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By Flipline_Tony, May 28, 2014 9:02 am

Hey Everyone!

This week we wanted to show off the Build Station!  This station is HUGE, and has multiple steps within it.

After you’re done cooking the donuts, you will head over to the Build Station. Upon arrival, you will see all the donuts you have successfully fried up.

You will need to choose three donuts by dragging them to the work tray at the bottom of the screen. Once you have chosen the three, you will be whisked away to the icing/filling stage of the Build Station.

The first thing you should do is check if you have any donuts that need filling. For this order we have one chocolate “round” that needs strawberry jelly. You simply grab the nozzle from the top of the screen and drag it to the donut of choice, and release to fill it up.

Once you finished with the filling, you will want to dip the donuts in the correct icing. You will do that by dragging a donut off of the work tray and over to one of the vats of icing. You will want to line it up level with the vat before releasing the donut into the icing.

Once all three have been iced, you will be moved to the toppings stage of the Build Station. Here you will find all the syrups and shakers you will need to finish off your perfect donuts.

Once your all done, simply drag the ticket to the ticket tent to send it off to the customer to be judged.

Now this may seem like a lot of steps for one station, but don’t worry, we’ve made it super simple to use.

Check back each week for more news and previews of Papa’s Donuteria!

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By Flipline_Tony, May 21, 2014 12:08 pm

Hey Everyone!

This week we wanted to show off the Fry Station!  Before we dive into the Fry Station, here are a few screenshots to lead into it.

Let’s start on Day 2. It’s a warm August morning and the park is already filled with potential customers.

Alberto is your first customer today. He wants one chocolate ring donut, a regular ring donut, and a chocolate round donut with strawberry jelly (we’ll explain that in a week or two).

After you’ve whipped up the perfect donut shapes in the Dough Station, you will head straight for the Fryer.

Donuts are not baked, grilled or even boiled. A true donut, my friends, is fried to perfection. This usually incorporates a large fryer vat that has room for the donuts to float around.
Something sorta like…
well…
THIS!

Ahh yes, the good ole’ Fry Station. I can hear the warm dough sizzling as we speak. This vat is quite roomy; accommodating up to a dozen donuts at a time. And with each customer ordering three donuts, that room will be greatly appreciated. Each of the 12 fryer spots has it’s own cooking display that can be upgraded with alarms. Each column has it’s own booster that you can buy from the shop to help speed things along.

The cooking process for donuts is unique for a deep fryer because they automatically float on the surface of the oil. This means that you will need to flip the donuts halfway through their cooking cycle in order for them to be evenly cooked on both sides.

Raw donuts that are fresh from the Dough Station are located on the rack at the bottom of the screen. When a donut is finished cooking, you will send it off to the Build Station via the green √ conveyor. However, we will save the Build Station for another day. So… check back each week for more news and previews of Papa’s Donuteria!

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By Flipline_Tony, May 14, 2014 5:17 pm

Hey Everyone!

We have been making some major updates to the custom worker and thought we’d share them with you for this week’s sneak peek!

First off, we streamlined and redesigned the Stats/Clothes/Body interfaces.

For the Clothes section, we made things much more visual by giving each type of clothing their own inventory gallery. This way each piece of clothing is only a few clicks away, instead of the endless blind clicking of the past games.

We also updated the body customization section. For guys, you can now see at a glance all the hairstyles and facial hair options that are available to you. We also added a bunch more hairstyles and facial hair styles for guys.

If you notice, we also added a new slider for your worker’s weight!

You will now be able to easily choose the perfect hair and skin color using our new and improved color swatches! We have also included a wider variety of hair colors to choose from! On top of all that, we also included more makeup and eyebrow options along with more eye shapes!

Even with all these new additions, we kept brainstorming how we can get more variety out of the customers. Last fall when Kingsley hosted the Customerpalooza, we noticed so many of the girl customers looked similar. What we thought was a wide selection of girl hairstyles turned out to be quite limiting, and left people with only a few really cute hairstyles to choose from.

Well that is all about to change! After sitting down and studying girls’ hairstyles, we found that the variety simply came down to the mixing and matching of bangs with a hairstyle. So with that in mind, we completely reworked all the girl hairstyles in the game. We separated the bangs from the body of the hair, added a boat load of new designs, and let you decide how to mix and match them!

So far we have over 700 possible combinations that you can make between bangs and hairstyles with more to come! Add on hair color and hats, and the amount of unique hairstyles are practically limitless. We’re focusing on girl hairstyles right now, but don’t worry, guys will be getting some new hairstyles too!

Here are some of the different hairstyles and bangs that will be available to you in Papa’s Donuteria!

Check back each week for more news and previews of Papa’s Donuteria!