Steam SimFest Hobby Edition 2022 has started! For the next few days we’re celebrating simulation games – especially the ones that allow us to try new things and professions we wouldn’t dream of picking up otherwise.
For that reason, ZooKeeper is a part of this wonderful event! Here, you can relax in a colorful lowpoly world while building and managing your own zoo!
Tomorrow, on April 2 at 11 AM PT (8 PM CEST) we’ll be streaming ZooKeeper for you all! If you missed the previous stream, make sure to take a look!
We hope to have you with us! See you soon!
Best Regards, ZooKeeper Team
ZooKeeper at Steam Simfest 2022: Hobby Edition
Hello, ZooKeepers!
Steam SimFest Hobby Edition 2022 has started! For the next few days we’re celebrating simulation games – especially the ones that allow us to try new things and professions we wouldn’t dream of picking up otherwise.
For that reason, ZooKeeper is a part of this wonderful event! Here, you can relax in a colorful lowpoly world while building and managing your own zoo!
On Thursday, March 31 at 9 AM PT (6 PM CEST) we’ll be streaming ZooKeeper for you all on the game’s Steam page!
We hope to have you with us! See you soon!
Best Regards, ZooKeeper Team
Best present for Valentine's Day
What sort of present is ideal for Valentine's Day?
Flowers? 🌹 Clothes? 👕
For a gamer?
GAMES!! 🎮
As a token of our love for gamers on the occasion of the Valentine's Day celebration, we have prepared special discounts for nearly all Gaming Factory games with a bundle cheaper than a bouquet of flowers.
Let's celebrate together. Keep smiling and have fun playing.
Gaming Factory Team
Devlog #23: Development Progress and Best Wishes!
Hello, ZooKeepers! ❄️
It’s time for the last devlog of this year! Plenty of things have changed in ZooKeeper since the last update and today we’d like to tell you all about it!
Let’s start with something we were talking about in the last devlog.
❕ Zoo selection menu – a little update
We finished adding finishing touches to the zoo zelection menu. To be specific, transition animation has been added to allow you to smoothly move from one zoo to another.
For a comparison, here is the selection menu how it appeared in the previous devlog…
…and here is the selection menu now! 😃
⭐ Have a Star!
Another thing you may recall from the last devlog is a Star rewarding system. We didn’t get to reveal much about it back then, but now we can tell you more about it! 😊
Every zoo map has 3 tasks, which reward you with Stars upon completion. ⭐⭐⭐
You can review how many Stars are available on a given map from the zoo selection menu. The map’s thumbnail will tell you how many starts you already have and how many you have yet to get.
What is the purpose of those Stars? They can be exchanged for prizes – prestigious statues you can decorate your zoo with!
Aren’t they fancy? ✨
⚙️ More options in Settings menu
These may not as exciting news as above feature, but they’re no less important!
We have included Camera sensitivity option in Settings menu, which allows you set the camera movements’ speed to your liking. We know each one of you has unique preferences and the default settings might not always work best – in the past, we also had trouble capturing what we wanted to show you at times due to camera moving too quickly and moving far away from our desired spot. We hope this setting will prove helpful for you as well. 🙂
You can also turn off chromatic aberration effect from the Settings menu if have a need for it.
📝 End the day with an Autosave!
The title says it all – instead of saving manually all the time, the game will now be saved automatically at the end of the day. That way, you won’t need to worry about your progress and can focus on looking after animals! 💪
🔨 Get rid of multiple objects at once
There are times when you need to remove multiple objects from you zoo. Getting rid of them manually one by one might work in some cases, but it might get tedious if you have created vast flower fields or tiny forests in your zoo. That’s why we have added an option to sell multiple objects at once. When you enter Selling mode by clicking the Bulldozer icon, hold the left mouse button and expand the selection to cover all of the objects you’d like to delete. And...
They’re gone!
🐘 A list of zoo animals for your convenience
A good list always comes in handy! We have improved the list of all your zoo animals. You can now sort them by enclosure, look them up by typing their name or give them their own individual names! 🤩
That’s all we’d like to share with you today. If ZooKeeper caught your interest, add the game to your Wishlist to stay up to date with development progress! As always, we also invite you to join our Discord channel!
Now, as an end note…
🎄 Merry Christmas!
We’d like to wish you a merry Christmas celebration! It may be different in different countries or even families, but it’s still a time of great importance we can spend with our families and closest ones! 😊 We hope you’ll be able to make the best use of it and enjoy it to the fullest. Rest up and get ready for a New Year!
We’ll be back with another devlog in 2022! 🙌
Stay well and take care, ZooKeeper Team
Devlog #22: Zoo Selection Menu
Hello again, ZooKeepers! 🐼
We may have been quiet for a while, but we’re as busy as ever! We’re now at a stage of constant testing, fixing and various improvements. Most of the tasks we’re handling lean on a technical side and so, they are difficult to show you in a graphical form.
The one thing we can show you, though, is the new zoo selection menu!
This is how the selection menu used to look like not long ago.
You could choose the area by pressing the arrows to the left or to the right and then, you would see an overview of the currently chosen zoo. An overview included a name, a short description and a rotating view of the area.
