very much for waiting so long for a new update. Can't wait to set the new version live!
- Big Beta Update News! - 13 November 2023
Hello, Little Hats players! The Big Beta Update will be coming on the 30th of November! Here is a quick preview of some of the things that will be included in the game soon! (The goose is loose!)
- Little Hats DevLogs NOW on YouTube! - 22 September 2023
Hi everyone! You can now join me on my development journey on YouTube! The first Little Hats DevLog is now available on YouTube! A great fun way to stay up to date on the current progress being made with the game and to learn about the process of making a game. Be sure to check it out! Don't forget to like and subscribe ;D
- Alpha Update 0.9.7 More Little Hats And Other Clothing! - 29 June 2023
A quick overview of fixed bugs, improvements, and new things added in this update. New In Little Hats: You can now store clothing in your inventory, and when pressing E on newfound clothing items it will now first be picked up the same way as other items and food, when pressing the right mouse button the picked-up clothing will be equipped, and the already worn clothing will be dropped instead also in a package which can then be stored in inventory. A classic gnome outfit has been added, making the character look like the most known regular gnome. A soldier outfit has been added, the player can now wear gnome armor! A new type of gnome hat has been added with a fun pointy curly end. Another outfit has been added inspired by the Dutch Pinkeltje book, the main character, Pinkeltje. A new outfit inspired by the la Chouffe gnome has been added to the game. A ninja gnome outfit has been adde…
- Alpha Update 0.9.5 Controller Support, Bug Fixes, and Improvements! - 17 June 2023
A quick overview of fixed bugs, improvements, and new things added in this update. New In Little Hats: Controllers now have feedback when falling, or going really fast with speed plants, and other events. More special effects have been added to make things more fun, -Picking berries now causes some leaves to break off the bush. -Making rope from the rope plant now also shows some effect of the plant breaking apart, and mud and ground coming up from the ground as if it's being uprooted. -Carrots now also have new effects, making it look like carrot is actually being taken up out of the ground with the earth coming up. -Pumpkins now also have effects. -Mushrooms, rocks, logs, and metal now also have new effects when picking them up. The corner on the mountain in the beginning, the road to Ravenwoud, now has a lookout and some trees have been removed making the castle in the distance clear…
- Alpha Update 0.9 Achievements, More Humans, Better Looking Game, And More! - 20 May 2023
A quick overview of fixed bugs, improvements, and new things added in this update. New In Little Hats: Little Hats now has 25 Steam achievements which you can unlock! Rocks and metal ore now crumble after destruction instead of just disappearing. The game now has a horse-drawn carriage going around the map, that you can use to safely travel. It also adds much to the atmosphere of the game and makes the world feel more connected and alive. A moving human boat has been added which goes up and down the river. More clues have been added to the Steyndike mazes, there are now sounds that you can follow to reach the exit, or... a troll camp if you follow the wrong one. There are now also some more landmarks such as small camps and others inside the maze of travelers who never found the exit... This should make finding the exit a bit easier. The Steyndike maze has been improved look-wise, and n…
- Alpha Update 0.7 Gnome Hunters, Owls, Fairies and Much More! - 15 March 2023
A quick overview of fixed bugs, improvements, and new things added in this update. Note: There are still a few bugs left to fix, and some things that need to be patched in this new update, but because everyone has been waiting a long time for an update I have decided to upload it, will try to patch the remaining bugs in the following days. New In Little Hats: Gnome Hunter AI has finally been added to the game! One of the things which should have been added long ago! You will now have to face the gnome hunter when out and about in the forest, if he catches you he will take you to his hunter house, lock you up or sell you to one of the human towns. The game now has a spider! Big ones and smaller ones. They will spawn on certain occasions and hunt for the player. The game now has an owl! So keep an eye on the sky, he's not friendly. Faries have been added to the game also! You can talk to…
- Big Update Coming Soon! - 4 February 2023
Dear Little Hats players, I have been working on a big update for the past month and plan to continue working on it until the end of this month to ensure that all works well. After this update, there will likely be one or two more updates before Little Hats finally transitions from Alpha to Beta! Here are some of the things that are going to be added soon! We will now have to watch out for Owls! Spiders! and Human Hunters who will actively seek out the player during the daytime, everywhere in the forest. They will also set traps! There will be fairies! they will have multiple towns, even smaller than the gnome towns, and they will be able to teleport you across the map! Making traveling a little easier. Both human and gnome AI have been upgraded, you will be able to find gnomes doing certain tasks such as fishing, washing, writing, reading, going to the bathroom... and more! You will be…
- Alpha Update 0.5.3 New Crafting Options! - 17 November 2022
A quick overview of fixed bugs, improvements, and new things added in this update. New In Little Hats: You can now pick up hedgehogs, which will later on in future updates also get a purpose besides being cute xD. You can now also pick up squirrels, they'll sit on your back, same applies to them as to the hedgehogs. You can now craft a campfire that can be used to refine metal ore into metal bars (It will also be a source of heat in the future clothing update). You can now refine metal ore into metal bars, metal bars are a new item or resource with which you can craft. Cloth has been added as a new resource with which you can craft new things. You can now find a new resource, cloth, in human houses. You can now pick cloth from human and gnome washing lines. Humans now have washing lines around their houses sometimes. Players can now craft a sleeping bag from mobile crafting inventory us…
