The Flower Shop is here! Be sure to check our Fan Page for more details, and for the Coupon Code with really useful Gifts. And, don’t forget to LIKE and SHARE if you like the new feature, and for more gifts!
Features:
- you can customize each Flower Arrangement by mixing and matching flowers with Vases of different colors and shapes.
- how it works:
1 choose a Vase to put your flowers into.
2 choose the Primary flower.
3 choose the Secondary flower (or flowers).
4 you can add extra Wildflowers to your Flower Arrangement, for a touch of beauty, or… Dill, for a touch of… ingenuity.
5 choose a backdrop and a table to make a Flower Diorama (optional). Flower Dioramas are wooden boxes with transparent glass sides that house your Flowers and Vases. In real life they really exist. The flowers dry up, and they make beautiful wall or shelf decorations. But truth to be told, we just wanted an excuse to allow you to make “postcards” out of flowers, vases and various serene sceneries. - with 5 Primary flowers with any combination between them, 3 optional plants, 6 Tables and 9 Backdrops, there are hundreds of combinations for you to create a Flower Arrangement that perfectly suits your mood.
- to unlock a Primary flower, you must make 20 Arrangements with the previous Primary flower (similar to Lemonade Stand).
- our plan is to make Arrangements with ALL flower species in the game as Primaries, so the number of unique combinations you will be able to create will be HUGE.
- you can save up to 18 Arrangements or Dioramas. These Arrangements do not go into the Barn, as there’s no way of managing a Barn with so many different items. You sell them directly from the popup window (shipped by instant courier to Jane).
- Flower Shop is customizable with Orange Vouchers, just like the Market Stand. Choose flower buckets of your preferred color, and a nice gold accents paint for the roof.
- you get Vases, Backdrop Silk Prints and Tables from the Train Crates and Orders, once you unlock them with the Quests. Some of them can be bought with RC afterwards, once you get the first one from the Train or Orders.
- 2 new Quests will guide you through all of the Flower Shop features. There is no time limit, so you can take tour time.
- 4 new Wildflowers to forage, for the Flower Arrangements: Buttercups, Snow in Summer, Poppies and California Poppies. You can find them in all areas: Farm, Bellflower, Factories and Sawmill. Joe is not required to study them, as they’re not to be eaten, so they’re not a health risk.
- the Spring Flower Bouquets will be removed from the Craft Shack soon. You can make the exact same Arrangements in the Flower Shop now, but with any Vase you want.
Release notes:
Flower Shop is a Beta feature, and we will tweak it and improve it based on your feedback. Some features related to it might not work properly.
The Flower Shop is a whole new concept in the game, and quite unique in the genre, as far as we know of. As usual, we don’t develop based on what we have or what is the fastest, but what would be the most fun.
Initially we planned a simple interface to make your Arrangements, and a few preset bouquets but it just didn’t feel premium for such an important feature requested by you so many times. So we did a new interface, with a table, and nice transition animations that help you understand what is happening, as it’s a totally new concept. Each arrangement is hand painted (as everything in the game is, except the animal animations) in very high detail, and creating a system to implement all the flower combinations, present and future in our CMS required a lot of engineering and creativity too.
We hope it’s as fun for you to create Flower Arrangements as it was for us to develop. We also hope making Flower Arrangements will be a calming and relaxing experience, as this was our main idea and goal. The different tables and backdrops from the Dioramas can bring a dreamy and postcard-like feel to the arrangements, possibly helping you slip into a “vacation” frame of mind, away from the problems of day to day life.
Regarding the Winter Event: developing the Flower Shop and the Winter Event took 12-15 hours/day for the last weeks, weekends too, so we can release them in time around Christmas. The extra unplanned features mentioned above added a bit of time due to the detailed work involved, so we kindly ask you to be patient a tiny bit more. The Flower Shop and Winter Event are somewhat connected in a cute way that we can’t wait to reveal. The Winter Event will follow very, very soon.
Happy farming!