Hello everyone. We've been working on the bartending art update. In the next update I'll be replacing all the bartending art with new art and every pose will now have 2 versions picked at random for low/medium/high training level. Eventually I want 3 total random poses, but we only fit the 2 into this update. In the future I'll sprinkle them into other updates in the background. I even have art for the intro outfit because the first few days felt flat without a little movement.
Art upgrades terrify me when I'm supporting a game because I usually just want more content rather than more polish. But I wanted to add additional poses and some of the art didn't quite match and it felt off to me. So now all the bartending art will be done in the same style with the same Catherine reference.
I'm also working on updating the mini-game a little bit. Drinks will track the order they come in. Skills will have some side benefits to drink happiness giving smalltalk a use further into the game.
Long term I'm going to completely revamp "special service" and make it a kind of pause to the normal game mode and let Catherine interact with the chuds more personally rather than saving all the action for the post-bartending scenes.
I've also got brewing figured out. The art for that will be in the update after this one. But it will no longer be a giant pain in the ass.
TED
2025-05-26 01:09:34 +0000 UTCFlynn Taggart
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