Kind Words 2
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| In-game event | New sticker and bundle to celebrate a new friend! Hello Kind Friends! Luigi just drew a lovely new campfire sticker for Kind Words and I mashed the right keyboard buttons to make it go in to circulation! We did it to celebrate the launch of Fireside Feelings , a game that I am personally very excited about! I've been fortunate to get some backstage glimpses of the game over the last year of its development and to converse with the developers,… | — | |
| Game update | Tutorial update, journal UI fix, better corruption handling, etc. New invitation for players to customize their character during the initial tutorial. · Rebalanced distribution of opportunities to start new conversations. · Fixed a bug that would show the wrong menu if you opened the journal and the closed it really fast. · Improved handling of corrupted cache files. · Upgraded the engine to Unity version 6 from Unity version 2022. I'm not sure Unity knows ho… | 17854822 | |
| Community | Kind Words 2 has been nominated for a BAFTA! (So we made a cute new trailer) Kind Words 2 has been nominated for a BAFTA in the Games Beyond Entertainment category! I won't speak for the rest of our team, but I am absolutely not above the need for external validation. The loving responses from players and now the esteemed BAFTA judges means a lot. Knowing that people are enjoying the game motivates us to continue pouring our hearts in to watering this little garden of g… | — | |
| Game update | Override Override The music mood override button's override choice was being overridden, so I overwrote it. (He said in an over wrought sentence). Thanks to discord user Beno988 for the heads up. Also, Kind Words 2 just got nominated for a BAFTA! Which is really because it's full of amazing players who make the game a great place to be. And those players are you, so it's kind of like YOU just got nominated for a… | 17583352 | |
| Major update | Music Encore! New songs, new controls, new sticker! Did you know that every song in Kind Words 2 has four moods? As you move from home to city, to café to mountain top, each song changes with the feel of the location. Drums morph, timbres shift, vibes slide. Did you notice that even the menu sound effects change pitch to match the key of the current song? Who does that?! Clark Aboud does that! And now he's made 4 new songs! · Golden Dreamer · Cl… | — | |
| Game update | Return of the Banini and Conversation Rebalance Reworked outdoor conversation distribution. There are now color coded badges that indicate whether you are continuing a conversation you started (purple), continuing a conversation someone else started (red), or starting a new conversation (gold). This plus background changes should even out the opportunities to start new conversations. It may take a little while for the new balance to settle i… | 16959727 | |
| Major update | Private journal. Shared inspiration. Kind Words 2 is great for sharing your thoughts with caring strangers, but sometimes you just need to talk to yourself. Now Kind Words 2 has a private journal. A journal is a great way put your day or your life in to perspective. Forming your stresses in to words can calm you down. And good days with good feelings deserve to be commemorated. This part of Kind Words 2 is for your eyes only. We d… | — | |
| In-game event | More stickers? Yes, please. Shakespeare died in 1616. But before he did, he wrote several plays that people enjoyed. However, he did not leave behind very many cute stickers. I won't lie: it impressed me a little bit that he could just give up like that. Like he didn't really care about his legacy. Respect. We're not that strong. We need your approval. We've added a bunch of adorable new stickers to Kind Words 2. Enjoy! | — | |
| Game update | End of chain marker Tiny update today: I've added a divider line that shows when you've viewed a whole chain in the chain forest and it's starting over. Just a little quality of life improvement to throw out while we're working on bigger stuff. Other work this week was more server side focused. Like making the conversation system more efficient to handle the 40,000 conversations people have started. Cheers! | 16267599 | |
| Game update | Ella the Mail Deer is now 2% more polite and 5% more helpful. Plus fixes. Ella was embarrassed to realize she had not been thanking people when they reported requests in their inbox and has renewed her efforts to be a great hostess. She's also going to be a lot clearer in explaining that the "Lifetime train pass for all cool people" is in the store marked "Books & Stuff". Also fixed in this update are multiple timing issues which could result in overlapping UI and pr… | 16182178 | |
| Release | The soundtrack DLC is here! I'm delighted to let you know the soundtrack to Kind Words 2 is now available for purchase as DLC on Steam! To celebrate, I've created a new Steam bundle that includes both Kind Words games and both Kind Words soundtracks at a discount. I'm so grateful to Clark Aboud for sharing his talents as composer on Kind Words and Kind Words 2 and I've invited him to tell you a bit about his work in his o… | — | |
| Game update | FPS Limiter. Smaller. Faster. Less explody. New: FPS Limiter in Settings->Display. Options: none, 30 ,60. · New: Escape or Gamepad B will close the map menu. · Better: Optimized some game assets to be 60MB smaller on disk and use a bit less ram. · Fixed: Removed multiple cases where button pressing during scene changes could trigger WACKY STUFF. As a reward for reading these little patch notes, I'm gonna slip some fun news in here first:… | 16044611 | |
| Game update | Faster, more reliable (?) scene transitions Today's challenge has been tracking down the cause of the reports I'm getting that sometimes the game gets stuck when transitioning between spaces. The tricky part is that it never happens to me! So today I rewrote a good deal of the code that handles transitioning between scenes. If it's not more reliable, it is at least more careful and will hopefully leave much better clues as to the source… | 16023249 | |
