Daily Update - March 26th, 2025

Hey all! Pretty short update today on my end. Today I focused on expanding the in-game tutorial that isn't yet available to the public, and got most of the way through explaining what a Customer is, what Items are, how to Sell an Item, and what the consequences of selling an Item are.

There's still a good chunk of work to go on the first Market Day tutorial section, including:

• Satisfying customer preferences via sold item types
• Combining items
• Rummaging Cards
• Restocking Cards
• Buy Items from customers.

As well as making sure that the first market day proceeds more or less non-randomly so that the tutorial makes sense. After all that's done, I can move on to teaching the Sales Day Rewards Screen, Customer Base Screen, and finally Redecoration. So yeah, lotta work! Might take me the better part of a further week of work probably, but I think it'll be a real nice intro for new players, which will be super necessary once I make this pre-alpha public to itch.io. So, long story short, no functional changes in the public build today, but here's a changelog regardless!

Changelog (v0.11.3)

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• Work In Progress: Added the ability to skip the top bar explanation in the tutorial
• Work in Progress: Added an explanation of Customers in the tutorial.
• Work in Progress: Added an explanation of how to sell items to the tutorial and an explanation of what happens after you sell an item.
• Work in Progress: Added a skip in the tutorial to skip the Top Bar explanation in the Calendar tutorial.
• Work in Progress: Set up some more internals to allow the tutorial Market Days to proceed in a non-random way