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Gradient Puzzle Maker [New Feature!]

29 aug

Hello hello!

We're pleased to present a brand new free feature update!

The Gradient Puzzle Maker

This new free update provides an awesome set of tools that allows you to create as many gradient puzzles as you like, with any colors you can think of, and is of course fully compatible with multiplayer.

Infinite Detail

Because of how the gradients are created it means that they will have infinite detail. This means that no matter what size puzzle you create, the color transitions will be smoooth.

These screenshots show off an example of an 8,000 piece puzzle. Even with a super large puzzle like this there are no artifacts or imperfections that normal static images could have due to resolution or image quality etc.

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Getting Started

To get started just go to Select New Puzzle, then look for the new Gradient Maker button in the list:

Options Options Options

There's multiple options for creating gradients, Grid and Stripes, each with their own unique settings that allows for lots of experimentation.

Grid type Gradients
Edit colors for 8 points that blend around this gradient type. Each point can be toggled on or off to offer even more possibilities.
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Stripe type Gradients
Add as many stripes as you want with up to 16 colors per stripe. Add multiple colors to blend between, or try non-blended single colors for an extra challenge
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You can use Stripe Blend to create unique gradients between Stripes, or set to 0 for hard edges

Adjustable Aspect Ratio

Make your puzzles as wide or tall as you'd like!

Presets

Once you've created your perfected gradients, you can save them as a preset. We've also of course included a wide range of default presets so that you can get right to puzzling. These can also be edited to easily adjust colors and settings to your liking.

Full Patch Notes:

Added New Gradient Puzzle Maker
Fixed issue where preview image remained locked after starting a new puzzle
Fixed issue where preview image button showed when selecting to not show preview image
Fixed issues with chair collision that could causes pieces to disappear
Updated main chair collision to be much more accurate
When rotation is off and puzzle is taller than table but will fit sideways, game now changes the fixed rotation to make sure it fits on the table
Fixed crash when attempting to grab connected pieces in Pickup Single Piece mode and then switching back to Normal grab mode
Fixed issue where puzzle timer would show when no puzzle was loaded
Fixed issue where timer did not show the first time you loaded a puzzle
Fixed issue clicking on another color while color picker is open in edit cursor trails menu
Fixed issue where settings menu was cut off on certain resolutions

We hope you all enjoy!

This is just the beginning, as we plan to add more options to this down the line. Next though we'll be focused on going through our list of user suggestions and bug fixes. After that the next big update planned; Having multiple puzzles loaded in the room at the same time!

If you've enjoyed these free updates consider supporting us by purchasing a DLC or donating to our Patreon. Every dollar gives us more time to work on awesome games and updates to Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams!

https://www.patreon.com/thatsnicegames/membership

We've are also starting work on a new game! It's really early stages so cannot say much, but can say it will be a game focused on exploration across the sea and islands inspired by games like Sea of Thieves and Minecraft.

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Stickers and More added to Discount Bundle!

7 jul

We've added a new bundle, The Complete Pack!

This bundle contains all DLC including the Stickers & More pack with a 45% discount!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/56185/The_Complete_Pack/

When we came up with the idea of the sticker pack it was originally meant as more of a supporter pack that contained a few stickers as a bonus. However during development the pack ended up becoming much more.

Because of all we ended up adding (over 2,000 stickers, over 200 challenges to complete, tons of indie game stickers, cursor trails) it ended up becoming much more than a supporter pack although we still ended up releasing it as such. Previously it stood alone as an extra bonus and players were often missing out on it with the existing bundle that only contains extra puzzles.

So finally we've decided to include the sticker pack in an all-in-one DLC bundle. The previous bundle with only the puzzle packs will still be available, while the new Complete Pack bundle that includes everything will be discounted even more for 45% off.

Keep in mind if you already purchased the puzzle packs you can still use the Complete Pack bundle to get a discount on the Stickers & More DLC.

What's contained in the Stickers and More Pack

Here is a rundown of what to expect from purchasing the DLC.

The sticker pack contains over 2,000 unique stickers to unlock. You can place them in your room or in the rooms of friends you visit in multiplayer! Use as decoration, marking puzzle locations, or just have some fun sticker time with friends.

You can decorate with stickers everywhere, even over puzzles hanging on your wall.

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Customizable Cursor Trails

A new way to emote with your cursors! Press a button to activate and draw attention to puzzle pieces or go into party mode when someone puts the last piece in.

Customize the style and colors yourself. Many styles to choose from, including Butterflies, Bats, Snow, Puzzle Pieces, and more, each with their own unique animations and options!

