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23/05/2023

Blooming Business: Casino is out NOW on Steam!

This is THE day! We hope you will enjoy our lovely tycoon. We are very proud of our very first game. Thank you to all of you who supported us and a HUGE congrats to the entire team!

Watch our new trailer showcasing our main modes: The Campaign and the Sandbox!!
• English version: https://youtu.be/jgEcMYXL--w
• French version: https://bit.ly/3obk4EW

As a thank you gift to our first players, and to make them feel like the true VIPs that they are, we’re offering the game soundtrack and a 25% discount on the game to all Steam early adopters. Get the game before May 30th to be an early adopter VIP!
Link Steam store page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388580/Blooming_Business_Casino/

& Help us by sharing the news.🥰🔁

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22/05/2023

Tomorrow is a big day for us!🎉✨

After three years of work, we’re very happy at Homo Ludens to announce the launch of our very first game: Blooming Business: Casino. A management game with a narrative & animal twist!

We’ve put a LOT of love (and animals) into this game and we hope our community will enjoy it. We will be fulfilled if it makes their day a little bit brighter!

We've received a lot of support and feedback during the development and for our numerous playtests and/ or demo. It helped us in making this game a better game for all! THANK YOU.

The game has greatly evolved since 2019, at release you will be able to enjoy a full campaign and a sandbox mode. We invite you to pay attention to all the nice details, the characters and story. There is a lot of beautiful work (art, writing, design, but everything really basically) behind all of this. Tony and Nat won't go easy on you if you don't pay attention to them...

Steam page: https://lnkd.in/gYj3mW2

CONGRATS TO OUR ENTIRE TEAM!!!

✨Are you ready to run the craziest business empire that Las Venas has ever seen? The game will present you with various VIP’s that each have their own agenda in your Casino and you decide who to side with to evolve your business.
Run the casino, Handle the drama. ✨

Help us by sharing the newsss, AhhhhHHHHHHHH 🐦

01/03/2023

Did you notice our new game logo for ?
With Games We've slightly changed the logo to match our casino setting and our Las Vegas-inspired aesthetics. Blooming Business: Casino offers an exploration into a fantasy world where players embody the role of a casino manager.

27/02/2023

Blooming Business: Casino will release on Steam in May 2023!
We have a free demo on Steam now.
Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388580/Blooming_Business_Casino/

Did you notice our new game key art for Blooming Business: Casino ? With Curve Games we wanted to showcase our retro Las Venas 50's inspiration and reinforce the casino management aspect of the game! What do you think of it?

21/02/2023

We are very proud of our brand new trailer and demo - out today on Steam - for Blooming Business: Casino Blooming Business: Casino !

"Why beat the house when you can be the house? Your ✨VIPs ✨will help you set your reputation. Experience all the glitz and glamour in our 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼 starting today! 🎰 Bosses are you ready? 🎉"

Don't hesitate to share the news and head to the Steam store page!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388580/Blooming_Business_Casino/

06/01/2023

Happy new year 2023! We are proud of what we achieved this year at Homo Ludens. It's been quite a year for the team!

• We started working with Curve Games to publish our very first game, Blooming Business: Casino, you may have seen us at Gamescom this year with a brand new gameplay trailer that was aired during Awesome Indies! https://lnkd.in/e9UjHnFH

• We participated in several key industry events this year, in addition to , you may have played our last demo at organized by Capital Games! Watch our stream here:
https://lnkd.in/ezP7fQfQ

• We were at Paris Games Week restart for its comeback! We met plenty of enthusiastic players! It was great watching you play and sharing your feedback with the dev team.

• We continued organizing our online community playtests. It helps us tremendously in our development process! We plan on having more before the game release, follow us on Steam to not miss the next one.

• We launched our Tiktok account, have a look and enjoy a lot of fun content! https://lnkd.in/ekajeYyV

• In 2022, we closed 1739 dev. tickets, 1081 merge requests were merged, we added 5 new game levels, 8 animal species, 106 animations, more than 45 items and many more new content!

You may have seen it, but we have recently shared a free-to-use Carbon footprint simulator! Give us feedback on this calculator, which aims to allow you to make an initial assessment of your CO2 impact without having to incur expenses.
https://lnkd.in/e2k8BKVt

Congrats to all our team members !!

03/01/2023

Happy new year !

We hope 2023 is a great video game year (for us and for you)!

Our latest demo for Blooming Business: Casino is still LIVE on Steam ! ❄️ See all the glamour and mob drama unravelling. Try now and until the 5th of January! 😎

Wishlist us on Steam now 🤍
https://bit.ly/3DJEr

29/12/2022

Missed our latest trailer that was aired during at Gamescom this year?!
Fear no more!

Listen to our Cockatiel employee introducing you to client types and their quirks, VIPs and their influence, and the very useful staff from our Casino Tycoon!

• Wishlist the game now on Steam: https://bit.ly/3wAS1Ox
• Join our Discord & participate in playtests: https://discord.gg/GHUWCJe6BT

Support us !
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloomingBiz
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloomingbusinessgames/
- Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BloomingBusiness/
- Watch our streams on TWITCH : https://www.twitch.tv/bloomingbusinesscasino
- Watch our trailers and video dev updates on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_pXCMhC_SR1N2BXxZeM66A

Meet charming animal characters in Blooming Business: Casino, our tycoon casino game with a drama twist:

Build and run your own fabulous retro casino. A snazzy, bustling, and exciting joint full of drama and cute animals who are anything but cuddly. Manage your staff, attract new guests, and take care of the charming and dangerous VIPs. How will you make sure the house always wins?

22/12/2022

A little Christmas present 🎁in advance for you: Our demo for Blooming Business: Casino will be live for the duration of the Steam Winter Sale: from the 22nd of December 19:00 to January 5th !

