The Last Vending Machine

Hey everyone! 👋I’ve been experimenting with a different art direction for The Last Vending Machine, my PC incremental game about running a vending machine and growing the settlement around it.The GIFs show A — Original art and B — New art preview. I’d love your opinion before taking the new style further!Alongside the art, here’s the wider development direction:A more animated world: refreshed art across the six wastelands, clearer characters and buildings, moving machinery, crops, weather and improved day/night lighting.A machine that visibly evolves: recognisable upgrade stages, attachments, improved dispensers, product drops and coin feedback.More settlement choices and activity: expand building choices and their economic tradeoffs, with visible construction, workers, farmers, robot routes and a town that grows around your machine.Deeper incremental progression: clearer milestones, production bottleneck explanations, useful upgrade previews, product specialisations and new dispensing capabilities such as bundle orders.Different business strategies: strengthen efficient vending, high-volume sales, farming and robot deliveries, with meaningful choices and opportunities to experiment.More meaningful permanent progression: ability-unlocking patents, retained discoveries, saved setup and clearer explanations of what carries over when launching your next machine.More control over automation: purchase priorities, saving toward chosen upgrades, scrap reserves and visible worker assignments, while keeping unattended progress useful.Earned personalisation: persistent machine finishes, signs, lamps, planters, survivor keepsakes, rare salvaged decorations—and goat hats!PC and sharing improvements: refine photo mode, desktop window controls, sound and ambience settings, calm mode and notifications, alongside offline-progress, save and late-game polish.Ideas I’m exploring for later:More product variants and light recipes, including premium coffee, unusual seeds and recovered s...