- Tile Town - 'Endless Replayability Fest' Broadcast - 13 May 2024
I'm excited to announce that Tile Town is taking part in the Steam Endless Replayability Fest! During the event there will be a broadcast of the gameplay and you'll be able to get the game with a 50% discount. After all, hexagons are bestagons!
- Badges and trading cards are here! - 27 February 2024
You can now collect brand new Tile Town Steam trading cards, create 5+1 levels of badges and get 6 emoticons and 3 profile backgrounds. Start by playing the game or visit the community market. Huzzah!
- 'Hold tile' update - 22 February 2024
Update notes: Feature added: Hold tile (Default key: X) - A requested feature to keep a tile aside for later use has been added. This introduces a bit more strategical thinking into the game. How it works: You may use a Swap token to "hold" (set aside) the current tile temporarily. Upon retrieval the held tile will replace the current tile. You may only hold one tile at a time and must retrieve the held one before attempting to hold a new one. Gamepad input change: Query mode moved to Left shoulder button; Right face button (B) is now used for the "Hold tile" function. Bug fix: Swap tile button not showing as available in the last step of the tutorial. UI fix: Swap tile button (and now the Hold tile button as well) now have a "disabled" look when unavailable to use. -> If you experience any technical issues with the game after an update, try restarting or reinstalling the game. If this…
- Villager update - 1 September 2023
Update notes: Villager update: Villager meshes and animations completely overhauled; they now also try to avoid each other when walking close-by; footstep sounds added. https://i.ibb.co/q971461/update-villagers.jpg Feature added: 1st person mode movement overhauled; added collision with buildings. Feature added: A requested feature - query mode with scores for other tiles, not just the one being placed - has been added. You can access it by clicking the little hexagon icon in the top right to show currently unlocked tiles and hovering over the tile pictures. https://i.ibb.co/K9sDcKK/update-query.jpg Visual bug fix: Near-camera object clipping in 1st person mode fixed. Audio bug fix: You can now hear the sea sounds properly in 1st person mode. Bug fix: "Villagers disappear when zoomed out" sometimes didn't work properly, now fixed. Controls change: Mouse wheel no longer changes the 1st p…
- Spanish update - 15 August 2023
Update notes: Localization: Spanish language added. Please note that the translation was mostly done with the help of AI translation services and may not be completely accurate. If you wish to correct something, please let me know in the community discussions. Thank you! UI update: Right side of the main menu slightly wider now to better accomodate longer text. UI update: Horizontal scroller of level cards was replaced with a responzive vertically-scrolled grid for better visibility and navigation. UI update: Tutorial level picture changed. Visual tweak: Cow texture and animation have been improved. Bug fix: Fixed distorted ocean sounds. If you experience any technical issues with the game after an update, try restarting or reinstalling the game. If this doesn't fix the problem, or if you find any other bugs, please let me know in the community discussions (you can use the link in the C…
- v1.0 - Full release - 20 July 2023
After 9 months (how fitting) and a lot of smaller and bigger updates, Tile Town is now leaving Early Access! Thanks to everyone for support and interest in this little game. With the full release also comes a change in pricing to reflect the current state of the game. The game will continue to receive updates, although less often and less regularly. Leaderboards are staying up and will not be wiped. Cheers!
- Update to v0.9.15 - 11 June 2023
Update notes: - Bug fix: The sea sounds were not affected by volume sliders, now fixed. - Bug fix: Monument mesh didn't load correctly sometimes, now fixed. - Visual tweak: Tile rotation is now smooth. -> If you experience any technical issues with the game after an update, try restarting or reinstalling the game. If this doesn't fix the problem, or if you find any other bugs, please report them in the community discussions (you can use the link in the Credits menu). Thank you & have fun!
- Tile overview update - 9 May 2023
Update notes: - Feature added: Unlocked tiles overview (a requested feature). You can now click the hexagon icon in the top left to show an overview of all currently unlocked tiles. - Localization: Achievements translated into languages which are also available in-game (English, French, Czech, German , Chinese ). - Optimization: The "Limit maximum FPS" setting now defaults to 144 to help new players with GPU overstressing (you can still turn this off of course). - Optimization: Minor GPU usage/framerate optimization. -> If you experience any technical issues with the game after an update, try restarting or reinstalling the game. If this doesn't fix the problem, or if you find any other bugs, please let me know in the community discussions (you can use the link in the Credits menu). Thanks & enjoy!
