PEKOE UPDATE: SEASONS

🍵Tea's the season, everyone!❄️🌱☀️🍂

December is always a great time to reflect over the past year. A lot of changes can happen in a full year, and what better way to celebrate that than by experiencing all four seasons in our cozy tea-making game?

That's right, we've got another big update for you, this time focused on adding content and gameplay mechanics related to Seasons! Whichever season is your favourite, we've got new art, dialogue, and gameplay for you, all outlined in the full list below!

The Roadmap!

We're thrilled to share a glimpse into what's ahead! Seasons marks the second among a series of substantial content updates leading up to v1.0. Meanwhile, expect our routine patches and bug fixes to ensure a smooth experience. Brace yourselves for some paws-itively amazing updates that'll leave you feline hyped for more!🐾

Now let's dive in!

Version 0.5 Seasons Update - Patch Notes:

As always, let us know your thoughts on the update in the comments or in our Discord!

Remember, if you are experiencing a bug, you can report it in-game by either pressing the F2 key or the drop-down button in the top right corner of the screen. Our Discord also has a bug channel for more in-depth one-on-one support! In particular, if there is a bug that you’ve already reported a while back but is still happening, there is a chance that this is a bug that we’ve had difficulty reproducing. If you’re able to hop into our Discord to help us track down and squash these pesky recurring bugs, we’d love to have you!

❄️ Seasons

• Visual environment changes and effects for each season

• Music and Ambient SFX for each season

• New dialogue for residents and town cats for each season

• Seasons affect frequency of certain customer whim orders, such as asking for hot or cold drinks

• Seasonal Ingredients

  • Different ingredients for each will satisfy the new “Seasonal” customer whim

  • These ingredients will only be available in shops during those seasons

🎂 Birthdays

• Celebrate each resident’s birthday with special birthday-only dialogue

• Visual effects on each resident’s home for their birthdays

• View every resident birthday in the new Calendar in your Journal Menu

🌧️ Weather

• Visual effects for snow and rain

• Frequency of snow and rain affected by each season

• New dialogue for shopkeeprs and town cats during snow and rain

🧊 Iced Tea

• Cool down hot tea with ice, or make an iced drink to satisfy a customer whim

• Water Dispensers now have an ice switch, unlocked after Town Level 5

• Bubble Tea Stations have special ice containers, for adding ice with scoops

• New Recipes added that require ice

1️⃣0️⃣ More Town Levels

• Maximum Town Level increased to 10

• Tea Point threshold for all levels adjusted

• Tea forms and teaware that were previously unlocked right away are now unlocked with first few town levels, for a more balanced and gradual game progression experience, and to encourage fully exploring all the initially available tea forms

• This will not affect existing save files with the tea forms already unlocked!

📃 New Tasks

• New task cards have been added, unlocked with Town Levels 1-3, to help players find tutorials for and to try out newly unlocked tea forms

🖱️ Interactive Environments

• All resident homes, interiors and exteriors, have new animations and descriptive pop-ups added to various objects. Click around to explore them all!

🍵 Whim Orders

• New types of whim orders added

• Customers can request specific tea categories (black tea, green tea, etc.) or specific tea forms (powdered, blooming, etc.)

• Customers can now request cold drinks, in addition to hot

• Customers can now request drinks with seasonal ingredients

• Dialogue system has been revamped to avoid repetitive dialogue, and to prioritize residents' unique dialogue options

• New system also prioritizes special dialogue unique to each season, or for events like birthdays

• Pambeh’s End Credits prompt now has option for regular dialogue, so players can continue having conversations with Pambeh after reaching maximum town level

• Updated Time Panel with new art and clearer information about seasons, time of day, and weather

• Fixed error where Tea Sprite cutscene would not load correctly and cause game to stall, when pressing space bar to progress during End of Day screen

• Fixed bug where exiting Finished Tea screen during first tutorial too quickly would cause error when trying to enter Pambeh’s home in next step

We hope that you enjoy all the new content in Pekoe, we love hearing from folks so feel free to give us a ping on socials or join us on Discord!

-Kitten Cup Studio