As much as I wanted to get this out today, a few bugs popped up and I am just going to get them fixed. Worry not! Only a two day delay! Update should go out no later than 10pm (pacific) Tuesday (Feb 2nd).

This update will be including:

Repeat customers! Finally, a use for the notes section! You will see what went down last time they were in the store in hopes to improve their experience this time around.

Customer returns! Oh yes, the cellular store's worst nightmare, so your employee put them in the wrong phone? Set a policy for returns and enforce it by either accepting or denying their returns.

Customer complaints! They might not like the way you have the store set up, the employees might be too slow for them, you might not have the phone they want, who knows? Now its your problem to deal with!

Customer phone calls! So now customers may call in to check if you have the phone they want in stock. If the employees are too busy to answer, guess who its going to fall on? Choose to field their phone calls, or not, what the worst that could happen? ;)

And of course a whole slew of bug fixes, including the reports of sped up movements, economy tweaks, glitchy customers and more.


And to be completely open with the community, the reason for the original delay that pushed the update to the end of Jan is: The person I was hoping to bring on for artwork ended up not working out. It sucks, I know, but they in the end were a bit shady. I for one am not in this for the money so I would rather take my time in finding someone who shares the same passions as I do, rather than just grab the first person I find and rush it out. Since that happened I needed to speed up development on other functions of the game so I could give you guys a nice juicy update now, since originally the majority of this update was art based and he fell through at the last second!

At this time I think I am just going to do the art myself. As they always say, if you want something done right, do it yourself. I am going to keep that advice unless someone else who is a like minded thinker comes along. Just remember, this is a project that would take a major world event that kills mankind to cancel! My living is not dependent on the profits of this game and I am making this for myself as a passion project! No matter what happens, I will keep on truckin'! But as always, if you know someone, or are interested in applying for the position reach out to us on the website.


On to the future!

So the next update will lay finally the last major piece of groundwork for the individual stores. Accessory sales and in store upgrades. Once that gets finalized and everything gets tweaked to perfection we can then move on to the update after that which will start the multistore management aspects! What everyone is waiting for!

Also, just to add: I am taking a vow to be more active on twitter and keep everyone updated as soon as things change. So follow me @ChromeAndroid

Also, kimdizzle, the community manager, will be more active again, he was on a little hiatus after his car was broken into twice in the same week! Ouch!