BUILD 2021.03.08A ----------------------------------------- - Romanian language added. - Management->Archive: Game concepts, fan letters, game reports and engines can now be archived so that they are no longer displayed in the lists. - "Quality Assurance -> Improve Gameplay": It is now possible to select whether bugfixing or polishing should be performed afterwards. - New objects: "Game of the Year" award. - Update costs are displayed separately in the financial overview of games. - It is now no longer possible to release the GOTY edition and the budget edition at the same time. - BALANCE: Competitive products no longer have an impact on addon sales. - BALANCE: Addons are no longer considered a competing product. - BALANCE: Effectiveness of trainings increased. - BUG: Sorting function was not saved in the "Publisher search" menu. - BUG: Matching topics found by game reports from commissioned games were not marked green. BUILD 2021.03.07A/B (Hotfix) ----------------------------------------- - BUG: "Mad Games Awards" have stopped working. - BUG: Multiplayer: When trying to view another player's office, a crash could occur. - BUG: When closing the review menu, in rare cases the pause mode was terminated. - BUG: Statistics -> Mad Games Awards: The menu could cause a crash if no awards were given yet. BUILD 2021.03.06A ----------------------------------------- - The "Mad Games Awards" winners of the last years can now be viewed in the stats. - The costs for the "Mad Games Convention" are now added to the marketing costs of the selected games. - BALANCE: Sales of addons no longer drop as much when the main game is removed from the market. - BUG: Some objects were positioned incorrectly when placed. - BUG: "Automatically update objects" was cancelled if you didn't have enough money. - BUG: When creating a game report, all matching topics were highlighted in green. - BUG: Some pictures had too high quality rating. BUILD 2021.03.05A ----------------------------------------- - In the statistics menu you can now view all created contract games. - You can now start the automatic via the room menu. - The game tooltip now shows if the game is a contract game. - The Game Concepts menu now also shows contract games. - You can now also unlock additional platform slots with contract games. - BALANCE: Increased revenue from in-app purchases for F2P games. - BUG: Key "ESC" to place objects again did not work anymore. - BUG: Menu "Buy objects": When you closed the menu, all collided objects kept flashing. - BUG: In the menus "View game concepts and game reports" some tooltips were not displayed. BUILD 2021.03.04A ----------------------------------------- - MMOs can now be converted to F2Ps. - Event "Cyberattack" & "Power Crisis" will come once internet is available. - Fans are now sorted by number. - "Full Screen Mode" can now be selected in the options. - Multiplayer: In the options, the automatic pause can be set at a later time. - Collision boxes of round carpets improved. - BUG: Selecting characters could cause a crash. - BUG: Close button of the menu "Release date for F2P" did not work. - BUG: Multiplayer: game speed was not always transferred. - BUG: The function "Automatically update objects" could cause a crash. - BUG: Sometimes the game did not exit pause mode. - BUG: Engine fee was calculated without the turnover of in-app purchases. BUILD 2021.03.03A ----------------------------------------- - F2P games can now be created. - Staff groups can now be renamed. - The default setting for target group is now "All". - Austria and Finland added as company locations. - The storage room now requires a minimum size of 2x2. - BALANCE: A/AA/AAA contract games will be offered later in the year. - BALANCE: Engines features now have a higher impact on the rating. - BUG: Staff "always" preferred arcade machines to charge motivation. - BUG: In the menu "Game Concepts" some texts were displayed in German. - BUG: GOTY editions and addon bundles could become trendsetters. - BUG: You could place objects in buildings that have not been purchased yet. BUILD 2021.03.01A ----------------------------------------- - Create game concept: When choosing genres, the popularity of the genre is now displayed. - Game Pack Menu: Prices can now be increased or decreased by 10 using the Shift key. - New object added: Coffee Maker. - Top of GUI now shows when a room has no task assigned. - MMOs, now take away each other's buyers and subscribers. - Translation costs are now no longer charged for the native language. - New global event: Hacker attack - Marketing: