🌼June News: Wildwoud Woods Concept Art + Decorating Your Cafe!

[p][/p][p]Hi there, fellow cat enthusiasts!🩷🐈 June has officially kicked off, so we want to begin by saying that we hope everyone had a wonderful month of May!🌸 Let's start the month off strong by getting you up to speed with the latest Cat Cafe Manager 2 updates!😸 [/p][p][/p][h2]🦉Welcome to the Wildwoud Woods! [/h2][p][/p][p]Are you ready to call your fearless feline companion and explore the magical Wildwoud Woods, just outside the city?✨ Who knows, you might just find that rare ingredient you’ve been searching for forever, hiding in a berry bush or nestled underneath a mushroom.🍄 Our artists are working hard to make this forest feel magical, mystical, and a little mysterious...👀 We're excited to show you some of our latest Wildwoud Woods concept art below! [/p][p][/p][p]Wildwoud Woods Concept Art [/p][p][/p][p]Concept Art of Props and Details [/p][p][/p][h2]🧑‍🍳We're COOKING![/h2][p][/p][p]As demonstrated above, we've already put a lot of love into the explorable outside world of Cat Cafe Manager 2: Big City Bliss over the last couple of weeks. However, it's also important to give some much-needed attention to the most important place of all: your cat cafe!🐈 [/p][p][/p][p]In the next couple of weeks, we'll be focusing our efforts on setting up gameplay for cooking, decorating, taking care of your cats, and serving your customers. Additionally, we'll be working on the cat cafe’s interior, updating the temporary models and visuals we built for the Kickstarter trailer to new assets that will actually be there to play with when the game launches in Early Access. We hope to have more to share about this in the next couple of months! [/p][p][/p][h2]🪑Decorating Your Cafe[/h2][p]There is something we CAN share with you already, though: a very early version of the cafe decoration tool! In the GIF below, you can see exactly what our programmer Ernst has been working on: [/p][p][/p][previewyoutube][/previewyoutube][p]Early Version of the Cafe Decoration Tool [/p][p][/p][h2]🤔So... What exactly is happening in the GIF?[/h2][p][/p][p]In the visual, you can see how Ernst opens up the decoration menu. This menu allows him to see all the furniture and decoration pieces he has collected so far. Of course, you'll be able to furnish your cafe with more items than just chairs (unless you want to transform your game into Chair Cafe Manager; we won’t judge!🪑🪑😸). Every item you place in your cafe can be rotated and positioned anywhere you like. [/p][p][/p][p]We’re obviously still early on in the process, but we can already tell it’s going to be so much fun to decorate your cafe with all assets being fully 3D! Oh, and we also have some neat ideas for how pieces of furniture could interact with each other. 🏠Ernst has also been working on a feature that will let you expand your cafe, allowing you to create new rooms and make your floor plan bigger. That feature still needs a little more time cooking in the oven, though, so we’ll save that for another time! [/p][p][/p][h2]🪹Roosties at Events[/h2][p]Roost Games is a cooperative that operates on a completely remote basis, so we are always super excited to see each other in person at cool game-related events! 👩‍🎨INDIGO Showcase Rotterdam Lead artist Carmen was invited to talk about the artistic process of developing Cat Cafe Manager 2: Big City Bliss at INDIGO Showcase, a game industry business event in the Netherlands.[/p][p][/p][p]In her presentation, she highlighted the importance of focusing on details to make an in-game world feel truly lived-in and to enhance visual storytelling. Additionally, she shared the creative thought process behind the jump from creating a friendly village to a cosy city. [/p][p][/p][p]Lead Artist Carmen at INDIGO Showcase[/p][p][/p][p]A MAZE. Berlin[/p][p]Earlier in May, a couple of Roosties met up at A MAZE., a German game event that celebrates alternative and artistic game culture in Berlin. Some of us actually met each other in person for the very first time! Fun stuff! 💛 [/p][p]Mischa, Esmeé, Joni & Irene at A MAZE. [/p][p][/p][h2]💜Indie Games We Love![/h2][p][/p][p]🧙‍♂️We're super proud to announce that our very own Mischa is releasing his game Become the Moon on June 19th! Draft cards, collect relics, and cast magical spells to create game-breaking combos with a team of oddballs and misfits. Check it out here and wishlist this awesome deckbuilding auto battler right away so you get notified at launch!🌙 [/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink][/p][p] 🦆Additionally, our friends at Happy Broccoli Games just released their charming no-murder mystery Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping, on Steam! Inspect evidence, draw your conclusions, and quack the case in this funny and creative duck adventure! [/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink] [/p][h2]💛Let's Connect![/h2][p][/p][p]We hope you enjoyed reading about all the things we've been working on over the past month! Thank you SO MUCH for your ongoing support, and we hope to see you again in the next update. Until then, feel free to connect with us on social media (links below!). And if you haven't done so already, we'd super appreciate it if you could wishlist CCM2! [/p][p][/p][p][dynamiclink][/dynamiclink] And last but most definitely not least: We want to take this moment to wish all you beautiful queer people out there a [/p][p][/p][p]❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 PURRFECT PRIDE MONTH! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜[/p][p][/p][p]🏳️‍🌈We love and see you!🏳️‍⚧️[/p][p][/p][p]Let's talk soon!😽[/p][p]- Claire & Irene from Roost Games 🪺[/p][p][/p][p]Connect with us:[/p][p]💜Discord[/p][p]💙BlueSky[/p][p]❤️Instagram [/p][p]🧡Reddit[/p][p]💛TikTok[/p]