The big surprise
Today at 6am PST we launched into full release! Along with this changed state of release, we have brought an absolutely ridiculous amount of content. Without talking about everything we will breifly go over some of the major changes.
We want to thank everyone that has stayed involved with the early access and has helped us improve the game to reach the state it's in today. We couldn't have done it without the amazing support and feedback from everyone.
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47 more cities and more assets coming soon
Hey guys, Panos here. I have been working really hard to complete the additional 47 cities that were missing from the game. I am confident that there will be no problems with the new cities but in case I am wrong feel free to contact us.
More content regarding instruments and props will be added soon, as well as new backgrounds for recording studios and video clip studios. If you have more awesome ideas for graphic assets you would love to see in the game feel free to let us know.
Gig reviews are working
This has been an issue with Rock God Tycoon since before early access and I just never got a chance to actually fix the issues. Now you'll see your band get 2's and 3's from reviews early on (not just 1's every time). You will also notice that reviews won't repeat themselves anymore.
Youtubers/Streamers (content creators), resolution settings
A lot of content creators have made themselves heard regarding the lack of resolution options in the game. You can now make these changes within the video settings. The resolutions available will be based on your monitors aspect ratio. You can still manually resize the window of course.
Character perks
This is another feature that has been missing since day 1. There are now 5 perks and I recommend you read the change log to find out what each of them do. We will eventually make a guide/wiki or more ingame information for all of these small side features.
New achievements
Originally there were only 11 achievements but no game is complete on Steam without at least 20 (in my opinion at least). Panos created some lovely art for the new achievements and we hope you enjoy them.
Change log, Update 1.0.0.0
- Every city is now available
- Modified billboard scaling to match player progression a bit better
- Gig reviews would show duplicate reviewer text, this has been fixed
- Gig reviews have been rebalanced to allow for slightly better reviews early on
- Travel time between cities can now be viewed by hovering your mouse over the travel button on the city map
- Optimized time simulation
- Hiring screen perk tooltip now draws at the correct position
- All message popups will make a click sound when you click a button on them
- Shop menu compressed and cleaned up
- Band info cleaned up
- 9 new achievements
- Video clip/Studio booking now has additional tooltips
- Rebalanced props
- Releasing albums now brings in new fans
- Video settings have been changed
- Added resolution options
- Added shader toggle
- Removed vertex buffer method
- Removed alternative vsync
- Added perks
- Performer: +5% more money from gigs
- Day Job: +$30 at the end of each day
- Traveller: -10% tension gained from travelling (applied after band solidity reduction)
- Perfectionist: +10% recording quality for that band member
What does this mean for the future of Rock God Tycoon?
We certainly are not done updating the game and you can absolutely expect more updates in the near future. There are still bits of the game that we want to polish and add to so please don't stop giving us feedback. Our transition to full release is more due to the amount of content/stability the game now has. We don't feel that the early access state of the game (on the Steam store page) properly conveys the amount of content/features.
We are excited to be taking this next huge step and hope that everyone that has been involved with the early access release agrees with our decision. Panos and I are going to take the next few days off to relax (because so many people have been telling us to do so).
Word of mouth
We could really use your help getting the word out about Rock God Tycoon. We are a two-man team and have no way to market this game outside of our own tiny communities. We would both love to see big youtubers playing the game and all that but in todays market, it is impossible to get yourself out there.
Thanks once again to everyone and keep rockin'. ːRockSignː