Treasure Chest Workshop Item As I mentioned in the last news article, I want to put more focus on creating more workshop items. So, after a while, I released the first workshop item in 2026! ːsteamhappyː Meet the Treasure Chest! An old, mysterious chest, waiting to be placed on your screen... and unleashed... What will happen? Will it supply you with ancient riches that have long been forgotten…
Patch 2025 is now live! The latest patch will introduce awesome gameplay updates that will further expand your gameplay experience. 🕹️ With this update you'll now be able to save / load scenes using the blueprint feature. This will allow you to create cool battle scenes that you can just quickly load and save, and alter whenever you want. A blueprint state will include all combat entities as w…
Hey guys, wow, it's been a while since the last game update. Fortunately, I've got great news for you: A new update is in the making! The next update will contain a feature which will enable a new level of enjoyable gameplay sessions: The Blueprint feature With blueprints you can save all current spawned entities as well as the current selected background. This way you can create cool scenes th…
Hey guys, I've published two new workshop items. UFO laser guy It's similar to the bee tool. However it flies from right to left on your screen on the Y coordinate where you click on your screen. It will permanently shoot laser bullets in a circular way while flying. UFO Laser Guy Barrel The barrel guarantees for chain reactions! The barrel is highly explosive and you can trigger cool chain rea…
Today Casual Desktop Game celebrates its 5th year on Steam! When I published the game 5 years ago, I didn't expect it to become as popular as it is today. But I'm very happy that this fan remake is so well recieved by its community. A huge thank you to everyone who supports the game - whether it's playing, upvoting, commenting, reviewing or even recommending it. Here is to another 5 years! And…
Hey guys, I've just published an update to the 2025 upgrade version with some changes: · Fixed that some decals would not be shown · Fixed some broken guns · New tool: Cluster Grenade! Check it out ;-) There are also two new workshop items added by me: · Potato Masher: · Thompson SMG: Have fun and I wish you a happy new year!
Hey fellow desktop destroyers! I am with great pleasure to announce that the big update of Casual Desktop Game for 2025 is now ready and published! I know that I originally wanted to wait for 14th of February, but this update is too big and important to postpone when it is already ready! So, that's why I've published the update just now! First of all I want to thank everyone who has been so sup…
Hey guys, in the light of the upcoming anniversary update, I figured I wanted to share a nice change with you all. One of the cool updates also affects the fireworks tool, which is included by default within the game. Until now the tool was, frankly, very boring and unspectacularly. But not anymore. I improved the fireworks tool greatly and I believe that you will like it, too. At least I hope…
Hey guys, as already mentioned earlier, the next update will contain some breaking changes for the tools API and thus as a mod developer you will need to update your tools in order to let them keep being functional. I've just published an upgrade guide that will help you updating your mods. Please read it carefully if you have published mods to the workshop and update your contributions accordi…
Hey there, good news! The update for February 14th, 2025 is almost done. This update will be a celebration of 5 years of Casual Desktop Game on Steam. Due to this update, there were some changes to the Tools API, specifically two new methods were added to the IScriptedEntity interface that need to be implemented by classes that implement that interface. Here are the two new methods: //Can be us…
Hey guys, it's been a while since the last news or updates were published. Sorry about that! I'm very busy with various projects, BUT I've made quite an extensive list of updates planned for Casual Desktop Game! The year 2025 is approaching and with it also February 14th... This means 5 years of Casual Desktop Game on Steam! That's why the next update is planned for this historical date - to ce…
Hey there, It's been a while since the last news were posted. So here are some small news. Did you already notice the backgrounds feature? You can set custom backgrounds ingame. This can expand your gaming experience further. Imagine having a battlefield background for your next tank battle? Or a nostalgic background from the old Windows XP era? All that is possible. You can obtain some backgro…
Hey guys, I've just published a new update for Casual Desktop Game! Changes include: · Performance improvements: The game should now run with better performance · Workshop item update fix: There was a bug that prevented updating existing Workshop items. It's now resolved · Async news content: The news content is now fetched asynchronously · Some other minor improvements Hope you have much fun w…
Hey there, I've just published two more official Workshop items: The mine and the shotgun The mine will initiate if something comes too close to it. It then beeps a few times and then explodes, damaging all nearby entities. The shotgun is a weapon that causes huge damage by many bullets in the range where you shot to. Subscribe to the mine item: Subscribe to the shotgun item: Have fun! Kind reg…
