Hello Owners! Here's everything that's new with the game...
VIPs grand arrival
We want you to experience personal and unique stories! This is why we are adding special characters - VIPs - to give you the opportunity to experience emerging events.
You will be able to connect with a variety of VIPs and all your choices will impact their behaviors. They have a unique set of skills (for example, Nat can catch cheaters in your casino) and are way more exigent than all the other client types! Gaining celebrity's favor could bring you fame and fortune, but you might have to grease some palms or give the mob a free pass. Is it even possible to run a casino without getting into organized crime?
Let's remind you who are our current super stars!
VIP come back : Tony (Ant’ny Barr)
Role : Head of the Barr Family
Special ability: When satisfied, throws chips to other clients in a radius around him!
Background: The head of the new crime family who just "ousted" (read: murdered) the Rheeves family. Oddly enough he's not a high roller. When he's around he plays very tight, but he loves to be served by his favorites. If you don't have a staff that he approves of... expect trouble... big trouble. Broken items, maybe even a dead staff member or two... clean up in slots!
New VIP: Nat (Nat Kiddin)
Role: Police Officer
Special Ability: The Paw of Justice: when satisfied, she can catch cheaters red-handed anywhere on the floor.
Background: Nat's moto is: “shoot first, talk later.” When it comes to law and order, she sees the world in black and white. Her itchy trigger finger gets results, which is why the Sheriff’s department keeps her on the payroll, but there’s always collateral damage, and the department has to do damage control after Hurricane Nat has come through.
VIP Pretty cutscene We've also added several new VIP features! The player is now notified of the arrival of a VIP by notifications in the HUD. Clicking on the notification triggers a short cutscene that shows the arrival of the VIP in their own car.
VIP Pretty UI At the end of the cutscene, a UI pop-up is displayed, giving more insight into the VIP background, likes & dislikes.
Bar
The bar stock management has been revised to be clearer and give more control to the player. The monthly restock was not understood well, and having all bars unavailable all at once every month was an issue.
Restock The monthly restock was replaced by a unit restock. The player can choose a unit threshold under which the barmen will start the restock. The idea is that you can choose between fewer restock that take longer, or shorter and more frequent restocks.
Warehouse The overall stock of the casino can now be managed from the warehouse. When restocking bars, barmen come to pick up the stock they need from the warehouse. Same as the bar stock, the warehouse stock is replenished when hitting a threshold. With a lower threshold, you restock more units at once which cost fewer thanks to wholesale pricing, but the player takes the risk of being short at some point.
Photobooth
The photo booth is a new in-game item. It was added to deepen the Rockabilly client type who loves the photo booth. It’s not area-bound, so the player can place it wherever they want. It is also a new electric item, which will be useful in the future as we plan to add some energy management.
New music
The main loop has been reworked. We also added two new music, each for one VIP that will trigger at their arrival.
Live OPs
We added several live ops features to improve your general onboarding in the game, easily informing you of everything new. We started to implement server-side features and tuning our processes.
News pop up The new news pop-up content is fetched from our server instead of being built-in, which will allow the marketing team to customize it at will. It still needs some UI rework.
Analytics update We updated our analytics to match the in-game content and ease the processing of data.
Bugfix:
Re-enable the bouncer hiring in the entrance panel
Add missing animations on VIP
Fix some behavior issues with VIPs
Fixed tooltips errors in story events
Fixed some issues in the bar situation report panel
Fixed issue where clients would urinate outside of the casino
Fixed some awkwardest in item placement
Fixed some issues with the second floor
Added some missing text
Fixed an issue where selling an item next to a wall would delete the wall as well
Fixed some button size issues in the UI
Fixed some items clipping through walls
Fixed issue with keyboard commands registered while typing in a text field
Fixed issue where clients would bet above their money
Fixed issue where clients would not actually pay for their drinks
And that’s all for this update. As always, do not hesitate to share your thoughts and questions as we make progress to the development of Blooming Business: Casino. We want to share with you how we progress and are always keen for feedback!
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The Homo Ludens team.
Dev Update #10 “Big fish (or bear) in a small pond”
Hello Owners!
For this new update, we focused on adding more personalities & characters to the game.
It’s the big comeback of our favorite bear, Ant’ny Barr! But as good (or bad?) news never comes alone, he comes with Nat Kiddin the ferocious police officer. They both might bring you a lot of money, but beware as these two could be trouble, more than you can handle. If you were starting to be bored by miners destroying your slot with their pickaxes, the mobster threatening everyone around, and the tourist spending most of their time taking pictures rather than playing, you’ll be happy to welcome some new clients! The police officers are good clients but don’t mix well with mobsters. Choose which baseball team you’ll support, and their fans will spend in your casino. Finally, the rockabillies will bring some fun and dancing and start the party!
