Big Patch Incoming!

Feb. 22 at Noon EST, The Painter's Playground 1.03 is available. A lot has been accomplished in the past two weeks, and we couldn't have done it without our awesome community of artists and collectors.

The funny situation I'm in: I want to link the patch notes in the current build, but I can't link it until I post the patch notes, so the notes have to be posted *before* the build goes live...

Here are the patch notes, please read carefully, since it differs from the previous announcement.

Fixed:

• Cleared up a bug that was causing improper displays in the leaderboards.
• Cleared up an even more insidious bug that was giving everyone the wrong number of "thumbs given".

Changed:

• Zoom level has been increased.
• The base calculated price of paintings has been slightly decreased.
• You can now set the prices of your paintings *lower*, as has been requested.
• Removing a painting from being on sale can lower its market value. Seller beware!

Noticed:

• Something I put in a long time ago, and forgot about...
• When you're in the Harbor, you can press 'S' on the keyboard to see which paintings *you* are selling.
• You can also press 'W' to see which paintings you are showcasing.
• I'm not sure whether this will be developed further, removed, or left alone.

Added:

• There is now an "Are you sure" pop-up window when flagging a painting.
• You can now click on an artist's name in the Harbor or Community gallery, and see all their public paintings.
• You can now use the TAB key to scroll through your favorite colors, in addition to the existing 1,2,3,4,5,6 hotkeys.
• Press SHIFT while painting to save your work in progress. This happens automatically occasionally, but better safe than sorry ;)
• There are now "search modes" in the Community Showcase gallery!
• There is now a "folder" button in the lower right in Your Private Gallery.
• This opens the media folder on your computer where your local paintings are stored, to make it easy to share your work with the world.
• So please share your work with the world: twitter, instagram, deviant art, facebook, etc.

Twittered:

• You can now tweet links to finished paintings:
• Go to "Settings" and turn Auto-Tweet On.
• Each time you finish a painting in your studio and you upload it directly to the Harbor, you will have the option to tweet it to your followers.
• This also works when completing a daily challenge.
• It does not work in Oyster mode.
• Paintings that are not immediately uploaded can not be auto-tweeted, because there is nothing to link to.
• But with the new easy access to your media folder, you might be able to do this yourself ;)

Improved:

• Steam Achievement Tracking

Started:

• Looking deeper into achievement tracking, due to player reports.

WARNED:

• Steam cloud is not perfect. Due to the nature of the game, it has a lot of files, and this can take a long time to sync up, especially on slow connections and/or old machines.
• Orinigally, we had it so that your local gallery paintings were not stored in the steam cloud.
• But then users were missing paintings between computers.
• So now, the steam cloud has been set to include your local gallery.
• If you notice problems, let us know, and you can contact Bob directly at saunders72 at hotmail dot com

The Future:

We are working on our road map for The Painter's Playground right now. We can do a small-to-medium sized update in about one month, or a larger one in about three months.

We'd really like to give you some new painting tools, we've had lots of suggestions from this thread. Getting them right will take time. And there's also the Golden Gallery to think about, *and* an art gallery companion app on Android!!! So yeah, busy 

Keep painting, spread the word, and enjoy!

Bob NZM