What to expect?
✨2 missions with 2 casino layout areas to manage your casinos and decorate as you wish!
✨2 VIPs to discover: Tony, the mob boss and Nat, the Police officer. Accomplish missions to get to know them. It will be vital to connect with them and learn their backstories.
✨A variety of client types, from tourists to mobsters… If you want to make profit, you will need to make sure that clients are happy!

Link in bio & below !!
http://bit.ly/3wAS1Ox

20/12/2022

(French version below)

We are very proud today to share with you a free to use model / carbon footprint calculator for all game development studios.

Homo Ludens (and in particular Amélie Perret ✨) has been working to produce a calculator to estimate our carbon footprints.
This calculator was made on the basis of the model and figures produced by Neogames Finland ry, in open source (under MIT license) and in collaboration with Neogames and especially Elina Tyynelä (https://lnkd.in/evEBTk78). Thank you and congratulations to her!

We want to make this model remain accessible to a maximum of studios in order to easily make first estimates of its CO2 impact. This calculation sheet is not intended to replace a professional audit of your carbon footprint, but aims to allow you to make an initial assessment without having to incur expenses.

We would be grateful to receive your feedback and suggestions, please fell free to write to us at [email protected]. We would like to improve this template based on your use.

The template is available here: https://lnkd.in/eYVavgts



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Nous sommes très fier•es aujourd'hui de vous partagez un calculateur d'empreinte carbone gratuit pour tous les studios de développement de jeux vidéo.

Homo Ludens (et en particulier Amelie Perret) a travaillé à produire un calculateur pour estimer nos empreintes carbone. Ce calculateur a été réalisé sur la base du modèle et des chiffres produits par , en open source (sous licence MIT) et en collaboration avec Neogames et notamment Elina Tyynela !(https://lnkd.in/evEBTk78).

Nous avons souhaité rendre ce modèle accessible à un maximum de studios afin de pouvoir facilement mener de premières estimations de son impact CO2. Ce modèle n'a pas vocation à se substituer à un audit professionnel sur votre empreinte carbone, mais vise à vous permettre en première intention de dresser un bilan initial sans avoir à engager des dépenses.

Nous serions ravi•es de recueillir vos feedbacks et suggestions, n'hésitez pas à nous écrire à l'adresse [email protected]. Nous souhaiterions pouvoir améliorer ce modèle sur la base de votre utilisation.

Le modèle est accessible ici : http://bit.ly/3Wee223

12/07/2021

Hey dear followers,

As you know, we regularly share our development progress on our Steam Community Hub Page. We've just published our latest Dev Update 3 on Steam for Blooming Business: Casino. It's an important one: we tell you all that we learned from your feedback after we released our first pre-early access 🍀DEMO🍀 during the Steam Next Fest. Tons of learnings and ideas to support our upcoming tycoon game.

Thank you to everyone who participated, it's a big help for us, come check what we have to say:

Highlights
- Summary of the Demo players feedback 💙
- Dev updates: Focus on finishing systems and cleaning our code base
- UI rework
- Bar enhancements
- Restroom & janitor improvement

Read and share: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1388580/view/2963915092829211654 🐦

After the rush of the demo for the Steam Next fest, we took some time to analyse your feedback and work on features prioritization for the Early Access release.

15/04/2021

** ANNOUNCEMENT ** All the team at Homo Ludens is really happy to announce our first game, 🍀Blooming Business: Casino🍀 (Follow the game page ).

We thrive to deliver to you our first PC title, a new casino tycoon game with a twist: Design, build and run your own casino, where drama can arise among your charming animal employees, clients and VIPs.

The game will be available on PC and will release in Early Access.
Any feedback is welcome! We are really eager to build a game having community in mind!

Please share our teaser trailer! You can learn more or support us:
• Follow Blooming Business: Casino on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BloomingBiz
• Join the community on Discord: https://discord.gg/GHUWCJe6BT
• Wishlist now on Steam: https://bit.ly/3wAS1Ox

Share the exciting news!!
https://bit.ly/3mNOEPL

Design, build and run your own casino, where drama can arise among your charming animal employees, clients and VIPs. Decide your commercial strategy and manage spirited staff. Will you do what you must to ensure the house always wins?

18/01/2021

Hello & happy new year 2021! 🎉 2020 was a launch year for us, the studio already includes 11 (soon 12) amazing and talented people! We look forward to introducing them to you.

Here are our studio values

💗 One of our core game studio values is to everyone. Homo Ludens was built on the idea of respecting all actors of the industry, from developers to players and those they love. We strive against crunch and value healthy work/life harmony.
🤝 At Homo Ludens, we value: Ownership, trust, good faith. We pledge to help raise the industry standards by doing better, and that means trusting all of our people and empowering them to build something new, special and worthy.
🌍 Homo Ludens believes that we are all Flawed humans on spaceship Earth. We are all in this together, and we all have flaws that we accept and hope you will too! Please always be mindful that we're all doing our best.

04/01/2021

Hello and welcome !

We are officially launching our company accounts! Yeah! 🚀✨🎉

Homo Ludens is a new indie game development studio built on the simple idea of respecting all actors in the video game industry, players or professionals. We wish to create immersive and engaging experiences which involve our communities and respect the time invested by our players.


Do not hesitate to follow us on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn if you're interested about our games news and job openings.
🌠 https://twitter.com/HomoLudensGames
🌠 https://fr.linkedin.com/company/homo-ludens-games
🌠 https://www.instagram.com/homoludensgames/

Twitter and Linkedin will be our main communication channels for now.

Thank you for your support and interest ! 😊

The Homo Ludens team