Hello, update v0.6 is live now! This has been one of the most challenging updates to develop so far, but hopefully you will enjoy all the new things that were added to the game. This update expands the game in many ways, it adds a new location with new challenges, improves existing systems, and adds rival companies with cool rewards.
Akihabara
Akihabara is the 4th location of Coffee Shop Tycoon, inspired by the real location in Tokyo and other cities like Osaka and Kyoto. This new location is one of a kind as it allows you to build your coffee shop on top of a building, the available expansion unlocks a nice rooftop area where your customers can enjoy the views of the city and a cherry blossom park below. Prove your management skills on this new location, and help Akari turn this shop into a trending spot.
New Items
You will also find many new items inspired by Japanese culture ready to turn your store into a unique and interesting place.
New Ingredient
If that is not enough you can also brew new drinks using matcha, to delight any customer on your new shop.
Rival Companies
Another major feature is "Rival Companies". These AI controlled companies will grow along you and try to become the best coffee shop around, thankfully these are public companies so anyone can buy their stocks, that includes you!
Try to make wise investments and buy stocks from promising companies. The stock price from these companies will change over time depending on the companies' value, this gives you a chance to gain profits by buying and selling stocks or simply by waiting for the company to pay dividends. Beware, companies might go bankrupt any time, so look after your investments.
Some companies have unique logos and rewards that you can unlock by buying out the company.
If you choose so, you can sell a company that you own and recover the value of stocks and any money in that company's bank. But you won't be able to receive any more dividends from that company.
New trending system
With the addition of rival companies, the trending system has been updated. When an ingredient is trending, launching a featured drink with that ingredient will start a popularity boost.
Failing to react to a trend can allow other companies to take advantage and launch a trending drink of their own, this will impact your store's reputation and give you a negative popularity boost.
New Achievements
Nine new achievements are available for you to unlock! Prove you are a true tycoon by getting all of them!
Max level increased
With all the new items to unlock the max level you can reach has been increased to level 10.
Other improvements and fixes
There are other minor improvements that are part of this update.
- A new banner was added to keep track of ongoing market balance campaigns from your store, useful for one of the objectives of the new store.
- Solved a bug where non existing ingredients showed up as trending, like 'Candy Dust' or 'Strawberry'
- Improved pathfinding will prevent customers from getting stuck in most situations.
- Fixed a bug that prevented placing wall decorations in some corners.
- Fixed some race condition crashes.
This was a major update of the game but won't be the last, I have more plans for new locations and more interesting features and content, you can follow me on twitter @riffstudios to know more about the development of new features and updates. Thank you for all the support you have given me as it has helped me to keep working on the game, as always, I'm open to all your feedback and I will be looking closely for any bug reports.
Next updates
Finally, this is a list of some of the new things I have in mind for future updates, I will be giving more details as I make progress on the next update.
- More locations and mechanics
- Cloud Saves
- Steam Workshop support
- More Achievements
- Support for more languages
- Help Section
- Optimizations
Enjoy your coffee.