Update v1.0.9 - Localization, Fixing QoL / UX, and Beta Branch

Cookard

Cookard is a cooking game where you run a restaurant by stacking cards to prepare and serve dishes to customers.

Hello all, thank you once again for trying our game! We are really excited that you are excited with this free game! Hearing your feedback we have several stuff that we hear over and over: [list] [*] You need the game translated into your language, there's so many Chinese player asks for this! [*] You didn't like that the music is really loud [*] You didn't like the hover sound, it's pretty annoying [*] You are irritated with big pause icon when paused [*] You want Coin Chest to store overflow Coin, and to make it more tidy [*] You want the ability to stop the Customer from coming over and over, because you are still trying to complete the quest [*] You want Steam Achievement! [*] You feel frustrated in the beginning, not sure what to do... especially with Magnet Card! [*] You want step by step tutorial [*] You want Honey Generation Mechanic with Bee or such [*] You want more end game content, more recipes, tools, some way to spend excess coins and extend the gameplay time in general [/list] So for this update, we have tackled the localization. Currently we have 5 Languages that are ready in this update: [list] [*] English (the default) [*] Indonesian - translated by dev team, thanks Hanassiy for the effort! [*] German - translated by [url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-edgina-b579b0131/]aetherin[/url] [*] Simplified Chinese - translated by [url=https://www.know-team.com/]°Know Team[/url]:西尔诺特, vmpt, LeanderLin [*] Russian - translated by [url=https://thebullfinchteam.tilda.ws/]The Bullfinch Team[/url] [/list] Many thanks for the translator that works on the localization pro bono. We will not have this localization without you! :') So we have adjusted some other aspect too: [list] [*] In addition to panning camera with WASD, you could now pan it with Middle Click [*] bug fix the smoke sound that still played when the sfx volume set to 0% [*] rebalance the efficiency of the Oven MK2 and Stove MK2 from 2 to 1.5 [*] changing font to support Chinese and Russian script [*] add language settings, and move the credits to its own screen [*] remove that annoying hover sound [*] reduce the overall volume by 25% [*] change the big pause icon into small blink text on the middle of the screen [*] change the price of Fruit Bagel from 6 to 5 [/list] I hope with this change, it gives much more enjoyable experience to players. And also, we want to make a Beta Branch, where everyone could try the Beta Branch, but with caution, because in Beta Branch, it won't be stable. It's the branch where we want to experiment, and add new feature. Your save file will probably won't work and you need to start from the beginning each update in Beta Branch. After we have made sure that the Beta Branch stable and fun, then we move it to the Main Branch. So if you are daring player and want to experience the latest feature that we work on, we invite you to join our Beta Branch! For the next update, we might address this issue first: [list] [*] Adding Coin Chest or Resource Chest [*] Adding a Mechanic to Pause the Customer from coming [/list] Then after that we try to tackle Steam Achievement. Then after that, we will add Step by Step Tutorial And lastly some major content update, new card, new recipe, new mechanic, and new late game goal. I hope you always support this game until the end and spread the word about this game! Cheers! Ali Jaya Meilio Panitia GameDev P.S Forget to mention, that we want to give a shout out to massobeats, because we use their free non-copyrighted Lo-Fi Music for this game. It's titled Honey Jam, and could be accessed [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGMQbVfYVmI&utm_source=cookard]here[/url]. A little bit note if you want to post the your playthrough on Youtube, it seems if you blast this music when playing it could get copyright claimed despite it's a free non-copyrighted music. You could avoid that by crediting massobeats on the description of the uploaded video by writing "Music by: massobeats - honey jam". Or if you prefer, you could turn off the BGM and blast any other BGM from your own playlist :D.