We implemented sacred oak trees to our Norse city builder, Thveit! 🌲🌳 Settling near these ancient symbols of Norse worship will provide your settlers with lasting comfort and increased happiness, aside from looking pretty! #gamedev #indiedev

As night falls, your settlement comes to life. 🌌🌕 Take a look at the atmosphere of our Norse city builder Thveit. #gamedev #indiedev

We improved the atmosphere in our Norse city builder Thveit! 🌌🏡 New construction visuals, nighttime ambience, auroras, and immersive in-game audio, powered by @audiokinetic.bsky.social's Wwise! 👨‍🚀 #gamedev #indiedev

Finished polishing procedural rivers and bridges! 🌉🏡 Next up: river transportation, allowing settlers to travel between settlements from upstream to downstream! #gamedev #indiedev

Working on more organic settlement growth in our Norse city builder Thveit! 🌌🏡 Building between rivers and our take on Nordic fjords, then watching settlements naturally take shape, has been incredibly satisfying so far! #gamedev #indiedev

We implemented bridges to our Norse city builder Thveit! 🌉 🏡 No more building around rivers, now you can connect lands and expand your layout across the water. They look pretty neat, too! #gamedev #indiedev

One of the bigger focuses for our Norse-inspired city builder is the daily lives of settlers 🏡 They have their own routines, workplaces you assign them to, and spend their time socializing, relaxing, and drinking mead 🍻 #gamedev #indiedev

Sharing a quick look at settlement building in autumn colors 🍂 Been refining the overall color palette and reworking the ocean colors and depth to better fit the atmosphere of Thveit. #gamedev #indiedev

It’s #ScreenshotSaturday! 🖼️ Been working on more atmospheric and faith-related moments for our Norse-inspired city builder, including sacred altars, ancient trees, and some not-so-peaceful waters 🐙 #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Take a look at a few stylized shots from our Norse-inspired city builder, including a glimpse of our newly added river transportation 🚣 #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Added some new animations for settlers and their cats 🐱 Your settlers can now carry their cats around! We’ve been focusing on adding more small, cozy moments to make the world of Thveit feel more alive. #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Scrapped this timelapse from the trailer, figured I’d share it with all of you instead 🏡 🌲 Still experimenting with settlement growth, atmosphere, and making villages feel more alive as you expand. #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Another quick timelapse from our Norse-inspired city builder 🏡 🌲 Added more buildings, decorations, and vegetation to make settlements feel more alive! #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Still iterating on early-game progression, balancing resources and overall feel. Here’s a short (but satisfying) timelapse from campfire to settlement 🌿 #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Implemented a small waypoint system for workplaces, settlers will now move to and perform tasks directly at their assigned locations. It’s a relatively small system, but it adds a lot more life and clarity to how settlements function. #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Been testing how our settlements grow, and how the walls shape around them over time 🏡 Aiming for something that feels dense, but still organic as it expands. What do you think? #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Buntings for the spring festival 🌿 Even early settlements deserve a bit of color! #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Adding a Kraken to our city builder was a fun challenge 🐙 Syncing attacks with moving ships across the ocean was the tricky part, but we think it works. It can even wave to you. #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Well… that escalated quickly 🐙 We added a Kraken - sea travel isn’t safe anymore. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

Watch the aurora come to life 🌌 Really happy with how night feels, plus an updated river shader with reflections! #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Implemented a dozen decoration types, each with multiple variants, with a strong focus on foliage 🌸 You can decorate your settlement to your liking and truly beautify it. #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Fully procedural world, dynamic rivers, and a grass shader doing the heavy lifting, all to support a growing settlement! How does it look so far? #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Just playing around with early settlement building, never gets old 🏡 Still tuning the early game feel 🏕️ #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #indiegames

We added a brewery to our Norse-inspired city builder 🍺 Would love to hear your thoughts on the construction phases! #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #madewithunity

Building a homestead by the river in our cozy Norse city builder 🏡🌊 slowly carving out a place of comfort in this storybook world 😌 #indiedev #gamedev #citybuilder #indiegames

Implemented the Herbalist Lodge (Herbsholm) 🌿 Settlers can now plant, grow, and gather their own herbs. 🧺✨ #citybuilder #gamedev #indiedev #rts

Introducing Woodholm - your foresters’ lodge 🌲 Settlers cut, haul, and replant trees - keeping the forest alive and wood flowing. #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #madewithunity

We made storage physical in our city builder! 📦 Instead of just numbers, goods actually fill the space. #IndieDev #Gamedev #citybuilder #madewithunity

Priorities: We added cats to our city builder before almost anything else. 🐱 Best part? They’re fully simulated with their own routines! #IndieDev #Gamedev #CityBuilder #MadeWithUnity

When the mead hits a bit too hard 🍺 He swears he can still walk straight. #IndieDev #Gamedev #cozygames

From freshly planted fields to a full harvest in golden autumn light 🌾🍂 #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #citybuilder

Added snow struggle animation to our little settlers! ❄️ Once the snow builds up, movement slows - and without proper clothes, your settlers can freeze 🧊 #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #madewithunity

Sharing the 2nd timelapse of our cozy Norse-inspired city builder Thveit! 🌲⛺️ Watching the early stages unfold as a humble start grows into a settlement. #indiedev #gamedev #citybuilder

Watching a settlement come to life is quite satisfying! 🌲🏡 Might’ve gotten a bit addicted to timelapses ⌛️ This is just a small piece of what’s being edited 🎬 #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder

Sharing homestead placement + construction, now with a comfort heatmap! 🏡🗺️ Do the heatmaps feel clear and prominent? Are the pastel colors working? #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #madewithunity

While we are at it - here is our pasture system and sheep! 🐑 Bringing a bit more life to the world. #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #madewithunity

Something we’re really proud of in Thveit is how autumn turned out ⏬ It took a while, but it easily became our favorite season in the game 🍂 #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #madewithunity

Continuing with gameplay systems - here’s our farming loop 🌾Placing farm cells, preparing soil, growing and harvesting rye. We have also adjusted the dust VFX based on your feedback - thank you! #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #madewithunity

Sharing the first timelapse of the early-game homestead being constructed 🏡 Would love to hear your thoughts or feedback! #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #madewithunity

The road placement system has gone through dozens of iterations - a few months back, it finally felt just right. Testing some VFX on top. Too much dust? ☁️ #gamedev #indiedev #citybuilder #madewithunity

Working on bird flocks was a lot of fun!🕊️ GPU boids simulation using a compute shader - we can handle 100s of birds with zero CPU overhead. Velocity-aligned billboards + per-flock randomisation. Fully procedural, no prefabs. #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #citybuilder

Our talented 3D artist has (quite literally) carved a statue of Thor⚡️ We’ve also added the long-overdue aurora borealis seen in the background🌌 Statues of the old Norse gods like this play an important role in Thveit’s faith system. #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #citybuilder

One of the hardest parts of shaping #Thveit has been finding the right color palette. Here is a snap of an early settlement in late summer hours. #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #citybuilder

We're Winter Cats Studios, building Thveit - a calm, storybook Norse inspired #citybuilder. Follow for more development shots and progress updates. 🖼️Check our website for more screenshots: thewintercats.com #thveit #indiegame #indiedev #citybuilder