Quick hotfix for some game issues that would make the game unplayable.

• Fixed a bug where employees would get stuck around the escalators in an eternal search for the dirt lost underneath.
  
• Fixed a bug where the game would crash right after loading a save due to the painting system.
  
• Fixed a problem where players (as clients) couldn't update employee task priorities.
  
  
• Fixed a bug where the price paid/displayed at the delivery kiosk was the buy price and not the sell price.
  
  • Products with a higher price will not be ordered.
• Fixed a problem where the shopping cart was available in the store. This is something that will come in the future, but at the moment was available for purchase by mistake, opsi D:
  
  • 
    For those who have already purchased and have one in the store, you will keep it and see the future improvements on it patch after patch until the official release.

Today I bring you the new delivery services, new color customization for both the exterior and interior store walls and floors, as well as some new products that have been added and some bug fixes.
As always, feel free to join our Discord Server[discord.com] and help with bug reports, ideas or even just to chat!


Delivery services allow you to increase the sales of your store.

• The delivery kiosk has been added back to the store.
  
• Delivery services can be enabled or disabled in the Services application on the player's tablet.
  
• Now players can interact with the delivery kiosk to check and fulfill current delivery requests.
  
• Products must be placed on the Delivery Kiosk table to mark the delivery as ready for pickup.

Something that has always been asked for is to be able to customize the color on the floors and walls. Today I bring you the new paint roller that allows players to choose any unique color and customize the store the way they want.
This is purely cosmetic and doesn't affect customer sales in any way!

• New painting application added to player's tablet.
  
• After activating it through the app, players have access to a color picker palette to choose any color they want.
  
• Using the paint roller, the player can paint any floor or interior/exterior wall with any unique color.
  
• Now is possible to change the store name in the administration app alongside with the color that shows up outside the store.

I'm looking forward to see prints of some crazy store customizations!! ❤️


This is a change that was requested by some players and will allow you to customize the outside of the store in addition to the new colors!

• Wall props (like paintings or symbols) can now be placed outside of the store.

Some extra love for the Electronics category in this patch:

• GameStation 5
  
• GameStation S
  
• GameStation X
  
• Computer Monitor
  
• Ultrawide Gaming Monitor
  
• Gaming Desktop
  
• Joystick
  
• Projector
  
• Radio

• Wooden Wall Shelf (Allows you to place objects on the surface)
  
• Popo Figure - CowGirl
  
• Popo Figure - Knight
  
• Popo Figure - Goblin
  
• Popo Figure - Viking
  
• Wall Clock
  
• Art Painting - Couple Under Umbrella
  
• Art Painting - Abstract City
  
• Art Painting - Lonely Girl
  
• Art Painting - Shapes and Shapes
  
• Art Painting - The Tree
  
• Art Painting - Visionary
  
• Art Painting - Workman
  
• Poster - Achieve
  
• Poster - Get Back
  
• Poster - Product
  
• Poster - Profits
  
• (Super Expensive) Poster - Stonks! 😎
  
• Neon Cactus

• Updated engine version. Should fix some crashes and problems.

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• Fixed a problem where the configuration UI was not interacting at higher resolutions.
  
• Fixed a problem where player cosmetics were not updating properly on other player clients in the same game.
  
• Fixed some collision issues when placing some plants.
  
• Fixed some issues related with the priority tasks introduced in the previous update. If you find any weird issue, feel free to PM at discord!

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Stay tuned and hope you enjoy the update!
🔥 Nero Games

Today I bring you a revamped task system for the staff, as well as new tasks for the coffee area!
Feel free to join our Discord Server[discord.com] and help with bug reports, ideas or even just to chat!


Previously, each employee had a single, player-defined task. There is now a priority system within each area of the supermarket.

• Employees can now be assigned to a specific area. For now, Supermarket or Coffee.
  
• Employees can now have different priorities for each task inside their area:
  
  • High
    
  • Standard
    
  • Low
    
  • Disabled
    
    Quick explanation: The employee will check which of the high priority tasks needs to be done and is more urgent. If there is nothing to do, he will check the default priority and repeat the process until he reaches the low priority.
    It is worth mention that employees can still be assigned to a single task. For example, assigning an employee to the cash register while blocking all other tasks will make the employee stay in the cash register until his priorities change or he gets tired.
  
