Hit ‘Request Access’, enter your details and you will be notified when the playtest goes live!
Content of the playtest
💬 - We added five brand new levels : 3 tutorial levels (this is a total rework of the tutorial mission you may have played previously), and there are 2 new campaign levels where you will meet our VIPs Tony, Nat, and ... Knuckles!
📄 - Great rework of the UI, we made changes in the Research tree and Pitboss panels.
🗺️ - There is a new 3D level selector which displays our 3 environments (desert, suburb & city center) which will harbor all our future levels. You can navigate between the “biomes” with the city billboard on the right of the menu selector!
👩🌾 - A new decoration theme: you will be able to enjoy a full range of Far West items.
💃 - Plenty of new animations for our characters and VIPs
Please note you won’t be able to install until the playtest has launched.
Happy new year to all our followers! We’re happy to come back with a first dev update for the year and showcase what we accomplished last year. We’re proud of the progress we’ve made in the development of Blooming Business: Casino!
2022 accomplishments!
You may have seen us at Gamescom this year with a brand new gameplay trailer that was aired during IGN Awesome Indies!
We participated in several key industry events this year, in addition to #gamescom2022, you may have played our last demo at Games Made in France.
We were at the Paris Games Week restart for its comeback! We met plenty of you! It was great watching you play and sharing your feedback with the dev team.
We organized several online community playtests. It helps us tremendously in our development process! We’ve been adding a lot of content based on your feedback. Don’t forget to register yourself on Steam if you do not want to miss the next one.
We launched our Tiktok account, follow us there and enjoy a lot of fun content!
In 2022, we closed 1739 dev. tickets, we added 5 new game levels, 8 animal species, 106 animations, more than 45 items, and much more new content!
Revamped tutorial and new campaign levels! We added five brand new levels : 3 tutorial levels (this is a total rework of the tutorial mission you may have played previously), and there are 2 new campaign levels where you will meet our VIPs Tony, Nat, and ... Knuckles!
UI and menus
Great rework of the UI, we made changes in the Research tree and Pitboss panels.
There is a new 3D level selector which displays our 3 environments (desert, suburb & city center) which will harbor all our future levels. You can navigate between the “biomes” with the city billboard on the right of the menu selector!
Decoration, Art, and all other beauty-related content
A new decoration theme: you will be able to enjoy a full range of Frontier items. We know one of your preferred things is to decorate your casino.
Plenty of new animations for our characters and VIPs.
Misc & bugfix:
Following your feedback during our last playtests, we added a shortcut to paint a wall at once when holding shift.
As usual, we worked on some polishing and debugging.
Don’t forget you can join our Discord to chat with the dev team!
The Homo Ludens team.
Business is Blooming!
The new year is in full swing and so is our casino, we look forward to welcoming you back to our playtest starting on 31st January until 7th February right here on Steam!
Things are a little different this year. We will be sharing more updates about this exciting new playtest. Here are the steps to sign up:
Head to Blooming Business: Casino Steam page
Hit ‘Request Access’, enter your details and you will be notified when the playtest goes live!
Please note you won’t be able to install until the playtest has launched. Till then, come join the conversation on Discord!
I’m going to make you an offer you can’t refuse.
We’re celebrating the festivities in the casino and we want you to join the fun! The free demo is now up and running and soon so will be your casino.
So head over to the Steam page and try it out, enjoy!
Dev Update #16 “Rise to the challenge”
Hello Owners!
Here is our penultimate update before the end of the year! As we are almost complete features-wise, it is time to focus on content. In the past couple of months, we worked on the whole campaign and started to build up new levels. Coming with it, we added challenge modes to spice things up. We also returned to some previous features that weren’t up to it.
Challenge modes
Each level will come with two “challenge modes” that will be unlocked once the level is finished.
“Speed mode”: reach your goal as quickly as possible
“Growth mode”: keep going as long as possible until you reach the end conditions
Unions & negociations
Our most (beautiful) bird employees are now represented by a Union. Keep them happy or they will go on strike and you might lose big. We’re a French studio, so we had to add strikes to our game…
Union satisfaction & strikes: all employees' satisfaction will impact the Union's satisfaction
Negotiation: before things go out of hand and you end up with a strike, you can negotiate with the Union.
