Demo Patch 1.4 is now live!

Hello, folks! In this update we're deploying a whole rainbow of changes, primarily focusing on startup crashes due to other apps interfering with Tiny Glade's rendering. See here for some background. There's also a few fixes of our own bugs, and a handful of improvements too ✨

A gentle cleanse of "implicit Vulkan layers"

• Automatically prevent graphical overlays, FPS counters, ReShade-likes, etc. from injecting themselves into Tiny Glade. This should fix a bunch of startup crashes.
• Added a "Vulkan extension settings" launch option in Steam, so you can re-enable anything you need. OBS and Valve stuff are allowlisted by default.
• Added a "Graphics card selector" launch option in Steam, which causes the graphics card/driver screen to pop up.

Please let us know if you encounter any new graphical issues, or whether this fixed the startup crashes for you 💕 Just in case, the previous version is available under the "1_3_1" beta in Steam.

Misc

• We'd heard reports that ivy was still levitating inside arches, so we've done some additional gardening 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾
• Added a time of day speed setting 🌞🌙 You can now have very long or short day cycles! (You can find it in Settings -> Game)
• Doubled firefly count at night because who doesn't want more fireflies!
• Making a new glade will now load the starting glade instantly (instead of showing a super quick creation process which can look noisy)
• (Windows) Enanced our crash reporter to also catch heap corruption errors

Fixes

• (Windows) Fixed the game window not showing on old graphics cards/drivers. Tiny Glade still won't work on those, but at least now you'll get an information screen.
• (Windows) Fixed a crash when a monitor's ICC profile path contained invalid Unicode characters.
• Fixed a crash when loading odd font files from the system. We now bundle our own fonts, and only use those.
• (Linux) Fixed a bug where the graphics card selection screen would be black until you moved your mouse.

Thank you for sending us crash reports! 💚 They've been very helpful in identifying these issues.

PS: aaaand we're also preparing a small feature update for the upcoming Steam Next Fest 👀👣 Stay tuned!

Love, Ana & Tom