Unlock Your Creativity in Hometopia with These Four Customization Tools
How is it that Hometopia players can make so many distinct creations? Today, we’ll walk you through some features that will take your builds to the next level: material customization, the color wheel, scaling, and duplication.
Material Customization
Choose among dozens of material types to bring your exact vision to life. Textures include suede, tweed, raton, leather, corduroy… the list goes on! Choose glossy materials to make your interior shine, matte materials for a more muted look, or anything in between.
Color Wheel
Choosing your ideal furniture is just the beginning. Next, take to the color wheel to make nearly limitless changes to the color of your furniture, your walls, and even those throw pillows.
Select a hex code to update your space with the exact color you have in mind. Find your inspiration from anywhere and import the exact color through this novel feature. End that long-lasting search for the perfect royal blue, or a gray with a tinge of green–just dial in the code and make your furniture pop! Also, Hometopia saves your color choices, so as you move from one item to the next, you can ensure a unifying aesthetic across your design.
Scaling
Have you found the perfect fireplace, carpet, or other item in the Hometopia inventory, but are having trouble fitting it in your space? Don’t sweat it! You can scale items to meet your design needs. The Feng Shui wouldn’t be right without it!
Duplication
And one more thing–if you’ve customized the details of your furniture to your liking, you can easily duplicate it and paste that piece anywhere else in your home.
With these four features, you can let your imagination run wild!
Hometopia Recap: Play NYC Weekend
This past weekend, our team had the privilege of exhibiting Hometopia at Play NYC, New York City's premier indie game convention. We’re also featured on their Steam event page.
Our favorite parts of the weekend:
So many passionate gamers stopping by to chat and try out Hometopia
Valuable feedback and suggestions from attendees which will aid our development process.
The overall atmosphere and shared appreciation for indie games throughout the convention.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who came by, played our game, and shared their thoughts with us. Your continued support and enthusiasm are what fuel our dedication to this project.
And big thanks to Playcrafting for hosting an amazing event.
If you couldn’t make it, here are some photos from the weekend:
We are grateful to the NYC gaming community for such a memorable experience and eagerly anticipate the next opportunity to connect with all of you.
Stay tuned for more updates as we get closer to Early Access launch on September 27th, and don’t forget to Wishlist and Follow Us if you haven’t already!
The moment you’ve been waiting for … announcing the Hometopia early access date!
Hey Topians,
We're excited to announce that Hometopia will launch into Early Access on September 27, 2023, and it will be free to play! We’ve been working hard to bring you the most satisfying home building game possible, and we can’t wait for you to play it!
As we get closer to release, we wanted to highlight the exciting features that will be a big part of your Hometopia experience, starting with the Dynamic Job System.
Complete jobs. Earn money. Build your dream home.
At the heart of our Dynamic Job System are client work orders. As you set off on your career as a professional home builder and designer, you'll choose from a variety of tasks, from fixing up a quaint little room to designing an entire mansion. Clients have diverse traits and tastes, and some might be more quirky, or demanding, than others. Based on the client request, the size, difficulty, and payout of each job vary, keeping your renovation journey interesting and engaging, and helping you level up your homebuilding skills.
Types of Client Jobs
As your experience level in Hometopia grows, you'll unlock a variety of jobs across different neighborhoods. Here are some types of client jobs to look forward to:
Renovation: Redecorate an empty or dirty room.
Backyard Construction: Build a beautiful backyard with items like sheds or fire pits.
Additions: Add a new room to an existing property.
Landscaping: Refresh the client's yard, creating everything from playgrounds to Zen gardens.
Guest Houses: Construct a detached guest house in the property's yard.
Full Build Construction: Build a client's dream home from the ground up, deciding the number of bedrooms and bathrooms and creating additional special rooms along the way.
Each of these job types will be represented by unique icons on your map. Before you accept a job, here's a quick rundown of what you'll see:
Client's name
Job budget
General objective
Potential payment
Time remaining
Client preferences
Skills used: Each job will require you to flex different skills. Hone these skills, and you might just unlock some pretty cool vanity rewards.
Jobs are always changing, so you'll see a fresh batch of client needs and objectives coming in regularly.
Once you complete a job, you’ll receive payment and experience based on how much the client liked your work. You’ll then have the ability to add the job to your portfolio, where you can revisit it in the future and even show it off!
Playtest Opportunity
Interested in getting a sneak peek into the Dynamic Job System? We’ve got you covered. We’re beginning to roll out playtests to our Ambassador community, which you can apply to here.
The playtest gives you a glimpse into the full gameplay flow - tutorial, jobs, player homes, and more.
Remember, this is just the beginning. Hometopia is a world that will continue to evolve, and we're thrilled to have you with us on this journey. As we head towards the free game release, stay tuned for more updates on the Dynamic Job System and other features!