  
• Two new tasks have been added to the coffee area:
  
  • Serving - Includes handing out menus, taking orders and fetching/delivering food to customers.
    
  • Cooking - Includes making food or drinks, cutting and sorting in food displays where possible.
    If you find some wrong behavior in this new tasks or want to provide feedback on how to improve them, feel free to send me a message! 😁
  
  
• A new tab has been added to the employee application, where it is possible to check all priorities of all employees at the same time and define their priorities for each task.
  
• Employees will no longer take into account other objects that are being interacted by other employees. This means, no more 5 employees trying to restock the same shelf. 🥳
  
• Employees will now prioritize litter, paper, and dropped bags that are closer to them.
  
• Employees will now prioritize trash bins that are more full.
  
• Employees will now prioritize chairs that are more comfortable and closer to them to take a break.
  
• Employees will now properly handle products left on the street. They will move the products to desired racks and eventually to racks with empty spaces.

• Customers will now start to leave if the store is about to close. Be careful, because closing the store abruptly can cause all the customers to rush to the cash registers to pay and leave.
  
• The customer's coffee product interface will only appear when the player is close enough to the customer. This avoids the crazy icon madness when you have multiple customers in the coffee area.
  
• The coffee products delivered to the customer will disappear from your head instead of having the product there with a check mark. This should further help with the mess of product icons that appear when customers are too close to each other.

• Updated engine version. Should fix some crashes and issues.
  
• Moved Apple Juice category to Drinks and Bottles.
  
• Temporarily removed the delivery kiosk from the store. It will come back in the next update fully implemented with the delivery services.

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• Fixed an issue where the employees were not going to the cash register with more customers at the checkout waiting.
  
• Fixed an issue where employees would start restocking the same shelf all together after some minutes in-game.
  
• Fixed some weird pathing of customers and employees when moving around coffee tables and chairs.
  
• Fixed an issue where products in delivery guys hands were counting as available products for recipes in coffee area.
  
• Fixed some wrong scaling text in some languages.
  
• Fixed some wrong/missing translations.

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For the next patch, I'll be focusing on adding new items and products, as well as the long-awaited delivery services! Also will be taking a look at performance issues reported!

Stay tuned and hope you enjoy the update!
🔥 Nero Games

First of all, I'm sorry for being "missing" for almost a month, but I had some other things that needed to be done, so unfortunately, I haven't dedicated the time I wanted to the development. I'll be back with consistent bi-weekly updates from now on. Expect a revamped employee system next, along with some new products coming to the supermarket!

Feel free to join our Discord Server[discord.com] and help with bug reports, ideas, or even just to chat!

• Customers now only enter a queue when they are close enough to the object they want to interact with. This should stop customers from being stuck around some objects while waiting for the queue to decrease. This was very noticeable once the player unlocked the second floor.
  
• Added a scroll bar to employees affected when changing the schedule of multiple employees at the same time.

• Employees will now check if the product they are placing on the shelf is the product wanted.
  
• Employees will no longer move to the store entrance when the save gets loaded.
  
• Added a new priority task list where the player can define the tasks the employee will do (lower priority, default, or higher priority) or not do.
  
• The UI on employee stats has new icons with tooltips.

• Products spawned no longer get destroyed if the player leaves the cash register. This means you can resume if you need to leave for some reason.
  
• If the player leaves the cash register after scanning the last product, it no longer stops the payment sequence.
  
• Employees can resume attending after the player leaves the cash register.

• Delivery people's movement has been updated to avoid some wrong positioning.

• Added a configuration option to the fridge.

• Improved some PT translations.

• Fixed scale on the interaction key for gadgets and cloth shelves.
  
• Fixed Onion not moving at the cash register.
  
• Fixed an issue that was disconnecting players when some new product was unlocked.
  
• Fixed an issue where unlocking new products was not working properly when the language was Japanese.
  
• Fixed an issue where the wanted products assigned by the players were not saving properly. This was fixed both for shelves and storage racks.
  
• Fixed an issue where employees were not carrying the maximum products they could while moving products between storage racks.
  
• Fixed an issue where employees were placing products in the wrong assigned slot on the storage racks.
  
• Fixed an issue where delivery guys were placing products in random positions inside the storage rack.
  
