Food Truck Empire News

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It's another beautiful day of Cooking Fest! What did you eat today? Have you taken part in our contest? Make sure to check out our Social Media to learn more about it and participate!

Today we'll talk about our pipelines and ingredients you can use during your cooking endeavors and why sometimes your food might turn out a bit... interesting!

Let's jump into it!



What is a dish pipeline - you might ask. And it's a great question, the most important question!

Pipeline is the way you design how work happens within your food truck. It's the cool and fun lines you might have seen within the food truck on our streams or on screenshots; lines that start at the basic ingredients and slowly go through many different phases and inventory pieces. Those lines symbolize the road that your food takes before it's fully processed and ready to be ingested.



Now - depending on those lines several things will happen but there are two that we want to highlight here:

• Your food will receive the flavor score - a numerical value that signifies how tasty your dish turns out to be.
  
• The overall speed of production will be calculated - generally the quicker you are with your dishes the better.
  

You have limited space in your food truck and you need to organize it properly. You can drop and move the elements of your inventory wherever you want in the food truck (but the serving counter needs to be by the serving window!) to organize your pipeline however you see fit. Sometimes you will have to sacrifice some speed to make sure you have more flavor. Sometimes you will do the exact opposite to appease the customers with a short fuse. It's up to you to find the best possible connections!



There's a lot of ingredients at your disposal too. And you will quickly notice that a certain choice will always be yours to make - do you want to make your dish from scratch or will you rely on pre-prepared variants of the components of your dish?

Wanting to create the dish from basics generally yields more quality and flavor! However, you have to go through many more steps in order to create it and, as you've already read before, more steps equals longer pipeline, and that means that your serving speed will suffer a hit. Sometimes that won't be a problem as your customers have different patience thresholds, but it's good to remember about it.

We can't wait to see what will be your strategy - will you create an amazing dish consisting of high quality handmade ingredients, or will you cater to those who want a culinary quick fix right now?



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We've made some small changes to the demo build based on the community feedback:

• 🍔 Renamed customization exit button to "Save & Exit"
  
• 🍔 Dispelled a ghost button somewhere around the pause menu
  
• 🍔 Fixed a typo ("refrigeration")
  
• Increased the size of popup and quest text slightly
  
• Increased the visibility of game speed toggle buttons
  
• Added tooltips to game speed toggle buttons
  
• 🍔 Ensured that the value in research progress tooltip is updated properly
  
• Allowed cancelling dish change by closing the window
  
• 🍔 Fixed equipment tabs sticking out
  
• 🍔 Changed tutorial text to explain equipment placement explicitly
  

As we want to highlight the amazing effect your feedback has on our game every change that resulted from your feedback will receive an appropriate burger icon!

Thank you for your feedback everyone! 💝

⚠️ Creating Food Truck Empire is an immensely satisfying process but we couldn't done it without you. Make sure to let us know about your comments, ideas, suggestions - pretty much any and all feedback. We believe in player-facing development and we want to hear from you whenever we can.

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We hope you're enjoying yourself with our demo! Today we wanted to talk a bit about our reviewing system and about the food parks - share some light on our philosophy behind it but also give you the platform to talk about your feelings regarding those two systems. Let me start by saying that if you have any opinion on them whatsoever we invite you to let us know about your feelings in the comments to this dev log. We'll be happy to discuss and talk with ya!

Let's jump into it!



Designing a reviewing system that is both balanced, fun and adequately challenging isn't an easy thing. We should know - we went through multiple redesigns from the ground up for that particular system and many many changes regarding how it should work in the game - if you joined us previously during some of our playtests you might even still remember some of the older ideas we had.

However, ultimately, we obviously landed on one unifying idea - the system needs to be immediately understandable for our players. The game needs to be fun! This might seem obvious but in reality, when you have a head full of different ideas and interesting notions, keeping the system simple and fun can be a challenging ordeal. Our current system should embody the main design points - fun, simplicity and clarity and we worked really hard on making sure that each of those points are present within the game.

Simple should not however mean too simple. The challenges presented to you in the Food Truck Empire will slowly get bigger but at the same time more satisfying. We want to ensure that you will always have the right amount of freedom within your cozy little food truck - freedom to create amazing dishes as you see them fit while also juggling different ideas on how to sate your customers.

We have based our newest system on the simple idea - each ingredient has its own tags and some of our demographics will like that tag (thus giving you a higher score) or dislike it (and lowering your final score for your review). It’s simple and elegant, and it works very naturally while still leaving us a lot of creative space for interesting ideas and challenges!

You might want to read more about the specifics of our reviewing system right here!

Let us know in the comments what you think about our reviews system - we are always open for implementing further improvements within our systems!



Let's talk about Food Truck Parks now!