Sticker Challenges (unlock more stickers!)

At the start you will have around 800 stickers unlocked, each within sticker sheets of different categories. By completing sticker challenges you can unlock many more!

You can check out the list of sticker challenges by clicking the trophy icon in the sticker menu. This will list hints for each challenge. Most require deciphering the clue and placing stickers on top of each other or in the room.

As an example the "Chef Cat" challenge, requires placing any cat sticker down, and then placing a chef hat sticker on the cat!

Sometimes a challenge will unlock a key sticker. You can use this key to open a chest giving you an entire new sticker sheet with tons more stickers and challenges!

Opening a chest:

Go to the Chests tab
Select the chest named after the key you just unlocked and place the sticker
Place the key on top of the chest
Voila! Chest is unlocked and you get a new sticker sheet!

Not all challenges work the same way, and some don't even require stickers at all! If you need any hints solving them our discord has a section just for people looking for hints on the sticker challenges.

You can check it out here[discord.gg] (look for the stickers-challenges-spoilers channel)

There are over 200 challenges to complete, giving you hours of fun puzzle solving by yourself, or with friends!

One of the great things about this is how it all works in multiplayer. You can try and figure out the challenges with friends, decorate together, or have someone play with stickers while other players do a puzzle.

It's great for streamers too, with chat involved in trying to work out the sticker challenges.

Indie games

In addition to the thousands of stickers and hundreds of challenges to do, we also have stickers for a number of our favorite indie games. These awesome devs were kind enough to allow us to make stickers based on their games! Each one also has an info button with details of the game it was from.

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For a full list of included indie games check out this post:

(scroll down to the "All the Indie Game Stickers" section)

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1653970/view/3964923641016787629?l=englishPlease check out their games, they are truly awesome!

Thanks for everyone who has played and supported our game!

What's Next?

Our next update is the gradient maker that allows you to create color gradient puzzles with infinite detail. All the functionality is done and we are just finishing up the interface.

Here's a sneak peek of what to expect:

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Hotfix 1.3.8.9.1

21 mrt

Fixed issue where game would crash when trying to create larger puzzles (10,000 to 20,000 pieces).

Of note, if you are still having issues of game crashing when creating larger puzzles on lesser hardware try turning off the bevel detail completely in the video settings.

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Bug Fixes 1.3.8.9

17 mrt

Refactored a lot of the multiplayer code to hopefully fix crashes that happen during multiplayer, especially on joining/leaving the game
Fixed issue where changing room materials was not updated to clients

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Hotfix 1.3.8.8

4 feb

Fixed issue where sometimes client did not download DLC puzzle.
Compressed Radiant Pack DLC to smaller size since had to update anyway, will compress other DLC over time.

Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams

Hotfix 1.3.8.7

30 jan

Fixed crash that could happen when multi selecting pieces where some are connected while in multiplayer

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Hotfix 1.3.8.6

19 jan

Changed order of custom images from newest to oldest.
Fixed issue where sticker info was being shown when joining multiplayer game.
Removed preview image notification when client in multiplayer or puzzle is not loaded.
Made connect sound on by default for new players.
Fixed bug with puzzles in load/custom area flickering between sizes.
Fixed crash related to client attempting to rotate a piece that was no longer in the players hand.

Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams

Mega Updates : Part 2

9 jan

Part 2 of the Mega Updates is finished! Next up we'll work on finishing the gradient puzzle maker, but before that we're going to spend some time tracking down a game crash players have reported. We haven't been able to duplicate it locally so we'll be creating some debug builds and joining games until we can get this game up to 100% stable again.

We hope you enjoy these new features and fixes!

New Materials Interface for Customize Room

We've created a completely new way to edit materials in your room!

This new interface was quite the undertaking, requiring ~300 screenshots for all the thumbnails, but the effort was worth it. Having a visual representation makes it so much easier to use, and really makes the experience more fun overall.

We even included all new default color schemes for most materials to help show off the possibilities and inspire new interior designs.

Lockable Preview Image

We've expanded the Locked Pieces functionality that was added in the 1.2 update to now also allow you to lock the Preview Image. This should help prevent accidental pickup and ensure the preview stays exactly where you want it.

To use this just press the Lock Pieces button in game (bottom right buttons), or press Ctrl-L. Click the preview to make it turn red (this means it's locked), then just click Done on the Lock Pieces interface.

Added Pagination to Save Lists and Custom Images

Pagination UI has now also been added to the Saved Puzzle and Custom Images sections. This will vastly improve load times when browsing these lists and overall make the experience much easier, especially for those who already have a lot of saved puzzles and custom images.

