Hello Goblinz,

We have a lot of news lately, so we thought it would be really cool to give you a little summary here!

As you probably know, Goblinz is focused on strategy and management games, and we strive to offer you high-quality games with our selection.

We regularly offer demos so you can get hands-on experience before buying!

Today, Synergy is being released, a beautiful city builder inspired by Pharaoh and Frostpunk. The game is developed by Leikir Studio and you will have 10% off the 2 first weeks!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1989070/Synergy/?snr=1_1056_4_creator_1057&curator_clanid=33025551

Last week, we announced a new game: The Executive, a Tycoon set in the film industry.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2315430/The_Executive__A_Movie_Industry_Tycoon/?snr=1_1056_4_creator_1057&curator_clanid=33025551

Sandwalkers will have a new prologue, this time focusing on gameplay rather than the story. It will be released on June 4th. And we can already announce that Sandwalkers will be available in Early Access before this summer.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2995230/Sandwalkers__Prologue/?snr=1_1056_ajaxgetfilteredrecommendations_creator_curator-tabs&curator_clanid=33025551

The demo of Mini Settlers is a huge hit with more than 80,000 players in the last three weeks! If you haven't tried it yet, you can find it here. Mini Settlers is an automation game similar to Factorio but much simpler, like Mini Metro.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2521630/Mini_Settlers/?snr=1_1056_ajaxgetfilteredrecommendations_creator_curator-tabs&curator_clanid=33025551

Last but not least, Fantastic Haven will be at the Steam Next Fest in June! If you want to join the private beta, head over to Discord:
https://discord.gg/goblinzstudio

Steam page:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2556470/Fantastic_Haven/?snr=1_1056_ajaxgetfilteredrecommendations_creator_curator-tabs&curator_clanid=33025551

Other minor news:

• The new update for Hero's Hour is currently in open beta
  
• A new update for Racine is coming
  
• Fantastic Haven will have a prologue too!

See you soon Goblinz!

Hello everyone!

After some time now, the final update of Snowtopia is out.
Compared to the previous ones, it's a small one and it is mainly focused on stabilizing the game and getting rid of the last achievements issues. Should you have any trouble with any of them, please tell me. I can check if it's just a setting issue ; if not, I can simply take out the achievement for the completionists in you that want the 100%

Soooo as you would now know, Snowtopia's development was not a long quiet river. If you do not but you want to, please head to this thread explaining a lot.

But, what now?
Well as stated before, unless there is a really big blocker crash type of thing, we (development team in the large definition of this word) won't work on this game anymore, but there's still some things I wish to tell you.

Firstly, as I said to some of you, I wanted to see if we could take the price of the game down. Afterall, it did not reach what even we planned it to reach, or barely. Turns out it's a bit more complicated than just changing a number in the store. We will, however, put the game in sale as much as we can and will aim at 50% discount. So if you see this before buying the game, and the game is not on sale, be patient for a few days/weeks, it will be!

Also, I do have to talk about modders that keep doing great work for the game. I made a new forum discussion post about modding, mainly to give you the right adresses to install/get into modding.

Thanks to people that kept with us for this journey, and even when people were complaining (which I do understand of course), it remained with respect and we could, actually, talk about it.

I'll still see you around on the forums,

Cheers

-Thomas

Hello everyone!

After several difficult months during which we did not communicate much about the development progress, we are happy to announce that Snowtopia is finally out of early access!

❄️ Here's the launch trailer we have cook up for you:



As you may know, the studio stopped the game development at the beginning of the year. We have hired a developer to finish the update that was planned and fix the bugs. We will try to provide the best support possible.

Regarding modding, the contracts and the law do not allow us to open the source code, but we will keep working on it so you and other players will be able to add countless possibilities more easily to the game.

We'll keep you posted, but until then, enjoy your time in Snowtopia!
And once again, thank you for your patience and understanding. 🤍


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124260/Snowtopia_Ski_Resort_Builder/

Hello everyone,

After quite some time now... Snowtopia is coming out of early access to get it's FULL RELEASE on December 14th!

As some of you might know, it hasn't been a quiet journey... and kind of felt more like a black slope on your 2nd day of skiiing 😅

Since the last public update, we polished different mechanics, we also had to revamp the whole behaviour for the skiers pathfinding, to get the experience as smooth and enjoyable as possible. If you missed it and want to know more about what happened during the project, please check this post (and the replies) on the Steam Forums : https://steamcommunity.com/app/1124260/discussions/0/3432327323078402084

As we mentionned before, Snowtopia's development will end here. There's just one last thing (appart for major bugs that we'll patch, should there be any) that we'd like to do.
A lot of you guys asked us to just open the source code so people that can would go on with the game development; however it's not as simple as that. What we can and are actually trying to do, is to check with people that are already modding the game how to get their life easier, so even if we made the base as polished as we could, you can go and add to Snowtopia whatever you'd wish to be in the game, as much as possible
While this will probably not be the case day 1 of the release, we're still working on it and it'll be added as soon as possible!

We hope you'll enjoy your time on Snowtopia, even if that might not be what you expected when the project started!

Thanks a lot for being comprehensive through the difficulties we faced,
- Thomas.

Hello everyone!

It's been a while we have not posted any news here!
If you want to know a bit more on the reasons why, I recommand you check the post I made on the forums a month ago

But now it's time to rejoice, because as Snowtopia is getting close to it's full release, we are opening a beta for you to help us with the final verifications!

As said in the forum post mentioned before, because of the difficulties we had with this project, our time on it is limited. That's why we unfortunately won't be able to add any feature anymore. However, while we tested it, we still are limited in term of different computer configurations, and this beta is here to be sure that it's running well on different computers. Also, there might be some major issues that we missed, and we want to correct them before the full launch, should there be any.

