Virtual Cottage
Mini Update
- Cat purr is now a bit louder :3
Christmas Holiday Season
With this small seasonal update, we wanted to celebrate the festive season and decorate the cottage accordingly ❄️
We want to thank you all for your support this year as well—we feel fortunate to have such a wonderful community ❤️
We continue working diligently on ✨ Virtual Cottage 2 ✨ and look forward to the moment when we can finally share more of it with you. It would be amazing if you could add the game to your wishlist!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2943180/Virtual_Cottage_2/
Wishing you a peaceful and joyful holiday season.
Yours,
Simone & Josef
P.S. If you're up for some wholesome Puzzle fun or looking for a way to support us, we're releasing Birds Organized Neatly next week! :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2707110/Birds_Organized_Neatly/
Your Music in Virtual Cottage 2
Are you a Lo-Fi music producer and want to have your songs in Virtual Cottage 2? Link to your music in the comments or send it to contact@duandigames.com and we'll take a listen. 🎶
While everyone will be able to add their own songs in Virtual Cottage 2, we also want to support other artists again and give them the spotlight they deserve.
To answer the question everyone wants to know: when will Virtual Cottage 2 be released? Next year. We ourselves don't know when yet precisely. There is no time pressure from our side, so we want to be 200% satisfied with what we made before we show it to the world.
Oh and before we forget: please wishlist if you haven't already :)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2943180/Virtual_Cottage_2
A small update (bugfixes)
- Cicada, Birds, and Thunderstorm sound slider settings are now saved properly.
- All sounds can now be combined, with the exception of different weather types.
- Fixed a bug where the cottage graphic would get stuck around midnight, preventing it from updating with the clock.
Virtual Cottage 2, Character Customization & New Ambient sounds
We have big news to share with you today: Virtual Cottage 2!!! But before that, here's also an update for Virtual Cottage.
This update includes character customization, new ambient sounds, and the ability to create tasks using Simplified Chinese glyphs.
Update features
👤 Character Customization:
- Change your skin tone
- Change your hair color
- Cicadas 🦗
- Chirping birds 🐦
- Rain with distant thunder ⛈️
Tasks can now be created in Simplified Chinese
Virtual Cottage 2
Since the release of Virtual Cottage all these years ago, you, our precious community, have provided us with a ton of feedback. Some of it was implemented, but a lot was left out.
This is because of two reasons:
- Virtual Cottage was never intended to be a big game but rather an interactive blocker for your screen to help you focus on your work.
- The code is extremely simple and not very modular. (keep in mind, the game started as a learning project for us! 😅)
So, we are happy to announce Virtual Cottage 2! It will include the majority of the requested features, an improved user interface, other quality-of-life changes, and the most requested feature of all: Cottage Customization.
Please hop over to the Virtual Cottage 2 page and see for yourself! (Also, don't forget to wishlist ❤️)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2943180/Virtual_Cottage_2
Also: If you supported us by buying the Dreeme and LØNÆR Music DLCs for Virtual Cottage 1 (THANK YOU SO MUCH!) don’t worry. They will automatically carry over to Virtual Cottage 2!
If you want to keep in touch, feel free to join our Discord Server!
All the best,
DU&I
New Music DLC, New Features, Yay!
After a long period of silence, it's good to be able to present an update again!
We are pleased to announce that we have worked with DREEME (of which you may already know some tracks 😉 ) to produce an exclusive album for Virtual Cottage! The DLC includes 10 brand-new tracks that should make every study session easier.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2661170/Virtual_Cottage__Dreeme_Collaboration_Music
But besides the DLC, there's more!
We have also included these features / quality-of-life improvements:
- Revised To-Do List: This version of the To-Do List is a bit easier to use and now also saves the tasks after Virtual Cottage has been closed. It was about time! 🙂
- The last task entered in the To-Do Pop-Up is also saved for the next session.
- New Options Menu: Time and pet are now in a drop-down options menu.
- Minor UI changes
- The Halloween decor is back!
Oh, one more thing:
We now have a Discord Community Server! If you feel like it, feel free to stop by. Chat, share food or animal pictures, tell others what you accomplished today, and so on. We look forward to seeing you!
Invite Link: https://discord.gg/8sTZuucF
We want to thank you for your loyalty and feedback. You are the best!
Simone & Josef
🍲 FEED ALL MONSTERS IS OUT!!! 🍲
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1597720/Feed_All_Monsters/
We are so happy to share our latest game with you! We hope you’ll like it as much as we do and we can’t wait to see people playing it.
If you are curious about how this game came to be and why some features are the way they are, our dev Simone made an extensive series about Feed All Monsters on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWM9iUc0QfE&list=PLbz7bMKeJC576fEEzUy6UQIb1-cpCckqb
Seasonal Decoration & Labor of Love Steam Award
Yes, it is that time of the year when we bring out the warm blankets and enjoy biscuits of all sorts and a hot beverage.
We've decorated the cottage accordingly and wish you all the best for the holiday season.
On another note: the Steam Awards are happening again this year, and we kindly ask you to consider nominating Virtual Cottage for the "Labor of Love" category. It would mean a lot to us! :)
Take care of yourselves and stay safe!
<3
Halloween & Bugfixes
with this update, we decorated the Cottage just in time for the spoooooookkky season!
Also, some bugs were fixed:
- Songs should not loop anymore
- Audio volume should now be saved
- Arrow keys no longer toggle the sound sliders when pressed during the start pop-up or pause screen
- When all songs are turned off and back on again, the shuffle button triggers a song from the playlist. Before un-toggling all music resulted in total silence
We know the music is still audible when the volume marker is moved to the left. We'll tackle this next.
Also a huge THANK YOU to everyone who purchased the Music DLC! We hope you like it!
Cheers,
DU&!
2nd Anniversary Update!
Over the past two years (oh my, time is flying!) we have received hundreds of messages, about why Virtual Cottage can not be showcased in the profiles, or why it would not count in the global achievement and game collector count.
For that to happen, games need to generate an undisclosed amount in sales (which is hard if your game is free 😉 )
We stand by our statement that Virtual Cottage will always remain free so we decided to make a paid DLC instead. But not just any DLC. A lot of you wish for more music. So we're giving you 24 new, never-heard-before tracks that were exclusively produced for Virtual Cottage by LØNÆR! This doubles the number of songs that are currently in the game!
The majority of the proceeds from this DLC will go to LØNÆR and with enough sales, not only will you support a great artist, but you will also finally be able to showcase Virtual Cottage in your profiles!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2106700/Virtual_Cottage__LNR_Collaboration_Music_DLC/
THERE IS MORE!
These new features are now available for everyone who owns Virtual Cottage:
- We added a playlist - allowing you to turn off unwanted songs.
- A ceiling lamp has been installed in the cottage to switch between different contrasts
- The laptop brightness has been reduced
- Plus various tiny background things have been improved
Thanks for being on this journey with us ♥
Simone & Josef
