Tiny Glade 'built' its way to >600k sold in a month

One of the many fun/cool things about Tiny Glade is that it quietly has one of the most advanced realtime global illumination lighting engines shipping in any game today, and it’s all completely custom for just this game. One of the devs, Tomasz Stachowiak, is a big deal in the realtime rendering world and previously was at DICE and Embark; at Embark he led the Kajiya experimental realtime GI project [1] that made quite a splash in the rendering world a while back.

The other dev, Anastasia Opara, is a big name in the procedural graphics world. She gave one of my favorite presentations on the topic a few years ago [2].

Anyhow if you can’t tell I’m a big fan of both the game and the devs. :)

[1] https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/kajiya [2] https://youtu.be/dpYwLny0P8M

I’m creating my own builder-focused game with procedural parts, and I’m truly humbled by the expertise and execution behind Tiny Glade. As you mentioned, the GI is stunning, and I’d add that the entire game feels incredibly polished.

Achieving that level of technical and artistic refinement is such a huge factor in its success. Watching it in action, everything seems so intuitive and effortless—a quality I’m still striving for in my own work. My creative mode leans towards a mix of Valheim and procedural meshes, but I’m still figuring out the best way to make it feel both intuitive and powerfull.

Do you have a Steam page? I love Valheim and looking for more games that scratch that explorer/builder itch.

Have you tried Enshrouded? Many Valheim players have found it to be similar but improved in various ways.