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| Game update | Patch 4: Fixing Load Error and Reeve Customization Good day, fellow Meeps! Here are the patch notes for version 1.04, which has just been released: · Expanded the range you can see into space before having Lookout Towers, to make steering easier as you can plan ahead better. · Fixed a bug that caused some Reeve customization not to be applied to the Reeves. · Fixed a "reasonability check and log" step on loading, which caused some saved games n… | 15638035 | |
| Game update | Patch 3 -40% = Lowest Price to Date! Good day, fellow Meeps! For patch #3, which is now live, I've standardized camera rotation and scrolling across frame rates, and the camera movement is smoother. I've been spending some time on the "behind the scenes" of the threading and have decreased the "overhead cost" of the threads, which should improve stability and reduce occasional stutters. The Steam Summer Sale starts in a couple of… | 14858134 | |
| Game update | Patch 2: Additions, Corrections and Improved Stability Good day, fellow Meeps! I'm uploading Patch #2 with a few small additions / changes, plus an impactful one (in some cases): Added: · "Reduce Cutscenes" option under Game Options | UI. This will prevent the cut scene while, in some cases, still displaying only the message. Fixed: · After saving a tutorial game where Reeve Learning was not yet activated, it would be activated on load. The value i… | 14231723 | |
| Game update | Patch 1: A few Small Corrections Good day, fellow Meeps! I'm uploading Patch #1 with a few small changes: · The "Mouse Scroll" icon looked more like a "Click Scroll Button" icon. Arrows added to the icon to clarify. · In the farming tutorial, once in a blue moon (by random numbers and very specific lay of the land), it could happen that the Dwellings was requested to be constructed outside of your territory, preventing you fro… | — | |
| Steam news | Launch your World Turtle Today! Good day, Fellow Meep! It's been four and a half years since I first started tinkering with a hex grid map and thought "wouldn't this look neat on a Discworld-like Turtle!" It's been quite the journey... so far! First off, I wanted to thank everyone who's supported me in whatever way to get to this point. Making an (even slightly successful) game is a huge undertaking, and I've had loads of ass… | — | |
| Community | Development Update: Boats and Space Pods Good day fellow Meeps! With launch date almost here, I thought I'd share the final two additions for now. Naval Expeditions Once you have constructed a boat yard, your Reeve can embark on expeditions across the waters. Search for distant neighbors, special islands and medicinal herbs to apply to the World Turtle's wound. One Day, Age Will Catch Up With the World Turtle While we have managed to… | — | |
| Announcement | World Turtles is coming to 1.0! World Turtles is set to launch on April 15th! 🐢 Sail Across Space on Turtleback The World Turtle carries entire civilizations on its back through outer space. Cooperation, rather than conquest will save the day, so prepare to harvest, build, research, and explore the void in this wholesome turtleback builder. 👨🏽🤝👨🏼 Manage Your Meeps Meeps are eager to work, enthusiastic like no other, a… | — | |
| Community | Development Update: Customizable Reeves, Diplomacy and Improved Optimization Good day fellow Meeps! I've got some exciting updates to share! Customize Your Reeves You will be able to customize your Reeves (one Male and one Female), and these settings will be used whenever a Reeve joins your Realm. Diplomacy / AI Realm Interactions I've added diplomacy / interactions with the AI Realms to the game at last! Each AI realm will focus on a speciality, for example Woodcutting… | — | |
| Community | Development Update: Reeves and Treating Wounds! Good day fellow Meeps! Development around the new controllable Meeps (which I call Reeves) is progressing well, and I've expanded on a number of things in the last month and a half. Controllable Reeves I've completed the way Reeves are selected and displayed, allowing the player to easily keep track of more than one. Selecting a Reeve temporarily hides non-applicable in-map UI to make it clear… | — | |
| Community | Content Creators Music Claims: Whitelisting / Simple Attribution Required :( EDIT: I am working with Alexander to try and find different ways to automatically "whitelist" videos. As of 08Jan2023, if your video description contains "World Turtles", you should be fine. We're also looking at the possibility of videos tagged with the YouTube "World Turtles" meta-tag to automatically whitelist the video, so that most of this should happen behind the scenes with as little eff… | — | |
| Community | Development Update: Controlling Special Meeps! Good day fellow Meeps! After spending loads of time on the recent UI update, I've started working on new gameplay features again. First off, I'm adding the functionality to allow manual control over certain individual Meeps. These Meeps will be required to perform special tasks required to keep the realm ticking over efficiently. Icons will appear at special locations around the map for some ta… | — | |
| Sale | World Turtles is part of the Steam Winter Sale! Hi everyone! If you were thinking about getting the game, now is a great time to do so as we are part of the Steam Winter Sale through our publisher Freedom Games! From December 21st until January 4th , the game will be on sale for 30% off! Make sure to check out Freedom Games' Winter Sale 2023 page to pick up some great games to play over the holiday season. Whether you like to play alone or w… | — | |
| Major update | Scute Update: New UI and New Gameplay Good day, fellow Meeps, The World Turtle has shed a few scutes and its new shell is finally ready! But, along with the brand new UI comes some gameplay updates too, and another tutorial, focused on steering the World Turtle towards food in space. There are also a few short cutscenes included to highlight the most important events. The UI update is not just a facelift of new art. Almost every el… | — | |
