If you didn't manage to watch our broadcast yesterday, don't worry. Especially for you, we share VOD with our yesterday's fun in Sandbox mode at Crossroads Inn!

Follow our profile so you won't miss the next streams that we plan for you!

https://youtu.be/iq8rwGaXoUg

The long-awaited stream is coming! On Tuesday at 4:00 PM CEST we invite you to the broadcast during which we will show you the Sandbox mode and answer your questions about Crossroads Inn!

See us live at:
Twitch.tv/Klabater
Mixer.com/Klabater
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2n6OOoCwyJhNe4LyNQePZw
https://store.steampowered.com/app/867290/Crossroads_Inn/

Add Crossroads Inn to your Steam Wishlist!

Not every client of your inn will be normal. Sometimes, for example, you may have to deal with a guest, who came to the tavern with a doe!

Listen to the story told by Paweł Sakowski as part of the Tavern Tales from Crossroads Inn series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqB_ysgBWs

What a month it's been!

We rush to you with news about what is happening in our team and what we are currently working on.

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It will be a special event, as we are going to announce the release date of Crossroads Inn and show a playable demo of the game!

We will be meeting journalists, Youtubers and many interesting people. If you are planning to be in the business area, let us know - we would love to meet you! We will have some fresh coffee and cold beverages so you have to be there!




You can book a meeting by writing us an email: michal.lowigus@klabater.com

But that's not the end of great news!

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We have received many requests regarding the possibility of buying the game after the Kickstarter campaign. Now you can do it, as our e-shop is open! Feel free to share it with your friends!



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We want to bring you closer to the world of Delcrys and its specific inhabitants and their stories.

Paweł Sakowski, an actor who played in The Game of Thrones, will take you on a journey through the inn-keeping stories from Delcrys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXomGsCOqg8

Next episodes will debut each Thursday on our Youtube channel and our Facebook page so be sure you follow us!

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• Patryk, our lead programmer, keeps you up to date at our Discord channel and if you are not there yet - we cordially invite you there once again.
  
  
• In the section #changelog you can find the topics, our team has been working on.

Among them you can find:

• Now you can craft your resources:

smokehouse: pork -> sausage
candle makers: wax -> candles
quern: cereals->flour
bread oven: flour->bread

• You can negotiate the salary of your employees (which was actually your idea, as we haven’t thought about it honestly).
  
• From now on you can also craft your own beer as well as cultivate veggies for you inn.
  
• We have added some new special guest.
  
• You can set prices for your rooms & beds now.
  
• We have also improved the upgrade tree.
  
• Multiple bug fixes have been made.

our team have been working both on the guests and furniture.








Our team has focused this month on preparing our presence on multiple upcoming events as Gamescom is not the only place you will be able to meet us!

Apart of that, we have also been preparing a lot of great video content which will be published in the upcoming days!



We almost forgot about the cool part! Currently we are brewing our own beers! The classic Martyn’s Delight and a brand new Klabater!

Dear Innkeepers!
Its’ time for our monthly update. Below you will find a quick recap of our work in the past month.

Gameplay & code

Our devs are working hard every day and we already know the names of our pizza delivery men.

That really means something!

Last month we have implemented such options as:

• the possibility of building multiple floors in your tavern.
  
  
• the option of setting work schedule for your employees.
  
• random events such as fires.

Apart of that we are mostly focusing right now on polishing elements that are already in the game and adding small improvements and ideas which have come along the way. Thanks to you, by the way:)

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Mini games in your Inn - Knife throwing![/b]

It's the first game we have developed for your inn.

How does it work? Quite simply.

1) First you will have to buy a shield for your inn.


2) Then in your inn will be appearing customers who will challenge you to a duel.

Money, special items, recipes and many other special things will be at stake.


3) Each of you will have three knives to throw in several rounds. After each round the winner will have to drink a pint of beer. This means that in the next round the picture will be rocking and your accuracy will be very impaired. It will be more and more difficult with each round, but also more and more funny!

You can see it here.

That’s definitely not the end of the games you will be able to play in your inn!

Graphic design:
Our graphic design team have been working on special characters and guests. The results are really promising.