- New Little Hats Trailer! - 2 October 2022
After one year of early access on Steam, and many updates, it was finally time for a new updated trailer! The game is currently in Alpha 0.5, at 1.0 the game will go into beta, luckily the hardest part of the development is now behind us which means going from 0.5 to 1.0 won't take another whole year but probably a few months. 🥳 Enjoy the trailer! 😃
- Alpha Update 0.5 New Enemy, Story, and Chickens! - 2 October 2022
A quick overview of fixed bugs, improvements, and new things added in this update. New In Little Hats: Chickens have been added to the game and can be found often in human towns. Chicken eggs are added to the game as a food. Sometimes chickens will lay eggs, and you can steal them, but the chickens will attack. More caves have been added and some have been connected, you can now also find the golden tuning fork inside the cave with which you can open one of the Steyndike mazes and go to the lowlands! However, in so doing, you might awake a new kind of troll! A new kind of troll has been added, the dark troll! the dark trolls were imprisoned in the caves long, don't wake them up! There are now 2 more gnome houses in the game. The big castle is now finally available to explore! within it, there is even another small human village! You can now find the Golden Horn with which you can open t…
- Alpha Update 0.4.1 Caves, Wolfs, Speed Travel and much more! - 11 September 2022
A quick overview of fixed bugs, improvements, and new things added in this update. New In Little Hats: You can now travel around the world faster than ever before! Every now and again a speed-boosting plant will appear as you are sprinting, when you sprint over these plants and click the left mouse button you will get a speed boost, and if you can spot the next plant in the distance you can use this to travel really fast and quickly across the map. There are now four more Human houses in the forest. Caves! You can now find 6 caves some of which are connected to each other. Deeper caves will come in the Deeplands update, connecting Little Hats to my previous game Deeplands. There are now Wolves running around the forest! There is now an option to disable the leaf particles. You can now craft a torch from your mobile crafting inventory, the torch is cheap to make and works well when tryin…
- Alpha Update 0.3.6 The Map! - 20 August 2022
A quick overview of the bug fixes, and improvements, in this update. New In Little Hats: The game now has a map! There are now gnome camps and tents throughout the world. There are now spikes that do a lot of damage and are placed as obstacles in some places and will be used more in the future. Some big doors can now be opened with keys that can be found in the house, these doors will often look different or are made from red wood. A new small human castle has been added to the map. Fixed Bugs and Improvements: You can now exit the escape menu and other widgets by pressing ESC or the button you pressed to open them. The game has seen overall further optimizations. The main menu no longer has disappearing buttons when you press back directly after pressing the start game button.
- Alpha Update 0.3.5 Combat and Clothing! - 18 May 2022
A quick overview of the bug fixes, and improvements, in this update. New In Little Hats: You can now find backpacks in a few locations, once you equip one of them you get 4 extra inventory slots! You can also find a few different types of clothes which you can put on, more will be added later, as well as certain benefits such as speed, more health, etc when wearing different clothes. You can now also pick up forks, knives, and spoons to fight against evil humans! You can now use the pickaxe and Axe as a weapon. You can now buy a poleaxe or sword to fight trolls and other evil NPCs. you can now kill and fight all evil NPCs. You can now hit all not evil NPCs and potentially kill them... Which, because you play a gnome will cause you to lose spirit points, and if you do it too many times you will become an evil gnome, then you won't be allowed to do certain things and your character will l…
- Alpha Update 0.3.0 Weather System, and Lots of Enhancements! - 30 April 2022
A quick overview of the bug fixes, and improvements, in this update. New In Little Hats: The game now has a weather system, there are now a variety of different types of weather that dynamically keep changing. There will now be rain, hard winds, storms, rainstorms, and a bunch of different types of fog. Some humans will now take out their umbrellas when it starts to rain. Guard AI now has new animations, including a ready-to-attack animation for when trolls and such are near. Dangerous NPCs can now be seen on the compass, to help prevent jump scares. The nearest rideable animal can now be seen on the compass, for the player to go around the map faster. The nearest gnome can now also be seen on the compass, to help the player find gnomes to talk to. And also the nearest normal animal can be seen on the compass, to help players discover new animals. The swamp area has some more puddles to…
- Alpha Update 0.2.5 New Gnome City, Birds and More! - 5 March 2022
A quick overview of the bug fixes, improvements, and new additions in this update. New in Little Hats: The hidden gnome city of Bolderberg has been added! A new furniture store in Bolderberg with 6 new furniture items that the player can buy. An art store where the player can buy some paintings and tiles. A music store where the player can buy a trumpet and will be able to buy more instruments in the future. A blacksmith where the player will be able to buy weapons after the combat update. All nature assets have had changes in appearance to make everything fit and work together better. When looking at anything interactive a small text will appear right above the point dot in the HUD saying what button to press to interact with it. You can now enter some human houses through the chimney! All gnome assets have also been improved to work better with the world and fit better with each other…