Hey guys, did you already notice our Twitter account? On our Twitter account screenshots from Casual Desktop Game are posted once per day. So, if you have uploaded a screenshot to the Steam Community then it might get posted on Twitter. Also if you are using Twitter and want to see screenshots of Casual Desktop Game occassionally then you might want to follow the account. Link: Also now there i…
Hey guys, I've just published a new tool to the Workshop: The Sidelaser. Just select the tool and click anywhere on the screen (doesn't matter where). Then two laser guns will hover from top to bottom on left and right side and shoot laser bullets in the aimed direction. When collided on combat or other entities they will get hit. You can subscribe to the tool from the Steam Workshop: Have fun…
Hey guys, The domain of the official game homepage changed. Instead of a .net domain it is now a .com domain. Why? Because many products have a .com domain even if they are for free. Also according to certain SEO blog posts, .com might be ranked better than .net. So, the new homepage is: Of course the game will always remain 100% free! Kind regards
Hey guys! Here is some neat december present for you before x-mas. I published three new tools to the Steam Workshop. They are combat entities: 1) Alien Infantry An alien infantry entity that fires bazooka missiles torwards its opponents. 2) Alien fighter A common alien fighter ship that shoots laser bullets towards its opponents. 3) Alien Giant A giant alien battleship / mother ship that fires…
Happy spooky weekend guys! So, Halloween, or Samhain, is close and as halloween is widely popular, why not celebrate it with a small Casual Desktop Game update! So for this event I have created some spooky monsters! So, here are two monsters for you: - The wolfdragon: A monster that fires energy laser bullets upon its enemies. - The frogator: A frog-like mutant with a trident to fire an electri…
Hey guys! I have just published a performance update to Casual Desktop Game. It should run more fluent by now. Please try it out by creating many entities on your desktop and report if you feel like the performance has improved much more by now. I hope this update really improves the gameplay feeling! Kind regards
Hey guys, as promised here is the recent update of Casual Desktop Game. Major update are two new tools: The helicopter and the sniper. The Helicopter is a combat entity. You can control it around and it can be spawned into team 1 or team 2 like any other combat entity. It shoots volleys of three rockets against their opponents. The sniper is a weapon tool which is just an addition to the other…
Hey guys! Today I just want to take the opportunity and shout out a "thank you" to the community! The game has been downloaded over 40,000 times! Here are the top 5 regions: North America 14,821 35.7% Western Europe 8,466 20.4% Asia 4,199 10.1% Latin America 3,393 8.1% Eastern Europe 3,038 7.3% Here are the top 5 countries: United States 13,218 31.8% China 3,214 7.7% United Kingdom 2,628 6.3% B…
I have just published an update which improves entity selection. You can now both ctrl + click on an entity to select it, and ctrl + draw an area rectangle which selects all entities inside it. Before that update it was almost impractical to use the selection feature. Now it provides a much better experience. Also if you have selected some entities and want to abort the movement process, you ca…
Hey guys! Today I have released version 1.0 of Casual Desktop Game. I am sorry for the long inactivity, but I had much to do with other projects. Some users wanted to let the combat entities move to a specified destination. So, yeah, now you can select multiple entities and point them to where they shall move. This applies for the tc_* tanks, the soldier and the laser mech. This way you can set…
Hey there folks, there has been some time elapsed since the last update. Sorry for that. I was very busy with different projects as I am also a web developer and I did focus more on that. Also it is not easy to find new assets that can be used by new tools. I am not a graphic designer and not a sound editor, so I have to rely on publicly available assets (most of the time I visit opengameart.or…
Today a new update has been released! Now there is a settings menu where you can adjust the game volume and also set shortcuts to select tools The game volume can be set from a range of 0 - 10. 10 is default. Key bindings means that if you press a given key then you automatically select the bound tool. Just go to the settings menu and click on a key entry and then select the desired tool from t…
Workshop is now set live! I am glad to announce that the Workshop is now set live. You can now upload content to the Workshop via Casual Desktop Game and also subscribe to existing items which are automatically downloaded and integrated into the game. I will release a guide that shows how to upload content to the Workshop soon. If you encounter any problems please comment it below or create a d…
Update has been released Thank you for all the provided feedback. I greatly appreciate it and thus I have released a first major update. Not everything has been done yet, but a nice amount of updates have been implemented, though. I hope you like it. If you have any feedback, please let me know. Changes: · Fixed bug that empty tool could be selected · Fixed performance issues · Fixed scrollbar…
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