Check Inn News

[h2]Today we will share information about what we are currently working on.[/h2]

But first, let us tell you about the new feature in Steam for creating separate pages for demo versions of games. They look almost the same as the pages of standalone games. We decided to give it a try, and now the Check Inn demo version has its own page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2963670/Check_Inn_Demo/

An important feature of the demo versions presented on a separate page is the ability to write reviews. Therefore, if you have already tried the demo - please leave a review there. And if you haven't tried it yet - it's the perfect time to catch up!

Guest reviews of their hotel stay
We decided to add guest reviews. When a guest checks out of the hotel, they leave a review of the hotel, giving it a rating on a five-point scale. Their rating is taken into account in the overall rating of the hotel, which can be seen at any time. When calculating the rating, various parameters are taken into account: the speed of their check-in, how quickly they got to the room by elevator, the speed of service (such as sauna, food delivery and laundry), the temperature in the room during their stay (on levels with variable temperature). It will be possible to open a separate window and read text reviews, which in some cases will help you understand what you need to pay attention to when developing the hotel. At the end of the level, this final rating will be used in the leaderboard as the player's main competitive indicator, that is, it will serve as a multiplier to all the other parameters when counting up your total score.

Free mode
We are working on a special mode that will be perfect for players who like long gaming sessions. Here you will be able to choose the difficulty level, hotel star rating and background that suits you. However, hotels and backgrounds in free mode are unlocked by completing regular levels. You will be able to compete with other players for a place in the leaderboard. Moreover, the higher the difficulty level, the more opportunities you have to score more points.



As you can see, we are continuing development at the same active pace. There is not much time left before the game is released in early access. And we will announce the exact release date of the game soon in a separate post. So, stay tuned!

The update is really important, so those who have already completed the demo are invited to play again. The gameplay really feels different now.

The most important thing is that we have added service rooms. That is, any guest who stays at the hotel for more than 3 nights may want:

• Food delivery from the kitchen to their room. Accordingly, the hotel must have at least one kitchen.
  
• Washing their dirty clothes. In this case, the guest leaves a basket with dirty clothes in the hallway, and the porter must take it to the laundry. There, the clothes are loaded into the washing machine (or machines). When the washing is finished, the porter takes the clean clothes back to the room.
  
• Take a steam bath in the sauna. The guest themselves goes by elevator to the floor where the sauna is located and occupies one of the rooms in it for a while. One room - one guest.
  

As you can see, a new important role has been added to the hotel - the porter. They can carry two items on their carts: food, dirty or clean laundry. If you see that one porter can no longer cope with the delivery, you can hire a few more.

Each of the service rooms can be upgraded. For example, in the kitchen, you can increase the speed of cooking, their quality, capacity (affects the number of ready meals that the porter can pick up at any time).


We also added the ability to zoom the camera in and out. This can be done using the mouse wheel. And you can now move the camera to the side using the arrows on the keyboard or the WASD keys.
Due to the mentioned changes, the entire demo version level has undergone a serious rebalance. Please let us know about your opinion on this update. Did you like the fact that the gameplay in the game is becoming more profound? As always, we read all messages and try to respond to them.


We remind you that the best way not to miss the release of the game is to add it to your Wishlist. This way, you will receive a message by email at the time of release.

We continue to actively develop the game. Moreover, we are not only working on creating new levels, but also thinking about how to make the game as a whole even more interesting and diverse.
So, checking a guest into a hotel will be only the first step. During their stay, they will request various services: wash their clothes, order food, go to a sauna, and so on. All this will require creating appropriate rooms, as well as hiring new employees: porters. They will carry food, linen and other things between rooms and floors of the hotel.

Let's take a closer look at what will soon appear in the demo version update.

Kitchen
Various dishes are prepared here. Moreover, we can improve the kitchen to make more expensive dishes, and the cooking process will go faster. Ready dishes are laid out on the countertop and await delivery to the guest’s room.

Laundry
If a guest wants to wash their clothes, they put a basket in the hallway. The porter should pick it up and take it to the laundry, where these clothes are put into the washing machine. When the washing is done, we can see clean clothes on the shelves. The porter then delivers them back to the room.

Sauna
In fact, this room is not just a sauna, but a passage to private sauna rooms. That is, you can buy new rooms here (up to 5 of them). The guest goes down or up from his floor to the sauna to take a steam bath. The process itself takes some time. If all the saunas are occupied, then the guests stand in line.

Porters
This is a new type of employee. Their main task is to carry items for serving guests. Each porter has a cart that can fit two items: linen, a dish, and so on. If you see that one porter does not have time to deliver everything on time, then it is worth hiring another one.

How do you like this idea? Soon you will be able to try it out for yourself in an updated demo version. We will announce this in a separate post. So, stay tuned and subscribe to our Discord and Twitter (yes, we still call it that). And if you haven't added the game to your wishlist yet, we recommend doing so as not to miss the release!

We continue to work on the levels in Check Inn, and we're trying to make them diverse. For example, in Montreal and other locations with cold winters, you will have to control the temperature.

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When the temperature outside drops below certain levels, uninsulated rooms will freeze. New guests cannot be accommodated in a frozen room, and those who lived there continue their stay, while their timer is also “frozen”. Therefore, you need to insulate your rooms. There are several options for insulation - from simple to robust, designed for the lowest temperatures.


Don't forget to add the game to your wishlist if you haven't already, and we, in turn, will continue to talk about the progress of development.


As always, we invite you to our Discord server to discuss the news - http://discord.gg/invite/9eHyYap and to subscribe to our page on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/developer/kishmish.

The most important new feature is balconies instead of terraces. They can only be built at one of the edges of the hotel. That is, there are no more rooms that would block the entire column of cells vertically, making further construction on it impossible.



Now the elevators are upgraded gradually, little by little. You can choose which of the elevator specifications to improve - speed or capacity. The ability to improve elevators opens only after the appropriate step in training.

Also, the room icon on the guest wish panel turns green if there is currently a free room of this type. That is, now you don’t have to select a guest to see if there is a suitable room. This is especially convenient when the hotel is already pretty tall.

It is still important for us to hear your opinion about the demo. Please let us know what you liked and what you didn't like.

As always, we invite you to our Discord server to discuss the update - http://discord.gg/invite/9eHyYap and to subscribe to our page on Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/developer/kishmish.