Optionally, the automatic "wait" can now be deactivated. - BALANCE: Game sales figures revised (difficulty level increased). - BALANCE: Competitive games that are on the market now have a stronger effect on sales figures. - BUG: Sometimes the text size of the genre in reviews was unreadably small. - BUG: Automatic game updates could reduce development costs below 0. - BUG: Review texts were not displayed in Chinese language. - BUG: On Korean language, there could be a crash when trying to buy items. BUILD 2021.02.27A ----------------------------------------- - Each genre now has a popularity score (Stats -> Info & History). - Polishing is automatically enabled once game improvements are completed. - Place objects: It is displayed again which objects collide with each other. - BUG: Polishing: Only one game was displayed, even if you had several games in development. - BUG: Only a few movie licenses were offered. - BUG: Manage InApp Purchases menu: Games that were already removed from the market were also displayed. - BUG: Menu Addon-Bundles: Games were shown which had no addons. - BUG: Multiplayer (Send Money): If you didn't enter anything in the input field, there could be a crash. - BUG: Multiplayer (Send Money): It was possible to enter negative values and steal money. - BUG: Multiplayer (Mad Games Awards): The wrong "Worst Game of the Year" was displayed. - BUG: Sometimes objects and walls blinked continuously. BUILD 2021.02.26A ----------------------------------------- - Graphic studios, sound studios, MoCap and QA can now perform polishing. - Multiplayer: Game speed can now be adjusted. - New global event: Loss of trust (no new licenses) - BUG: (Russian language) When loading a save game, many texts were displayed in English again. BUILD 2021.02.25A ----------------------------------------- - Added special icons for license types to make licenses easier to recognize. - Addons now have a limited selling price. - BALANCE: Unpopular business models of in-app purchases will now have a greater impact on sales. - BALANCE: Lifetime of in-app purchases reduced. - BALANCE: Sports and book licenses should now appear much more frequently. - BUG: Room line was displayed when building rooms. - BUG: Loading save games could cause a crash. - BUG: Building toilets could cause a crash. - BUG: Outline shader could cause a crash. - BUG: Licenses had no effect on sales. - BUG: Move / Support task: If you clicked on the wrong room, the menu was closed. - BUG: When automatic research was cancelled, "Not enough money" was always displayed as the reason. - BUG: Moving tasks from rooms could cause a crash. - BUG: Multiplayer: You could see the game concepts of other players. BUILD 2021.02.24A ----------------------------------------- - Unity engine updated. - (Timezone bug) The bug that the game did not work for Chinese players should be fixed. Info: Updating the Unity engine may have unexpectedly created new bugs. BUILD 2021.02.23A ----------------------------------------- - Italian language added. - Added new global event: Energy crisis. - Game reports can now be created from contract games. - Staff applications can now be deleted (single player only). - Modern consoles now require "Modern Controller Support". - BALANCE: Development costs and development effort for addons & MMO addons reduced. - BUG: Budget game sequels could be developed. - BUG: The selection rubber band did not work when the GUI size was adjusted. - BUG: It was possible to set in-app purchases for contract games. - BUG: The sorting function in the "My Games - Sales" menu did not work correctly. - BUG: In-app purchases did not work for MMOs. - BUG: MMOs: Subscriptions could be higher than sales. - BUG: Remasters could not become "Game of the Year". - BUG: Sometimes the collision system for objects did not work. BUILD 2021.02.21A ----------------------------------------- - In-app purchases are now available. (New game required!) - A sorting function has been added for the turnover menu. - Engines can now be sorted by specialty platform. - Rating for NPC games is now related to difficulty. - BUG: Remasters could not get awards at the "Mad Games Awards". - BUG: Server room: The message "Server overheating" was only displayed in German. - BUG: In the "Buy DevKits" menu, it was not possible to see if a platform was Internet-enabled. - BUG: In multiplayer mode the NPC could buy engines, but the engines were not offered for sale. - BUG: If you placed a door in front of an object, the object was not lifted. - BUG: MMO addons were not transferred correctly in multiplayer.