• Fixed an issue where employees would carry “nothing” if the product they were supposed to pick from the storage rack was not available anymore.
  
• Fixed an issue where dirt on the floor had a weird metallic glow.
  
• Fixed an issue where the products that the player placed on the storage rack were not placed in the right assigned slot, resulting in two identical products assigned to two different slots.
  
• Fixed an issue where customers would get stuck if the player removed the self-service cash register while the customer was moving towards it.
  
• Fixed an issue with multiple dropdown lists where the last option was not visible.
  
• Fixed an issue where the enter/exit hours slider in bulk employee schedule change was not properly initialized with the correct open/close hours of the supermarket.

Hope you enjoy the update! More coming in the next two weeks!
🔥 Nero Games

I bring you a revamped product unlocking system along with new products!
Feel free to join our Discord Server[discord.com] and help with bug reports, ideas or even just to chat!

Current roadmap feature list coming next:

1. More types of products and shelf types.
   
2. Rework to employee AI (new tasks, new preference order)
   
3. Achievements
   
4. Delivery Services
   
5. Build your own supermarket structure (floors, walls, areas)

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Since the beginning, when new products were constantly being added, the reputation system could not handle the constant unlocking of products at such a fast rate. Now I'm introducing a new system where players can decide what to unlock in the order they prefer.
• Players will now be able to access the Licensing tab within the products application.
  
• Reputation will no longer decrease in any way. Instead, it will only increase based on their happiness when they leave the store and the amount of products they buy compared to the amount they originally wanted.
  
• At 100% reputation, the player will be rewarded with a star. This star can now be used to unlock a product or an application (such as staff).

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• Fridge is now added to the game!

• Grocery
  
• Animals
  
• Beauty and Hygiene
  
• Dairy and Eggs
  
• Drinks and Bottles

• Bleach
  
• Cat Food
  
• Pepringos Chips
  
• Coffee Package
  
• Hair Conditioner
  
• Hand Cream
  
• Red Wine
  
• Shampoo
  
• Toilet Paper
  
• Water Pack
  
• Strawberry Yogurt

• Apple
  
• Banana
  
• Kiwi
  
• Onion
  
• Pineapple

• Soda
  
• Soda can
  
• Whipped Cream
  
• Water Pack
  
• Eggs
  
• Milk

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• Updated category selection in Products, Coffee Menu, and Furniture.
  
• Products now show the shelves they can go on when you check their details in the Products app. This should make it easier in the future to see where things like chewing gum or stuffed animals can be placed.
  
• Some items have had their visuals updated.
  
• Some fruits have been packaged in a box instead of being sold individually.
  
• Some products can now be placed on different types of shelves. For example, the soda can can now be placed in the refrigerator.

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• Fixed an old bug where the player's dart gun would not shoot properly and would sometimes shoot the player itself.
  
• Fixed an issue where was possible to place large storage rack turned into a wall making the delivery guys get stuck moving against the wall.
  
• Fixed an issue with the small shelf where the collision detection was broken while placing and moving it.
  
• Fixed a visual issue where employee skins were not synchronized between players.
  
• Fixed a problem where the item would flicker between positions while being placed.

Hope you enjoy the update and I'm thrilled to get feedback and more ideas from you guys!
🔥 Nero Games

Sorry for the long time without new updates but the time has come!
This is the biggest update coming to the supermarket and brings the game one step close to the final vision.
Hope you join our Official Discord Server[discord.com] and help develop the game with your amazing ideas!

Something I will be reworking in the next weeks is the reputation system.
As more and more items are added in, the unlock time between products is too small for the player to handle the new product without having unhappy customers in the store.
For this, the player will now win reputation stars that will be added infinitely and those will allow the player to unlock any product he wants.

Also, here is the roadmap of features coming next:
- Rework on the current reputation system in order to accommodate new product
- Build own supermarket and customize walls, floors and more
- Delivery Services
- Achievements

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Now there is the possibility to run a coffee shop inside your supermarket. This means you need to attend customers, take their orders and serve them the products they desire. The products available are yours to decide.Also, if you decide to run only the coffee and no grocery store, that's also possible!At the moment employees cannot be assign to any coffee shop task but that's something changing in the near future!
• Player can enable coffee area after the first day in the administration app.
  
• Grocery store can now be disabled also in the administration app.

