Hello! We're reporting back to you after two weeks with some new stuff we're working on. I won't drag this out - let's see what we're working on.

We want the environment of your lounge to be dynamic - this of course includes the smoke and its ventilation! At the base you'll have a classic air conditioning system, but you'll be able to upgrade over time.

Depending on the amount of clutter in the air (from shisha, coals etc.), the smoke will gradually appear and thus affect your customers. We're really looking forward to showing you all of this interconnected.

Last week we started working on the traffic system in the outdoor environment. We'll be fine-tuning the animations and visuals over the next two weeks, but the basics are done. If you enter the roadway, the car will of course slow down, but we don't promise in high speeds that nothing will happen. 👀

This wont be only a visual gimmic - we need some traffic for gameplay hehe.

Because we would like our game to be seen by many enthusiasts, we joined the Days of Ramadan event! We would love to welcome you new pipers and look forward to having you play our game!

Just like the last news save system we have a new back bone system and that is localization! We can make sure that in the available languages you see on Steam, all the text will be translated and you will be able to change the language within a game session if you prefer another. 💪

We can see what we have for wishlists and interest, but if you want to make sure you have your native language translated as well, drop us a line on discord!

We want the core of our game to be as good as possible, so it needs a lot of iterations. We are currently continuing to improve the visualizations of tobacco, its manipulation and embers, here are some pictures of the things we are working on.

Apart from the tobacco system I'll be happy to show you our delivery system next news which I have in progress. We have some minor features in there, but you'll see them later.

Thanks to all the people who continue to wishlist our game, you can reach us on discord and looking forward to next updates in two weeks!

Adam

Hey, guys! It's been quiet for a while with no news, but the quiet period has passed and we have another batch of news!

And it won't be the only one, we're a small team that makes the game in our spare time, but we've currently changed the way we operate to release news on a bi-weekly basis. That's great, right?

We had a month after the Czech Games Week to prepare the game to a presentable state for the developer conference, where the first feedback was given.

After the conference we had a lot of modifications on the project's code, we want to gradually improve these things and continue to announce them to you via these communication channels (Discord [discord.gg]💙).

A few of you from our local pond had a chance to meet us at the GDS - developer conference in Prague, and we'd like to welcome all the readers who came to say hello! 👋

There we showcased the first demo of our game to test interactions, game feel, etc. We implemented this feedback over the last months and had to change some of our core systems - primarily the controls to make it enjoyable for you - players.

The event was great and we are already planning to show up again with another version of the game!

One of the biggies and under the hood features was the save system. Every game needs to save its states so that the player can continue his journey. We've added this system to the game, allowing for periodic automatic saves, manual saves, overwriting saves, pretty much everything a player would expect from it.

And the bonus? It's ready to sync with Steam, so you'll have your saves available when you uninstall or play the game on multiple devices.


We would like to introduce you to the end of the daily cycle. You as a player will be able to choose when you open and close the business with closing the door and turning of the sign. You won't be able to be open 24/7, but you will have almost full control over the time your hookah lounge opens! 💨

If you want to close before a given smoke shop the game will alert you before you move on to the next day. You'll also see stats when you finish, but we'll show you those in a later devblogs. 😌


At the moment we have a few things in the works, but the next news will focus on one of the main things in the game - tobacco preparation. Here's a little tease (still work in progress) 🔪

I look forward to telling you about the other features we are working on. If you have any questions, comments, or ideas on what to add to the game, we'd love to see you on our Discord[discord.gg]!

Adam