New Customization Material Options

6 new Materials options have been added for customizing your walls!

Each material is fully customizable with 4 color slots so that you can create the perfect scheme for your room.

These materials were added to the Scenic and Idyllic dlc packs as follows:

3 Overlay wall styles added to the Scenic Pack
3 Herringbone wall styles added to the Idyllic Pack

Full Patch Notes:

New Customize Room Materials interface
Added ability to lock the preview image
Added 3 new wall materials to Idyllic Pack
Added 3 new wall materials to Scenic Pack
Created new default color schemes for most materials
Created new names for many materials
Added pagination to custom images and save lists
Fixed issue causing wide thumbnails in image grid to sometimes get cut off
Adjusted camera change notification when wall hanging list is open so they don't overlap
Fixed the multi selection rectangle to now be visible when UI is hidden
Fixed issue with a graphic setting not working in main settings menu after last update
Fixed issue with normals on main chair mesh
Fixed issue with texture coordinates on glass railing mesh
Fixed issue where game would default to blue album on restart if no albums were selected
Fixed lighting issues with several concrete materials
Fixed several incorrect/missing material color options
Fixed texture/geometry issue near back door
Fixed issue where you could click through customize room menu

See you next time!

Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams

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Mega Updates : Part 1

29 okt 2024

Hey all! Soon we will be releasing a new addition to allow creating your own gradient puzzles, but before finishing that I decided it was time to work on some fixes I've been putting off for awhile. There's a good reason I've been avoiding them as some of these issues took months of work to solve (the new bevel GPU calculations alone is something I didn't even know was possible but I kept plugging away until it worked!).

The Mega Updates will be broken up into two parts with this first part having more major changes, and the second part mainly a list of bug fixes and tweaks.

I'm glad it's finally done and will be great to move forward on a more solid ground with more additions in the future. Enjoy!

Room Lighting Updated!

After weeks spent wrestling with Unreal Engine's volumetric lighting and adding blocking volumes we've fixed most of the issues with an overhauled lighting design. Puzzles pieces now correctly match the area they are in and wall hangings no longer "glow" from outside light.

More Places to Hang Puzzles

While knee deep in wall hanging code I decided to fix another pet peeve of mine, room collision areas preventing puzzles from being placed in certain areas. You can now place puzzles on other walls, windows, railings, ceilings and more. Plus there's a new interface that changes to an icon notifying you if it can be placed or not.

Game Install Size Reduced by 2GB

When uploading Unreal Engine games to Steam one of the issues is Steam is unable to read regular compressed files to apply updates. With the number of very high resolution puzzle images we have this has always been an annoyance. However we recently found a way to compress the install in a way Steam can still read it and have reduced the install size by over 2GB!

Vastly Improved Puzzle Bevel (Mega Bevel)

While working on the upcoming Gradient Puzzle update I didn't like how the current bevel was looking on solid colors. This has been a long time coming but I finally ditched the old system and came up with a new way to generate the beveled edge for all the custom pieces.
I present The Mega Bevel!

High resolution tiled mip mapped textures are scaled to the puzzle size created fully on the GPU in a fraction of the time it took before. You don't want to know the hours spent learning new maths for this, but the end result was well worth it:

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Not only does it look better, it solves a lot of issues compared to the old method, including better memory management, faster loading, and ability to hang more puzzles on the wall before your graphics card starts complaining!

Also no need to cache normal maps as these can now be generated in real time which leads us to...

Custom Puzzles on Walls Synced in Multiplayer

Now that puzzle bevels can be created without needing a long load time I decided it was time to look into another long running issue. Syncing custom and dlc puzzles on the wall in multiplayer.

Custom puzzles displayed on your wall will now be automatically downloaded for all your friends to see.

Note that puzzles need to be uploaded to the Steam Workshop for this to happen.

This feature can be disabled in the main settings area.

Added pagination to wall hangings

Not only is this much easier to navigate your completed puzzles for decorating, those with lots of completed puzzles will load into the customize room interface much much faster.

I'll be adding pagination to custom and saved puzzle areas as well in the next patch.

New Video Settings

Many new performance options have been added for the textures of the new bevel generation, as well as for the puzzles images themselves (both for active puzzles, and puzzles hung on the wall). We also added a new option to remove the puzzle bevel for those that would prefer that.

These options can be found in Settings > Video Settings

The default settings should already perform (and look better) than our previous build, however we left plenty of room to push things further for those with high end systems, or to scale things back a bit for those looking for extra performance.

Esc Key now toggles going into the room

For those booting the game up to play around with stickers and decorate your room, you now no longer need to load a puzzle to start!