• In this expansion, some products (presented below) will require to be crafted/baked.
  
• Each product have now some recipe that requires some products in order to craft. This products can be in the storage racks and don't require the player to being holding them in their hands.
  
• Some products will required to be cut in a cutting board, before served or even stored in the display shelf.
  Quick note: Like I mention above, the reputation system will be reworked and you will be able to choose what products you want to unlock at any point in the game. This will improve the recipes since you will also be able to pick what products you must unlock to craft some recipe you want.

• Added to the tablet a new application called "Coffee Menu". This App is unlocked when you enable the coffee area inside your administration application.
  
• Inside the application you will be able to:
  
  • Add/remove products to/from your coffee menu
    
  • Change the product price.

Alongside with the possibility to change every product price, customers will also take into consideration for how much you are selling the product and how much it costs daily.
• Products prices are now applied daily instead of hourly.
  
• Players can change all products selling price.
  
• While changing the price there is a face reflecting the current selling price compared to the buy price. This will help identifying when you are pushing too much on the price or making a good discount price!
  
• Customers will take into consideration the current selling price and how different it is from the current daily price of that product (buy price). This will force the player to run low prices to avoid unhappy customers or keep updating daily the prices to reflect the current market situation.
  
• Customers now have a tolerance to high prices. Abusing it may end up with the customer being unhappy and take no product at all.
  
• Customers now can take more products than they initially intended. This mean the player can run some discount promotions on some products to quickly empty the stock of some product.
  
• Any product price change will show a notification to other players telling who changed the price of what product.
  When players are grabbing some product from the shelf, they will check the price of that product. New emotes were added to reflect what the customer thinks of the price:

• Green Sign - Customer thinks the product cheap and decided to grab more than they initially wanted.
  
• Yellow Sign - Customer thinks the product expensive and they are taking less than they initially wanted.
  
• Red Sign - Customer thinks the product is abusive and is not taking any product at that selling price.
  If no sign shows up, means the customer is accepting that product price and is taking the full amount intended of that product.
  Also, this will affect the happiness of the customer and eventually the reputation gain. If the customer finds expensive, he will be unhappy while in the other hand, cheaper promotions will keep customers happier and increase the reputation gain.

• New service Stock Manager added to Services Application. Activating this service will enable the Warehouse Stock Application.
  
• This stock manager will automatically buy the products you want when some criteria is met.
  
• The stock manager will check if he needs to buy new products every hour.
  
• If there is not enough money, the stock manager will send a message to warn the players.
  
• In this new application you will be able to:
  
  • Check ALL the stock you have of ANY product.
    
  • Turn On/Off the auto-buy of any product.
    
  • Set the minimum stock level to order that product.
    
  • Set the maximum price to order that product.
    
  • Set the quantity to order.
  Both the minimum stock level and the maximum price must be met for the stock manager to buy the product.

This will allow the players to customize uniquely their game experience while providing also some predefined game modes like easy, normal and hard.
• When starting a new game, in normal mode, the initial money was bumped from $15K → $20K.
  
• When starting a new game, options menu is now available under the store name.
  
• Different presets can now be picked (Easy, Normal and Hard).
  
• Game mode called Sandbox is available where the player have unlimited money, reputation and everything will be unlocked since the beginning. Some other parameters can still be changed with sandbox selected like reputation multiplier, customers frequency or happiness modifier.
  
• Beside the presets, the player can customize the following parameters:
  
  • Initial Money
    
  • Reputation Multiplier
    
  • Customer Frequency
    
  • Unlock All Tablet Applications [On/Off]
    
  • Unlock All Products [On/Off]
    
  • Runners Frequency
    
  • Thieves Frequency
    
  • Bus Frequency
    
  • Customer Budget Multiplier
    
  • Trash Drop Frequency
    
  • Dirty Floor Frequency
    
  • Customer Happiness Drop Multiplier
  
  With this settings, you can customize uniquely the experience of a new game.
  Imagine you want to start with employees right from the beginning? Just unlock all tablet applications and hire employees right away!
  Want to switch to coffee shop since the beginning and ignore grocery? Unlock all tablet applications, go to administration app and switch them!
  Want to spam your game with thousands of customers and maybe crash the game 💀? Sure, you can do this but... heh never mind, just bump the Customer Frequency and check it!

