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Release dates and beers deep-drink
Whew, making games is tough. And whew, making games as a solo dev is even tougher. And double whew, making a solo indie dev game in a never-before-seen genre mix with never-before-seen game mechanics and never-before-done cutting edge AI tech is even tougher. And estimating how long it'll all take? That's even harder. We pushed our release date, to tentatively Feb 12th 2025. We are trying as hard as humanely possible to get our demo out for October's Next Fest. We may have to push it further -- we aren't going to be releasing this game until it is fully baked and awesome. And we have a ways to go. Currently, this solo dev is working FT, about 40-60 hours a week on this game. However the savings are dryin' up. I may be forced to go back to work FT somewhere and shift game production to PT for the final stages. However rest assured: the game will definitely come out, its just a matter of when.
Another reason why we are pushing the release date is a lack of visibility and wishlists. Sure is tough to get noticed on Steam these days, with so many great games coming out everyday! Heck, there are even a lot of just tavern related-games coming this year. We have to seriously crank the marketing and wishlists and such to make this game a hit that can sustain gameboardgames and this solo dev to make future games. Towards this end we are putting together a great first trailer and upgrading our store page this month, do more often updates, and then we'll work on marketing more to get us where we want to be. If RoadHouse Manager looks like something someone you know may like, do us a huge solid and tell them about this obscure indie game being made. The more wishlists we get, the sooner the game will be released. It makes a big difference! If you have already wishlisted us, a big thank you, consider yourself a RoadHouse Manager OF (original fan.)
The roadhouse will feature one beer on tap. This will be the primary pour for the majority of your customers. The VIP's will get something special made for them (from our 350 ingredient cocktail creation system), for everyone else walking in through the fog, its tap beers. You'll be able to feature one beer on tap and it'll confer a unique bonus, so choose well. The featured beer will also have it's logo prominently on display above the main floor bar. Here's the beers! Brands are unlocked through meeting with special VIP Rep's who sometimes walk into the roadhouse, and confer special bonuses. The beer selection carries over to additional play-throughs.
Klump Beer Type: Stout Bonus: Takes longer for customers to drink (before needing another round) Klump is a delicious stout from an alternate dimension Ireland that is popular in over half of the known universe a billion years from now. Goes down smooth, full flavor, and best when poured from a keg.
Chilin Beer Type: Belgian White Bonus: More mellow customers (less chance of customer getting angry) You are sitting on a patio on a hot summer day, in the shade, overlooking a beach. At this moment in time you want a wheat beer with a touch of orange flavor. In most dimensions of Earth, you'd order a Chilin.
Horn Beer Type: Irish Lager Bonus: Extends time before angry customer looses his cool Sometimes you want the easy-drinking of a clean lager but you don't want the local tasteless stuff, you wanna go fancy, you want some real-deal beeriness to your beer. For these occasions, get a Horn.
Zip Zap Beer Type: Coffee-Infused Stout Bonus: Faster pour The beers making you sluggish? What if you caffeinated that? Put a little zip in your step and zap in your pouring times with the ever-popular Zip Zap stout.
Spririli Beer Type: Golden Lager Bonus: Extra $ tips Drinking a Spririli is like inviting a miniature German brewmaster into your mouth to orchestrate your taste buds to produce the most balanced and crisp lager featuring traditional malts and hops. The sort of easy-drinking, "all-day, all-night" beer.
Queen Beer Type: American-style Lager Bonus: Easier to pour (larger green zone when pouring) Here we have the true Queen of beers, in most of the known multiverse. Medium-bodied, flavorful, crisp lager that has little head, making it easier to get that perfect pour that keeps your customers happy. Barley, malt, hops and a touch of rice in this classic and perennially popular brew.
Sharky Beer Type: Pale Ale Bonus: Can't over-pour (no auto-fail if over-poured) Light, floral and a touch fruity, Sharky is a new easy-drinker out of universe 324251. Brewed in Washington state, this is the sort of summer beer that offers enough different flavors of the discerning palettes of those who want to try something a bit different, featuring grapefruit, lemon and lime notes.
[ 2024-07-19 20:30:41 CET ] [ Original post ]
Good day all future roadhouse managers out there. Thanks for reading. Get comfortable and we recommend pairing this update news with a fresh beer. Today we'll look at two things: a general update on how the game is coming along, and a look at the possible beers on tap in your roadhouse.
