Welcome to Steam Next Fest, everyone! Over the next couple of days, a ton of different games are being shown off to their soon-to-be players and fans, and Tiny Life is no exception! For those of you who are new to Tiny Life, this post contains some information about fun stuff to try out in the game, how to report feedback, as well as what the future holds for Tiny Life and its release.

The Release Roadmap

Currently, we're hard at work getting the Early Access version of Tiny Life ready for release. For those unfamiliar, Steam's Early Access system essentially allows game developers to sell their game to players with the caveat that they're buying an unfinished product that still lacks features and may contain more bugs than expected. However, this process makes it a lot easier for developers to gather feedback about the game early on, and involve the community in its development. For Tiny Life, the Early Access system means that we can add new features in various areas, including furniture and decorations, clothes and hairstyles, personality types, age groups, skills, and more, all while gathering feedback from the community about each addition and allowing players to shape the game as it's being developed! We do this in various ways, all of which are summed up in the next section. We plan for the game's Early Access release to be in April or May, at which point Tiny Life will contain, among other things,

• Over 30 personality types that can influence the way your Tinies act in various ways
• Hundreds of clothing items, hairstyles and more to dress and style your Tinies
• 3 age groups (baby, child, and adult), each with unique gameplay, including the ability to get pregnant, have babies and grow your Tinies' families
• Hundreds of furniture items, wallpapers, ground tiles, and more to build and decorate houses and community spaces
• Complex skills like cooking, painting, programming, woodworking, fitness, and a lot more, all of which unlock new and more advanced actions and abilities for your Tinies
• Two fully open and explorable Worlds, including Demoville and the large Maple Plains City
• The ability to create custom lots, households, worlds, and even mods that add new actions, skills, furniture, clothes and more, and the ability to share them with other players through the official Steam Workshop integration

If you're curious about what the future beyond the Early Access release holds for Tiny Life, you can check out the official roadmap on the game's website!

Giving Feedback on the Demo

Like the demo? Love the demo? Hate the demo? Let us know, and let us know why you think so! There are plenty of communication channels for doing so, and we occasionally hold official community surveys that give us more insight into specific areas of the game.

• Join the Discord to chat with the developers and other players directly, as well as share screenshots of your own creations!
• Use the feedback form (which you can also reach from the in-game pause menu, and the game's main menu) to report bugs and give in-depth feedback about what you like and dislike about the game, and which features you'd love to see!
• Subscribe to the mailing list or follow the game on Twitter to stay up to date with updates and community surveys!

When giving feedback, please keep in mind that, as per our (custom) content policy, we want to foster a community of players that are accepting, kind and have the ability to express their creativity and explore their identity. This means that certain types of negative feedback will not be tolerated, including the suggestion to remove or hide features from the game that support body positivity, bodily autonomy, queer representation, gender equality, and racial diversity.

Some Fun Ideas for Playing the Demo

If you're new to the type of open-ended, sandbox life simulation game that Tiny Life is, you may feel lost or unsure what to do when you first play the game. Tiny Life tries to encourage your creativity by providing empty lots, pre-made households with storyline suggestions for you to act out, and more. Here are some additional suggestions that might give you some inspiration for gameplay!

• Try out the Exploring Demoville life goal with one of your Tinies. Simply click on the Life Goals tab (the little heart icon) in the bottom left when you have a Tiny selected, and select the Exploring Demoville life goal. It'll guide you through the first steps of the game, as well as encourage you to take a stroll around Demoville to meet the locals and visitors. You even get a cool personality type as a reward!
• Try creating a Tiny in the image of you or someone that you know!
• Try building a lot, or editing one of the existing lots! You can build a house for your Tinies to live in, but it might also be fun to edit or outright demolish the Bluebird Caf and create your own beautiful public lot to put there instead!
• Try maxing a skill! The higher your progress is, the more actions and abilities related to that skill you will unlock, resulting in more for your Tinies to do! To get started, maybe buy an easel or a computer and try painting, writing, gaming, or programming.
• Maybe, uh... kill... someone? Some life sim players are a lot more... morbid than others, and they might enjoy inviting a visitor or two into their home and then locking them in a room without doors. Starving someone to death is a totally normal thing to do, right...?

Of course, these are just some suggestions to help you get started. Feel free to explore the game's demo to your heart's content! We hope you enjoy, and don't forget to wishlist the game!

[ 2023-02-06 17:56:12 CET ] [ Original post ]