Grocery Area
• Olive Oil
  
• Blueberry
  
• Cherry
  
• Coconut
  
• Dragon Fruit
  
• Fig
  
• Grapes
  
• Lemon
  
• Mango
  
• Orange
  
• Peach
  
• Pomegranate
  
• Strawberry
Coffee Area
Some of this products need to be made and some recipes require you to unlock some products first.
• Coffee
  
• Muffin
  
• Cupcake
  
• Cookie
  
• Pizza
  
• Chocolate Cake
  
• Beverage
  
• Rye Bread

• Objects placed are now sold by the full value for the first 2 minutes. After that the selling price will start decaying to half the price in the next 5 minutes.
  
  New Objects:
  • Coffee Machine
    
  • Drinks Machine
    
  • Oven
    
  • Small Food Display
    
  • Cutting Board
    
  • Coffee Counter
    
  • Coffee Corner Counter
    
  • Coffee Long Counter
    
  • Long Table
    
  • Coffee Table
    
  • Coffee Metal Table
    
  • Fancy Coffee Table
    
  • Wood Coffee Table
    
  • Elegant Chair
    
  • Plastic Chair
    
  • Delivery Kiosk

With this update, not only new products were added but new mechanics to snap and place on top were added also.
• Some objects can now be snapped to other objects. For example chairs to tables.
  
• Some objects can now be placed on top of others. For example, some small plants, coffee machines, cutting board and others can be placed on top of coffee tables or counters.
  Both this mechanics will be further improved in later versions to being able to snap shelves to other shelves or the introducing of new cosmetic objects just for decoration purposes.

• Added the ability to control the Field of View (FOV) in settings.
  
• Punching other player is now triggering a hit animation.
  
• When placing/moving an object, the camera will apply slight zoom and offset.
  
• New crosshair while placing/moving object to help with the placement.
  
• [Multiplayer] Now weapon is syncing while aiming in all clients.

• Employees can now hold more than one box in hands (10 products) up to 3 boxes (30 products) like the player. This is increased by the employee motivation stat. The maximum 30 maximum products is achieved when the employee reaches 80 motivation.
  Quick note: the movement will be capped when holding more than one box at the time (like the player is) but this will speed up restocking, meaning you probably gonna need less employees restocking than before.
  
• Employees will now trigger the street trash animation when interacting with it.
  
• Now when skipping night, both employee recruitment and employee training will fast forward accordingly to the time skipped.
  
• Employees resting will not use any chair that is snapped to a coffee table.

• Customers cannot have player or employee skins anymore.
  
• Customer AI got tweaked so they get stuck less often.

• Tutorial has suffered a little rework in order to accept the placement of the new different capacity items (like small, normal and large shelves).
  
• Skip night don't show up until you get to the tutorial point where it's time to open the store or intentionally skip tutorial.
  
• When skipping tutorial, it will now show a prompt to confirm that the player really wants to skip it.

• Now the games are stored in Steam Cloud. This means you can jump between different computers or even reinstall the game that your saves are safely stored in cloud.

Officially going to support steam deck from now on.
• Now when playing in steam deck, the keyboard will automatically open when some input is required from the player (like write store name).
  
• Virtual cursor will now be visible since the beginning without needing to press any button.
  
• New icons were added to confirmation dialogs (like hire, fire, skip tutorial, etc.).

• Added new HUD showing interaction keys every moment on the right bottom corner. This will adapt based on current context and controller being used.
  
• Interaction indicators now switch between keyboard/mouse and gamepad.
  
• There are new object indicators when using keyboard/mouse.
  
• When editing, now there is a selling price indicator so the player can check the value he will get before selling it.
  
• All Scroll views got their movement clamped while the scroll sensibility got increased slightly. This will avoid infinite scrolling and clumsy scroll movement.
  
• Shelf/Storage Rack configuration UI now show the keys to interact around.
  
• Added indicator in the shelf/storage rack configuration UI when hovering some product.
  
• Added gamepad icons and support in edit mode, cash register and skip night.

• Now when accepting any game invitation with the game close, after steam launch the game, the game will automatically join your friend that sent the invitation without require to sent it again and accept in the lobby.

• Updated the engine version. Should fix some crashes.
  
• Updated the game version watermark on bottom left to something simpler.
  