| Game update | Fixes: subscribed poem viewing, reporting, deleting and more Viewing subscribed poems no longer cuts off longer poems (and media recommendations) · Fixed multiple ui bugs related to reporting and deleting messages · Reporting a letter you have received will now give you an option to delete that letter · Fixed a problem which could make the settings menu appear at the same time as other menus · Fixed a bug that occurred when you clicked on a person after… | 16018393 | |
| Community | Thank you for an amazing launch! Thank you all so much for making the launch of Kind Words 2 wonderful! For years Luigi and I have been wandering around this city by ourselves. Like kids who snuck in to an amusement park when none of the rides are running. We've spent so long walking through while imagining what it would be like full of people. What will be most popular? How busy will it feel? What ride will go off the rails?… | — | |
| Game update | Bug fixes and traps New: You can delete messages you receive in your inboxes. · Fixed: Multiple issues viewing inboxes while offline. · Fixed: The favorites button getting stuck down while viewing wishes · Trap: Several better debugging tools to help me figure out some mysteries. Like why loading the chain forest locks up the game for some people. If you encounter something that makes you have to force quit the ga… | 16001442 | |
| Game update | stuck title screen fix and more Sorry, some funny business was getting people stuck on the title screen. Not really that funny if you can't start the game you just bought. Thanks for sticking with us. · Fixed multiple causes of title soft locks. · Fixed paper airplanes knocking you out of your chair. (In your own home! Rude!) · Fixed text resetting to default if you cancel writing something, then un-cancel, then write more an… | 15989562 | |
| Game update | Name entry, chain help and airplane favorites button Thanks for all the reports everyone! Keep 'em coming. We'll get all the little bumps sorted out! · Greatly clarified the name entry process in the tutorial · Fixed chain help menu appearing behind chain topic · Fixed favorites button getting stuck on when favoriting airplanes from a bench | 15972611 | |
| Community | Kind Words 2 is Here! But what is Kind Words 2? It's a game about being nice to people! All real people. Anonymous and asynchronous. Share your worries, joys, dreams, wishes, jokes and more. Then read everybody else's messages and respond where you feel comfortable doing so. We've made a little city full of different activities for you to explore. It's a social network! But it's kind of an anti-social network. We wa… | — | |
| Announcement | Release Date: October 7th, 2024 This week marks the 5 year anniversary of launching Kind Words on Steam. A lot has changed in 5 years, hasn't it? Not just for the world, but for you personally, I'll bet. One of my biggest changes was having Kind Words in my life. It's been an amazing trip for Luigi and I to learn how to care for this community we started. And what a joy it has been that the community has cared for us in retur… | — | |
| Community | Thank You! The playtest/demo was awesome! But now it's over. Thank you! You all did so much for Kind Words! The playtest and the demo are over. We are definitely sad to kick everybody out of Kind Words 2 for a bit. But the life you all breathed in to it is just what we needed to guide our final development push. For years we've been working on these features with only our imaginations filling in how they would actually be used. We now we have heaps of re… | — | |
| Community | Open Playtest Starts Today! Play Kind Words 2 for free right now! We are opening up playtesting to everyone by putting out a demo for 1 week only starting now. Kind Words 2 is almost done and we're joining the Wholesome Games Steam Celebration by inviting you to try it out and give us the feedback we need to cross the finish line in style. Download the demo and explore a whole city of online conversations with real people… | — | |
| Community | New Stickers Teaser Luigi sent me 22 new stickers to put in to Kind Words 2 this week. They're really cute and I think you're gonna like them. I hate to do this to you, but I'm not going to show any of them right now. Nope. Just gonna tease you with some outlines. I'm going to selfishly dangle them out there to evoke curiosity which will blossom into longing. That longing will inspire action. Action like wishlisti… | — | |
| Community | Development Update: June 17th, 2024 One focus of our work right now is to balance vibes across the multiple spaces and activities. The mountain top area is our outdoor quiet space. A spot for calm and grand reflection. Here you will find the hot springs. While soaking their stresses away, players are invited to share pro-tips for good living. You can just listen or join in with your own suggestions. For more development updates o… | — | |
| Community | Development Update: June 4th, 2024 We've been doing development updates in our discord for a while and thought folks over in Steam might like to see them too. Yeah? Here goes! Kind Words 2 is all about communicating with real people in different forms, and poetry is a fun form. You can read and write poetry in the cafe. In this update we show how you can also request poetry from other people on specific topics as well as see and… | — | |
| Esports | Kind Words 2 Developer Live Stream! Valve said we get to schedule two cool stream events during next fest to hang out with our players, so here's our second cool stream event to hang out with our players. I mean, you can hang out with me anytime in the popcannibal discord, but for this one I'll be doing voice and video. Or I'll try to. During our first stream Valve's servers were borked and we managed to connect for only the last… | — | |
| Esports | Kind Words 2: Developer Stream How do you make a sequel to a beloved little game about writing letters to strangers? Join the developers as we play the next fest demo of Kind Words 2! Why did we put it in a city? Why does the sequel include the whole original game? What is the best name for a cat? Come ask questions or just enjoy being together. | — |
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.