Release Date Pushed
Whew, making games is tough. And whew, making games as a solo dev is even tougher. And double whew, making a solo indie dev game in a never-before-seen genre mix with never-before-seen game mechanics and never-before-done cutting edge AI tech is even tougher. And estimating how long it'll all take? That's even harder. We pushed our release date, to tentatively Feb 12th 2025. We are trying as hard as humanely possible to get our demo out for October's Next Fest. We may have to push it further -- we aren't going to be releasing this game until it is fully baked and awesome. And we have a ways to go. Currently, this solo dev is working FT, about 40-60 hours a week on this game. However the savings are dryin' up. I may be forced to go back to work FT somewhere and shift game production to PT for the final stages. However rest assured: the game will definitely come out, its just a matter of when.
Need To Get More Known!
Another reason why we are pushing the release date is a lack of visibility and wishlists. Sure is tough to get noticed on Steam these days, with so many great games coming out everyday! Heck, there are even a lot of just tavern related-games coming this year. We have to seriously crank the marketing and wishlists and such to make this game a hit that can sustain gameboardgames and this solo dev to make future games. Towards this end we are putting together a great first trailer and upgrading our store page this month, do more often updates, and then we'll work on marketing more to get us where we want to be. If RoadHouse Manager looks like something someone you know may like, do us a huge solid and tell them about this obscure indie game being made. The more wishlists we get, the sooner the game will be released. It makes a big difference! If you have already wishlisted us, a big thank you, consider yourself a RoadHouse Manager OF (original fan.)
Beers on Tap in the RoadHouse
The roadhouse will feature one beer on tap. This will be the primary pour for the majority of your customers. The VIP's will get something special made for them (from our 350 ingredient cocktail creation system), for everyone else walking in through the fog, its tap beers. You'll be able to feature one beer on tap and it'll confer a unique bonus, so choose well. The featured beer will also have it's logo prominently on display above the main floor bar. Here's the beers! Brands are unlocked through meeting with special VIP Rep's who sometimes walk into the roadhouse, and confer special bonuses. The beer selection carries over to additional play-throughs.
Klump Beer Type: Stout Bonus: Takes longer for customers to drink (before needing another round) Klump is a delicious stout from an alternate dimension Ireland that is popular in over half of the known universe a billion years from now. Goes down smooth, full flavor, and best when poured from a keg.
Chilin Beer Type: Belgian White Bonus: More mellow customers (less chance of customer getting angry) You are sitting on a patio on a hot summer day, in the shade, overlooking a beach. At this moment in time you want a wheat beer with a touch of orange flavor. In most dimensions of Earth, you'd order a Chilin.
Horn Beer Type: Irish Lager Bonus: Extends time before angry customer looses his cool Sometimes you want the easy-drinking of a clean lager but you don't want the local tasteless stuff, you wanna go fancy, you want some real-deal beeriness to your beer. For these occasions, get a Horn.
Zip Zap Beer Type: Coffee-Infused Stout Bonus: Faster pour The beers making you sluggish? What if you caffeinated that? Put a little zip in your step and zap in your pouring times with the ever-popular Zip Zap stout.
Spririli Beer Type: Golden Lager Bonus: Extra $ tips Drinking a Spririli is like inviting a miniature German brewmaster into your mouth to orchestrate your taste buds to produce the most balanced and crisp lager featuring traditional malts and hops. The sort of easy-drinking, "all-day, all-night" beer.
Queen Beer Type: American-style Lager Bonus: Easier to pour (larger green zone when pouring) Here we have the true Queen of beers, in most of the known multiverse. Medium-bodied, flavorful, crisp lager that has little head, making it easier to get that perfect pour that keeps your customers happy. Barley, malt, hops and a touch of rice in this classic and perennially popular brew.
Sharky Beer Type: Pale Ale Bonus: Can't over-pour (no auto-fail if over-poured) Light, floral and a touch fruity, Sharky is a new easy-drinker out of universe 324251. Brewed in Washington state, this is the sort of summer beer that offers enough different flavors of the discerning palettes of those who want to try something a bit different, featuring grapefruit, lemon and lime notes.
[ 2024-07-19 20:30:41 CET ] [ Original post ]
RoadHouse Manager
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2025-04-29
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Welcome to The Fog’s End: a roadhouse in an alternate dimension where there are many thirsty travelers. In this strange place, every night a fog bank rolls through the land. Here the fog bends worlds together, and makes you forget who you are. Lost in fog, misfits and lost travelers wander through infinite possibilities. The Midnight Train from some other place stops here, every night. These travelers will come to The Fog’s End, a beacon in the mist: looking for friends, looking for forgotten memories, and a well-made drink.
Oh ya, and some jerks will come in as well. You'll have to throw them out -- maybe through a window, or down the stairs.
