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December Update 2 - Chocolate + Milk!

Lost Abroad Café (Beta): A Language Learning Management Sim
A downloadable game for Windows and macOS

So before I get into the changes for this week, I've got to acknowledge a pretty silly mistake I made on the last devlog/release. I was super excited to announce the launch of our Discord server (shout out to everyone that's joined!), and even added a button to join from the Language Select screen. The problem? I forgot to create an invite link that never expires 😂. It's been fixed now, so hopefully anyone that had tried to join can now do so!

Moving on to our updates for this week, which are short and very sweet: chocolate and milk have now been added as equipment to the game! They're currently used to make mochas (coffee + chocolate) and a simple "coffee with milk", which is really cool because it teaches you the "A with B" grammatical structure. We'll be adding even more menu items that you can use these with in future updates -- for example, adding milk to black tea, or of course making some hot chocolate for a cold winter's night.

With the milk, we did something that we hadn't done with any equipment before -- the player drags the milk carton over to their cup of coffee to pour it in, and then it pops back over to the starting point (we're working on having it float back to make it a bit more smooth). We already had tap-and-drag functionality for the cups, but implementing this was interesting because it doesn't then get set down on a machine, but only sits there temporarily. Check it out in action below! And enjoy my swirling milk pouring motions.

Files

  • Lost Abroad Cafe.rar 87 MB
    Dec 18, 2022
  • Lost Abroad Cafe.app.zip 106 MB
    Dec 19, 2022
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