Hello everyone! This is Xiao from Purpledoor Studios, and welcome to our first Devlog of Magic Inn! Today, I’m thrilled to introduce the basics of innkeeping to all our future innkeepers and wizards. Grab your wands and aprons; it’s going to be a magical ride!
Dining
Any proper inn should serve decent food; otherwise, we’d have hungry travelers yelling at us. In Magic Inn, you need to take up cooking, in the form of mini-games, to serve food orders from guests. The quality of food relies on both your cooking skill and how well you complete the cooking mini-games.
Each guest only has limited patience, so you will need to hurry up.
When the inn gets crowded, you could employ chefs and servers to scale up the operation.
You can also learn new magic spells or hire wizards to streamline operations.
Drinking
You know what’s worse than not having food at an inn? Yep, you guessed it: not having alcohol.
In Magic Inn, preparing drinks is very similar to preparing food. You also complete a different set of mini-games where the result determines the drink quality, and you can hire servers to help out.
We also want to add a special mechanism to drinking: a drunk meter. As you improve your conversation skills, you can recommend more drinks to guests, which fills up their drunk meter. When the meter is full, the guest will pass out, and you will lose the income. But if the drunk meter is near full, it gives you an advantage in conversation, where they will be more likely to spill their guts and say yes to your requests.
Room
Compared to dining and drinking, rooms should be the most profitable part of the business.
The price of a room is determined by its value. You can add expensive furniture, beautiful decorations, and rare gems to increase the room value. Then you just sit back and relax while watching the cash roll in.
More importantly, at night when the inn is closed, you can engage in conversation with guests who stay over. These conversations could turn into meaningful relationships that will benefit you in the long run. We will get into that part in a future Devlog.
We hope this gives you a little more insight into what innkeeping in Magic Inn is like.
Let us know your thoughts and feedback, fellow innkeepers!