The Steam Winter Sale is here! Hometopia is now available at a 20% discount on Steam. Spend your holiday sipping some hot cocoa and building the cozy room of your dreams in Hometopia.
🏡 Explore Hometopia:
Sandbox Mode: Unleash your creativity with no restrictions in single-player or multiplayer.
Full Co-op Support: Team up with up to 4 players for ambitious renovations or neighborhood development.
Career Progression: Start as a beginner and evolve into a professional home designer.
Dynamic Job System: Engage in a spectrum of client-based tasks, from room makeovers to large-scale constructions.
Player Homes: Exercise creative freedom. Purchase land and transform it into your dream home.
💸 Limited Time Offer: Enjoy the discount from December 21st - January 4th. Whether you're a seasoned architect or a beginner, now is the perfect time to join Hometopia.
🏠 Get Hometopia Today ❄️
P.S. There is a new holiday challenge waiting for you in the game!
Steam Awards: Nominate Hometopia for the "Sit Back and Relax" Award!
It's Steam Awards time! If you relax at the end of a hard day by playing Hometopia, nominate us in the "Sit Back and Relax" category! 🧘 🏡
We appreciate you all and will keep building Hometopia better together!
Don't miss the Steam Autumn Sale going on now for 20% off Hometopia. Happy building! 🌟🍁
🏡 Hometopia Autumn Sale - Time to Build! 🍁
Haven't joined the Hometopia community yet? Now's the perfect moment during Steam’s Autumn Sale! Get Hometopia NOW for 20% off! 🔨 New to Hometopia? 🔑 Explore Key Features:
Sandbox Mode: Unleash your creativity with no restrictions in single-player or multiplayer.
Full Co-op Support: Team up with up to 4 players for ambitious renovations or neighborhood development.
Career Progression: Start as a beginner and evolve into a professional home designer.
Dynamic Job System: Engage in a spectrum of client-based tasks, from room makeovers to large-scale constructions.
Player Homes: Exercise creative freedom. Purchase land and transform it into your dream home.
🔄 Major Updates for an Enhanced Experience
Since the Early Access launch, we've fine-tuned Hometopia based on your feedback.
💸 20% Off - Limited Time Only
From Nov 21-28, grab Hometopia at a 20% discount! If you've been on the fence (pun intended), these updates and the sale make it the ideal time to join the building fun.
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Hometopia Update #2: Sandbox Mode and Patch Notes!
Hey Topians,
We're thrilled to announce a highly anticipated addition to Hometopia in Update #2 – Sandbox Mode! Get ready to unleash your creativity and take your home designs to a whole new level. In addition to Sandbox Mode, we have some other updates (including optimizations) that will be explained in detail in the patch notes below.
What is Sandbox Mode?
Sandbox Mode is an additional game mode in Hometopia that lets you design your dream homes with unlimited resources and complete creative freedom. There are no budget constraints or locked inventory items - build, decorate, and experiment to your heart's content.
Key Features:
-Unlimited Resources: Access to an endless supply of funds, materials, and furniture to bring your wildest design ideas to life. -Build in Multiplayer: Team up with up to 4 friends to build without limitations, all in real-time collaboration. -No Scoring: There are no client requirements in Sandbox! Your house, your rules. -Experiment and Learn: Try out new design techniques, layouts, and decor styles without any consequences. -Show Off Your Creativity: Participate in our creative challenges in Discord, showcase your designs, and get inspired by others in the Hometopia community.
Now, let's take a quick look at what other fixes are included in this update:
Patch Notes:
Gameplay
-NEW MODE: Sandbox - accessible from the title screen -Starter home/tutorial house: fixed sink incorrectly rotated 180 degrees -Version numbering simplified
Performance
-Across-the-board optimizations. Tons of performance issues, small and large, have been fixed and overall performance should be 10-60% better, depending on system configuration -Painting performance has been improved -Painting walls or floors should be much faster and cause less lag than previously
Graphics
-New and improved skyscrapers in Midtown Heights -Neighborhood houses have been reworked with more variety in Plaza Lakes and Midtown Heights -Grass visibility range has been increased and optimized -Washer dryer combo texture/model fixed -Lights can once again pass through windows and doors -Updated shadows (higher quality, less jagged, less light leak) -Overblown light from candles fixed
Known Issues
-Grass/ground coloration in some neighborhoods appears wrong or misaligned due to terrain optimization work- will be patched soon. -A section of The Gables neighborhood has a grassy area on the street - we aren't sure why the HOA decided to seed the road, but mowers will be sent in a patch soon.
Thank you for your continued support as we upgrade the game, and we can't wait to see the amazing creations you'll come up with in Sandbox Mode.
Stay tuned for more exciting updates and features. And as a reminder, if you love Hometopia, leave a review!
Happy building, The Hometopia Team 🏠✨
Join us for a Special Halloween Broadcast!
Join Sam and Rachel for this special Halloween Stream in Hometopia where we build a haunted house!
Hometopia Roadmap Update!
Hey Topians,
We're thrilled to share with you the official Hometopia Roadmap, a guide to our major plans from now until our full 1.0 launch and beyond. In this video, Hometopia’s Game Director, Carl Ahlund, walks us through the updates coming to Hometopia!
