Hey everyone!
The next update is moving forward by leaps and bounds, and I've already started working on other small things!
The Studio Director
It's been months that I've been telling you about it, and if you're on the unstable branch of Steam, you've been able to test it and see that it's working pretty well.
Does the studio director make City Game Studio an idle game? Far from it. But does it make it a full-fledged tycoon? Certainly!
Moreover, in the latest version, release candidate 8, I added a tutorial to the studio director. I think this concludes the current version of the studio director.
Afterwards, once v1.21.0 is published to the general public, I'll review your feedback to know how to improve this feature. Then I'll move on to v1.22.0, which will be dedicated to studio furnishing!
The Interface
With v1.20.0, I reduced the number of panels in City Game Studio, in order to make the interface more pleasing to the eye and less cluttered. This seems to have worked, but there's a small problem. Some information has disappeared, and I've barely started reintroducing it. I'm doing this gradually, to have a coherent and intuitive interface.
For example, in v1.21.0, a button is present at the bottom left, next to the studio names, which allows you to sell studios, but also to buy them, if you rent them, to destroy or rename them. I'm happy with this result, but an important piece of information is still missing: the summary of your company. This summary includes important information such as the total number of employees, the number of games produced, or the best game of your company.
Nevertheless, I think I have time to reintroduce this information before the publication of v1.21.0. However, I will surely not have time to introduce anything else for this version.
I want to dedicate a few days to creating a new trailer to celebrate the release of v1.21.0. Rest assured, v1.22.0 will continue to reintroduce important things, such as the reduction of console manufacturing costs based on the number of units sold.
There you go, thank you for reading me.
If you have ideas for the next trailer, don't hesitate, I'm all ears.
Meanwhile, see you next week.
Xavier aka Binogure