Hi everyone! Here comes the first patch of 2025 :3 As you might have read in our latest dev diary, we're currently working on improving the Steam Deck experience, and this is the first patch towards that goal!



Rotation around the cursor (PC Default)
Currently, when holding RMB, the camera rotates around the point under the cursor. Conceptually, you can think of the cursor "grabbing" the point. For example, in the gif below, because the cursor is over the pumpkins, the camera rotates around them.
Rotation around the center (New option, Steam Deck default)
The new option allows to rotate around the center of the screen instead. Thus, in the example below, even though our cursor is over the pumpkins, the camera will rotate around the house.
This mode should improve the Steam Deck experience, and if you’re on PC, and you’ve been struggling with the camera suddenly yeeting itself as you try to rotate, we recommend checking it out too! You can switch the mode in Settings ➡ Controls ➡ Camera (2/7) ➡ Camera Rotation Pivot ➡ Center Region.

There's two variants of this: "Center point" and "Center region". The former rotates around the point that is directly in the center of the screen. While precise and easy to understand, it is often surprising, especially with tall builds -- you might want to rotate around a tower, but the screen center is just to the side of it, causing the rotation to be anchored on the background. The "Center region" variant aims to address that by considering points in a square around the screen center, and finding the most promising rotation pivot within it.

Tiny Glade on Steam Deck will now use the "Center region" variant by default. If you'd like to switch back to the old default, select "Cursor point" in the settings menu.


Zoom towards the cursor (PC Default)
Same applies to the zoom. By default, the camera will zoom in/out the point under the cursor.
Zoom towards the center (New option, Steam Deck default)
The new option allows to remap the camera to zoom in/out the center of the screen instead.
You can switch the mode in Settings ➡ Controls ➡ Camera (2/7) ➡ Camera Zoom Pivot ➡ Center Region.

Tiny Glade on Steam Deck will now use the "Center region" variant by default. If you'd like to switch back to the old default, select "Cursor point" in the settings menu.

Aaaand we also did a few miscellaneous fixes, here is the full list:

• ✍ Toolbar will no longer exceed the bounds of the game window
  
• ✍ Toolbar's subcategories are now correctly sorted when cycling through them by repeatedly clicking the main category buttons
  
• ⚙️ Default resolution scale to 0.7 on the Steam Deck (the game might look blurrier on Steam Deck, but will run considerably faster)
  
• 🔊 Iteration and small fixes for clutter SFX
  
• 🐛 Fix a potential synchronization bug in presenting rendered images to the screen (another wild guess that might help with NVIDIA crashes)
  
• 🐛 Fix resolution scale shrinking and staying low upon alt-tabbing in memory-constrained conditions (the game will attempt to restore the desired resolution scale once VRAM is available again, and will no longer save the automatically-reduced scale to settings)
  
• 🔬 Add more graphics troubleshooting options to "Vulkan extension settings"

That's all for now. Thank you for reading, and stay awesome!

Love,
Tom & Ana

Hello-hello! We hope you had a lovely winter break, and the new year had started with a good dose of fun hobbies, warm beverages and baked goods 🥧

We’re baking something too, and though not edible, it will be a good contribution to the cozy evenings. We’re working on controller support & improving the experience on Steam Deck 🎮

A good chunk of this work will be general QoL improvements and fixes, so we’ve decided to break the work up into multiple smaller patches, and make them live as soon as they’re ready in the coming weeks. One such update is already available, where we’ve added an alternative mode for camera rotation and zoom. This mode should improve the Steam Deck experience, and if you’re on PC, and you’ve been struggling with the camera suddenly yeeting itself as you try to rotate, we recommend checking it out too! See here for the full patch notes.

We expect that these patches will take our time until early February(ish). Afterwards we plan to switch to improving more gameplay stuff.

Aaaand that’s all for this short dev diary. Thank you for reading and hope you have a good day 🧡

Love,
Ana & Tom

P.S. we’re also preparing a batch of 30 new daily themes, and they will start on January 22 📅

Hey y'all! :3 Hope you're having a wonderful holiday break filled with the scent of pine tree and cinnamon 🌲🥧

If Tiny Glade runs well for you, keep enjoying it with your favorite pairing of pepparkaka / tomtegröt / glögg / julmust. If the game is giving you trouble however, read on!

