Hey vending moguls! 🍹
This update brings another round of improvements, polish, and system tweaks based on your latest feedback and our ongoing work toward full release. Here’s what’s new:
✨ Gameplay & Systems
• Quest System refactored with Google Sheet integration
• Improved quest UI & scroll wheel overlay support
• Added pitch randomizer for map hover and refreshed coin stack sounds
• Object destruction now works correctly with scale punch animations
• Storage warnings optimized to prevent floating text spam
• SlotModel improvements: new lightweight removeItem and deterministic refresh delay
• Machine helper tools merged and simplified for faster runtime operations
• InputController now has ForceEndDrag failsafe to prevent UI drag glitches
• Machine condition & item interactability improved
• Upgrade data synced across areas, with new sell chance balancing
• Market hot items button added
• Rival machine systems reworked
• Reflection removed in dump helpers for faster slot access
• UI sync and toast utilities updated
🧩 UI & Visuals
• Tooltip max width adjustments (720 → 540) for better readability
• Added locked overlay opacity on machine upgrade panels
• Updated CalendarButtonModel prefab visuals
• General upgrade button opacity and money color fail-safes improved
• Font updates, pie chart width adjustments, and better spacing for icons
• Added fade animations for stock parent canvases and UI panels
• Area panels, app views, and hierarchy layouts polished
• Transition curtain now uses a delayed fade-out check for smoother scene changes
🔊 Audio
• SFX remix and polish pass
• Adjusted map hover pitch variation
• Temporary coin stack sound tweak
🔧 Performance & Polish
• Multiple prefab updates across vending machine, house, and area variants
• Reduced unused button clutter on map panel
• Reflection-heavy code paths removed for faster iteration
• Minor bug fixes, log cleanup, and UI responsiveness improvements
• Sync and utility functions optimized across systems
📦 Misc
• Various balancing changes.
• Continued internal rework on quest integration and overlay canvas behavior
• Tons of invisible under-the-hood cleanups to keep everything smooth and deterministic
We’re getting closer to the next milestone — thank you for playing and sharing your thoughts!
Wishlist and share Vending Machine Co. if you enjoy the chaos of vending management 💼🧃
Check out the updated Next Fest Demo:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3622640/Vending_Machine_Co/