Hello! This update brings a few new features, fixes various bugs, crashes, and further adjusts the game's balance.
- added the ability to sell engine licenses:
* you can sell only 1 engine at a time
* the price is for you to set-up and can be changed at any time
* the engine you decide to sell will compete with other engines on the market that you can purchase yourself
- added a new Drive affector "comfort" and several objects related to it:
* this drive affector is not mandatory, meaning that your employees will not leave the office if it is lacking
* this drive affector will negatively affect the drive levels of your employees if the offices aren't comfortable enough, but will also provide a boost to their drive levels if the offices are comfortable
* vending machine, gumball machine, squat rack, and barbell bench now all add 1 point to the Comfort drive affector
- added German localization:
* this was a community contribution by "Westman"
- added whiteboard object, provides a dev speed boost of 10%, uses 2x1 tiles
- fixed camera pan issues with non-qwerty keyboards when using WASD to pan the camera
- fixed several UI scaling issues
- fixed the wrong value being displayed when viewing Drive level affection of a Drive affector that is lacking in objects
- fixed not being able to change the game price during the tutorial when making your first game
- fixed price research tasks not being cancelled when releasing a game project that the price research was not yet completed for
- fixed role filter elements forgetting about employees when performing various actions related to teams (moving a member from one team to another, etc.)
- fixed a couple of issues with coffee machines related to adding/removing the dev speed boost
- fixed platform share increasing for specific platforms when loading a savegame
- fixed market share of a platform not being properly calculated at the beginning of a new game
- fixed fake games not being accounted for when calculating platform popularity after loading a savefile
- fixed incorrect display of starting player level skills in the character designer window when starting a new game
- fixed firing an employee not updating the member count on team elements within the same menu
- fixed firing an employee through dialogue not removing the UI element for that employee in the menu, resulting in being able to fire the same employee more than once, which resulted in a crash
- fixed a crash upon loading related to changes done to the game in the previous update
- fixed incorrect text in a project review remark when great genre saturation is present
- fixed a possible crash in a project review remark when great theme saturation is present
- fixed being able to rotate unrotatable objects with mousewheel
- Back in the Game campaign starting money increased to 750k (was 450k), Pay Debts starting money increased to 800k (was 500k)
- player character starting skill levels in Back in the Game and Pay Debts campaigns increased to 30 (was 20)
- increased "Climbing the Ladder" time limit to 3 years (was 2 years)
- corrected display of gained popularity during game conventions
- game projects will now receive less popularity the smaller the presented games are in scale in comparison to the largest possible game scale at the moment from game conventions, Lets Plays, and shilling
- some of the gameplay tasks now require, rather than benefit from, specific knowledge (implementing these features without having enough knowledge can have a negative effect on the score of your games)
- game conventions visitors-to-popularity nerf (3x to 1.75x in early years and 4.5x to 2.5x in later years)
- issues now have a 75% effect on the game score (was 50%) during conventions when calculating how attractive the game is
- reduced highest theme-genre match sale boost to 15% (was 50%) and second-highest to 5% (was 25%)
- the amount of popularity a game will gain at a game convention will now greatly decrease if the game has been released already
- slight changes to object placement rules (ie. placing a toilet in front of a toilet paper holder is now possible)
- when calculating the popularity of a platform, rival/player-made games released only in the last 8 years will be evaluated
- not showing the game completion bar anymore if the game has been released in the "Record" tab
- showing the amount of money made and profit/loss in the "Record" tab for each game
- can now use space and enter keyboard keys to speed up the dialogue text
- a global auto-interview cooldown of 3 days is now applied when an interview offer is rolled
- minor optimization to coffee machine validity check
- improved interest selection GUI (separate popup instead of a drop-down menu)
- coffee machine dev speed boost reduced to 5% (was 10%)
- "user purchashing power: nan%" UI text fix in platform info display
- various UI tweaks
If you encounter any bugs or crashes, please report them here.
I would like to thank everyone that has reported bugs fixed in this update.
Please allow up to an hour for the game to update, alternatively you can restart Steam to instantly queue up an update for Game Dev Studio.