Tiny World v0.2.0 released

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TinyWorld v0.2.0

We are happy to announce the release of Tiny World v0.2.0!

Since the last update, a few major features were added to Tiny World.

Highlights

Scenarios

The game now comes with scenarios that provide a starting landscape. They provide an alternative to starting on the default, empty landscape. Each scenario has its own frequency of random tiles, which allows for a more diverse gameplay. Seven scenarios are shipped with the game.

An editor mode was implemented for the game, so scenarios can be created easily. A short manual is provided under docs/SCENARIOS.md. You can share your maps in the Maps & Scenarios category of the Tiny World Discussions.

Screenshot of scenario "River Delta".

Achievements

Achievements were added to the game, to provide players with an objective and motivation. The built-in scenarios are locked behind achievements.

Screenshot of achievements in the main menu.

Game features

The game was extended by several features and rules:

• Hills terrain, which is not suitable for farming.
• Shepherds and pastures, for food production on hills.
• The number of random tiles the player can place is limited.
• Churches and monasteries can be built to extend that limit.

Screenshot showing a church, a monastery, pastures, a shepherd and some hills.

Usability

In addition to the features mentioned above, we did a lot of usability and quality of live improvements, from more in-game information over a rework of the main menu to graphics and UI tweaks.

For a full list of changes, see the Releases on GitHub.

Unfortunately, this release is not save-game compatible.

We wish players a lot of fun with the new Tiny World release, and hope for your feedback!

Changelog

Game features

• The game can be played on pre-defined, embedded maps/scenarios (Game can be started on pre-defined maps #168)
• The game can be played on user-created maps/scenarios (Allow loading local / non-embedded maps #171)
• Adds seven scenarios (Game can be started on pre-defined maps #168, Add Coastline map #207, Add Rolling Hills scenario #221, Add "Great Plains" scenario #226, Adds scenario "River Delta" #250)
• Adds achievements that are required to unlock maps/scenarios (Implement basics of achievements #187, List achievements in main menu #194, Lock maps behind achievements #195, Use icons for achievements #196, Sort scenarios and achievements be unlocked/locked #203)
• Adds a map editor mode for easier scenario creation (Editor mode #223)
• Adds hills terrain, which allows no farming (Hills, pastures and shepherds #218)
• Adds shepherds and pastures for food production on hills (Hills, pastures and shepherds #218)
• Limits the total number of placable terrain tiles / natural features (Terrain unlocking through churches and monasteries #231)
• Adds churches and monasteries that unlock more tiles (Terrain unlocking through churches and monasteries #231)

Game rules

• Haulers stay in buildings for a second before continuing (Haulers stay in buildings for a second #163)
• Watermill consumes 1 wood, like windmill, instead of 1 stone (Buildings for narrow spaces #33)

Usability

• Adds a menu to save/quit to main menu from in the game (In-game access to main menu / quit game #179)
• Shows the build radius around the cursor when building a castle or tower (Show build radius around the cursor when building castle or tower #183)
• Show information on why something can't be built in button tooltips (Add info why building is disabled to tooltips #185)
• Highlight resources with negative net production in the info bar (Highlight resources with negative net production in the info bar #186)
• Adds a "Save map" button to the in-game menu (Add a "Save map" button to the in-game menu #190)
• Adds scroll containers for main menu lists (Use scroll panels for main menu lists #191)
• Fixes the in-game UI layout for small screens (Fix layout for small screens #193)
• Adds a status bar for information like why a building has a warning sign (Add a status bar for various kinds of information #213, Improve status bar infos #214)
• Use square brackets instead of PageUp/PageDown to control game speed (Use square brackets for speed control #215)
• Saved games are sorted by date (Continue button in main menu, sort saved games #245)
• Adds a "Continue ..." button to the main menu (Continue button in main menu, sort saved games #245)

Graphics

• Adds random variants for grass tiles (Add random variants for grass tiles #158)
• Tweak info labels to accommodate 3-digit values without size changes (Tweak info labels to accommodate 3-digit values without size changes #164)
• Complete rework and themed styling of the main menu (Style the main menu #176, Main menu tweaks #177, Main menu flipbook #243)
• Text highlight color is a tileset property (Highlight resources with negative net production in the info bar #186)
• Adds the possibility for multiple terrains below a terrain (used for shepherds) (Allow for multiple terrain_below entries #220)

Documentation

• Adds doc-strings for all resources (Document (ECS) resources #159)
• Adds documentation on scenario editing and creation under docs/SCENARIOS.md (Document maps/scenarios #224, Scenario descriptions in tooltips #251)

Other

• Adds precompiled binaries for MacOS/Darwin to release builds (MacOS builds added into Github actions #165 by Ecostack)
• Adds a command line tool under cmd/stats to print terrain frequencies of maps, useful for deriving random terrain probabilities (Editor mode #223)

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This discussion was created from the release Tiny World v0.2.0.