Free Easter update will hop to LEGO® Bricktales really soon! 🐰🐣
Heya friends! 🐰
Besides the current Midweek Madness, there is even more good news out the LEGO® Bricktales universe: A free Easter update will hop to your screens really soon!
It introduces an egg-cellent new story set in an Easter diorama. You’ll meet the friendly Easter bunny who has a problem with making eggs for this year’s Easter celebration. Disgruntled chickens and snow damage keep them from reaching their goals, so you will need to use your quick thinking and puzzle-solving abilities to help them save Easter.
But let's not spoil too much! We will let you know when the free update is available. ːsteamhappyː
Until then, happy brick-by-brick building to all of you! Tri Do Dinh & the ClockStone Team
We hope you had a good start into the new week so far. If so, please let us kindly make it even better for you! And if not, hopefully we can make your Monday a little bit friendlier, because LEGO® Bricktales is 20% off during a Midweek Madness as of now! ːsteamhappyː
We also recorded a new stream for it, which you can watch in the broadcast player on the LEGO® Bricktales page. Julian, Tim and I play a bit again and talk about, among other things, what has happened in terms of updates and expansions in LEGO® Bricktales since its release. And what surprises the future might hold... 🐰🐣
Oh, and if you have already played LEGO® Bricktales it would be great if you could give us your feedback in this little survey. That would really help us a lot. And it won't take long either, I promise! ❤️
Well, enough fooling around. We wish you all lots of fun in LEGO® Bricktales!
Happy brick-by-brick building to all of you! Tri Do Dinh & the ClockStone Team
LEGO® Bricktales got honored three times at the German Developer Awards! 🏆
Heya friends of the brick!
Well, if that's not the perfect end to a successful year! ːsteamhappyː
On December 8, the annual German Developer Awards took place in Cologne. There, games made in Germany, Austria and Switzerland that were published in the course of the past year are awarded in various categories.
LEGO® Bricktales was nominated in four categories, and in the end we won three of the four categories:
Best Game Design
Best Graphics
Best Casual Game
We are overjoyed and really proud that the evening went so well for us and LEGO® Bricktales! And we would like to congratulate all the winners and the nominees, because the competitors were really phenomenal! ❤️
Happy brick-by-brick building to all of you! Tri Do Dinh & the ClockStone Team
New LEGO® Bricktales Update is live | December 5th 2022
Hello there bricky builders!
I know, I know, it's been a while since you heard from me, I just needed to pivot from a hydraulic to a wind-powered hammock, and that ionized banana peeler doesn't peel all that well, it makes great smoothies though. R&D takes so much time...
But, I'm sure you are more interested in the changes and fixes I made elsewhere:
Improvements:
Added UI scaling options
Reworked UI for build mode
Tutorial improvements
Bricks can be nudged horizontally with arrow keys on keyboard when selected
Added achievements button to main menu
Improved mix of two City music tracks (removed troublesome frequencies)
Set Vulkan as default graphics API on Linux
Minor diorama changes that ensure playability when players use the "Help, I'm stuck" teleport feature
Improved controls for touch devices
Bugfixes:
Medieval destroy crates when raising water level in skill cave so players can always complete the destruction achievement
Caribbean fixed player getting stuck with hoverboard at the end of a rail (hopefully...)
Various minor bugfixes
My next invention? Just right for the winter season, a hand cranked rotor stator homogenizer for hot chocolate. Cozy cocoa beverage or not, I do hope you have a quiet and relaxing time leading into the end of the year.
Come Over And "Sit Back And Relax" With LEGO® Bricktales! ❤️
Heya friends of the brick!
Good news to all of you - depending on your timezone of course: It's Thursday already. And the even better news: weekend already starts tomorrow. Woohoo! ːsteamhappyː Means you all hopefully have time to "sit back and relax"!
Wow, what a transition... Don't we actually deserve a Steam Award for that already? Ha ha, because that is exactly the point. Like every year, Steam has opened up the possibility to nominate games for The Steam Awards with the Autumn Sale. And YOU have the power to decide!
As we understood from your awesome feedback, our beloved LEGO® Bricktales is a creative and relaxing experience - on your PC and on the Steam Deck. So, if that's your feeling, we would be more then super happy if you would nominate LEGO® Bricktales for The Steam Awards category "Sit Back and Relax". That would be really appreciated! ❤️
I hope you all have a relaxing weekend and enjoy your time off!
Happy brick-by-brick building to all of you! Tri Do Dinh & the ClockStone Team
Steam Community Items for LEGO® Bricktales are available as of NOW!
Happy Monday dear builders!
