Hello folks,
A beautiful week has just gone by! With spring just around the corner, I'm locked in my windowless office working on City Game Studio!
It's amazing how productive you can be once you cut out all the distractions a window from the real world can offer.
In any case, there are a lot of new things for City Game Studio.
The icons
We're talking about the tiny images that you might click on. All genre icons have been overhauled. They look much more meaningful and pleasing to the eye. It implies redesigning almost all of the game's icons. Meaning theme icons, or even target audience icons, have been redesigned. I still have a few icons to improve, and the end result is definitely worth it.
Mortgages
The mortgage panel is my nemesis. I implemented it in a hurry when City Game Studio was released in early access, it really deserved a complete overhaul.
In other words, the new mortgage panel is much cleaner and more beautiful than before. The redesign also means optimization and stabilization. So contracting mortgages is now simpler, and especially more pleasant.
Other changes
I've been told about a problem with balancing the online leaderboards. In fact, when you make a console, it ought to give you more points. So I revised the algorithm that calculates the game score. And it is indeed more balanced this way. The catalog size of your console influences your final score from here on.
In addition, there is an animation when the game saves, or when there is an automatic save.
In short, everything is polish, visual comfort and the more it goes, the more I am proud of City Game Studio. Can't wait to try this new version? Well, you can already try it by switching to the unstable branch of Steam, however, it is at your own risk, because this branch is not stable at the moment.
It's been a busy week, and the week ahead will be just as busy!
I can't wait to tell you all about it!
In the meantime, I wish you a great weekend.
Xavier aka Binogure