- UI & language update - 28 April 2023
Update notes: - UI update: Complete UI design overhaul! The game UI just got a completely new feel and look. Everything is a bit more nicer to look at, easier to click on, and fits more nicely with the visual style of the game. - Feature added: Control remapping! You can now bind your own keys to almost all actions. (Note: For now you can only remap keyboard controls. Gamepad controls are not yet remappable. However there is now a new button in the Options menu which shows you gamepad controls.) - Localization: More languages! Tile Town is no longer available in just English - select your language through a new language selection option in the Options menu. Currently there is English, French, German, Chinese and Czech available. More languages are planned for future updates. - Feature added: Map overview! You can now zoom out with to see the entire map with highlighted free spots. - Fea…
- Beach update - 13 April 2023
Update notes: - Visual feature added: Beaches and seawalls! All tiles now smoothly descent into the sea via a beach with randomized features, and all ploppables now create a stone wall (with possible wooden piers as well) if placed next to water. Aesthetic! - Audio feature added: Building sound effects! Some buildings will now occasionally make a short sound effect consistent with their function, adding to the rural atmosphere of the game. - Audio feature added: Sea now makes a... well, sea sounds (and seagulls). - Visual tweak: Lighting cubemap changed - the lighting is now a little bit different and shadows are a bit brighter. Darkest shadows are now not almost completely black as before, making for a more balanced and pleasant image overall. - Visual tweak: Sky overhaul - new clouds & sun disc added (only visible in 1st person view, obviously). - Visual tweak: Lens flare effect added…
- Procedural island update - 30 March 2023
Update notes: - Feature added: Procedural levels are back! If you reach a total score of at least 150,000 points, you will unlock a new level, which is a procedurally generated island. Everytime you restart, you will get a new, random island (just like in the old times of Tile Town...:). So in order to beat your high score, you will now need a bit of luck as well as skill. - New ploppable tile: Lighthouse! Likes to be near the sea (duh) and rocks. - Optimization: Minor performance and visual optimizations. This update will not delete your save file or your high scores, and if you already have 150,000 total score you will have access to the new level automatically. Yay! If this doesn't work for some reason, or you find any other bug or issue, please visit the community discussions on Steam and report it there. Thank you & have fun!
- Update to v0.9.10b - 9 February 2023
Update notes: - Bug fix: Unable to use tile swapping after finishing the tutorial level
- Update to v0.9.10 - 25 January 2023
Update notes: - Feature added: Edge scrolling (you can turn this on or off in the options). - Feature added: Steam leaderboards connection widget (you can now see your connection status in the bottom right corner; if connection is not available, your high scores will not be saved). - Bug fix: Game crashing and leaderboards not behaving properly when disconnected from the Internet. - Visual tweak: Splash screen image changed. Please note that the online leaderboards are just experimental at this point in Early Access and might sometimes not work properly, or get reset at some time. If you find any issues with them (or any other bug), please let me know in the community discussions (you can use the link in the Credits menu). Also please be aware that during early access most of the updates will reset your existing game, your settings and your save file. This is to make sure your save file…
- Leaderboards update - 19 January 2023
Update notes: - Core feature added: Online leaderboards! Your high scores (for each level and the total score) are now automatically saved to the Steam leaderboards and you can see your global rank next to each high score. Leaderboards are also accessible from the Steam community: https://steamcommunity.com/stats/2164780/leaderboards - Feature added: Interactive tutorial! "How to" button has been removed from the UI and instead the game now features an interactive tutorial level that guides you through the basics of the gameplay. - Feature added: Partial controller support (the game itself is now playable with a controller, but the UI and menus don't work properly yet; this feature is experimental at the moment and will be properly fixed in future updates). - Steam achievements: 4 new Steam achievements have been added! - Steam achievements: Names of most achievements have been modified…
- v0.9.8 quickfix - 11 January 2023
Update notes: - Fixed a bug where a player would get the "Walk around your town" achievement instantly after starting the game without going into 1st person
- Water update - 6 January 2023
Water & levels are here! The game has been significantly changed and many new optimizations and improvements have been made. https://iili.io/HRmJsNs.jpg Update notes: - Core gameplay changed: Levels! Instead of playing on a big randomly generated rectangular map, Tile Town now features a variety of unlockable levels with custom-made maps. Build up the islands and get enough score to unlock new levels! - Core feature changed: Instead of one board with your top 10 high scores, high scores are now saved individually for each level - New natural tile: Water! Some tiles now like/dislike being next to water. - New ploppable tile: Fisherman - Game math: Amount of starter tiles changed; overhauled math for batch score requirements - Game math: Some tile scores and stages in which tiles become unlocked have been modified - Audio update: 2 new tracks added to background music (now 5 in total) - O…
- Update to v0.9.7 - Tile unlocking! - 14 November 2022
Update notes: - Feature added: Tile unlocking! One of the most requested features has been added. You now start with only basic tiles and as you obtain new batches, you unlock new tiles that are then added into the random rotation. https://iili.io/ymoH5x.jpg - Game math: You now start with 15 tiles instead of 10 - Game math: Tweaked math for batch score requirements - Feature added: "What's new" button in the menu to easily access update notes straight from the game Please note that during early access most of the updates will reset your existing game, your settings and your save file. This is to make sure your save file is fully compatible with the newest version of the game. Sorry about that! If you experience any technical issues with the game after an update, try reinstalling the game.
- v0.9.6 quickfix - 7 November 2022
Minor fixes for the existing version of the game.
- Update to v0.9.6 - 2 November 2022
Update notes: - Optimization: Small performance tweaks and texture size reduction - Visual tweak: Slightly reduced depth of field blur strength - Feature added: Option to turn on/off depth of field blur - Feature added: Option to skip current BGM song
- Update to v0.9.5 - 27 October 2022
Update notes: - Feature added: You now get an extra tile swap for getting a perfect tile placement (until now you could only get them by completing a batch) - Visual tweak: Improved skybox and background in the 1st person mode - Game math: Tweaked some tile spawn chances Please note that during early access most of the updates will reset your existing game, your settings and your save file. This is to make sure your save file is fully compatible with the newest version of the game. Sorry about that! If you experience any technical issues with the game after an update, try reinstalling the game.
