Dear players and video game entrepreneurs,
It has been exactly 3 days since "Software Company" was released on Steam. These have been stressful, but also amazing 3 days.
On release day, the game even managed to secure the first place among EA releases for a few hours. A small success that I absolutely did not expect.
I want to thank you not only for giving "Software Company" a chance, but also for taking the existing bugs and glitches in stride and helping me eliminate many of them with constructive feedback. Currently, there are still some bugs on the list that need to be fixed, but thanks to the numerous helpful insights into your save games and logs, these problems will soon be a thing of the past.
To keep you as up-to-date as possible on the current state of development, there will be regular dev diaries like this one. In them, I will report on things I am currently working on, bugs that are being fixed, and anything that might interest you about the game's progress.
To start, I would like to inform you about the current status of some bugs, specifically problems that still occur in connection with save games.
Again, I would like to thank you for your understanding in dealing with the current problems. As a solo developer, I had limited systems available to me for testing the code for problems and bugs prior to release. Especially in the PC market, every system is unique - from hardware and installed software to the operating system. Each of these factors plays a role in whether a bug occurs or not. By submitting your save games, you have greatly increased the number of systems I could gain insight into, so fixing the small but annoying bugs in the save games is progressing quickly.
Yesterday, a small, undocumented patch was released online that was able to fix some of the biggest problems with most save games. I am currently aware of some other errors that I am working on and fixing. Once this is complete, there will be the first larger interim update in about 10 days, the content of which I will announce in the coming days. Currently, I am working on the following issues:
- - Progress bars of currently developed games are not loaded correctly.
- - Occasionally, when loading a game, employees are not assigned their workplace correctly and diligently program in the parking lot.
- - Box arts are not loaded correctly, but appear as white boxes.
- - Some values in the individual game overview are displayed with incorrect values from time to time.
- - Occasionally, the game generates unintentionally unrealistic high sales for a game after it should have been taken off the market.
Work on the bugs mentioned above is progressing quickly, so I can already release the hotfix hopefully tomorrow afternoon.
Please continue to post reports of any further errors you discover.
Otherwise, I wish you continued fun with "Software Company"!
Best regards and THANK YOU!!!
Sascha