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Alpha 9 release
Although a bit late, our Christmas gift from Hovgaard Games is here: a brand new Alpha filled with many great features and quality of life improvements!
I could talk about how awesome the new features are, but it’s better if you see them yourself!
Cleaners
Let’s start with the most important addition: you can now hire and assign cleaners to your businesses! Yaay! You’ll need one mop per cleaner, and they’ll clean your business between 12 AM and 4 AM. They can also be assigned to more than one business. Just make sure not to exhaust them too much!
Delivery Contracts
Another heavily asked feature: no more trips to the wholesale store! Select the item to be delivered, the amount of boxes, the day, and which business you want it to be delivered to, and there you’ll have it! At 12 AM the day selected, the hard-working people from the wholesale stores will deliver the boxes and put them on your storage shelves. Make sure you don’t run out of space or they’ll charge for the trip and won’t deliver the box.
Sports Car
A new faster, prettier and more dangerous car! All yours (if you ever become rich enough to afford it, of course!).
New Office Business Type (Law Firm)
One of the big features of Alpha 9 is the new law firm business: buy an office, fill it with lawyers and… Start to earn tons of money!
Storage Shelves and Shelves Fill Amount Visualization
Shelves now show the amount of items it has. From now on, the metal storage shelves will be used for storing boxes. Cheap Gifts will require Rounded Shelves.
[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog30/storage-space.mp4[/video]
New POI System
The Points of Interest system has been reworked, making it more professional and adding small quality of life improvements. Definitely a great upgrade!
[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog31/newpoi.mp4[/video]
World Border
The world border is now visually filled with non-interactable buildings and in-accessible streets. Also, a “fog of war” has been added to make it even cooler!
[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog31/fog.mp4[/video]
Contacts App
Another big feature that will definitely improve your life inside the game is the contacts app. After visiting a business and talking to an employee for the first time (cashiers excluded), a new contact will be added to the app and will let you call them to do the same you could do when visiting them. It includes: recruiting new employees, creating marketing campaigns, starting new deliveries and taking loans.
Schedule UI Rework
After gathering and analyzing players’ feedback, we’ve completely redone the way schedules work. Now, both opening times and work shifts are modified on the same window, and we’ve designed it to make it as responsive as possible. Employees can be dragged to the work stations, and their working hours can also easily be modified. One last addition is that the opening hours now support up to two different schedules per day!
[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog31/scheduler.mp4[/video]
Screenshot Mode
Pressing F1 will hide the UI, and pressing F2 will enable the free mode camera, letting you move and rotate as you wish! The print key button will instantly add a screenshot to the Big Ambitions folder located inside of the Pictures folder.
Traffic System Improvements
Engine sounds and honks have been added, and vehicle lights have been updated with more realistic visuals.
[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog30/lightcookies.mp4[/video]
Zoom + Inverted Camera Rotation Option
Two more requested features have been added: zoom and the option to invert the direction when rotating the camera (can be changed through the options menu inside the main menu).
[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog30/zoominout.mp4[/video]
Pack Furniture
Furniture can now be repacked into boxes and moved to different buildings!
[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog31/packing.mp4[/video]
73 closed issues since Alpha 8
- #188 - Bank: Wrong message when no more loan possible (only display issue)
- #200 - Shop 19th Fourth Ave (next to the bank) entered through the wrong door
- #324 - "soon runs out of" message for clothes shows up right from the start
- #339 - BizMan: White underline for "Settings" still shown after shutting down business
- #346 - Uncle Fred Message not fitting in box
- #403 - Wording: "Condition" on mop actually shows "Cleanliness"
- #495 - [Low Priority] Car lights only displaying 1 source and not lining up correctly
- #524 - Taking a loan before having a job
- #579 - Voogle Maps opens all the way zoomed in after starting a new game or loading a savegame
- #592 - Interior Designer colours entire corner not one section
- #656 - Interior designer: One wall color and multiple floor styles wrong
- #672 - Massive FPS drop when speeding up your shift
- #692 - Drive-In Wholesales: Can't enter by clicking on the doors
- #695 - Scenery objects not avoided by mouse navigation
- #698 - Voogle Maps opening on wrong location if opened while pressing mouse button
- #699 - Character Stops moving when hover action occurs (When you use WASD)
- #702 - Buildings hiding too late
- #703 - Player doesn't stop working at the right time if business hours are changed while working
- #705 - Upcoming task for employees in training or on their day off
- #706 - Can start a new game without inputting character name
- #709 - Traffic lights progress when game paused
- #710 - Boxes got into the paperbag
- #715 - Map no work when in car.