• Old music were removed while new ones were added in-game. They are completely copyright free.

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• Fixed an issue where players were able to aim and shoot while placing objects.
  
• Fixed an issue where virtual mouse was crashing the game when opening tablet.
  
• Fixed an issue where was impossible to place some objects in the second floor.
  
• Fixed an issue where was possible to move/sell objects through the floor/ceiling.
  
• Fixed an issue where returning to lobby and load a save would get object interactions stuck.
  
• Fixed an issue where customers would stand in front of arcade machines with arms stretch doing nothing.
  
• Fixed an issue where employee would be stuck when no janitor cart was available in the store.
  
• Fixed an issue where was possible to move any chair while it was being used by an employee.
  
• Fixed an issue where while placing objects and holding shift (to duplicate the object), if there was not enough money, the placement UI would stay visible forever.
  
• Fixed an issue where loading saved game and have less than the required reputation to unlock staff, construction, banking or services would lead to locked apps until the required reputation was achieved again.
  
• Fixed an issue where was impossible to place objects near the corners of the store.
  
• Fixed an issue where the game would not run if there was another types of files in the saves folder.
  
• Fixed an issue where was possible to move the loading bar (ops...)
  
• Fixed an issue where old saves with old player skins would throw an error and crash the game.
  
• Fixed an issue where opening the shelf configuration while having no product available for that shelf type would crash the game.
  
• Fixed an issue where icons of the products in the cash register belt where offset from the actual product.
  
• Fixed an issue where resetting the key bindings in the options menu would destroy all the UI, forcing the player to close and open settings back up in order to rebind some key after the reset.
  
• Fixed an issue where the tutorial camera was not being moved properly to the object highlighted by the tutorial message.
  
• Fixed an issue where pressing enter (or the assigned button) to minimize the tutorial task was not doing anything.
  
• Fixed an issue where some products would being placed on the air when placing them in the small shelf.
  
• Fixed wrong icons when opening/closing store using the store switch.
  
• Fixed an issue where two customers grabbing products from the same shelf could end up grabbing a "ghost item" that didn't exist anymore (quantity below 0).
  
• Fixed an issue where the ordering products message was showing the name of the product always in English instead of the translated name.
  
• Fixed an issue where was not possible to place objects when the player was too close from the object being placed.
  
• Fixed an issue where saved games where not loading when they were corrupted or had compatibility issues related with old versions. Now the save will be automatically reported in order to fix this problems in the future as more and more features gets added in and old save files break.
  
• Fixed an issue where some objects were impossible from being placed on the second floor.
  
• Fixed an issue where bad formatted price numbers were showing in the ordering messages.
  
• Fixed an issue where was possible to interact with objects while they were being placed.
  
• Fixed a bunch of texts with missing accents on different languages.
  
• Fixed an issue where was possible to spam K to skip tutorial and eventually crash the game.
  
• Fixed an issue where loading saved objects were not blocking properly the customers navigation.

• Fixed an issue where Arcade Machines, Selling Machines and Product Stands would crash client when playing in co-op.
  
• Fixed an issue where the clients would get disconnect when the escalator was trying to move some destroyed object.
  
• Fixed an issue where security guard was disconnecting clients when they got punched.
  
• Fixed an issue where duplicated sound were played when employee throwed trash in the street trash.
  
• Fixed an issue where employees skin was not being synchronized between clients.
  
• Fixed an issue where dragging products in the shelves and storage racks settings would crash clients.
  
• Fixed an issue where selling objects too fast would throw an error and crash multiplayer clients.

• Fixed an issue where gamepads were unable to fast forward or skip tutorial messages.
  
• Fixed an issue where changing between controller and mouse/keyboard in-game would cause the game to crash.
  
• Fixed an issue where was possible to punch while interacting with some object when playing with a gamepad.
  
• Fixed an issue where playing with gamepad would double press any UI element.
  
• Fixed an issue where was impossible to enable some toggles in the settings when using the gamepad.
  
• Fixed an issue where was impossible to use the gamepad when configurating the shelves or storage racks products.
  
• Fixed an issue where opening any object interaction radial menu with gamepad would pick the first option right away.
  
• Fixed an issue where gamepad cursor was not properly being positioned when using other resolutions different from the standard 1080p (this includes steam deck).

