Cooking Dev Update!

Hi everyone!

We're working on the big 1.0 features now and wanted to keep you up to date with our progress.

Most importantly, the cooking minigames!

Firstly, we created some rough concept art to get an idea for the different "cooking scenes" we'd need to make.

And then we made them in 3D. Note: They're not fully done yet, we still need to move things around, polish them and improve the lighting.

They are:

• Cooking station (frying, cooking, oven)

• Baking station (baking/mixing)

• Herbalism station (teas, oils, tinctures, drying)

• Prep station (chopping, blending)

The minigames will be a puzzle of recreating the recipes in chronological order. Like in this example, you needed to click on the onion and potato and then on the chopping board in order to cut them.

There will be lots of testing, polishing and experimenting. We think that 95% of the 250 recipes from the game will fit into the recipe categories we created. If not, we might need to change or delete some recipes. But those would only be the ones that would be too hard to implement.

Don't worry, once you made a recipe for the first time, you can then use the quick mode (which is the current cooking animation) to make it faster. But this way, we add more gameplay variety, more learning, and more cozyness to the game, so we hope you like it! After all, many of you were asking for it. Do let me know what you think of this feature in the comments!

Sorting Update

We're also improving the sorting minigame by creating higher quality models that look better. Here's an example of how this will look in the future. We will prepare bespoke assets for each plant to improve this experience. Steam post image

New Tutorial

Our story and quest team are going over the first 4 in-game days and reworking them to be more fun. This means the Tutorial experience and quests will change, but the story will stay the same. We're also going through all the spring and summer quests and checking their quality. If a quest is boring and felt like an annoying fetch quest, we'll change it or delete it.

As part of this, we will soon work on PHOTO QUESTS! These will be a new quest type that asks you to take a picture with certain objects in frame. So it's a bit of a puzzle and will let you use the camera more often. Once we have a video of this, we'll share it in an update.

I hope you like the direction we're going in!

Have a great day everyone!

Elena & the Yaldi Team