Dear retailers!
As we reach the end of the first week since King of Retail 2’s launch, as promised, it’s time for the Week 1 update! Thank you to everyone who has jumped into King of Retail 2 over the last week. It’s been wonderful to see all of your display designs, creative store layouts, and it's also amazing to hear your feedback on the game as a whole.
As I continue to develop King of Retail 2 throughout Early Access, your feedback is always greatly appreciated, so please keep it coming!
Plus, if you’ve been working on your stores, especially a supermarket, I’ve got some exciting news for you, but I’ll get to that in a moment.
Onto the Update
- We’ve added many, many new decorations! As an example, every product currently within King of Retail 2 can now be used as a decorative prop. You can scale up those baguettes, slap jars of pickles across every wall, if you wish, and let your creativity run wild as you craft the perfect store.
- All items now show their Bulk Count to reduce confusion when ordering.
- Reduced the space needed for new registers.
- Men’s boots and Men’s classical shoes have arrived in King of Retail 2.
- Added 2 new door types in Build Mode.
- HQ rooms are now properly removed in save games if deleted from HQ.
- Couriers now spawn in the same place as customers,
- Individual applications can now be removed.
- Adjusted the collision zone of new registers to prevent AI blocking.
- Walls will now properly save their rotation direction.
- Products now respect register mirroring when purchased.
- The Article viewer now closes upon clicking the X button.
- Pants properly show their Bulk Count when ordering.
That’s what’s arrived in the game today, ready for you to try out, but, let’s talk about what’s on the horizon!
Looking Forward
General tweaks and the occasional bug squashing work will continue throughout development, scaling up and down depending on the latest build.
For other news, we have brought a new designer on board to assist with King of Retail 2, and we will be investing additional time into new products as a result. The clothing category will see continued expansion, as with the introduction of new shoes this week, as we bring in more variety beyond the Men’s clothing category in the future.
In the same vein, we’re also starting work on a Beauty/Health category of products in King of Retail 2, which the new designer will take on, thanks to her excellent experience in product label design.
From next week, my work on Build Mode will begin, allowing for interior walls and doors, so creating rooms will be fully available. Currently, you can achieve this in-game via the use of the Shapes feature, but, baking it directly into the Walls portion of Build Mode is high on my priority list. Part of this will also be to allow you to determine customer flow by assigning your own entrances and exits.
Once this is tackled, multi-stores will be next on my list. Currently, you can own multiple stores, but the system does not simulate those stores when you’re not present, so my goal is to change that. Stores you’re not currently in will then be simulated in earnest, and I’ll also be further expanding the HQ feature to bring it more in line with the store customisation mechanics.
Lots to do, lots to share, and products will be a continually evolving part of this process, as well. If there’s a particular product type that you’re after, please sound off in the comments below!
Right, let’s talk about our supermarket contest.
Supermarket Building Contest
For those unfamiliar, we like to run competitions in King of Retail 2 where we present you with a theme, you create a store with that theme in mind, and you submit it on our Discord, with the winner receiving a gift card!
To celebrate the first week of King of Retail 2 in Early Access, we’re expanding the theme to one word:
Supermarket.
Credit to Lauraluff on the King of Retail 2 Discord!
However that speaks to you, build your supermarket, share your supermarket in our Discord, and be in with a chance of winning one of the three available Steam gift cards!
The competition will run from today, May 30th, until the 20th of June, and is open to both demo AND Early Access players.
So, swing on by the official King of Retail 2 server, and let’s see those supermarkets!
That’s all for this week.
Once again, thank you for checking out King of Retail 2, please keep the feedback coming, and as always:
Have a great sale!
- Daniel