Hello Animators -
The game is nearly complete! Level 10 is on the test sever undergoing final balancing with Mom's Challenges and final 3 minigames before the final Award Ceremony!
Additionally, I've done a graphics optimization and cleaned up a bunch of assets, so even with all the level 10 stuff I've added, the game is now nearly 2 GB smaller!
I've done some late-game balancing and other fixes, listed here:
- Switched the new game starting month to April to reflect the new April final release date.
- Minor text/graphic fixes/clarifications
- Adjusted how the Inventory Rewards of Risky Business payout so it's more useful early on without going overboard in the late game.
- Did a complete overhaul of the Hint Popup system to prevent any issues if multiple hints try to pop up at the same time.
- Made the clickable region larger for upgrading each Entourage member. You can now click anywhere on the vertical region for that Entourage member.
- Fixed a glitch where the "Mega Audience Booster" would allow you to click it if you had 100 Inventory instead of 250.
- Fixed a glitch where if you load a saved game at level 9 while the current game has the "Office" button "Level Up" overlay, it wouldn't reset the button to say "Office".
- PR Disaster
- The "Fan Sacrifice" option now also sacrifices Rotted Potato Score. However, this also allows you to use the button when your Fan Rating was previously too low to be used.
- If you use "Employee Sacrifice" and lose HR, IT or Security, it now turns off their Toggles if you don't have enough Employees anymore to use them.
- Fan Conventions
- You can now cancel Fan Conventions. If you Cancel during the planning phase, you lose a lot fewer Fans than if you cancel during the actual Convention.
- Lowered the amount extra you make when a Film goes viral during Fan Conventions.
- Award Show / Minigames
- Fixed an issue where the Finding Balance score bar masking was interfering with the character eyelid masking
- Fixed an issue in the Red Carpet Dash where one of the eyelid options were layered wrong.
- The Award Show now has an audience silhouette to add to the atmosphere.
- Fixed a glitch that would sometimes prevent Mom from winning a sub-category Award in Level 9.
- Fixed a glitch where sometimes the Player would win a Level 9 sub-category Award, but it would show a competitor's Film cover.
- Adjusted the Mom Award Winning Bar Icon to make Mom letters bigger