Here's a breakdown of our roadmap:
Q4 2023
Sandbox Mode (Nov. 8th): Unleash your creativity with unlimited budget, unlimited inventory, and the freedom to build whatever you want
UI/UX Improvements: Expand display options and improve/debug other features
Player Profile Resets: Start your game fresh from the beginning
Full Offline Play: Play offline in single player
Performance Optimizations
Q1 2024
UI Overhaul: A revamp with animated elements and captivating effects
Improved Multiplayer: Stabilized multiplayer experience and gameplay
Full Audio Pass: Immerse players in the world with satisfying sounds and ambient noises
New 3D Campaign Map: A visually revamped map with terrain updates and new job icons, aligning with Hometopia's style
Snapping & Grid Improvements: Perfect building precision tool
Localization Improvements: Enhance translations for a global audience
Q3 - Q4 2024
New Items
Expandable City: Expand the city map block by block with your own custom-designed neighborhoods
Communities: Create diverse urban spaces including shops, restaurants, art galleries, city parks, residential areas, hotels, and much more
Customizable Player Card: Craft your unique player profile with unlocked content
Custom Keybinds: Personalize your controls for a tailored experience
Q1 2025 (1.0 Launch)
New Item Placement, Building, & Roofing Systems: Rework and improve how players design and build
Weekly Challenges: Implement various challenges including title screen image gallery of winning player builds
Client System Rework: Massively improve logic for traits, preferences, desired layouts and job evaluation to be more naturalistic
Cars & Pedestrians in Neighborhoods: Bring neighborhoods to life with bustling streets
Controller Support
Item Customization Overhaul: Dive into more intentional and customized design choices
Future Features
Free Roam Neighborhoods & Biomes: Explore expansive, open-ended neighborhoods and diverse biomes
Interactive Items: Collaborate and engage in co-op with interactive in-game items like ping pong
New Game Modes: Explore new neighborhoods, job types, standard items, and terrains
Customizable Player Avatars
Console Ports
Mac Support
We have a lot of exciting plans for Hometopia and can’t wait to deliver these features to our players!
Let’s build better, together, The Hometopia Team
Update 1 is LIVE!
Hello Topians,
Update 1 is here!
We are so excited to push the first Early Access update to Hometopia! We have been listening to all of your feedback and have been heads down implementing everything we possibly could for this first push! In this update, we have some major improvements and fixes to the tech infrastructure, gameplay, and bugs. Let’s get into it with some patch notes!
Highlights
Performance optimizations (with many more on the way!)
You can now restart your game progress
You can now play offline
Numerous job and gameplay bugs have been squashed
Patch Notes In Full
Tech Improvements
Removed the online requirement; the game is now fully playable offline
Improved support for a wide range of display resolutions
Improved CPU, GPU, and memory optimizations when painting large number of items
Implemented rendering optimizations and fixes for vegetation in Plaza Lakes, Midtown Heights, The Palms, and The Gables, affecting both enabled and disabled vegetation
Various performance optimizations
Item physics optimizations
Gameplay
Added a way for players to restart their profile in the 'account' section of the settings menu
Rooms offered in outdoor construction projects should now be more varied
Each active neighborhood now has a minimum of 1 job and a maximum of 3 jobs
Removed 'Delete Home' button from the Starter Home until level 7
Limited the character length for renaming homes
Foundation tiles can now be mass-placed in walk mode and in unlimited numbers (Caution - can be laggy if you place too many)
Minor item balance
Increased font size for player notes
Bugs
Fixed ivy not registering as an objective-completing item
Fixed stair pivots
Fixed item thumbnails not loading immediately in the store
Removed half walls from career mode as they were causing bugs (still available in player homes)
Fixed room labels hovering over flat foundations
Fixed a laundry room in Gables displaying "room too small"
Fixed some closet requirements displaying "room too small"
Removed a room hidden under a roof in the Gables causing counting issues for tasks
Developer’s Note: We are really appreciative of the Topian community’s thoughts, ideas, and bug reports. We’re already putting your feedback into action, as seen in Update 1. And you won’t want to miss what we’ve got planned for Sandbox Mode on November 8th! We’re looking forward to making Hometopia even better, together. Keep the feedback coming!
🚨BREAKING NEWS: Sandbox Mode IS COMING!🚨
Hey Topians,
You asked for SANDBOX MODE: the unlimited budget, unlimited inventory, all-you-can-build environment that lets you create exactly what you want.
You want it?
YOU GOT IT!
Mark your calendars: November 8th, 2023. Sandbox Mode is coming!
Let’s build better, together. 🛠️🏠
–The Hometopia Team
Learn some tips & tricks and watch the Devs play Hometopia!
Hi Topians!
Join us in this stream as Sam and Rachel from the Hometopia Team walk you through Career Mode, My Homes free building, and some Hometopia tutorials!
The Hometopia Launch Sale is ENDING!
🚨The Hometopia Launch Sale is ENDING!🚨 Make sure to get Hometopia before the sale ends tomorrow so you can start building and designing the most beautiful homes in the virtual world!
As a reminder here are the Key Features of the game:
Full co-op support - Work with up to 4 other players in any and every part of the game. Work together to take on ambitious renovations or to develop entire neighborhoods.
Career progression - Build a career starting as a beginner and progressing to professional home designer.
Dynamic job system - Engage with a dynamic job system that offers a wide spectrum of client-based tasks. From minor one-room makeovers to large-scale house constructions, every job challenges and enhances your design, renovation, and building abilities.
Player homes - Exercise creative freedom with no restrictions or demands. Purchase land in a preferred biome, and transform it into a dream home.
