Hey everyone Jeledraws here!
I’ve been working on a new game for the past few months since I concluded development on Drawing with Nat: Dream Diary.
This new game is still in its early pre alpha stages and is coming along nicely. I’m looking to complete the Pre alpha by the end of this month.
This new game Jel’s Cafe (Which is just the working title for now) is a game where you manage a Cafe alongside several friendly faces, with all the characters being from my selection of OCs as well as some new faces I’ve not shown off before! The gameplay revolves around random customers appearing daily, taking and delivering the customer orders, chatting to customers and staff, feeding them up and raising their friendship, and decorating your Cafe too!
You can give customers gift items that’ll raise their friendship and fullness levels greatly but they do cost a bit more of the ingame currency to order.
The game is planned to launch with 10 regular customers and 5 special customers that require certain conditions to unlock first.
If for whatever reason you dislike a certain customer then worry not! The customer Log book is here to help, you can use this item to view the stats of every character who has visited the Cafe, and you can use the divine powers of video game QOL to simply remove a customer from appearing. That way you can tailor you experince to just the characters you want to interact with!
I’m using a lot of my free time to work on this game, and any support over on my Patreon is greatly appreciated! Joining Tier 2 or higher you can find exclusive weekley blog posts about the games development, access to new builds when available and also get the other Patreon benefits like early art and things! https://www.patreon.com/c/Jeledraws
I’ll have more to show in here once the game begins its cleaning up stages. (Like art and writing).
Hope you will all check it out!
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could you upload the game to itch.io when its ready?
Yes, once the games finished it’ll be available for purchase with Patreons gaining access to it as part of their membership.
Right now you can test the pre alpha from the Patreon (Just look for Dev blog number 15, that contains the currently most up to date version)
Version 0.1a has been released today for all Patreon members in Tier 2 or higher. This is a major update that contains a lot of changes.
It now also means the game has left Pre-alpha and the majority of features have been added, leaving just the cleaning and art assets left to work on!
Please consider checking it out if you’re in Patreon, and if not, support is greatly appreciated!
patreon.com/Jeledraws
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Jel’s Cafe Version 0.2a is now available to Patreon supporters
Download the game and read the full blogpost here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/jels-cafe-0-2a-134625271
It’s been a few months, a lot of work has gone into this build, there’s still a huge amount of work to be done to the game, but it is starting to take shape in some places! Here’s some of the highlights from the changelog:
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New Music! New music by ZLD1 and Elektrobear have been added throughout the game!
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Updated Intro and Tutorial.
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New interactions, some clean-ups and some brand new scenes of all been added!
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New artwork. Several characters have their starting sizes artwork complete! With Bliss even having art done all the way up to level 6!
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Removed Props and added Themes. Still early in development, themes will redecorate the whole cafe instead of adding a singular prop like before!
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Customer Log Book got some overhauls! It now looks much nicer (Still needs some work in places though!)
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Shop UI’s have been updated! Still also needs a lot of work, but most shop UIs now look much better in places!
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The Cafe now looks a lil prettier!
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Added Hell! …wait what? (Exclusive to Story Mode)
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A Mountain of Bug fixes! There’s still likely more to come, so please point any out that you find or may think is a bug!
A reward exclusive to Patreon supporters:
CAN YOU BEAT WEEK 7?!
…Seriously I need to know if its possible without cheating.
The game takes a few hours to beat, and I’m currently unsure if it even is possible to reach Week 7 of Story Mode, I’ve not had the time to sit down and fully play through it all. SO I am offering you a chance to help me out!
If you are able to complete Week 7 of Story Mode with a screenshot or video to prove it (And without cheating or abusing any unknown bugs) then I’ll add an OC of your choosing to the game as a mini NPC that will appear outside of the normal gameplay. These characters will have some basic interactions and won’t be like the normal customers.
The first person to achieve this will get two cameos in the game, one in the tutorial area and a second elsewhere along with any other runner ups! (I reserve the right to deny any characters I see unfit for the game)
This offer will be limited to the first few who are able to achieve this (If its possible). For now I’ll say limited to 5!
If it isn’t possible to reach week 7 due to bugs or other means then this offer will simply remerge in a future build.
Even if you’re unable to achieve this goal, reporting any bugs or providing feedback or criticisms will still add your name to the playtester credits should you desire that!
Feel free to check it out! I’ll continue working hard on the game when I can! Thank you!
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