Welcome your newest clients!
Each client type comes with special tastes and expectations!
The Rockabilly Welcome the slicked fur, leather jacket, and swing dresses, a new style is in town! They’re young and they want to have fun.
They love arcade games, with all the noise and the excitement that comes with it. They love using the photo booth to take romantic pictures, fun memories, and sometimes some little pranks.
They are breaking the old traditions, old fashioned is out of fashion. They go for anything sweets, soda cocktails, and milkshakes for the win.
Obviously, they are huge music fans and love dancing. The more jukeboxes, the happier they are. But they have very peculiar tastes and won’t hesitate to change songs for their favorite genre, the Rockabilly.
The baseball fans Baseball is big in the area. Almost everyone has a favorite team that they support wholeheartedly. Bringing baseball fans in is good for business, but you’ll have to choose a team, there is no neutrality in baseball.
Even if they don’t play it themselves, baseball fans like to picture themselves as great athletes. They will play anything that implies some agility skills to prove themselves.
Their team is everything to them, and they will expect the same from you. Try to show some support with your decorations colors and theme, it will make them happy.
Used to the stadium, they might not take care of their surroundings as you’d like. Be prepared to hire a few more custodians to deal with their dirtiness.
The Police Officers Where you find mobsters, you find police officers. Like anyone they just want to have a good time, but they sometimes have trouble leaving the job behind. Difficult for them to do nothing when witnessing misdemeanors around. That might get your other clients on edge.
Police officers are serious people and prefer cards and dice games.
As they are a little uptight, they don’t like laziness or clumsiness. They’ll however be very happy to see employees performing well and being thorough in their tasks.
Mobsters are their natural enemies. And even in this little place of truce, they won’t resist making some arrest if they see some misfit.
VIPs grand comeback
Ant’ny’s back The luckiest among you already met Ant’ny a couple of playtests ago. He is back and here to stay. This big bear is the head of the new crime family who just "ousted" (read: murdered) the Rheeves family. Oddly enough he's not a high roller. When he's around he plays very tight, but he loves to be served by his favorites. If you don't have a staff that he approves of... expect trouble... big trouble. Broken items, maybe even a dead staff member or two... clean up in slots!”
New in town: Nat Kiddin This ferocious cheethat is no other than one of the most feared police officers in town. Her motto: “shoot first, talk later.” When it comes to law and order, she sees the world in black and white. Her itchy trigger finger gets results, which is why the Sheriff’s department keeps her on the payroll, but there’s always collateral damage, and the department has to do damage control after Hurricane Nat has come through. Expect some unhappy customers if she finds people and things not to her liking. When Nat shows up, make sure she's got no reason to suspect anything underhanded is going on, or you'll be cleaning up broken glass and having to give free drinks and free chips to upset customers, if she doesn't shut you down.
“Swiper no swiping”
Some clients now have the ability to cheat at your attractions, making you lose money
You can catch them yourselves, but it will be more efficient to hire guards to do so
Plant wear Plants will wither over time, and if you don’t take care of it, it will lower the casino beauty You can water them yourself, or hire custodians to do so
New level A new level has been added, available from the level selector. It comes with new challenges, mostly focusing around the new clients: the baseball fan, the rockabillies and the police officers
Bugfix:
Clients can no longer go in staff-only areas
Fixed some missing text in clients’ log panel
Fixed some bathroom issues where clients didn’t satisfy their need
Fixed an issue where bartenders wouldn't restock if they were assigned after the end of the month
Fixed issues with glass walls rendering
Fixed a lot of issues with the French localization
And that’s all for this update. As always, do not hesitate to share your thoughts and questions as we make progress to the development of Blooming Business: Casino. We want to share with you how we progress and are always keen for feedback!
We hope that the year started well for all of you! On our side we are fired up as ever to bring you the best game we can, but first what is for us the last update of 2021! This update brings a lot of improvement all around, but the most noticeable one is the addition of context, not only on stories. We also added some context around casinos’ levels and clients’ motivations.
Stories improvements
Stories used to appear out of nowhere and more often than not disturbing the gameplay. No one wants to deal with petty thieves while building the cutest restroom right? Stories now appear in the 3D world on the affected area/item/agent, giving it more context. You can choose to play them at your will, but beware of what might happen if you choose to not deal with it. We also improved the overhaul stories display with a beautiful UI and dashing artworks.
