Blooming Business: Casino News

Hello Owners!

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.

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!

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!

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.

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.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1666160