How to make sure your employees are happy? Well, we all love beautiful office decorations, heavy paychecks, and a lot of breaks… Well, just make sure your business is still profitable.
Pit bosses
Pit bosses made their grand comeback with the last update, but they were still missing some content. We added new orders and some dialogues for the small talk.
By engaging in small talk with them, you can increase their trust. You can give orders to the pit boss which will trigger a unique behavior. Pit Bosses can be upgraded via their skill tree.
BugFix:
Fixed a soft lock when entering the challenge and quitting during the loading screen
Fixed various nullRef
Fixed Generators’ names that were sometimes called Transformer
Clients don’t play on broken machines anymore
Custodians fully repair broken objects
Fixed the old-fashioned tooltip description
Pit bosses are not recruitable from the bar panel anymore
Fixed various issues with the research panel
Fixed employees' behavior when attractions are moved
Clients now get fun from playing the arcade
The Union panel doesn’t reappear immediately after a negotiation anymore
Balancing the Strike event which happened too often
Fixed issues with the Clerks
Fixed issues with the time speed
Added various missing translations
Fixed various issues with the undercover agent hiring process
Performance improvements
And that’s all for this update. As always, do not hesitate to share your thoughts and questions as we make progress toward the development of Blooming Business: Casino. We want to share with you how we progress and are always keen for feedback!
Don’t forget you can join our Discord to chat with the dev team!
The Homo Ludens team.
Last chance to play the Demo!
We’d like to thank all of you that have played our demo so far, and for those of you who haven’t this is your last chance to try the demo!
The demo will only be available until 13th November so you better move quickly, the Casino isn’t going to run itself.
The time has come, Blooming Business: Casino’s latest Demo is now available to play. We cannot wait for all your helpful feedback! The demo is playable from today until the 13th November.
Our casinos will be closing their doors very soon! We hope you all enjoyed this small part of the game. We have been working on many new features for the full game. You can check some of these out in our latest Dev Blog.
For now, we want to share with you what our current priorities are. Firstly, we want to thank you for trying our Demo and take the time to listen to everything you have to say about our game. We want to hear your thoughts and feedback: please have a look at this short survey to help us refine Blooming Business: Casino.
We are very excited to share never-seen before features & missions, exclusively with our play-testers! You still have the time to become one and participate in our upcoming community playtest running from later today (October 25th) at 8am PDT / 5pm CEST / 4pm BST till November 1st at the same hour.
What to expect from the new playtest?
2 missions with 2 casino layout areas to manage your casinos and decorate as you wish!
NEW: replay the mission with our 2 new game modes: the Speed and growth challenges!
2 VIPs to discover: Tony, the mob boss and Nat, the Police officer. Accomplish missions to get to know them. It will be vital to connect with them and learn their backstories, goals and desires.
A variety of client types, from tourists to mobsters… If you want to make profit, you will need to make sure that clients are happy!
Set up the games as you like, manage the House Edge, RTP and special rules..
NEW: recruit your side kick, the pit boss, these beautiful cats oversee the floor from the new lounge area. Give them orders and engage with them with small talk.
NEW: Invest in new attractions and customization options. Discover our fancy new items.
NEW: Management options: place the 2 new employees areas, monitor employee satisfaction, negotiate with unions,…
To participate in the playtest, sign up on https://www.bloomingbusiness.games and we’ll send you a follow up email with instructions.
DreamHack Beyond: New Demo Stream!
Hello everyone!
We've recently shared Blooming Business: Casino demo with you all to enjoy with exclusive items for the Bilibili Game Fest. We are now happy to announce we will be partaking in DreamHack Indie Showcase this year.
Join our community managers and watch them go through the demo tutorial. You can always reach to us and ask any questions and provide your feedback via our Discord.
To celebrate with the community, we wanted to share some goodies. You can enter this photo contest by simply taking a screenshot of the most glamorous area in your casino and sharing it with us on Twitter or Instagram by tagging us and using #MyBloomingBusiness.
Lastly, don’t forget the Demo is available limited time only so we want to take the chance and ask you all to fill in the short feedback survey. It would help us greatly in making Blooming Business: Casino even better.