While it had its charm, there was room for improvement. Most notably, you may notice how you can only see the area you’ve chosen. There was no way to get a glimpse of the other zoo areas other than just aimlessly clicking through every other option. It wasn’t exactly practical for that reason.
Hopefully, the text in Polish won’t bother you too much – if you’re curious, though, “Dolina Kreatywności” stands for “Creativity Valley” and that’s the name of the area you see here. 🙂
Nowadays, zoo selection menu looks like this:
As you can see, it’s much more intuitive and easier to navigate than it was before! While browsing through various locations, you’ll be able to see a glimpse of three options at once – the one that’s currently chosen, the previous one according to selection’s order, as well as the one that comes right after the chosen one. If you see an interesting location among three options visible, you can pick an area by clicking on its thumbnail, which is definitely more intuitive than having to stick to arrows all the time. 😄
How do you like it?
We are also preparing a Star awarding system, but we can’t show you it just yet, as the work is still in progress – we’ll leave details for the next devlog instead. 🙂
That’s it from us! We’ll keep working on the game to make it as relaxing and fun as possible! 💪 If ZooKeeper caught your attention, consider adding the game to your Wishlist and stay up to date with development progress! You can also join our Discord channel and talk to us about this or any other game we’re working on! 🎮
We apologize for the silence. We have been working hard on ZooKeeper and we did our best to keep you updated on our progress via our other social media, but we realize not all of you follow us beyond Steam.
So, we have decided to gather all our little achievements we made since our last devlog and show them to you all here. Let’s get started!
🍦 New buildings – new attractions for your visitors
At the early stage, all you could get for your hungry visitors was a hotdog booth. Now, there is much more to choose from, as we have added ice cream, pizza, hamburger, lemonade booths and even a stand with merchandise!
⏱️ Employees moving at the right speed
We have tried to figure out the best way for the zoo workers to move around various enclosures. We have considered different options and admittedly, there were many difficulties along the way, but in the end, we have decided on a more simplistic solution. As long as you place a special booth in every enclosure, your employees will be able to travel between them underground by entering one enclosure, and leaving through the other, in another enclosure! Perhaps it’s not the most realistic approach, but – as we believe – it should work well with the pace of the gameplay and lowpoly aesthetic of the game. It allows the workers to move efficiently and quickly, allowing the player to relax and saving him the frustration of NPCs reacting too slowly.
🐣 Baby animals
That’s right! If you make sure your animal has another companion of the same species, you might find an adorable surprise in the enclosure!
⭐ VIP Visitors
As VIP part indicates, they are special individuals whose satisfaction is essential to you and your zoo’s growth. You can recognize them by a golden glow and a crown floating above their heads. Contrary to other visitors, YOU are the one who needs to control them and point them in the right direction during their visit. Unattended, they just stand idly and wait for pointers.
You can think of them as celebrities, who expect all your attention the moment they step into your zoo. Handling them requires more effort, but it’s very much worth it! It may also be a nice change of pace compared to usual visits.
What do you think of these additions? Let us know here or join our Discord Community and talk to us there! 💬
Thank you all for your support! ❤️ Stay tuned for upcoming updates and keep following the game on Steam!
Kind Regards, ZooKeeper Team
Castle Flipper - Premiere
Hi Folks!
I know you wait for some content from this game but our friends have a premiere of Castle Flipper.
Along with it comes:
• Stream that should start in few moments • Giveaway - for the best Medieval jokes we will be offering some Steam Keys of Castle Flipper • Great deal on launch with very nice price - just 18.99$ - 15% • Royalty bonus for those who own House Flipper or/and Train Station Renovation
• Be quick! The offer lasts between May 26 – June 2
It’s time for an update regarding the development progress of ZooKeeper! :)
It’s been over a month since our previous devlog. Since then, lots of fixes and improvements were made, both minor and not so minor ones, based on the feedback we’ve received from our amazing Community and Publisher.
Let’s move on to one of the recent additions:
👑 Prestige System
Prestige System measures how well you care about your visitors’ needs. Building a zoo is only a part of our job as a zookeeper. You also need to watch over anyone who passes through the gates of your zoo and make sure they leave with fond memories!
You will often need to make spontaneous purchases to gain as much Prestige points as possible. These may involve specific animals or buildings, which your visitors hope to see during their visit. It’s also part of management, after all!
If you haven’t done so yet, join our Discord Community and talk to us about the game! 💬 Stay tuned for upcoming updates and keep following ZooKeeper on Steam!
Kind Regards, ZooKeeper Team
Devlog #19: Development Status
Dear ZooKeepers!
Welcome in 2021! ːsteamhappyː It's time to get ready to become a ZooKeeper! Soon your dream of building your own Zoo will come true! 🤩
Now let's talk about the development progress. We've recently introduced a lot of improvements and changes to the game based on the feedback we received from our Discord Community and the Publisher. Thanks to our amazing Community, we've also managed to fix many bugs!
We've improved the tutorial and added new tutorial categories to the tutorial book. We've also added translations, fixed most of the typos and grammar errors in texts. The UI has been improved as well. Of course, that's not all, we've also improved core mechanics and make the gameplay more immersive! :D
Stay tuned for upcoming updates and keep following the game on Steam!
