The one with Roasting
Hello everyone! I hope some of you are ready to take a deserved vacation and enjoy the holidays even if it is just a dinner with your household or an online family dinner like I plan to do. The last couple of months have been interesting, we have been working on the new update while still working on localization and bug fixes, I wanted to give you an update on the things we are doing for the next update and delight you with some new renders.
The next update is all about allowing you to create the ultimate coffee company, which means that you will have a new location and new options for your company, mainly roasting and selling your own coffee! The new location is inspired by top reserve coffee shops that showcase the amazing world of coffee, it has a modern/industrial vibe and it comes with a lot of new store items and equipment. We don’t have a render for the location ready yet but we certainly have a lot of renders for the new items and equipment!
As you can see we have been working hard to bring you more content and expand the world of Coffee Shop Tycoon. These are some of the new items coming to the game but there are still more to come with this update.
Now back to Roasting, we have been thinking about adding roasting for a while now, but it is certainly not something we want to add lightly, it has to tie in with the game mechanics and progression on the game, for the past 6 months or so there has been a lot of investigation and design to come up with a Roasting system that would be fun and work with the game.
Roasting is going to work similar to the drink creation but it has its unique mechanics, it all starts by having a new skill for your employees, just like the Barista, Speed, and Service skill, now there is a Roaster skill, you will be able to train this skill, level it up while roasting or recruit employees that focus on this skill. Once the Roasting station is unlocked in the HQ you will be able to go in there and create a new "Roasting Profile". This screen will show you the green beans currently in the market with their origin and attributes, you will be able to grab these beans and start roasting a new batch which will become a new "Roasting Profile".
Work in Progress
This is a manual process where you control the Roaster by increasing and lowering the heat to extract different notes and flavors from the coffee. If you successfully manage to create a new batch without burning the coffee, a group of coffee tasters will grade your coffee. You will then be able to select the branding of your beans and save your "Roasting Profile". Back in the store, you will be able to place roasters in your shop and hire employees to roast these roasting profiles while those green beans are still available. Finally, your roasted coffee will show up in your coffee supply and you will be able to use it as any other bean.
To make this more fun we will be also tweaking the way store reputation works to take into consideration special beans, customers expectations and stats will also be tweaked to work with the roasted beans.
To sum it up, the next update will have a new feature "Roasting", a new location, and new items. This location will have missions that will be only completed by Roasting new delicious beans but we will see how Roasting can be introduced earlier in the game probably during the 4th location.
We will keep updating you with new screens and renders as we keep working on this update, and we'll let you know as soon as there is a beta available to try all these things out! Thanks for reading, happy holidays, and enjoy your coffee!
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The next update is all about allowing you to create the ultimate coffee company, which means that you will have a new location and new options for your company, mainly roasting and selling your own coffee! The new location is inspired by top reserve coffee shops that showcase the amazing world of coffee, it has a modern/industrial vibe and it comes with a lot of new store items and equipment. We don’t have a render for the location ready yet but we certainly have a lot of renders for the new items and equipment!
As you can see we have been working hard to bring you more content and expand the world of Coffee Shop Tycoon. These are some of the new items coming to the game but there are still more to come with this update.
Now back to Roasting, we have been thinking about adding roasting for a while now, but it is certainly not something we want to add lightly, it has to tie in with the game mechanics and progression on the game, for the past 6 months or so there has been a lot of investigation and design to come up with a Roasting system that would be fun and work with the game.
Roasting is going to work similar to the drink creation but it has its unique mechanics, it all starts by having a new skill for your employees, just like the Barista, Speed, and Service skill, now there is a Roaster skill, you will be able to train this skill, level it up while roasting or recruit employees that focus on this skill. Once the Roasting station is unlocked in the HQ you will be able to go in there and create a new "Roasting Profile". This screen will show you the green beans currently in the market with their origin and attributes, you will be able to grab these beans and start roasting a new batch which will become a new "Roasting Profile".
Work in ProgressThis is a manual process where you control the Roaster by increasing and lowering the heat to extract different notes and flavors from the coffee. If you successfully manage to create a new batch without burning the coffee, a group of coffee tasters will grade your coffee. You will then be able to select the branding of your beans and save your "Roasting Profile". Back in the store, you will be able to place roasters in your shop and hire employees to roast these roasting profiles while those green beans are still available. Finally, your roasted coffee will show up in your coffee supply and you will be able to use it as any other bean.
To make this more fun we will be also tweaking the way store reputation works to take into consideration special beans, customers expectations and stats will also be tweaked to work with the roasted beans.
To sum it up, the next update will have a new feature "Roasting", a new location, and new items. This location will have missions that will be only completed by Roasting new delicious beans but we will see how Roasting can be introduced earlier in the game probably during the 4th location.
We will keep updating you with new screens and renders as we keep working on this update, and we'll let you know as soon as there is a beta available to try all these things out! Thanks for reading, happy holidays, and enjoy your coffee!
Follow us on Twitter @RiffStudios
Join the conversation on Discord Riff Studios Discord