Better File Management

The graphic settings have been moved to it's own file to avoid unwanted steam syncing and to make it easier to reset back to defaults. This will make for a better experience especially for those switching between different computers.

Note: This change will cause your graphic settings to be reset to defaults the first time you load this update.

Full Patch Notes:

Room lighting updated - more accurate lighting of active puzzles and puzzles on walls, removes overly bright 'glow' that could occur
More places in room to hang completed puzzles, and new UI to let you know if a placement is invalid
Game install size reduced by 2GB
Vastly improved puzzle bevel textures
Custom Workshop puzzles on walls now sync and auto-download in multiplayer (options to disable this in Settings area)
Added pagination to wall hanging list of completed puzzles in Customize Room UI
New visual quality settings for puzzle images and the new puzzle bevel (in Video Settings)
Esc key now toggles going into the room
Better file management (graphic settings separated into it's own file, avoids syncing)
Mystery puzzles are no longer hidden once completed
Fixed issue when grabbing sticker at the same time as puzzle piece
Fixed rotation issue when grabbing both sticker and puzzle piece
Fixed sync issue when player grabs sticker while holding preview image (would get permanently stuck in the players hand!)
Fixed bug when selecting sticker while holding wall hanging
Fixed issue where sticker would collide with puzzle pieces (For those of you who still want to use this glitch it will still happen when holding a sticker+puzzle piece)
Fixed lag issue when resizing preview image in multiplayer with shift+mouse wheel
Fixed issue where sticker unlock sound would ignore volume setting (Sorry for the jump scare!)
Fixed issue where [redacted] sticker music did not change volume once started
Fixed issue where wall hangings would spawn in the floor
Fixed connection issue with more than 16 players trying to join game
Fixed issue causing uploads of very tall images to Steam Workshop to fail
Fixed issue with preview image starting downstairs when puzzle location is upstairs
Fixed issue where with rotation off, upstairs puzzle started with pieces rotated in the wrong direction
Fixed issue where locked pieces mode could be activated while typing in chat box
Esc key now cancels out of placing wall hanging

If you enjoy this game please support further updates by buying the sticker supporter pack!

Place stickers in multiplayer with friends.

Sticker challenges with thousands more stickers to unlock.

Customizable cursor trails.

and more!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2763190/Jigsaw_Puzzle_Dreams_Stickers_Challenges_and_More/?snr=1_5_9__405

Happy Puzzling!

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Community Spotlight #5

24 sep 2024

Hello hello! Community Spotlight is back! It's time again to put a spotlight on all the super cool and creative stuff this wonderful community has been up to.

Let's get into it!

Animated Puzzles?!

Captain Black was able to achieve this incredibly cool trick by putting together a separate puzzle for each frame of animation. Super clever idea, and the results look awesome!

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3324314996

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3324431937

Here's a look at a series of completed puzzles they used to make an animation:
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3324471907

Stickers!

It's been an absolute delight to see all the creative things folks have been doing with stickers since we
released Stickers & More! earlier this year.

ːhappy_pebbleːːwow_pebbleːːhappy_pebbleː

The use of musical cursor trails here is ːperfectː
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3154694551

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3275055141

ːEye_tvːːEye_tvːːEye_tvː

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3305345508

ːpartydiskːːpartydiskːːpartydiskː

Shared by Dludnerad via our discord community

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3208219122

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3173776815

Glitch Art

Shared by alice via our discord community

Puzzleception

Shared by bee505 via our discord community

Cube Map

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3252395834

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3252396313

Proper Puzzlin'

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3254446878

New Friends

Shared by SHARK, Jojo, & 3068320080000 via our discord community

"Puzzle dreams brought us together in real life, we flew to Portugal from all over Europe zu Puzzle together"

Thanks so much to them for sharing this sweet story with us! We never would have expected that our game would inspire an IRL puzzling meet up trip. Truly awesome ːLIS_pixel_heartː
(Also once again, signing it was a perfect touch!)

Anyone looking to hang out and puzzle with some super nice folks? Be sure to join up to our discord![discord.com]

There's an active Looking-For-Players channel for sharing room codes, a community driven puzzle-of-the-week, and more! Community member Dludnerad even has an open room running a 10k folks have been working through.
(be warned, it's just a little ːyellowbeatːːyellowbeatːːyellowbeatː :D )
https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3308415207

That's all for this post, but there's much more to come! You have all shared so much since the last time we did a Spotlight I couldn't fit it into one post! We also have some exiting new updates cooking up so stay tuned.

See you next time!

Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams

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