Updates

Tildown 1.0

• 🎉 After well over a hundred updates, Tildown has reached version 1.0. This release is mostly about reliability, especially on iPhone and iPad – thank you to everyone who played along and reported bugs.
• ✍️ All game texts in the six languages have been reviewed: typos and grammar fixed, missing parts of translated sentences added, a few mistranslated hints corrected, and the same words used for the same things everywhere. In French, the celebrations now use the informal “tu” like the rest of the game.
• 🚆 If you reloaded after building your first station but before the first train set off, you never got to see the first-ride celebration. The same went for the first metro. Now the celebration comes as soon as the train actually runs.
• 🏅 The chapter 1 recap now counts up from zero in your very first city too and shows your playing time – just like in every newly founded city. Before, it only showed the current numbers.
• 🎥 If a different city came in during a celebration, say via the cloud from another device, the camera then jumped to a spot in the previous city, and sometimes a card from there still opened. Now the new city starts calmly above its first parcel.
• 📱 In Safari on iPhone, iPad and Mac, your city now survives a longer break, no account needed. Safari clears a site’s storage after about a week without a visit – if you came back after that, you found an empty city even though your old one was safe in the cloud. Now the game finds it again.
• 📲 In the app on the iPhone home screen, the titles of the status cards at the very top were hard to read under the status bar, and an empty strip was left below the toolbar. There the cards now sit a little lower, and the city reaches the bottom edge again.
• 🔊 On iPhone and iPad, the sounds now come back with your next tap after switching apps, locking the screen or taking a call. Before, the game could stay silent until you reloaded.
• 📮 The “Share” button on the postcard now reliably opens the share sheet on iPhone and iPad. Before, Safari could silently refuse it because the picture was only finished after the tap.
• 👆 Tapping the hint card above the toolbar now lands on the card itself, not on the city underneath. Before, tapping it away could buy, zone or build something by accident.
• 🧩 Three tasks explain themselves better: “One home with 3 parks nearby” shows how many parks your best home already has. “An industrial area of 6 tiles” counts connected industry tiles, even across a road – dense areas often got stuck at 3 of 6 before. And for “Cross water with a bridge”, the task and the warning now say that you need to buy land with water for it.
• 🏷️ Your city now gets its name right after chapter 1 – or later in the menu if you skip the question. Before, the game only asked along with the coat of arms at 18,000 residents, and every early postcard said “My city”.
• 📈 New symbols at the top: 📈 shows tax efficiency, 🛣️ the buildings on the road network, and the demand bars carry 🏠 🏢 🏭 instead of the letters R, C and I. The old ⚡ and 🔌 looked like electricity, which Tildown doesn’t have.
• 🛣️ The very first road in the tutorial now stops quietly at the edge of your starting land and says “Road laid ✓”. Before, if you dragged a little past your land, the first feedback you got was a warning about buying land.
• ☰ In the menu and the other windows, the header with the × now stays at the top while you scroll.