Hope you enjoy the update and I'm thrilled to get feedback and more ideas from you guys!
🔥 Nero Games

First of all, I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎄

Before I tell you what is new in this patch, I would like to thank you all for your continued support, especially in our Official Discord Server[discord.com].
This month hasn't been easy and I've unfortunately slowed down the development of the game, but not on purpose or because I'm bored with development.
As some of you already know, I've been developing this game on my own, and it's not even my day job. I'm currently a teacher at two universities at the same time and since the semester is ending, I had a lot of exams and works to grade...

Today, I'm bringing you character customization! At the moment there are only a few items available, but I want to expand this in the future to be able to fully customize not only your character's clothes, but also your staff with some fancy stuff. With this, I'm also introducing some companion pets that will follow you around the store 😁.

Currently I'm also working on the next update that brings:

• Ability to customize the price of products.
  
• Delivery service where you will have to pack some products and hand them over to the delivery driver.
  
• Warehouse services where you will be able to set some minimum threshold product quantities and those will be ordered automatically.

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• (Super Experimental) Increased the maximum number of players to 8!
  
• Engine version has been updated. This should fix some crashes.
  
• Redesigned main menu with new interface.
  
• When hiring a security guard, no money is paid immediately. The cost is deducted when the hour expires or the service is cancelled.
  
• Tablet Wardrobe application has been reworked to match the new customization settings.
  
• New Christmas category added to Furniture application.
  
• Furniture categories are now organized correctly. Seasonal categories such as Halloween and Christmas are the last.
  
• Both main menu and game screen have been adapted for this holiday season🎄.
  
• Employees now have a proper hat to get in the spirit.
  
• Delivery guy will now first search for racks where the product is defined to be (by rack configuration) and is already there. If not found, he will search where the product is wanted and some slot of that storage rack is empty. Finally, if none of these conditions is met, it will randomly place the boxes if available, otherwise it will drop the boxes outside the store.

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Some seasonal items have been added to the furniture. This includes

• Presents
  
• Caine
  
• Snowflake Wall Decoration
  
• Scary Snowman
  
• Xmas Throne (can be used by employees!)

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• Reworked main menu with new interface.
  
• Now there is a Continue button to quickly resume the last save.
  
• Added new customization menu.
  
• New direct links to update page, youtube and discord.

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New character customization available! Unfortunately, had to remove two of the older character skins that have been available since the alpha of the game, but at least now you have the following categories to customize your character in a unique way:

• Base Skin
  
• Hat
  
• Hair
  
• Glasses
  
• Beard
  
• Backpack
  
• Pet 🐈

More customization items will be added in the future!

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Ever wanted a little companion pet to follow you around the store? Well, it's here!
Initial pets available:

• Beaver
  
• Carp
  
• Crocodile
  
• Kingfisher
  
• Swan

More pets, interactions and features will be added in the future. Who knows if some pet related products will be coming in the future... 🐱

• Fixed issue where some customers would get stuck around cloth racks.
  
• Fixed issue where guard was not dismissed when canceling service.
  
• Fixed issue where security guard was spawned even if store was closed.
  
• Fixed issue where security guard service toggle was not being enabled when loading game.
  
• Fixed issue where it was impossible to place items in the store entrance when a guard was spawned.
  
• Fixed issue where booth products were not working properly when customers chose to interact.
  
• Fixed issue where arcade machines did not interact when they should (memory leak).
  
• Fixed issue where interaction buttons of some products (like noodles) were stretched.

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Hope to ear some feedback and more ideas!

Greetings, cash register wizards! 🛒🧙‍♀️🧙

Today I'm bringing you a rework of the inputs and also support for gamepads!
This took more time than I expected, but I think it's in good shape to officially support gamepads.

I would also like to introduce a new beta branch. As some of you may know, I'm currently developing this game all by myself, and sometimes I rush some updates that haven't had enough testing. Some of you have been kind enough to ask how you can help. So I'm going to create this branch on steam that will give you access to the latest builds for testing!
If you are interested, feel free to read more at the end!

I'm also still working on the following:

• Character customization
  
• Product price customization
  
• Delivery and Warehouse services

This should be in the game during the next big patch in December!

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• The Halloween theme has been removed from the game. The items and furniture are still in the game!
  
• Updated game engine. Should fix some crashes.
  