| Community | Progress Update and some Personal News Good day, fellow Meeps, I considered carefully whether I should mention this here, and finally decided I should. I recently took a 4-week "working holiday" with my wife and kids - we camped in tents for 3 nights driving down to stay with good friends for a couple of weeks before heading back. Towards the end of the trip my mother unexpectedly passed away... So, I've had a couple of weeks largel… | — | |
| Community | Preview of the new UI/UX progress Good day, fellow Meeps! It's been a while since the last update, and I wanted to post some screenshots of the new UI/UX progress, to show off what I've been working on with the UI team. Almost all of the required artwork pieces have been completed, but I'm also spending a lot of time on the new layouts, functionality and behind-the-scenes technicalities, so that the updated UI/UX is much more t… | — | |
| Community | World Turtles is in Dreamhack Beyond! Hi everyone! We're excited to announce that World Turtles will be showcased at DreamHack Beyond on August 18th, 2023! Check out the Summer Indie Showcase at . We’re super excited to see you! If you want to join the community, join our Discord! Thanks for your support and we’re super excited to show off all of our hard work! | — | |
| Community | Our "The Beginning" nominated for the Game Music Award at Film Fest Gent! Good day, fellow Meeps, Nominated! "The Beginning", especially composed by Kyle Misko as the title track for World Turtles, has been nominated for the very first "Game Music Award" category of the "World Soundtrack Awards" along with some HUGE names like Star Wars Jedi, Hogwarts Legacy, World of Warcraft, Resident Evil, Far Cry, Diablo, God of War Ragnarök, A Plague Tale: Requiem, Gotham Knight… | — | |
| Major update | New triangulation and textures, Improved Placement and Optimization is Live! Good day, fellow Meeps! I'm happy to report that the smoother terrain triangulation, less restrictive building placement, new terrain textures and improved optimization is now live! More detail in the links below. Improved Optimization: Smoother Terrain Triangulation and Less Restrictive Building Placement: I'm aware of a few small visual glitches that do not affect gameplay (mostly where river… | 11550514 | |
| Community | Improved Optimization Good day, fellow Meeps! I've been spending a lot of time on optimization recently, and wanted to mention a few improvements that will be included in the next update: · I'm now emitting all "dust" and "water spray" visuals from a single pair of particle systems , changing its parameters before emitting specific particles, where previously I placed a copy of the system at each point where dust /… | — | |
| Community | Smoother Terrain Triangulation and Less Restrictive Building Placement Good day, fellow Meeps! I've been working on the following very impactful changes: · An alternative terrain triangulation for a much smoother look. · Relaxing restrictions on building placement, making it easier to find suitable locations. Terrain Triangulation I have completely reworked the triangulation to make the terrain more flowing, less blocky. This increases the GPU needs, but the origi… | — | |
| In-game event | Patch 3: QoL and UI Improvements Good day, fellow Meeps! Today brings some more UI improvements, and some quality of life additions. I've made these changes/improvements since he previous update: · Added an "Auto: Balance" option to the Building UI, which will let the building always select the task with the smallest percentage experience, which allows you to have an automated balanced progression through the experiences and a… | — | |
| In-game event | Patch 2: UI Improvements and a few small bugs Good day, fellow Meeps! I've been working on the UI functionality during the last week, and have made some good progress towards making the UI more intuitive and less clunky to get around to information / functions applicable at specific points. We've not updated the visuals /theme yet, but the upgraded Building UI panel will make it easier and more intuitive to give orders. The Building UI pan… | — | |
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| In-game event | Patch 1 ... Fixing a few small issues Hi all, Thanks for the support so far! I've updated the game to fix a few small Gremlins: · I've noticed from YouTube videos that the Rain, Snow and Clouds are not switched on by default (you have to switch them on in the Game Options | Accessibility menu - people with simulation sickness could be bothered by them). This means you've been losing out on some ambience! I've corrected this that th… | — | |
| Steam news | World Turtles Early Access Launch is here! Today is the day, fellow Meeps! I hope you’re just as excited as I am! Let me be the first to celebrate that World Turtles’ Early Access is now live on PC! 🎉 Thank you all for your support throughout development! I’m super excited to show you everything we’ve accomplished so far, and I hope you enjoy saving the turtles as much as I do. You can follow us on Twitter and join our Discord to inter… | — | |
| Community | But ... isn't this just a The Wandering Village / Discworld clone!? Hi all, There are, understandably, two very frequent connotations being made between World Turtles and existing popular culture. I wanted to address those briefly here. TL;DR We all have a very positive relationship and mutual respect for each other’s efforts and intentions! 😊 The Wandering Village I have actually become online friends with Philomena (team lead of The Wandering Village), and s… | — | |
| Community | NB: Linux and Mac users (and anyone else) Hi all, ________________________ Update: It seems as if "Crashing on the title screen" has been sorted out for Mac users. If anyone still find this happening, please let me know. ________________________ While World Turtles seems to be working well on most Linux and Mac machines , there have been a few exceptions (details below). To avoid disappointment and unhappiness, please test whether the… | — |
Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.