The new building mechanic is now officially out. And I have two other big announcements, which I will talk about during this month!
To reiterate:
Alpha 5 save games no longer work, you can switch to Alpha 5 in Steam
The price will go up to 14 dollars soon
Change log from Alpha 5
- You can now build rooms in any shape and easily split and merge them
- You can build the large window from wall to wall by dragging the mouse
- Double doors and wide windows have been added
- Hiring and insurance mechanics have been overhauled. You now search for employees by suggesting a salary up front, and you can pre-emptively interview everyone in specific areas
- The right click context menu has been upgraded visually and can now be bound to a key in the options menu
- The notification area has been upgraded visually to be less intrusive and some notifications can be clicked to highlight a problem
- Fixed windows collapsing in on themselves and not working until size was reset in the options menu
- Big optimizations for various furniture
- Selected object can now be seen through other objects
- Cars no longer wait for employees through walls
- Deleting a basement with employees in it would break the employees
- Meeting tables no longer need to be stacked next to each other, to be used as meeting tables
- Competitors will release better quality software on average above easy mode
- Newer computers are actually faster
- You can delete saves from the save game window
- You can re-enable the marketing dialog that appears when releasing software, in the options window
- Employees will no longer work on support if there are no tickets in queue
- Building, hiring and insurance tutorials have been updated
Alpha 7 will focus on gameplay, with features such as more teams per project, manually setting product price, more stats and improved heating/cooling system.