How have you been? Hopefully, all is well with you and, just as we, you can't for new devlogs! And so, we bring one to you today. 🙂
In this instalment we focus somewhat on the tools that will allow the player to restore old buildings to a usable state (and perhaps even their former glory 😉 ).
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As we get to work and select our first jobs, we'll need to bring along some basic tools such as the: - hammer, - drill, - paint roller, - broom, - and spackle.
It might not seem like much for a start, but if you take into account the small size of the beginner venues, it'll be more than enough. Thanks to these implements the player will be able to create a brand new interior – set up the furnishing and product shelves as well as engage in some minor repairs. It will also be the perfect opportunity to get used to the game's keybinds. And as we well know, that's always the kind of practice pays off in the later stages of a game.
Of course with the coming of bigger shopping centers the player faces more challenges and obtains new types of equipment that helps to meet these challenges. We're planning to include in the gameplay bigger devices that accommodate greater surfaces. Among those will be the paint gun or the floor cleaning machine that will allow for efficient tidying of halls and food courts.
As always, we're open to all your suggestions for the game. We want it to meet all of your expectations. We eagerly await suggestions you submit here on Steam and on our Discord!
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Devlog #1 - Buildings
Dear Entrepreneurs,
As per convention, we'd like to thank you so much for all the questions coming to us from you after our previous devlog. We've found numerous fascinating ideas among them, which gives us a solid energy boost for our continued work. 🙂
This week we invite you to a broader discussion of the buildings that we'll be looking after while playing Shopping Mall Renovator.
As is often the case in life, the player begins with a modest capital, earned during recent years of work. The catalogue of buildings available for purchase, which we are going to, naturally, describe in greater detail soon, will contain the first small jobs that will be used to prepare the player for greater challenges.
The first venues on offer will be small, detached shops or slightly more spacious single-story store halls featuring a few boutiques, each of these will be required to have a functional toilet and a small snack & drink stand. This will allow the player to get acquainted with all the game's tools, key binds, and gameplay rules of having our work evaluated by potential customers.
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Afterwards, new, and bigger buildings will appear. Shopping centers are going to sport a considerable surface area, so renovating them will require that you keep several details in mind. Some building features will become available only after achieving a specific surface size.
These will include:
– escalators, - elevators, - underground parking, - bigger markets, - food courts, - children's play areas, - entertainment areas, - cinemas and many more 🙂
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As you can see, there's no shortage of work! We hope our perspective on this type of buildings has earned your curiosity and will prompt further questions and suggestions. Your opinions are exceptionally relevant to us.
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All the best, Hyper Studio
Devlog #0 - Vision of the game
Dear Entrepreneurs,
First, we'd like to thank you for your response and wish you all the best in the new year!
What is, in that case, Shopping Mall Renovator? The title is going to be a renovator game with management elements. The player assumes the role of an "investor-handyman" who, by using an assortment of available procedures and tools, selects, buys, and restores different kinds of building intended for retail businesses. That's not where the business plan ends, however – after renovating the available buildings there are two paths available: Selling the property to quickly obtain more cash or keeping it to independently manage every venue through renting (we will expand on this topic in the following devlogs), which provides a stable, long-term income.
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We would like everyone to have a genuine sense that their engagement in a project, or lack thereof, has a very real impact on the player's income. Because of that every building is going to have a number of jobs to be completed, dependent on the mall's location and the needs of local residents. Observing these conditions will later have a visible impact on store prices.
We're planning to feature numerous patterns for walls, floors, decor elements, and store furnishing, all the while including a number of companies to choose from as our shopping center tenants. This will give the player freedom of designing and creating unique interiors, encouraging shoppers from the entire city (and maybe even beyond 😉 ).
We realize this doesn't exhaust every detail by far, and more questions may arise, but we'd prefer to keep things brief at the early stages of the game's development.
In the next devlog we'll show you some of the building that will become available on our path to fortune!
