Hi everyone,
I feel that the game is really coming together quickly at the moment. The new investor feature is bringing a whole new feeling to the game. As I have said before, Beta 15 is undoubtedly going to be the biggest update to the game so far. While there’s no release date available yet, I expect it to be shipped around the beginning of April.
The devlog gives a sneak peek into what has been developed on the game over the past week. It is not a new release and is not available yet. New features are always released as official Beta releases.
Updated Product Creation Page
The product creation page is now being shown as the first page when you start a new game. It has been updated to show competitors for each product type. A new competitor has been added called NetTix.
Simplified Infrastructure Tab
A lot of players have been struggling to understand the Infrastructure tab. To make it easier to understand, the tab has been renamed “Features”. The name change is accompanied by some neat updates:
- To improve instances (now features), you simply have to click “Upgrade” by hovering over the feature (you no longer need to go to the Lead Dev to improve features).
- Screenshots have been added to visualize the feature.
- The old “Quality” term has been changed to “Level”.
- Features can now be upgraded while in use.
- Frameworks now have a limited number of “feature slots”, starting with three features for the Basic Framework.
Updated Researcher
The Researcher will now generate Research Points that you can spend on unlocking features and frameworks. Using a points system makes it much easier to administer compared to the previous solution where you had to choose which framework/feature to research. I plan on using Research Points to unlock other aspects of the game in the future.
The Advisor
Introducing the advisor as part of the new investor update. When you choose to partner with an investor, you’ll now get helpful messages/instructions from your advisor, telling you how to complete the next milestone. Obviously, this works as a tutorial mode in disguise. The advisor can be closed and re-opened by clicking on it. New profile photos for advisors/investors are in the making :-)
Minor Beta 15 Changes
🔵 Changed DevOps to unlock at Tier 4 instead of Tier 6.
🔵 Changed HR Manager to unlock at Tier 8 instead of Tier 7.
🔵 Changed click behavior to react to button down instead of button up.
Next week’s devlog is postponed by at least one week. I’ll spend next week working on balancing and performance (which would result in a very boring devlog).
That’s all for now. Thanks for reading. I’ll be back in a couple of weeks :-)
All the best,
Jonas