During the development of Food Truck Empire we had an idea for specific places on the map that will boost the capabilities of your food truck. Well, technically yours and your competitors (coming in full version of the game!) but let's focus on you specifically. We wanted to give you some extra options when it came to strategy as we strongly believe that the more options you have, the more fun you will experience. A little touch of strategizing will also add to the overall experience!

When you're managing your trucks you're given a seemingly simple choice - either scout the city and find the right place to park your truck and capitalize on the citizens in vicinity OR use food truck parks to try and extend the area of effect for your trucks. The catch being - food parks are stationary objects and posting your truck inside them forever will mean that you're limiting yourself to a certain area. In a way you'd be sacrificing your mobility for extended range of influence.

Food Parks evolve over time through their individual quest lines. It's a fun little addition to reward those of players who like to see some incremental changes and additions to the way they're playing the game. While you can still use some of your trucks to target several other areas in the city that your parks do not cover, some of the trucks can be used to generate steady income while gradually enhancing the park to some legendary status.

What's your strategy when it comes to Food Truck Parks? Are you solely relying on them or do you prefer to individually approach each truck and each part of the city?



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We've made some small changes to the demo build based on the community feedback:

• Improved stability of the game engine
  
• Fixed the Customers irregular spawns during different day cycles and after game loads
  
• Improved Customers optimization on the city map
  
• Bowl ingredient branches adjustments (two ingredients branches need to be valid now)
  
• Better engine optimization when making the connections between ingredients/appliances in truck
  
• UI refresh rate optimization
  
• Visual adjustments to certain city locations (HQ)
  

Thank you for your feedback everyone! 🍔

⚠️ Creating Food Truck Empire is an immensely satisfying process but we couldn't done it without you. Make sure to let us know about your comments, ideas, suggestions - pretty much any and all feedback. We believe in player-facing development and we want to hear from you whenever we can.

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[h3]Play free Food Truck Empire Demo right now! 🔥[/h3]



We're super happy to let you know that you can now play the FREE demo of Food Truck Empire!

In this particular demo you'll be able to start off your very own Food Truck company - you'll create its branding, create and customize your first Food Trucks and do everything in your power to feed the hungry masses of the city.

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We'll be giving you a lot of freedom to achieve your goal - you'll be the one to decide about the ingredients, the recipe and the equipment of your truck. You'll be free to scout out the preferences of your potential customers and decide about the ever-changing (they're mobile after all!) placement of your trucks. Even they themselves will bend to your will as you'll be the one to customize their exterior to even the tiniest little detail! Stickers, colors, accessories and props - use whatever you feel necessary to ensure that your truck looks just amazing!



Take control over your own Food Truck company - buy trucks, equip them with all kinds of appliances, ingredients and assets. Craft your food, hit the streets, feed the masses - make sure that the whole city is fed! In the demo version of Food Truck Empire you can already enjoy multitude of fun in-game features like creation of automated food assembly lines, designing and customizing your own food trucks in and out, strategizing the best placement for your tracks and responding to the needs and preferences of customers.

We hope that many of you decide to check out our demo and enjoy themselves while creating super tasty dishes and feeding the city masses. At the same time we just cannot wait to hear back from you regarding how much you liked the game - we've always put extra emphasis on our connection with players and testers and the opinions matter to us a lot. Especially now, with the new demo, we hope to hear from you about the gameplay you can experience in the game and how you like our revamped reviewing system.

But there's more!


To celebrate the Cooking Fest we're adding a new dish to our Food Truck - Food Bowls!
Together with hamburgers they're going to be available for you to create in the free demo.

Keep in mind that we're planning to have a whole diverse set of different kind of meals and foods that you'll be able to create in the full version of the game. Burgers and Bowls are going to be available in the demo but they will become part of the overall grand set of available meals in future.

At the moment though you not only can enjoy a tasty bowl of your favourite ingredients but we've also created a matching set of stickers that you can use for your food trucks to make customers instantly understand what type of food can they expect from your truck. Go nuts with all the colorful stickers - mix and match them to achieve a unique result!



To celebrate the launch of our demo we'll be holding a contest on our Social Media where you can win yourself some cool prizes! Make sure to follow the contest instructions that you will find on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram tomorrow.

The gist of the contest is to write a review of a dish you've eaten recently (preferably from a Food Truck but it doesn't have to be!) - we want to read your reviews and perhaps enrich our diet here at Lichthund! The most creative review will definitely get our attention!



And finally - for those of you who cannot play the game at the moment or want to connect with us in a more direct way - the gameplay stream straight from the demo is currently already live on Steam. Don't worry if you didn't catch the beginning - the stream will loop and you'll be able to watch it again on your own terms!

We'll be showcasing all kinds of features and mechanics avaialble in the demo as well as going through the tutorial part of the content! You can't miss it!

⚠️ Creating Food Truck Empire is an immensely satisfying process but we couldn't done it without you. Make sure to let us know about your comments, ideas, suggestions - pretty much any and all feedback. We believe in player-facing development and we want to hear from you whenever we can.

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