We're having an influx of new players, so I'm also noticing a spike in crash reports. Most seem to be coming from external sources, so I've upgraded our crash reporter to detect those, and provide specific advice. Our nemesis, graphics crashes, have also appeared again. In order to help diagnose them, the patch now adds automatic logging of our internal rendering operations, and also links to a new troubleshooting section[pouncelight.games] about those graphics issues. Hopefully this helps a few folks 🧡

Details:

• Add "rendering workarounds" to "Vulkan extension settings"
  
• Link to troubleshooting advice on "DEVICE_LOST" (GPU hang)
  
• Improve reliability of graphics driver crash detection
  
• Detect crashes due to a broken Vulkan subsystem (vulkan-1.dll)
  
• Detect crashes (potentially) due to ASUS GPU Tweak III
  
• Add logging of internal renderer operations

Stay awesome!

Love,
Tom & Ana

P.S. We always test our patches, but if you start having issues with the game, and you think it's due to our latest patch, we usually move the previous build to a Steam "beta". In this case, the previous build is available in the beta called "old-1_11_1a" (Right click Tiny Glade in your Steam Library → Properties → Betas → Beta Participation).

Oh my gosh, folks, you did it! Thanks to your nominations, Tiny Glade is one of the finalists in the "Sit Back and Relax" Steam Awards category 💖💖 We can hardly believe it, this is already beyond what we've ever expected :DD

if you'd like to vote for us in the finals too, you can do so in the box above.

Thanks again, you're all awesome!

Lots of love,
Ana & Tom

Oops! We accidentally gave fish and birds too many treats and they were being extremely hyperactive 😅😅😅 This is fixed now! Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks to everyone who reported the bug 💚

(You might need to restart your Steam client to prompt the update)

Love,
Ana & Tom

Hi, everyone! This is just a small patch with a few fixes:

• 🐛🌳 Fix trees hovering above ground when grabbed from elevated terrain
  
• 🈂 Add missing translations for the "Control Hints" sub-category in the settings menu
  
• 🎨 Change settings menu overlay from green to white when in Winter glade during the day
  
• 🔉 Fix volume of placing lanterns & flags into water
  
• 🔉 Add a unique sound for placing arrow slits
  
• 🔉 Tweak water draw and erase sounds in Winter glade
  
• 🔉 Greatly reduce column sounds intensity to avoid the cacophony when they spawn and despawn in a quick succession
  
• 🔉 Tweak raise building sounds and moving half-timbered buildings
  
• 🔉 Fix water ambience being too strong dependent on where the camera is
  
• 🔉 Add ray-traced occlusion for water ambience and duck landing & takeoff SFX
  
• 🔉 Fix first person footstep sounds playing the water/path/garden when walking on structures

Have a good day!

Love,
Ana, Tom & Martin

Hello-hello! Hope you're well and feeling festive ⛄ You might have noticed that we've been beta testing new features 👀 You might even have participated, in which case - wholeheartedly thank you 🧡 We're happy to say that it is time to release this update into the wild!


First highlight of the update is the ability to adjust the automatically spawned clutter. You can now move, rotate, delete and clone it. I can't wait to see what you make - picnic spots, taverns, a hut where a hoarder of food baskets dwells? :DD


build by Omayli

You might have noticed that only 32 lights illuminated things before. Not anymore! We've cooked fancy lighting tech that has allowed us to remove the light count limit as well as adjust the intensity of lights. Just in time for the festive season :3


We've prepared 7 festive daily themes that will run from Dec 19 until Dec 26. And we've also updated Winter music with new layers for the holiday season ❄


I couldn't resist a fantasy of making a market for the holiday season, so there's now a stall with bread and a stall with veggies. And then I thought a crate of fish would go well too. A few evenings later, there were also an anvil, fabric rolls (Tom says they look like bedrolls, heh), a rack with brooms, a door bell, a dörrkrans and a new flower box. And then I thought, why not bring back Halloween clutter too (a barrel with candles, 2 variants of pumpkins, a cart with pumpkins, boxes with pumpkins). Hopefully these will be fun to play with, especially now that you can arrange them to your liking 😊

Okay, phew, this covers the highlights 😄 and below you can find the full changelog 📝


Major:

• ✨ Automatically spawned clutter can now be moved, rotated, deleted and cloned
  
• 💡 Light limit has been lifted from 32 to 32,768
  
• 🎶❄ Updated Winter music with more festive layers for the holiday season
  
  Minor:
  
• 💡 Lantern light intensity can now be chosen among 3 values
  
• 💡 Lantern light colors now have equal luminous power (so blue and purple look similar in intensity to other colors)
  