Anecdotes
In a similar vein, we added and made some improvements to what we call “anecdotes”. It's all the small events that appears on the floor such as clashes and chitchat. We added some crowd events such as cheering when someone hit the jackpot.
Clients log
Clients’ behaviors might sometimes be hard to understand, which can be an issue when you are trying so hard to make them happy. We added some logs into their panel (the one with their stat and all when left-clicking on them) that should bring light on why they do what they do. This new information should help you know what you can improve in your casino to make them happy, and more importantly to make them give you more money.
Level Selector
We added a new level selector. Right now we have only two levels, but it already give a good idea of what we’re aiming for. It adds more information on level content, and also some lore about our clients types and overall world. It’s still rough and most of the content is placeholder, but in the end it should be a really nice way to learn more about the levels you’ll be playing !
Graphical experiment
If you launch the level “Tikki Miner Mobster’s pie”, you will see that the environment has changed from play daylight to night. We are still trying some things out, but we thought that the night would enhance the festive casino feeling.
Bugfix
Fixed some issues with wall decorations
Fixed save issue with stairs
Fixed issues with bar restock and icons
Fixed errors in the financial report’s data and formulas
Made some adjustments to the pinball playtime sequence
Fixed issues with floors where some items from the upper floor appeared on the bottom floor
And that’s all for this update. As always, do not hesitate to share your thoughts and questions as we make progress to the development of Blooming Business: Casino. We want to share with you how we progress and are always keen for feedback!
You’ve been pleading for it, and we heard you ! It cost us some sweat and tears, but we finally added a construct mode. Walls! Floors! Stanchions! You can build the interior of your casino however you want! We also added a sandbox level where you are free to play as you please. It’s the perfect place to try out the new construct mode. However, it’s still rough, specifically the interface. But we plan of improving it before early access, don’t worry.
Construct mode
The construct mode allows you to build & destroy walls inside of your casino and to customize floors. You cannot customize the outside of your casino with it. But beware that you don’t lock up your employees or clients with these new tools. You are also able to modify “automatic” walls that come with certain areas such as Restroom, Locker room & Breakroom.
Catalog: We added a second catalog with construct mode items. In it, you’ll find the stairs, the walls builder, the walls covering & the floors. - Walls builder: it’s only to build new walls. You can choose between concrete walls and glass walls. - Walls covering: this category is for walls customizations. You can choose between some tapestries and other cladding like brick, marble… - Floors: you can customize your floors with some nice carpets or fancy tiles.
Tools: Those are currently super WIP, but you have a tool to sell/destroy walls and a cancel tool.
Sandbox mode
We added a sandbox level that you can access from the main menu, under the “Play” button. In this mode, you won’t have any tutorials or missions. The level is empty with no areas pre-built (apart from the entrance area), you’ll have to build your restroom, break room, locker room … All items are unlocked, and you start with a nice amount of money. We still advise you to start with the main level if you play for the first time, as you might miss some guidance and challenge in the sandbox. But for the more advanced players, it’s the perfect place to try out new builds and strategies!
Bar improvement
In the last update, we added a lot of features on the bar, with drinks & stock management. But it was still missing some features. We added some small improvements that give it a lot more flavor.
Duty stock: you can choose which bartender will go get the restock crate, and which will stay to operate the bar.
Open bar: You made some mistakes when planning your monthly stock and you left with a lot of extras at the end of the month? Don’t worry! It’s time for an open bar, free drinks for everyone! You won’t make money with it, but tipsy clients might be good for you.
Waiters: Witing line on your bar start to get crowded? It’s time to hire a waiter! They will bring drinks to your clients, making everyone gain some time and drink some more.
Bugfix
Walls decorations now snap to walls Fixed catalog search Fixed some issues with employees when they were tired but unable to take a break Fixed some issues and wrong feedbacks on restroom needs
And that’s all for this update. As always, do not hesitate to share your thoughts and questions as we make progress to the development of Blooming Business: Casino. We want to share with you how we progress and are always keen for the feedback!
Play our new demo for Games Made in France & watch our livestream!
Play our new demo
Welcome everyone! As you may have seen, we have a brand new demo with plenty of new content for Games Made in France! We hope you will like it. The demo will remain available until the 28th of October! Come play and let us know your thoughts about the game using the ingame survey!
Watch our livestream on Saturday October 23rd!
Tune in tomorrow, on Saturday at 4PM CET, we'll share more behind the screen news, information about the new demo of Blooming Business: Casino!
For those of you who already played the demo, we hope you enjoyed the game! Don't forget to share your best screenshots and let us know your thoughts using the ingame survey and by joining our join our Discord channel.