And what a happy Monday that is! ːsteamhappyː You, who have spent hour after hour building your way through the dioramas of LEGO® Bricktales, you will now receive an additional reward: As of now the Steam Community Items are available:
6 Emoticons
5 Profile Backgrounds
5 Trading Cards
Badge (5 Levels + Foil Badge)
Happy brick-by-brick building to all of you! Tri Do Dinh & the ClockStone Team
LEGO® Bricktales Includes Razer Chroma RGB Illumination Support! 🔴🟢🔵
Greetings fellow brick builders!
Last weekend at RazerCon 2022 we announced Chroma support for LEGO® Bricktales - and published it in the same course. So, if you have Razer Chroma peripherals connected to your computer, you should notice very quickly after launching the game that the RGB Illumination responds to the game. "A nice gimmick, but unnecessary!" you think? And hey, you might be true. But to be honest: In our opinion, a fancy RGB illumination is a perfect fit for LEGO Bricktales!
If you happen to have a box full of LEGO bricks at hand, take a look inside please. So, what do you see? A large number of different, bright colors: red, green, blue, and so on. Not exactly 16.8 million colors like in the RGB color space, but you know where I am coming from. Ultimately, it's the many different colors that make building with the bricks so creative and breathe life into LEGO sets. And it's nothing different with LEGO Bricktales.
All the different worlds that are included into the game have their own overall basic color: Jungle is green, desert is yellow, caribbean is blue, etc. And so the color mood of the game can be perfectly extended beyond the monitor by illuminating the mouse, mouse pad, headset and keyboard. And in case you use LED strips or ambient lights, you can immerse your whole room in the lush green of the jungle or the sandy yellow of the desert. This has a pretty cool effect!
And talking about effects: All the 5 skills that you unlock in LEGO Bricktales have their own lighting effect as well! Taking a look on the skill selection wheel each skill has its own color as well: Electricity is yellow, hoverboard is purple, xray is greenish and so forth. Using those illuminates your whole setup in the corresponding color including special lighting effects. This makes it twice the fun to break crates and bushes with the smashing red stomping skill.
So, if you've got the hardware (lucky you!), LEGO Bricktales will automatically play the effects from now on. Well, that is, you can turn them off, somewhere, probably, but why would you? They're awesome! ːsteamhappyː
Happy (RGB illuminated) brick-by-brick building to all of you! Tri Do Dinh & the ClockStone Team
New LEGO® Bricktales Update Is Live | October 21st 2022
Hello there bricky builders!
And yet again, it's me, Grandpa. The good news is I built the hydraulic hammock. The bad news is it launched my test dummy into a nearby building, which is the opposite of relaxing. The other bad news is there's still some things to be fixed with the game. The other good news is I did get some improvements in. So I think overall that's good!
Improvements:
Added button in the options screen that teleports the player to a safe spot in the diorama in case they got stuck.
City improved stability and performance of fire stairs spot.
Caribbean reduced friction of water drops for the water collector so they move more fluidly.
Caribbean reduced minimum amount of water drops needed to finish water collector by 2.
Speaking of improvements, I do have this idea for an ionized banana peeler that should make it easier for anybody to get their recommended daily intake of potassium...
"A near-perfect video game representation of joyous LEGO creativity" ❤️
Heya friends of the brick!
It's been almost a week since the release of LEGO® Bricktales, and things are slowly getting back on track for us. And I can't say it any other way than that we are super happy with how the game is being received by all of you! The second game update has also been released and fixes a few problems that you thankfully reported to us.
We can not thank you enough for all the feedback - you are the best! ❤️
Over the weekend, we also had some time to take a look at how LEGO® Bricktales is rated by the press. And we are really happy and proud about that! Therefore, we would like to share a small excerpt from the press with you:
Forbes "[...] Lego Bricktales is one of the most beautiful LEGO games to date."
4news.it / Score: 8.2 "LEGO Bricktales is a puzzle adventure that can provide a fair number of hours of entertainment. Its light and undemanding gameplay blends perfectly with some of the constructions that, on the other hand, require us to concentrate more and take longer to complete. The freedom that the developers have decided to allow us in the construction of our works is undoubtedly the most interesting aspect of this game."
VG247 / Score: 4/5 "LEGO Bricktales is a breath of fresh air, and a tremendous surprise. It’s not the longest experience in the world – but I loved every minute of it, and still feel compelled to go back and improve some of my less satisfying builds."
TheSixthAxis / Score: 8 "LEGO Bricktales is a wonderful adventure that's full of the charms of playing with the iconic construction toy in real life. It's a gorgeous digital rendition with all its exquisitely crafted dioramas a delight to behold, and with puzzles that lean on Lego's greatest strengths."
