Tiny Glade-like building game

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Hello everyone!

This is my first time showcasing something out here and I wanted to show you what I have been developing for the past few months.

I was really inspired by Tiny Glade’s building system and wanted to see how hard is it to make something similar, short answer: really hard…

Basically I’ve had an idea for a cozy sandbox game where you can build your own little town and basically world build, where NPCs are not assigned to tasks and other things but as you build context for them they are doing their own thing - transporting food or meddling in things - just making the whole town feel more alive, and the NPCs are small spirits btw :smiley:

Here are a few videos with me playing around with it:


Also a small doodle I created while playing around with the system (it is a little bit outdated though)

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I am also in the making of a landscape system but that is extremely rough looking so far, and I had to take a detour to learn some compute shaders and what not to be able to create the landscape system I want:

Let me know what you guys think of this so far, any feedback is more than welcome :smiley:

PS. Yeah there are a lot of bugs as of now…

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Well, yeah, it’s too much work for one person. You either have to drastically scale it back and simplify it, or put together a team. Another option is to join forces with someone else. I’ve been trying to think about a “living city.” BTW, something similar is already being done, and it’s pretty interesting.

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I like the building editing, looks pretty close to Tiny Glade! Though this is before adding all the ways that elements can join together, stairs, walls, doorways, and so on… Tiny Glade has 2 developers as I understand it, and it took them 2 years full time, and they don’t have any real NPCs to speak of unless you count the sheep and birds.

Definitely keep at it as long as it’s fun but as has been said, all these features together add up to a lot of work so see if you can focus on the smallest core of functionality that could be considered a game.

PS having the taskbar at the top of the screen is delightfully chaotic and I’m here for it