Happy New Year! Lets hope 2021 works out better than 2020 for obvious reasons.
Although COVID ruined 2020, professionally it has gone well for me and Sarah (aka SquarePlay Games). I'm really happy with what we achieved, launching Overcrowd, supporting it through early access, getting some juicy PR coverage and even some top award nominations along the way to full release.
Most importantly - I'm happy you guys seem to like what we did with the game :) Thanks so much for picking it up. Especially thanks if you liked it enough to leave a review! Steam reviews are vital to small devs like us, so if you get a moment - please do take a second to leave us a review if you would like to help us out.
(Oh, it also helps a tonne if you tag the game in simulation, management or whatever other tags you feel might work!)
Screenshot competition
Finally, I'm happy to announce the winner of the Overcrowd Winter 2020 Screenshot competition.... *drumroll* ... black_winter. Here it is:
I like this shot because it shows a smattering of Xmas decor, some snow and nice use of layering with circular commuter routing as well as a sneaky staff corridor. Also, sheer enthusiasm won you this as I counted something like 50 entries from you :)
Thanks to everyone who entered. black_winter, do check your DM's for your prize key.
Build 1.0.38
Finally, hotfix 1.0.38 fixes a few little issues you brought to me over the festive season:
Build 1.0.38:
-Xmas content off. I hate taking down decorations, but its time to say goodbye to the snow tiles, xmas trees and carol singers for now (existing saves will not be affected).
-Will now mostly rain and not snow.
-Fixed build buttons and HUD elements disappearing when windowed game minimised.
-Fixed small memory leak when windowed game was minimised.
-Fixed rare crash when toggled off goals window on other window.
-When alt-tabbed, cannot input to game accidentally when game is not in focus. Now implemented even if pause-in-alt-tab mode disabled.
-Game splash screen will now also start in windowed/full screen as saved from last session
-Alarm does not pathing for staff in corridors
-Shop condition is correctly saved and loaded
-attempts to reduce track below min length do not lock future track edits
-Day updates correctly if you skip to dawn between 11 pm and midnight (could stall scenario trigger or lock it if on day 0)
Best,