Here you can find Alstero:


And his squire:)


We also did a pretty decent job with the furniture and liquors!








PR & MARKETING
We have been working on our presence on PAX WEST and Gamescom in Cologne, altough we will be there only in the business area with our publisher - Klabater. If you are a journalist, a blogger or you would to talk with us, let us know: michal.lowigus@klabater.com
We have also appeared in the Polish Eurogamer with a really nice preview.

Have a great weekend and let us know if you have any other questions!

Dear Innkeepers!
It's time for our monthly update![/b]

Team

First of all, we are really happy because our team is growing and we have some really talented colleagues on board!

The graphic design team has been boosted with Mateusz and Paweł!

Szczepan, the screenwriter is now supported by Kacper, who focuses on game design and Patryk, our lead programmer, can count on Darek.

Apart from that, we are also hosting three great student interns who help us with sound production, game design, and graphic design!

Below you can see a picture of us with the newest CD-Action, the biggest Polish gaming magazine, where you can find a big preview of Crossroads Inn.



PR & Marketing activity:

We announced some weeks ago that we invite Paweł Sakowski on board - this guy had a pleasure to work on the set of Game of Thrones. Paweł will be responsible for the Polish voice over and will be present in our marketing campaign. As our ambassador and had the chance to talk about Crossroads Inn in the biggest Polish media such us: Onet or Polish National Radio. He was also present at Pyrkon convent in Poznan.

As we mentioned, Crossroads Inn receives a really nice preview in CD-Action and in Hungarian PC Guru. And those previews look really cool:)





Gameplay & code

Work on the game enters a crucial phase, our developers stay longer and longer after hours, which means that the crunch time is coming!:)

We keep you informed about the progress of work on the #changelog channel on our Discord. You will find there all the details about our current state of work on new elements of the game and the patches we make, as well.

Now, we are working on both the sandbox and the campaign, but we also pay a lot of attention to improving the bugs and features that you report to us. We hope you can see the progress:)

We haven't been bragging about it before but we are developing some really cool and entertaining small games inside the tavern and we are really excited about it. :)

We also have some bad news for Mac owners. Right now we need to focus all our efforts on the best possible refinement of the code on the PC and fixing bugs. If we leave some broken elements somewhere there in the code and start doing Mac, you know... neither PC or Mac will work. We are really sorry about that but it's crucial to save time and work efficiently on the code.

We will be able to work on the Mac version only in a month or two. Nothing changes, the game will be available on this system 100%. So don't worry!


Graphic design.

Jakub Kaktus and Tomek have been working mostly on new characters in the game. Mateusz and Paweł focus on items and furniture in the game - as an innkeeper, you will choose between a great diversity of different tools and kitchen furniture.









We are working on the diversification of the furtniture as well.








Have a great day!
Kraken Unleashed Team.

The first Kickstarter backers of Crossroads Inn have received their keys to the closed beta. As it is an early version of the game, it still contains bugs and a lot of features that require polishing, further work and improvements. Our backers will be able to help shape the final version of the game. We will use their opinions to improve the game, find a proper balance and develop it in a direction our community desires.

Long weeks of researching, discussing, creating and collecting the materials, designing the graphics and the videos, adjusting the pledges and then when the campaign was finally live…

Refreshing the Kickstarter’s site every 2 minutes... around the clock. Probably, if the campaign lasted longer than 30 days it would break up our families 🙈

But… it was totally worth it, because on the way we met you - the best backers in the world.... and it was you who made us reach the finish line happily.



Once again - we wanted to thank each of 1010 of you (so far) for being an inspiration and motivation for hustling every day harder. We couldn’t expect so many ideas, brilliant questions and such commitment on your side to make this game better. We are making this game for you and your satisfaction is our ultimate goal.

We are sure that this Kickstarter campaign is helping us a lot to understand your expectations and we can guarantee that during last month we've already implemented changes and new features mainly because you, as the future players of Crossroads Inn, asked us and suggested to do it.

For example we decided to implement new languages, the possibility of romances between the employees or to develop the bards more widely and many more. Other suggestions we are still discussing and we will keep you updated about them!