• 🗃 New clutter objects: anvil, fabric rolls, stall with breads, stall with veggies, crate with fish, rack with brooms, bench without basket, door bell, dörrkrans, flower box + halloween themed clutter (barrel with candles, 2 variants of pumpkins, crate with pumpkins, boxes with pumpkins)
  
• 📅 7 festive daily themes coming on Dec 19 - Dec 26
  
• 🐦Birds can sit on bird nests, lanterns, flags, and some clutter objects
  
• 🐑 Sheep will now avoid clutter
  
• 🧱 Brick limit has been lifted from 1M to 2M
  
• 🐼 Roof tile limit has been lifted from 128k to 256k
  
• 💌 F6 feedback tool can now also be used to send performance benchmarks to us
  
• 👻 Lanterns and flags now ignore collision with fences when placed on terrain, so you can place them closer for neater arrangements
  
• 💫 Holding a disable snapping key (LCtrl by default) while manipulating rotatable objects (ground flags, ground lanterns and clutter) will switch to rotation
  
• 💌 In the main menu, there's a newsletter button now next to Discord
  
• 👩‍🏫 In the settings menu, Tutorials have been renamed to "Control Hints", and there's no longer "enable tutorial" button. Instead, there's "complete all" which will mark all hints as completed to hide them. This way, when a new feature arrives, you always get a hint about the new controls.
  
  Fixes:
  
• 😱 Fixed incorrect handling of WinAPI display mode errors, which could result in a crash loop upon enabling Fullscreen.
  
• 💾 Use "File::sync_all" / "FlushFileBuffers" before closing files to reduce save corruption risk on Windows (thanks, Notepad++ forums folks!)
  
• 🐛 Fix rogue underground floors and columns which sometimes were interfering with placement of objects
  
• 🐛 Fix NaN-related crash when looking perfectly down and placing lanterns
  
• 🔉 Fix water ambience attenuation in first person mode
  
• 🔉 Fix water ambience audio source to prioritize playing the source closest to the player camera
  
• 🐛 New tutorial additions will no longer reset the whole tutorial state (oops!)
  
• 🧹 Left-clicking on lanterns and clutter is now ignored, since they don't have a random seed that can be changed as a result of the clicking
  
• 🚩 Ground flags will change their pattern if you click on rotation gizmo too (not just the bottom white dot)
  
• 👀 The crash reporter will now detect crashes caused by OBS, and provide workaround info
  
• 🌳 Big tree in Olden glade is now easier to grab, and when grabbing it, it will no longer jump
  
• 🎨Fix settings menu overlay from purple to dark green when in Olden glade at night
  
  Aaaaand that's all for now. Thank you for reading :3 We wish you happy holidays!
  
  Love,
  Ana, Tom, Martin & Oda
  
  
  
  
  

Hi, everyone!

We're wrapping up the movable clutter and many lights that we mentioned in our last dev diary. We aim to make the update live next week, and we'd like to make sure that these new features work well in the wild 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

If you'd like to help out and opt into the beta, go to Tiny Glade in your Steam Library, then Properties → Betas → Beta participation → Select "beta-1_11_0".

The save files of this beta are separate from the main version of the game, and this is a beta rather than a regular patch. What does that all mean?

• When using the beta, you won't see the glades you've built in the default branch.
  
• We made beta saves separate from the regular saves because the beta branch contains new code unavailable in the default branch. Thus, the save files created in beta won't work in the default branch until we merge the beta into the default branch.
  
• You can however copy your previous saves manually into the beta if you like.
  
• Saves for the beta are in the "beta-saves" folder alongside "saves" in "C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\Saved Games\Tiny Glade\Steam\YOUR_STEAM_ID" ("~/.local/share/Tiny Glade/Steam/YOUR_STEAM_ID" on Linux)
  
• The beta saves are not synchronized to Steam Cloud.
  
• Some stuff might misbehave, and we might need to make changes if necessary. Beware that your beta builds might change
  
• After the beta is closed, you'll be able to just (manually) copy over your beta saves into the regular saves folder.
  
• Please see our troubleshooting guide[pouncelight.games] for more information about saves.

If you encounter something broken, we'd appreciate an in-game report using the F6 key 📝 and there is ⁠also a beta testing channel on Discord you're welcome to join.

Thank you! 💗

Love,
Ana & Tom

Oh, hey, it's Steam Awards time :DD If Tiny Glade was your moment of zen this year, consider nominating it for "Sit Back and Relax" 🐑🏆 Thank you 💗

Love,
Ana & Tom

(I really wanted to use this GIF. Thanks to Onyxia for making it :3)