If you face any problem, you can report them on the discord, or send a message to http://support@goblinzstudio.com

To access the open beta, simply go to your library, right click on Snowtopia and select "Properties". Then, click on the "Betas" tab, and select the "Public_beta - v0.16.15 for public beta" branch.

One last thing before you're off to the mountains : I communicated on different places (forums, reviews, discord) something about the full release date. I said that the full release should be between now and the end of year 2022.
This still stands as of today, and we should be able to give you a release date soon! So stay tuned!

I wish you all a wonderful day, and to have fun on the crazy slopes you'll create!

Cheers,

- Thomas

Hi everyone,

Following the latest announcement, we received many messages about modding and the future of Snowtopia. When we said "let it continue its life, in your hands", we knew you would take care of it. But we didn't think that so many of you would be so motivated to mod it.



Our priority is to make your gaming experience the best it can be. If we're going to leave the door open to modding, we might as well do it right. So here's what we've decided:

to allow you to mod the game with maximum freedom. We won't put any obfuscation in the code, you can decompile the game and make changes easily.

To mod the game or download mods, all info is here:

Website: https://snowtopia-modders.fandom.com/wiki/Snowtopia_Modders_Wiki

Modding installation guide:

Channel dedicated to modding on Discord: https://discord.gg/snowtopia
(if you need a code adaptation to help modding, ask Garry on Discord, he can help you and give his ideas)
There's now even a Discord server dedicated to modding (runned by modders) that you can join too : https://discord.gg/fVaN5QQmwR

For example, with this mod you can create your own maps:
https://snowtopia-modders.fandom.com/wiki/Map_Guide

We are discussing with the community mainly on Discord to check with you what is the best way to support modding for Snowtopia in the long term!


Mod by Chazzvader

We hope that these changes to open up as many elements in the game as possible will allow you to create anything you want in Snowtopia.

Many thanks for your support and your kind messages,

The dev team

Hello everyone,

It's been a long time since I wanted to write this message and talk to you about the future of Snowtopia. This game means a lot to us, to me. Together, we have decided to end Snowtopia after the full release and let it continue its life, in your hands. It means we won't push DLCs or free updates after Feb 2022 and we will focus ourself on polishing 1.0.



When Garry and I prototyped the first version of Snowtopia in 2017, we didn't yet know where this adventure would take us. From a small, unassuming game, Snowtopia has grown into a big project. During these 4 years, we've scaled up our ambitions and hired a talented team. It is thanks to their support and contribution that the game exists as you know it.

Then covid and the challenges of developing a video game came along. Snowtopia began to take up too much space in our lives, putting our health at risk. The production suffered from this situation. And even though we have managed to release 3 updates since January 2021, we have slowly stopped looking forward.

Over the next few weeks, we're going to focus on finishing up and fixing the final details, so you can enjoy the game to the fullest. This means throwing away a huge amount of work, but to develop new features would require another two years of development. And we just don't have the capacity anymore.
It remains for me to thank you for dreaming with us about what Snowtopia could become. Thank you for your enthusiasm and for your time spent on our game.



See you in early 2022 for the final release.

Anne and Garry

Hello everyone,

Thank you for your support and for your constructive feedback which greatly helps us in the development of Snowtopia.

This update includes new features and several improvements and changes - read below for the complete patch notes!

• List of activities
  
• Skier feedback screen
  
• Skier’s mood layer
  
• New equipment buildings

• Research and skiers profile unlocked with reputation levels
  
• Reputation screen

• Automatic allocation of volunteers to their workstation
  
• Manual prioritization of workstations

• Intersections
  
• Departure and arrival of slopes
  
• Smoother turns

• Fences and plots to delimitate ski run and zones
  
• Switch to open/close a slope
  
• Building construction animation
  
• Waiting lines for service buildings
  
• Slope characteristics are displayed during construction
  
• Agents location displayed while selecting a maintenance building
  
• Bug fix of skiers stuck or lost
  
• Better pathfinding of visitors
  
• More flat areas to place buildings

• Update of the tutorial and help section
  
• Rework of skiers needs and pathfinding
  
• No more constructions at the border of slopes
  
• Update of skiers screen
  
• Update of spawn and unlocking of profiles
  
• Update of the unlocking of research
  
• No more specializations in research

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1124260/Snowtopia_Ski_Resort_Tycoon/

Have fun!

Discord: https://discord.gg/DGzfpTarkD

Hi everyone,

The update 0.14.27 is live. Here's the patch notes:

Added new props for decorating the resort!



Notifications and the overlays state is now saved

Fixed missing texts in Deutsch, Italian, Polish, Japanese, Chinese and Korean
Fixed some sound design elements

Update visual effects for the constructions of lifts and service buildings




Let us know on Discord if you encounter any issues: https://discord.com/invite/skQcn7u

Hi everyone,

The update 0.14.17 is now live!

• Rebalanced the speed and autonomy of maintenance buildings, in particular for the Ski Patrol Hut.

• Fixed some text localisation errors.
  
• Fixed default settings and key bindings.
  
• Fixed some display problems in the building information screen.
  
• Renaming buildings is now working properly again.
  
• Fixed some display problems of tooltips in the building menu.
  
• Disabled the homogeneity layer when building.
  
• Fixed errors with research when loading a saved game.

• Key bindings are now grouped thematically in the interface.
  
• A welcome screen has been added for the Early Access.
  
• A confirmation pop-up will show before quitting the game.
  
• A warning pop-up is displayed when loading a save from a previous version.
  
• We are now showing the logos of partners at the beginning of the game.

Every feedback is appreciated! Join us on Discord to share it with us.