IGN Espana / Score: 7 "LEGO Bricktales offers a building adventure at the height of the famous toy franchise."
GodisaGeek.com / Score: 8 "LEGO Bricktales is a puzzler that takes you back to the early days of LEGO, when the freedom to build what you want took centre stage. There're plenty of opportunities to build, explore, and bask in the gentle humour that we could all do with a little more of."
GamesRadar+ / Score: 3.5/5 "LEGO Bricktales is a relaxing and entertaining way to spend your time that does manage to recreate that tranquil vibe of building something, anything, out of LEGO."
GamersHeroes / Score: 8.5 "LEGO Bricktales is exactly the kind of game you would expect as both a work of Thunderful Games and a product of the LEGO brand. Seeing your creations come to life, even visually sickening ones, is a rewarding experience and a must-play for LEGO enthusiasts."
gamepressure.com / Score: 8 "What’s better than building your own LEGO structures? Not having to clean up after yourself when you are done playing. Lucky for you—LEGO Bricktales lets you do just that."
Fortress of Solitude / Score: 86% "LEGO Bricktales is a great game and definitely worth adding to your collection as a LEGO fan. With a mix of puzzle-solving and adventuring, you’re able to combine an element of exploration and finding creative ways to solve tasks."
TheGamer / Score: 3.5/5 "LEGO Bricktales is a puzzle adventure that tested my physics knowledge in ways I’ve not encountered since I last tried - and failed - to help my kid with their science homework."
Games.cz / Score: 9/10 "A unique Lego game based on playing with bricks. Excellent building puzzles offer an unprecedented number of solutions and the beautiful world is a joy to discover. In fact, it's a wonder that a game like this hasn't been made for a long time - it perfectly shows the creativity and playfulness typical of Danish building bricks."
GameStar.hu "The great thing about LEGO Bricktales is that it doesn't reinvent anything, it just returns to the days when even on the video game front, it was all about building and children's brainstorming, rather than relying on outside franchises. [...] LEGO Bricktales is the best thing to happen to LEGO in the video game space in recent times."
ScreenRant / Score: 3.5/5 "Overall, LEGO Bricktales, much like the similar LEGO Builder's Journey, is a great little puzzle game that provides a real sense of LEGO building to the player. The customization and cute story keep the game interesting and the sandbox mode is a great way to practice building real LEGO sets. There is never just one specific answer to a puzzle and mixing things up makes for a fun and enjoyable game that would work for LEGO fans of any age."
Eurogamer "Part adventure game, part construction simulator, Lego Bricktales lays strong foundations for a truer type of Lego experience."
IGN / Score: 7 "LEGO Bricktales is full of good ideas, and while there will always be a place for the licensed LEGO adventure games, this is a change of pace I’d welcome more."
Out of Lives: "Quite frankly, this is a LEGO game like no other. If you’re bored by the prospect of collecting studs this is the LEGO game you’ve been waiting for. LEGO Bricktales unlocks your creativity while challenging your understanding of physics and architecture at the same time."
Besides all the positive and productive feedback we got (and get) from you, such press reviews are additional balm for the battered developer soul. And that motivates us even more to continue working on LEGO® Bricktales!
So, please keep sending us further feedback. We will look at everything, and continue to improve the game. Big bricky promise! ❤️
Happy brick-by-brick building to all of you! Tri Do Dinh & the ClockStone Team
New LEGO® Bricktales Update Is Live | October 17th 2022 🛠️
Hello there bricky builders!
It's me again, Grandpa! So I was planning to spend the weekend thinking about how to build a hydraulic hammock, but these bugs, they don't sleep! At all. So it was time to pick up the hammer again and get to fixing things...
Bugfixes:
Fixed Missing footstep sound for walk animation.
Fixed various brick colliders.
Fixed issue where rotating a crank wheel to open secret doors could lead to an open door that still couldn't be used.
Fixed positioning issues where player potentially could get stuck.
Z-Fighting and mesh clipping fixes.
Fixed palette focus tutorial being visible in simulation.
Caribbean near the end fixed issue where player couldn't cross the gangway onto the ship after successfully solving the puzzle.
City fixed inconsistent lever states when in the substation to restore electricity.
City fixed rail in underground lab being too near to the wall causing people to get stuck.
Known Issues:
Player getting stuck in Desert world when trying to insert hieroglyphs into obelisk to open pyramid door. Community thread HERE
I do think we make a good team though. You just tell me what's wrong, and I will do my best to unwrong it! Now back to my hydraulic hammock...
