While the team at Balancing Monkey Games and you, our lovely community, have been celebrating the switch to a 1.0 Launch, we think we should get the Peeps involved in the celebrations too because there’s no party like a party on the back of a giant space whale! We’ve been working on some new Peep behaviours, and we’ll share one of those with you today. If you haven’t guessed already…
Peep Celebrations! Because Peeps like to party too.
If a large proportion of your peeps in a single location are above a high Happiness threshold, some of them throw a Celebration! We have a new building, the ‘Fairground’, where Peeps will go and spend their time partying the night away. They’ll also wear cute little masks while doing so! Now, we say they’ll be partying the night away, but in a game design sense, Peeps will go to the fairground between working shifts or if they don't have a job. So your buildings will still keep running during a celebration!
And, each time a celebration occurs, your Peeps will receive a bonus, making life on Kewa just a little bit easier. This includes production, movement, and sickness bonuses. We want you to see happiness and something worth striving for, rather than just another meter you need to keep filled.
Celebrations are just one of the new systems we’ve added for a 1.0 release. Just like player actions impacting Kewa, we make our Peeps act differently depending on player behaviour too! It’s a way of acknowledging and rewarding players who have put a good amount of effort into caring for their Peeps, beyond the minimum required to keep your city functioning, and we’re excited to see how you experience celebrations once Beyond These Stars has released!
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