Happy Building, The Hometopia Team
🍕Hometopia Pizza Sweepstakes–Free Pizza For a Year
Hey Topians!
We're excited to deliver some tasty news!
At Hometopia, every day is move-in day, so we’re celebrating by launching a sizzling hot pizza sweepstakes where you can...
WIN FREE PIZZA FOR A YEAR! 🎉 That's right, a whole year.
To enter, simply wishlist Hometopia on Steam and fill out the submission form using this link: www.hometopia.com/pizza
There's a limit of one primary entry per person, so make it count!📝 The entry period will end on July 31, 2023, and winners will be notified by August 2nd.
Once you enter, you’ll receive a unique referral code via email to invite others to enter the sweepstakes.
The more friends who enter the sweepstakes through your unique link, the better your chances of winning! 🍕
Don't build on an empty stomach!
Hometopia Brand Ambassador Program
We're thrilled to announce our Hometopia Brand Ambassador Program with EXCLUSIVE early playtest access!
This is an opportunity for passionate gamers like you to become an integral part of our community and spread the word about Hometopia – the seriously satisfying co-op building game.
What are the perks of being a Hometopia Brand Ambassador?
Brand Ambassadors will receive exclusive perks, including EARLY PLAYTEST ACCESS at the end of July, merch, game alerts, and a direct line of communication with the Hometopia team.
Interested in becoming a Hometopia Brand Ambassador?
Once approved, increase your chances of being one of the first to playtest Hometopia by referring friends to join the wishlist using your unique referral link.
Note: The more people you refer, the sooner you'll get off the waitlist and into the game! Playtesting will open at the end of July.
Let's build better, together,
The Hometopia Team
Steam Base Builder Fest Hometopia Demo!
It’s DEMO DAY! We're back, and we're ready to build!
In late 2021, we gave Steam users the opportunity to demo our very first version of Hometopia. The response was overwhelming—and we just couldn't pass up another opportunity to bring that version back to the builders for Steam Base Builder Fest.
So here we go again. We're re-opening access to the legacy Sandbox Mode Demo! This gives you a small taste of what you can expect in our Early Access launch coming out on Steam this Spring which will have exciting new features and gameplay!
Come build with us in celebration of Steam Base Builder Fest from Jan 23rd-30th.
See you in the Sandbox, Topians!
What are dynamic jobs?
Happy new year Topians! We hope 2023 brings all of us many amazing things!
Today, we are excited to share with you an update about one of Hometopia's new features: Dynamic Jobs.
At the end of 2022, we discussed what our development team has been working on: Finishing up our dynamic job system. However, what exactly is a dynamic job? And how does that impact my Hometopia experience? Well, I’m here to tell you everything you need to know about it.
Dynamic jobs are what we call client jobs, and are an important part of our career campaign. Working your way up in your career as a home renovator, you get to choose jobs, from a variety of different clients with different traits and desires who may need you to improve, fix or build something in their house, and the jobs related to it not only range in size and difficulty, from small, low-paying, relatively quick jobs to large, high-paying, time-consuming ones, but also, the requirements for each job varies according to the neighborhoods they are located.
To ensure that the challenges and jobs are always fun and interesting, we designed a really cool system in which properties have randomly generated interiors as well as the clients and their quirks. Additionally, the client jobs are refreshed after a certain period of time to ensure you always have new clients and jobs available.
The client will provide you a budget to complete the job, and you will be paid once you have completed the job. The payment received from working on client jobs can contribute to the creation of your dream house, a house you can build in our sandbox mode (a feature we will discuss with you all in the future).
Client jobs will be available during our release on 05.05.2023, so get ready to get your hands dirty and become the best home renovator Hometopia has ever seen!
Feel free to ask us any questions down below and as always, talk to you next time.
Happy Building! Mariana.
Development Updates
Hey Topians!
Mariana here and today I will be sharing with all of you an inside look at some of the things we have been working on lately! Over the last couple of weeks, our developers have been working on completing our dynamic job system, a critical component of our game campaign, including:
🛠️ Reorganizing our in-game database 🛠️ Creating randomly generated rooms to renovate 🛠️ Updating UI spec for our campaign hub 🛠️ Fixing a couple bugs (including some of the ones pointed out by our Topians) 🛠️ Completion requirements for each job type in our dynamic jobs system 🛠️ Working on many, many, MANY formulas/ calculations 🛠️ Creating new comment system within the dynamic jobs system 🛠️ & much more
As always, thank you for your continued support, and we hope you have a great weekend! Look forward to talking to you again!
Mariana.
Hometopia has a new release date
Hey Topians!
Mariana here today, with a long-awaited update!
HOMETOPIA HAS A NEW RELEASE DATE
Our discord community members already know, but Hometopia will release in alpha on May 5, 2023. Also, we have finally shared our Roadmap, which is available here as well as on our other social media channels:
As always, thank you for your continued support, and we hope you have a great weekend!
