#shopping simulator

Today is apparently Teddy's Haven day. I'm relatively happy with how things are organized after opening up another square of space in the back. I wanted to clean up the crafting area along with giving it a little more space, and that's nicely checkboxed now.

New stuff in Teddy's Haven! I haven't played in a while due to too many other distractions, but we're back to almost unlocking another square of store floor and checking out the new things. Textures are back to normal and framerate has improved, which is lovely.

New goodies to sell, crafting area jammed (pun definitely intended):

And then, I finally put two and two together... the bouncy things in the buy-stuff book... I can use those to reach places on the map I haven't gotten to yet. Duh? Duh! XD

Only the unicorn actually needed the bouncy-help, the rest of the wandering pics are from crossing the big waterway to where a huge elemental thing wanders in the distance. Aaand then we went a lil' too far. I was trying to see if I could get out to where mister elemental thing might be standing way the heck out there... maybe I'll try again when I'm feeling braver about potentially falling through the world.

Herpa-derping around in Teddy's Haven early access, a good game for "brain no worky, just wanna click things and make numbers go up." Things clicked, numbers accumulated. Textures lost the nicer resolution but it's helping with framerate so I haven't bothered figuring out if it's something I changed. Faerie has weird reflection in water. All is well.

The shop progress, with two more sections of airspace unlocked since last time:

Happily back to running my original store in Teddy's Haven, which definitely makes more money than the Jams Only Challenge as year one ends and year two begins. At this point it's mostly just waiting on profits to expand the building space while I try and get stuck in the geometry-- err, I mean, explore the map more. XD

We do have jam, of course, organized into rainbow colors. Produce too. Heck, a bunch of stuff is organized by rainbow colors, except for potions. I might do that once there's more space to play with, since right now most of the potions have just a single shelf while a few of the more expensive ones are double-shelved.

A side project to the side-project? Naturally. I paused my first playthrough of Teddy's Haven to start a "jams only" challenge and uh... there is jam. There is so much jam. From the humble beginnings of a single shelf to "omg we have framerate issues" aka roughly around when the third pic above was taken. I'm not sure if it was too many of the same types of jams stocked on too many shelves, or the black wall paint (not even kidding as a swap to pale green seemed to help) but it was at that point we invested in a restocking wisp and reduced the amount of jam on the shelves.

It's now autumn, and how are we looking? Like so:

I think I'm at about maximum necessary jam pots to keep this thing running, especially as once each season's jam is well back-stocked it's kinda overkill. I have the jam shelves organized by season into spring, summer, and fall, and assuming winter isn't dead then there will be a winter shelf as well. The smaller shelf on the right is all-seasons; technically azureberry is a spring berry but it stays in specific nodes during every other season I've witness thus far. Plus, the apple jam needs company.

The "jam only" rules I made up in case anyone wants a run at it, and mind you this is being posted during early access so it might need tweaked for future updates:

Day 1: you can sell berries and apples in the produce shelf that the tutorial provides. You must earn enough to buy a jam pot at the end of the day, and buy a jam pot. Fill said jam pot with berries.

Day 2: you are now selling jam. Only jam. Always.

Rename your store by or on Day 5. Plan accordingly for the cost.

Don't tend harvestable animals or mine any mining/crystal nodes on purpose. Products received through accidental clicks must be trashed.

You can pet Teddy and cats. You can interact with NPCs.

A couple of tips for this... firstly, don't buy the produce license as at least in this version all the buyables are veggies (and they don't jam). A good starting berry is azureberry, or emberberry if you want to hoof it out that far on the first day. Unless winter has a better berry, emberberry jam seems to be the most expensive seller. Market rate seems to work just fine too, for any jam type.

Oh my... this is a very, very dangerous game. "I'll just get this set up and play for a few mins before bed." Four hours later... whoops. Game is Teddy's Haven and available on Steam in early access. Some bugs and whatnot but that's the ticket with early access, and "the cashier does nothing?" was solved fast via forum search and an exit to main menu. The game is honestly smoother and more polished than a lot of games in the shop-sim genre already, can't wait to see where it goes! :3