Stock the Bar, Save the World
Most folks in this world are friendly, but not all of them. You have thirty days to prepare for the end of the world. It will take all your skills and a hell of a perfect signature cocktail to appease the OMEGA CRITIC, the weird being who owns this dimension. If you don’t make the cut, you get cut; your reality phased-out into the fog and mistified.
No two games play the same way, as different travelers find you in the fog every night. Over 50,000 possible looks to these random NPCs. Each night's travelers include one VIP guest. VIPs are vital for your roadhouse. Send them on quests, or gamble-dice to win cocktail infusions for your custom cocktail, or hire them to staff.
Advanced LLM AI-powered Patrons
Your drinks are famous. Sometimes they are so good, they'll shock the guests into remembering that they were once famous.
Socrates. Maurice Rocket Richarde. Cleopatra. You can infuse guests with over 100 possible historical personalities if you have can craft the correct cocktail!
Once a wanderer enjoys one of your fine beverages, they’ll decide to stay, and become a permanent fixture in your bar. You can even hire them as staff. Maybe Seneca could work coat check, and Nikola Tesla be your handy-man, the choice is yours.
Dialogue for these famous guests are generated by a live AI using a simulated personality matrix, enabling near limitless possibilities! But please note: a network connection is needed for this feature -- you can still play offline though, without the dialogue, if you aren't much of a reader.
Advanced Bartending Fun
No one ever bartended like this before, in gaming.
Each drink is a performance in The Fog’s End. You’ll need some good flair to impress your VIPs. Toss the glass, spin it, balance it on your arm. Pour it perfectly. And your ingredients have to be up to snuff to, as only the highest quality cocktails can trigger an Infusion, where your VIP remembers he or she is a famous figure from history!
24 kinds of beer. 24 kinds of wine. 100 different spirits. 99 different beverages and juices. 85 kinds of sweeteners, mixes and syrups. No game has ever had any bar anywhere near as stocked as yours, with 333 possible ingredients in the roadhouse. Ralph, our in-house AI, calculates upwards of 2,364,896 possible unique drink recipes are possible with this many ingredients... and that's a lot!
Days Are For Building, Exploring and Prep -- Nights You Are Open For Business
As the days go on, you’ll need an increasingly better ambiance to entice fog-wanderers to stop by. Through your staff, you can spend money on upgrading your roadhouse: show lights, plants, seating, appliances, and enhance your VIP room for your most famous guests. The day time is for casual prepping for the night time.
Reminiscent of old-school design, when the night starts, you'll have to run around to pour drinks, keep your customers in line, and collect tips and glassware, some of it flying through the air! To keep operating costs low, catch those flying glasses and try not to break furniture if you got to bust heads and do some coolin'. During the day, you can rebuild, upgrade and explore the open world.
Infinite Cocktail Design
Utilizing an AI-powered Signature Cocktail designer, the amount of drinks you can create is almost endless. Only have some lime juice, maple syrup and gin? Don’t worry about it! Our AI will come up with something!
Our cocktail creator offers near infinite possibilities. You may be able to generate your very own original and delicious legendary drink that you could make in the real world if you have the same ingredients. Millions of possible cocktail inventions are possible in your roadhouse!
But only the Best Cocktail can save the world! If the OMEGA CRITIC isn't impressed, your roadhouse will get knocked down to make way for a new trans-dimensional highway bypass. It's all up to you!
Improve Your RoadHouse, & Collect 120+ Songs From Around the Multiverse
You have a magic interdimensional jukebox that can bring in over 120 songs from alternate dimensions, unlocked via impressing traveling VIP musicians.
You are limited in how many VIPs you can keep as regulars though. Each one has different stats and bonuses. Choose wisely, and swap out when needed. Upgrade the VIP room for a bigger squad of patrons.
With each new run, you can carry over a few of your prized bottles of booze. Choose wisely to make the next run count!
Cool It!
Rule number one for your roadhouse: always try to be rice.
Rice is flexible. Rice is easy-going. Rice is nice. You always try to be rice. But sometimes, being rice just won’t cut it.
If push comes to shove, you’ll have to deliver an occasional beat-down to keep the unruly guests chilled and reasonable. Punch, kick, and throw unruly guests down the stairs to prevent a giant bar fight from breaking out, wrecking your roadhouse!
MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: Linux
- Processor: Quad core 2 GHzMemory: 8 GB RAM
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: (testing upcoming)Additional Notes: (testing upcoming)
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- Processor: Quad core 3 GHz+Memory: 16 GB RAM
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