Don’t forget that this is not the end of our bond! After the end of Kickstarter you will get an access to our Discord channel where you will be able to discuss all kind of topic connected with the game. Both with the developers and other members of the Crossroads Inn’s community!



And remember! The Kickstarter campaign is not over yet!

We still have more than 3 days until the end of the campaign, during which we can still collect a lot and unlock one or more of our additional goals! The first one is:

$34,000 - Scenario editor and Steam Workshop integration

Achieving this goal will allow us to transfer some of our workforce to create an editor for maps and game scenarios, which will be integrated with Steam Workshop.



We still would like to ask you to spread the word about the campaign among your friends!

Cheers!
Kraken Unleashed Team.

Funny. While writing this update, we have just noticed that there is a big inscription centrally above our stands that is connected with the subject of our game:

It’s fun to get together and have something good to eat at least once a day. That’s what human life is all about — enjoying things. – Julia Child



I don't think we've noticed it all the time, but maybe subconsciously, for the last two years Julia Child has been watching over the creation of this game? :-)

We've often said that the inspiration for creating Crossroads Inn was to look at the adventures in games and stories from the other side. Every adventure begins with a meeting of the characters with a mug of good beer and filling food. This is how we dreamt up our tavern.



And every aspiring tavern in Delcrys must respond to the various needs of its customers with offerings to satisfy the desires of both their palates and spirits. The smart pricing of drinks, dishes and services makes up only a fraction of the responsibilities of a successful inn manager. One of the biggest challenges is to obtain the unique recipes and rare ingredients necessary to serve up specialties about which legends are told throughout Delcrys’ many roads and byways. Ambitious innkeepers, while sitting in their bowers during breaks, dream of this secret knowledge, hoping that finally, their own menu will be enriched by the most valuable culinary goods from across the continent.

We are a group of guys who are not masters of cooking, so the next, extremely important step was to find someone who would help us to reflect the atmosphere of Delcrys and the cultures living in them through food.



Anita from Nerds' Kitchen, responsible for preparing a culinary e-book based on the world of The Witcher, prepared for famous CD Projekt Red was the perfect choice.



Anita and her blog, Nerds' Kitchen, have been dealing with the influence of food and cooking and its impact on building the culture of virtual universes and immersion in the broad sense of the term for years. Anita herself says that

However, well-thought-out culinary motifs that are integrated into the game and the universe itself have a huge power, thanks to which the game can rise to the next level of good game design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiVTsih3WCU

We don't think we could have imagined a better person to work with. That is why together we have created several dozen proposals of dishes and drinks, thanks to which each inn will be able to boast of its exceptional and unique menu.

The process of creating menus and dishes in the game was a result of many factors. Inspired by the mythology of the Delcrys world, which was created by the boys from Kraken Unleashed - the culture of countries and societies inhabiting Delcrys, and what they were based on, which was also inspired by real cuisine such as European, medieval or Middle Eastern world. The next step was to match the ingredients, tastes and textures so that they fit the theme to the character of the kingdom of Delcrys.



Thanks to our efforts in the culinary aspects, the game and its universe have taken on a richer and more original dimension. At the same time, I am proud that this will be the first title on the market, in which dishes appearing are the fruit of my work as well. In addition to the mechanics aspects, we also developed 12 recipes for the legendary game dishes and included them in the "Crossroads Inn Cookbook"- Anita says.



The “Crossroads Inn Cookbook” will be available as an ebook in the pledge from $55 and above. Inside you will recipes for 12 unique, legendary meals such as:

Cheese & Ale soup from Untermach



Dear Haunch with wild berry sauce from Yorevale



Gilded Potatoes from Sambria.



One of your main goals and ambitions in the game will be collecting all of them and serving them to guest to ensure fame and wealth to ensure fame and wealth loudly throughout the kingdom.

To give you a sneak peak of the recipe awaiting in the cookbook, you can find a delicious recipe of SWEET FISH DUMPLINGS FROM BERSUHL on Nerds' Kitchen Blog!



Ps. We almost forgot! We take the creation so serious that we have even created our own beer! :-)

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Dear Backers!

We made it! $26.000 lagged behind and we are not stopping until we get the $30.000!