• The input system has been reworked. Now you can remap things like the character's WASD movement.
  
• Updated the controllers section in the settings menu.
  
• Gamepad is now supported. 🎮🥳

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• Fixed some translations.
  
• Fixed an issue where the delivery guy put the products on the wrong shelf..
  
• Fixed an issue issue where the large storage rack was not working properly.
  
• Fixed an issue where the player could jump or punch while interacting with the cash register.

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From now on I'm officially supporting gamepads. No matter if it is xbox, playstation or even nintendo switch gamepad.
Everything should work properly for you to just connect your gamepad to the computer and just play.

There is a virtual cursor to interact with the tablet components, while also some buttons to speed up the process, like ordering x100 of some product at once, just like it was with the keyboard/mouse using CTRL and SHIFT while clicking on some product.

In the game there are also changes where you can just switch between keyboard and gamepad, the game will automatically detect the new inputs and adapt the game and interface for that gamepad.

Something that's missing that I'll be adding in the future is the icons for each gamepad. For example, the default interaction button in the gamepads is the south button, which is for Xbox or for Playstation.
Also remember that you can reassign any button you want in the settings menu!
I hope to get some feedback from players who decide to give the gamepad a try. ❤️

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So you are interested in helping test new builds before they are released to the general public? That's great, thank you very much for your help!

You can access the beta branch in Steam.
Go to your library, right click on My SuperMarket and then Properties...
After that you should see a tab called "Betas".
All you have to do is type in "mysmbetatester" and click "Check Code".
This will unlock the beta branch, where you just need to press the new button and it will start installing the beta branch. In your library you should see the name of the game like "My SuperMarket [beta]".

Go back to the same tab and in the first field that shows beta participation just select "None". The game will revert back to the normal branch.
In the future, if you want, you can simply select the beta branch again to test some new features!

In order to keep this under control, I ask that you use the "beta-branch" discord channel to discuss or report games found in this particular release.

Hello shop enthusiasts and Halloween lovers! 🎃🛍️

The spooktacular season is upon us and we've brewed up something magical for you! Thanks for all the love and feedback. 👻❤️

For those not yet lurking in our Official Discord Server[discord.com], come and be a part of our ghostly gathering!

Really want to finish all of those but special focus on one of the main core aspects of the game that should have been implemented along time ago (price customization):

• Character customization & pets
  
• Ability to customize the selling prices of each product
  
• Input rebinds with controller support
  
• Finish the delivery and warehouse services

Your spells and suggestions are always welcome in our cauldron of creativity! 🪄🖤

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• Reworked lobby scene with a haunting Halloween touch. 🎃
  
• New Halloween-themed soundtracks to set the mood. 🎵
  
• Items categories have undergone a spectral transformation for better navigation.
  
• New in the items categories:
  
  Halloween
  
• New in the products categories:
  
  Vending
  Clothing

Clothes
Blouse Glasses Jacket Pants Scarf Shirt Shorts
Technology
Professional Camera StationPlay4.
Vending
Gumball Newspaper Plush Toy
Fruits & Vegetables
Pumpkin

Large Storage Rack
Cloth Rack
Double-Sided Cloth Rack
Glasses Stand
Large Glasses Stand
Newspaper Stand
Arcade Claw Machine
Arcade Machine Lightning
Arcade Machine SciFi
Arcade Machine Snow
Arcade Machine Zombie
Gumball Machine
Vending Machine
Arcade Wall Sign
Cafe Sign
Chinese Noodles Sign
Emergency Wall Axe
Giant Bear
Giant Robot
Safety sign (Wet Floor)
Halloween Book Stand
Cauldron
Coffin (New)
Coffin (Old)
Scarecrow
Pumpkin Scarecrow
Giant Pumpkin

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• "Searching for Arcade Machine" behavior removed from customers.
  
• Customers can now spontaneously interact with items like arcade and vending machines or newspaper stands while exploring the store.

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• Addressed missing localization strings for storage rack configuration.
  
• Resolved player interaction issues with empty storage racks.
  
• Fixed a spooky occurrence where customers displayed the wrong missing product.

Creep it real and happy retailing! 🎃🎉
Remember, every boo-tiful product and eerie update is thanks to you, our ghoul-mazing community! Keep those wickedly wonderful ideas coming. 🎃