December Update 2 - Chocolate + Milk!

So before I get into the changes for this week, I've got to acknowledge a pretty silly mistake I made on the last devlog/release. I was super excited to announce the launch of our Discord server (shout out to everyone that's joined!), and even added a button to join from the Language Select screen. The problem? I forgot to create an invite link that never expires 😂. It's been fixed now, so hopefully anyone that had tried to join can now do so!

Moving on to our updates for this week, which are short and very sweet: chocolate and milk have now been added as equipment to the game! They're currently used to make mochas (coffee + chocolate) and a simple "coffee with milk", which is really cool because it teaches you the "A with B" grammatical structure. We'll be adding even more menu items that you can use these with in future updates -- for example, adding milk to black tea, or of course making some hot chocolate for a cold winter's night.

With the milk, we did something that we hadn't done with any equipment before -- the player drags the milk carton over to their cup of coffee to pour it in, and then it pops back over to the starting point (we're working on having it float back to make it a bit more smooth). We already had tap-and-drag functionality for the cups, but implementing this was interesting because it doesn't then get set down on a machine, but only sits there temporarily. Check it out in action below! And enjoy my swirling milk pouring motions.

We'll have one more short update coming out before the end of the year to clean up a few things we've got feedback about, such as the notch in some phone screens blocking out Japan, and how it's a little frustrating to drop the tea in the cups of hot water as it only works if you drop it in the top of the cup. Look out for another patch soon (and video devlog!), and wishing you and your loved ones Happy Holidays from Lost Abroad!