Big demo update: a bee, money stacks, vacuum cursor
5 days agoHi everyone! How's it going? The demo went out two weeks ago, and since then I've been shipping updates almost non-stop. Eleven of them, to be precise. So much has changed I want to walk you through it. If you haven't opened the demo yet, now's a good time. And if you played it early, come back. A lot is different. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/46062645/44fbcb38c26f338a58264575c6a429d6f50532f4.png What's new Money stacks behave like real money now. Bills pile up, settle in a cascade, rustle when you grab them. Bigger customers leave visibly bigger stacks. Up to 23 bills at once from the most generous ones. Instead of a flat mat on the station, you now get a proper pile of cash. (I keep catching myself just staring at the piles instead of testing.) Vacuum mode. No more clicking each bill. Hover the cursor over a stack and they start lifting on their own. The shop now has a cursor upgrade branch: pickup radius (up to ×5) and pickup speed. The shop UI itself also got more compact. It barely covers the play area now, so playing with the shop open is comfortable. A bee. There's a bee living in the café now. It has personality: dodges your cursor, gets curious, does a loop, sometimes lands right on your cursor. It can swipe a bill off a station and fly away. Sometimes it shows up with a friend. This might be my favorite part of the update. The club sandwich now works with every bread. Before it only triggered on white and dark. Now baguette, burger bun and croissant get the club multiplier too. Plus the club bonus picks pricier ingredients: it rolls twice and keeps the more valuable one. The first 10 minutes feel livelier. The second station now costs $100 (was $200), and the first "wow station" opens within a minute. The starter ham costs half as much, and the first sandwich-height upgrade gives +87% income. The game opens up faster. 20 languages got a full revision pass. Every translation re-read and polished, 100% coverage everywhere. Fewer crashes, less RAM. Long sessions no lon...