- #716 - Infinite loading screen
- #717 - Endless loading sreen is shown in case saved with equipped hand truck
- #718 - Supermarket: Can't add anything to shopping basket
- #719 - Possible to leave supermarket while holding a shopping basket, impossible to discard it afterwards
- #720 - People don't immediately get spawned in shops on reload if saving paused game
- #722 - Forklift in drive-in wholesales is for single use only
- #723 - Can't pick up anything in drive-in wholesales except paperbags
- #724 - Objectives: Buy paperbags and cheap gifts not registered as done if bought earlier or separately
- #725 - New "blocked-out" buildings don't hide when walking in front of them
- #726 - Player doesn't walk around cars anymore since introduction of new traffic system
- #727 - Contacts app: Buttons in recruitment agency messages overlap
- #728 - Vehicles stack up at car dealer
- #729 - Drive-In Wholesales: Car is not entering straight; when driving out of the building, camera angle will be wrong
- #730 - Drive-In Wholesales: Expensive gifts sold as single item
- #731 - Buildings hiding too late when driving car
- #732 - Invisible Doors
- #733 - Weird Circular effect
- #734 - Cars in the bridge
- #735 - No doors for toilet areas in buildings
- #736 - Daily Summary still plays while paused
- #737 - 17th Third street occupied
- #738 - Business school not open on sunday
- #739 - Can't grab paper bag with food after placing it on the floor
- #740 - Missing text in new business schedule UI options
- #741 - Map Filter: Category lines hiding when scrolling on resolution below 1080p
- #742 - Scrolling my mouse wheel in combobox causes camera zoom
- #744 - Bought items can sometimes show the "Unpaid Total" text under the Place/Discard/Pack buttons
- #745 - Cleaners can't be unassigned from a business and thus can't be trained
- #746 - All employees can be assigned to Cashregister and Mop, no matter their profession
- #747 - Cant pick up any item
- #748 - BizMan: ESC for closing not working while focus is on combobox
- #749 - Cleaner's salary not part of EconoView
- #750 - Impossible to leave Drive-In Wholesales backwards
- #751 - No Salad at Drive-In Wholesales store, but available for delivery
- #752 - POI markers shown while sleeping on bench
- #753 - Car can get stuck on sidewalk
- #754 - Hand truck magically disappears when put into an already full car
- #755 - Hand truck holding flying box if car is full
- #756 - Scrolling not working properly in new schedule UI
- #757 - Picking up a counter with cash register while being staffed is possible
- #758 - Savegame broken because of SpawnCustomersOnStart()
- #759 - "is dirty and needs to be cleaned" task showing even with cleaner assigned
- #760 - Law Firm gets broken permanently when adding more than two desks
- #761 - BizMan Scheduler: Wrong color for employees when filtering cleaners
- #763 - Marketing Agency: Sitting offset to seat location
- #764 - Marketing Agency: Desks and counters are just an illusion (you can walk through them)
- #765 - Wrong tasks for employees (not assigned to a business, not assigned to any tasks)
- #766 - Entering apartment 34 Fifth Avenue breaks several things in game
- #768 - Restaurant doesn't sell anymore after one "shelf" is empty
- #769 - Low traffic index in Hell's Kitchen
And much more!
There are many more small features and improvements, and you can find them right… Now!! Alpha 9 is available to all our gold supporters. If you are not a gold supporter and can’t wait until the full release of the game, get the Gold Package for Big Ambitions now and start playing right away!
You can order the Gold package of Big Ambitions at www.bigambitionsgame.com.
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