Right off the bat! Before we start I would love to send you guys over to Steam and try out in a little under a couple of weeks our free SK2 Character creator for a chance to win a 3d printed SK styled character of your creation! This is just a small taste of how customisation your own character in Shoppe Keep 2 can look like, choose from skin/eye/hair color, beards, tattoos, body hair, underwear and socks! We added a small SMALL portion of items to dress up (Keep in mind in the current game state we have over 260+ Items currently in the game used by npcs/players/ordered/sold/crafted/looted/gained as rewards and so on and on. Ehem, so now, off to our devlog!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/787640/Shoppe_Keep_2_Character_Creator_Preview/
Emotes
If you're playing alone, sometimes it's not quite enough to just see your character portrayed in the inventory screen. Emoting will push the camera to a third person view where you'll be able to see your character performing an emote! Gaze upon the glory of your equipped items!
Better yet, you might want to visualize your emotions or thoughts with other players online by performing a gesture or action. Right now we have a work in progress of the wave implemented but an emote menu and more emotes are planned for the future.
Randomisation
We did have preset male and female characters as well as a business logo. Each time you created a new one, it felt a little dull. Even more so when you can customize your skin, eye and hair colour, hair style, tattoos, underwear and even your socks! Some players might miss out on the customization options available so when creating a brand new character, the game will randomize the look of the character when it loads up. If you're not happy with what the game has set, just customize it yourself! We have even randomized the business logo when creating a new shoppe, once again, if you don;t like what the game randomly assigned, you can customize and design your own logo.
Customer names
Customers are people too. They have first and last names and you, using the powers of txt file editing will be able to manipulate the names of customers in the game world. You'll be able to change the first and last names to allow for your friends, your family or your cat to have their name in the game.
Additionally we also have an MMO code which changes all customer names into complicated MMO style names. It's working, though we have not yet added setting choices in the game. We'll also be looking at adding a unique API to let streamers modify the customer names in real time as viewers join their streams.
Questing
Shoppe Keep 2's world will be filled with NPC's that will give you quests. On accepting a quest, it will appear in your tracker and you'll be able to choose which one you want to track and display in the UI and choose which ones you want to hide in order to prevent clogging up your screen with information.
Quests range from the classic "kill X creatures" but can also include hiring crafters, talking to particular NPC's crafting items delivering items and more. Some of which may be daily quests and additional activities which the player can do during the slow beginnings of the game and will even allow the player to receive rewards that may not be available any other way.
Business Names
Creating your logo and business name is not just a fancy way of distinguishing data in the main menu (I mean it is that too!) but within the game world you will see your business name and logo appear within the game via signs like the management house but also as a wall decoration for your shoppe.
That is it for today, don't forget to follow the development closely on Twitter @strangefiredev, and wishlist it on Steam!