The author of Stardew Valley returns to develop the “Haunted Chocolate Shop” business simulation RPG, and the existing basic framework will continue to enrich the content

The new pixel management RPG “Haunted Chocolatier” under development by ConcernedApe has been put on hold since it was released in October 2021 due to the impact of the 1.6 version update of “Stardew Valley”. The good news is that the current developer Eric Barone Has returned to work and brought the latest progress.

The background of “The Haunted Chocolate Shop” is different from that of “Stardew Valley”. Players will play the role of the shop owner in a small shop attached to an ancient castle and take on the responsibility of running a chocolate shop, collecting specific materials to make special chocolates. , complete the tasks of the townspeople, and the game itself seems to have a larger exploration world than “Stardew Valley”.

In Barone’s latest blog post, he admitted that the original version 1.6 of “Stardew Valley” was just for technical optimization and improvement of the game’s modules, and other members were responsible for it, but in the end he joined the development and added new content, resulting in “Poltergeist” The work of “Chocolate Shop” was interrupted.

However, the good news is that “The Haunted Chocolate Shop” has already completed an internal demo version before, with a basic playable game framework. Therefore, Barone will adjust the existing framework, add the remaining game content, and enrich the world as the final game. Complete game.

“I know a lot of people who are looking forward to The Haunted Chocolate Shop may be disappointed because of the development progress. I understand that.” Barone said: “When The Haunted Chocolate Shop is finally completed and launched, I will be happy. But “Like Stardew Valley, I won’t be doing early access, fundraising, or pre-orders, so there won’t be a lot of external pressure to follow a specific schedule.”

Barone explained that his main source of pressure is that he announced the game early (for his reasons). Although he knows that the development time will be too long, he also believes that the vast majority of players want to The finished game is released when it is satisfactory.

In any case, Barone has returned to the development of “The Haunted Chocolate Shop”. It may take a long time, but for “Stardew Valley” supporters, time pressure is not too big a problem, because the quality of the game is what the players Really wanted.

“The Haunted Chocolate Shop” is still in production, and the release date and distribution platform have not yet been determined.