Dev blog 11 | Jel's Cafe | New vendors and stuff!

Hey all, I'm back from my vacation from the USA. It was a pretty fun trip although I did end up getting Ill, I'm still recovering from it as we speak but I am doing a lot better.

Due to no blog post last week I had a little bit more time to work on the game, so this next patch is a pretty big one. As usual you can find the new patch at the bottom of this blog post.

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JEL'S CAFE PROGRESS

Shopping Vendors:

This week I primarily focused on the addition of two new shops you can visit. The first store features all things cafe upgrade related. From here you can upgrade how many seats you have, discounted prices for gifts, and more potent food. The pair running this shop is none other than Marco and Paul from Drawing with Nat: Dream Diary. Either one of them will randomly take the roll as vendor when you visit, so it'll be a mystery which kitty you'll talk to.

The other store that was added was the Back Alley Vendor. They can be found at the back of the cafe after a shift is over. From here you can purchase multiple different things, including exclusive props, Special gifts (Which I'll talk about later), and different UI's that you can use. This vendor also offers a daily discount, randomly once a day a Special gift and a random UI will have a discount!

Special Gifts:

Special Gifts are similar to regular gifts but are much more expensive, and can only be purchased from the Back Alley Vendor. They have their own inventory slot so you can carry both a regular gift and a special gift. Unlike normal gifts, special gifts are unique to one specific character, and they do not randomise. For example Mimi likes "Blue moon rocks", in every playthrough she will always like these and other characters are neutral towards them.

Phoebe's upgrade to be able to eat has also been converted to a special gift too, once purchased and used the item permenantly changes.

Customisable UI's:

This feature has now been greatly exapnded from the last build. Previously you could swap between the Drawing with Nat UI and the default UI but now UI's can be purchased from the Back Alley Vendor and equipped from a menu when at home. There are now a total of 6 UI's in the game, the Default, the Drawing with Nat UI, the DNA Subject Lucy UI, and 3 UI's heavily inspired by Earthbound.

Bug Fixes:

Lastly some small bug fixes

- Fixed leaving the gift selection screen teleporting you to Jel-e instead of Phoebe.

- Fixed Props 4-9 not updating properly when displaying them.

That's everything for now! Progress on this project has been going really smooth, and I'm hoping it'll continue as such over the next months.

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Save files from previous versions cannot be transfered over to this new build so please create a new save file.

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