Day 22 - room system

07 May, 2025

Hi, everyone!

I’ve been working on the room system, where you can expand the shop and create rooms by placing walls around a space.

I’m still figuring out the best way to make it seamless, easy to edit, and intuitive to use.

So far, these are the core criteria I’m focusing on:

• Area extension can be done just like placing furniture or decor
• Rooms are created by surrounding a space with walls
• Automatic detection and assignment of rooms

But here are a few questions I’m thinking about:

• How do I make sure managing multiple rooms doesn’t overwhelm players?
• Should placing walls be irreversible?
  Or should there be a maintenance feature where a room becomes unavailable for a while, preventing customer entry?

Here are some fun features I’m brainstorming:

• Kicking out customers: If regular customers are occupying rooms or tables when a VIP arrives, the player can choose to kick them out—at the cost of a penalty
• Summoning furniture through playful mechanics
• Room bonuses: certain room setups grant special buffs

I want to make the system engaging with a layer of strategy, but not too hard to learn or manage.

Thanks for reading! I’ll be back tomorrow with more updates.

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