Weekly Updates January 24, 2025

Another written because currently, the game is in a certain state where I am trying to set up all the components to work properly with each other.

Take a look at what I am currently working with

 A lil sneak peak behind the curtain at all the cables and circuitry making everything work how I want it to. Yes, that is 5 customers with 5 clipboards and 5 bills set up individually, ready to all work accordingly~

Currently, I've managed to organized stuff in a way that makes having 2 customers work in game. I feel the task of making the 5 customers all work together will be daunting and full of realizing I forgot to make certain things react in certain ways when certain stuff happen.

In order to have everything run smoothly, I am gonna make it where you have to complete taking and delivering one's order before you can take someone else's order. That way, I can avoid needing to make 5 different food assets to figure out how to figure who ordered what and where. That DOES sound like a compelling challenge to work through, but lets leave that for the sequel! If there ever is one lmao

Anyways, more plans:

-Make all 5 customers work together and not step on each other's toes.

-Draw assets for a game over scenario (pending, only after I get all 5 customers set)

-Start working towards making more finished assets (pending)

-Work towards making a "Game Start" opener, to let you press a button and start the Game

I wanna focus more on the 5 customers, I am excited to see it all working together, it feels like I could have a working test demo in February if everything goes right without a hitch. Might even give out a demo for people to playtest. We'll see

Anyways, a few more updates:

-Deciding to reduce the number of cameos from 20 to 15, and given how customers work, have each table have 3 cameos that can potentially show up in them.

-Deciding one of the cameos could be a YCH and open commissions for people who want me to put their OC in the game :3

I dunno how I'll price them but I feel like the price will feel like a Kickstarter tier reward lmao There's like 10 drawings to work on and 3 of them have 3 variations (3 normal, 3 stuffed, 3 near-bursting and then the "gonna pop" pose) so like yeah, gonna be pricey :y

But that's after the game releases, we'll cross that bridge when we get there~

BTW I've officially decided to call the game Belle's Burstin' Boutique