Bakery Story and Restaurant Story have a new update on the android market.
I opened it up and noticed a few major changes. My belief is they are releasing this version to prepare for quests and parts for special appliance like the iphone apps have.
First of all let me say I think this new version is a bit buggy. I loaded my bakery today and it took about 20 seconds for it to show me the main/design etc icons. It loaded my bakery but none of the menu items for about 20 seconds.
- When you log into the game the first window you see is this one - the messages box but instead of having your news feed intermingled with your gifts it is ONLY your gifts. You can send and receive all your gifts before even entering the game.
NOTE: The screen print above shows material requests. As I stated the droid version still doesn't allow for materials to be sent OR received so I assume this is what the rest of the release will look like in the future. For now the Android version shows the box above with just gifts.
- Android versions now have the CAMERA icon - shown above, top right. This allows you to take screen prints of your bakery. Fun if you want to share it with friends. You can also take photos of friend's bakeries.
- The Main Menu tab now shows and INVITE tab. This allows you to send a text or email to your friends to invite them to play. The settings and help/FAQ icons are smaller.
- Click on MAIN/Messages and instead of having to double tap the bakery name you can now press the VISIT button next to the bakery name. I've been wanting this because now it is in sync with the news tab.
- Under Messages there is now an EMPTY tab that does nothing and you can NOT select it. I think this is because, as I stated above, they are getting ready to roll out the changes to android for the buildable appliances.
- When you visit a neighbor's bakery there is now a popup window that says 'Hooray! Bonus for visiting friend's bakery today (star)2 showing two level up points. Sometimes you get coins - it varies and comes up only when you visit a neighbor.
- You now can open the wall on your friend's bakeries and visit people's bakeries that post on their wall. To do this - visit a friend - click on the wall icon and you will see visit links next to all the posts on their wall. I've sometimes wanted to visit a bakery of someone who leaves cute posts. Now I can!
- There are now expand arrows on the outside of your cafe. If you click them it show your next expansion and allow you to buy it for coins or gems.
- I can see the buildable stoves in other people's restaurants and bakeries - but still can not build them for android.
Let me know if you noticed any other changes.
This week's update had no new decorations OR food (boo!) - but if you wanted a discount on buying your expansion with gems, now is the time to do it - 20% off expansions. Normally 40 gems is now 32.
My opinion is I would rather save money to buy my expansion with coins because 40 or 30 gems are hard to come by, but I have a friend who would rather spend gems on an expansion instead of all the cash. It is all personal preference!