Thank you for the enormous trust you have placed in us! Today we want to talk a little more about the development of the game after it will be published. We are planning to keep adding extra features to the game for at least a year after the actual release.

Additional content will be grouped into two categories:

1. Free Add-ons (a.k.a Assets Packs)

Those will introduce new equipment, tavern objects, new meal receipes, materials and whatever it takes to run and enhance a legendary inn.

2. Paid Add-ons (a.k.a Additions)

Those will contain new story-driven scenarios, new NPC's and new mechanics which will diversify the game itself e.g. illegal gamblig den!

During the development of the game We had a lot of new ideas that we needed to throw away because we wouldn't be able to publish the game on time. That's why we've put them into additional content. We also want to make game alive and community engaged long after the game release.

Dear Backers!

It's really important to get your feedback in that matter. So please don't hesitate to comment on this update. Is there to much of this content? Or maybe to little? What kind of content would you like to see? What can we do to make it better? This is still an open subject for us so all suggestions will be taken into account!



Below you will find a sneak peak of our ideas for additional content:

Dogs and cats:

A DLC that gives the player the opportunity to have a dog or cat in an inn. You can have more than one pet, but their encounters end in a fight between them and possible damage to equipment/furniture.

In order to keep a pet in an inn, it is necessary to have a bed or a kennel for him and to feed him regularly. A neglected animal simply leaves the inn. Animals have special functions: cats hunt rats - in the room where rats are located they never appear, while dogs bark bandits. If a dog appears in an inn with the intention of theft and encounters a dog, he barks at him and forces him to leave the inn.

Officials:

This DLC will introduce special characters, Officials, who will visit your Inn. Among them you will find: sanitary inspectors, tax collectors, judges, notaries and many more. Like in normal life, a visit from an official may cause you some troubles... but there is also a chance of gaining some good money or... respect!

Plagues and diseases:

It doesn't sound nice, right?

Well, it won't be pleasant at all but... on every misfortune you can earn some good money!

This DLC will introduce different diseases and mental illnesses. Both clients and your employees will be susceptible to diseases. There will be a way to cure them -with the plagues, two special characters will appear - an herbalist and a feldsher. You will get a share from their work!

Bathroom:

Bathroom is an additional room that can be built in your inn. Introduces for customers the possibility of taking a bath, using the sauna, massage, stained glass beating.

The bath can be arranged in three different styles: Yorevale (like the Roman terma), Untermarchia (Russian bubble), Sambria (Turkish Hammam).

If there is a bard in the inn, he will visit the bathhouse regularly and give his poems here. If there is a courtesan in the inn, it will also provide its services here and generate a higher income. The bathhouse gives you the opportunity to earn extra money by providing services available in it. Additionally, it reduces the number of illnesses in the inn. There must be a stove at the bathhouse.

Secret Room:

The "Secret Room" gives the opportunity to build an underground floor. The entrance has a hidden character (sliding wall, hidden flap, etc.). The supplement introduces the mechanics of municipal police raids. If the secret entrance is open during the visit of the guards of the law, they confiscate all equipment placed in a secret room, stick a fine and cause the loss of reputation. To increase the security of illegal business, you can make a secret exit through an underground corridor leading beyond the inn. In the secrets room you place a fighting arena, an alchemist lab or a kidnappers stash.

Horseshoes and carriages:

This addition introduces the stable building and the blacksmith's workshop. Thanks to this we have the possibility to receive guests with horses in the inn. These animals are another attraction of the addition.

We take additional payment for taking care of the horse. There is also a possibility of accepting the carriage if the player builds a place for him. Visiting guests with the carriage is associated with a big profit. This addition also allows you to create a special box for the Griffin. Maintaining the stable requires importing or producing hay, which is stored under the wall. Here, your employees also go for a walk.

At the stable we can build a blacksmith's workshop.

Cowshed and pigsty:

This addition makes it possible to build a barn and pigsty. The player breeds new animals: cows, sheep, goats and pigs.

Each DLC will introduce special bards, vedetas and adventurers as well. In the pledge of $65 among others you will get a season pass for all the content we will be releasing. Please, keep in mind that this is just a sneak peak and you can expect much more from us!

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