Hi friends!
 We hope your first month of 2025 has been great!🩷 With January almost over, we would love to fill you in on everything new with the development of Cat Cafe Manager 2: Big City Bliss! [h2][b]💚Kickstarter Updates[/b][/h2] This month, we officially closed late pledges for Kickstarter after collecting a total of €93,370 from 2,151 backers. Thank you so much everyone!💜 🧡Our producer Joni has been busy setting up an organized distribution system to prepare all physical rewards for shipment for Kickstarter backers. Both he and I (writer-social media manager Claire) put together and sent out cute sticker packages to last year’s giveaway winners! Additionally, we have some new sticker designs in the works for our Long Cat tier backers and up…👀 We’ll keep you in the loop! [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45149257/ca1b6f3e37c4943d70b1eb8c8c66aea1c1533e34.jpg[/img] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45149257/80fb801a422ab08978b89b4ce650bd6f8333db7f.jpg[/img] [h2][b]😻Game development progress[/b][/h2] 🚂[b]Next Station… Game Development![/b] Joni has also been making sure that the team's efforts for every department have successfully transitioned from working on the Kickstarter campaign to fully concentrating on game development. We’re happy to tell you that we’re all on track and are keeping up with the quality we want to achieve for CCM2!🔥 💛[b]We have also asked our programmer Ernst[/b] to share what he's been working on the last couple of months. Take it away, Ernst! [i]"I mainly work with Unity, the engine we use to build the game. In the last couple of months, I have created the tools necessary to help the engine decide how non-playable characters and/or the world around them will come alive in different contexts within the CCM2 world. These tools will, for example, decide when customers enter the café, which empty chair they will pick, what they want to order, how they spend their time waiting while the food is being prepared, how they enjoy their meal, which cats they want to cuddle with, and finally, when they want to leave (after paying you, of course!). Additionally, I have also built a tool in the engine that allows players to leave the café and explore the town and its surroundings. Oh, and I developed speech bubbles that pop up above interactable items and characters when necessary! Fun stuff!”[/i] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45149257/28ee850ed45d88201055a0bf41c40c44e7ef2bc8.png[/img] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45149257/2730fa7646febe22a2e54e02e4157b4009cfc061.png[/img] [i](Quick example of how the speech bubble system works. Keep in mind that we still need to design the speech bubbles, the final result will look different!)[/i] [h2][b]💜Kickstarters we love![/b][/h2] Our friends at [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/foggystudio/broken-shell-a-cute-and-cozy-hand-drawn-puzzle-adventure][b]Foggy Studio[/b][/url] are launching a Kickstarter project for their upcoming game ‘[b]Broken Shell[/b]’! The campaign for this cute and cozy hand-drawn puzzle adventure game will go live on [b]February 13[/b], so please go check them out [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/foggystudio/broken-shell-a-cute-and-cozy-hand-drawn-puzzle-adventure]here[/url] and give them a follow if you want to stay up-to-date! [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/foggystudio/broken-shell-a-cute-and-cozy-hand-drawn-puzzle-adventure][img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/45149257/4c39b1656ba20f77a8c8b38842ed7dee2cdbd89b.png[/img][/url] [b]Thank you all so much[/b] for your ongoing support in creating Cat Cafe Manager 2: Big City Bliss! 😽 We truly appreciate you and will keep you updated on the process!💜 - Claire & Irene from Roost Games 🪺 Don’t forget to wishlist and don't hesitate to reach out to us on [url=https://discord.com/invite/sAXW2mx]Discord[/url], [url=https://www.reddit.com/r/catcafemanager/]Reddit[/url], [url=https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xhbhtgmyyrn7fj7gxp7cktw5]BlueSky[/url], [url=https://www.tiktok.com/@roostgames]TikTok[/url] or [url=https://www.instagram.com/catcafemanager/]Instagram[/url] if you have any questions! Thank you so much!