Patchnotes BUILD 2021.05.28A ----------------------------------------- - Console development is now available. You can publish stationary consoles and handhelds. - You can now optionally change the name of IPs. - In the menus "Develop successors", "Develop remasters" etc. there is now a search function. - Brightness can now be set in the options. - New platforms added: "Amigo CTV", "PhaserActive". - Depending on the type of game (remaster, addons, budget etc.), there are now different amounts of points for the studio rating. - Multiplayer: Modified platforms of the host are now sent to the clients. - Performance improved. - BALANCE: User rating is now taken into account to determine the "Game of the Year". - BALANCE: Studio rating now increases slower. - BUG: (Research menu): Upper/lower case was not ignored for all researches. - BUG: Some room tasks were not removed from memory if you canceled them. - BUG: You could create multiple games with the same name. - BUG: Collision boxes of corners were too big. As a result, you could not place objects near corners. - BUG: You could place wall objects on windows if the walls were turned invisible. - BUG: You could not remove a mobile game from the market if you had not researched production. - BUG: You could delete the name of games in the "Development Report" menu. - BUG: Staff names had invisible characters. - BUG: Crash could occur in the "IP menu" in rare cases. - BUG: Statistic menu "Platforms": Arcade platforms were always displayed in first place when sorted by market share. - BUG: NPCs kept making games for platforms that were already taken off the market. - BUG: In multiplayer, the NPC did not pay the purchase price for client engines. BUILD 2021.04.30A (Hotfix) ----------------------------------------- - BALANCE: Star designers do not get negative perks. - BALANCE: The "No Bugs" perk is now also set for game designers. - BUG: Sometimes wall objects that were in the air were not automatically picked up. - BUG: Fixed some bugs with theme-genre combinations. - BUG: The employee perk "Talented" and "Untalented" were sometimes set at the same time. - BUG: It was possible to place wall objects at corners 50% in the air. - BUG: Sometimes it was not possible to manage InApp purchases for games unconverted from MMO to F2P. BUILD 2021.04.29A ----------------------------------------- - IP menu revised: You can now see various stats like revenue, sales, awards, etc. - Added 12 new employee perks (including negative perks). - Employee perks are now selected by profession (for example "No bugs" only for programmers). - Development report menu: When developing a contract game, you can now see the minimum rating, bonus payment etc. there. - START YEAR: Depending on the start year, certain rooms and game sizes are unlocked immediately, as well as the starting capital has been increased. - BALANCE: Impact of licenses increased. - BUG: (Engine licenses) No license fee was paid for revenue from subscriptions and arcade games. - BUG: When publishing games as budget, GOTY edition, etc., it could happen that the IP was not set correctly. - BUG: (Produce vending machines): If the game had no more pre-orders, the vending machine animation was still played. - BUG: (Exploit): It was possible to change the prices of vending machines while there were still pre-orders. - BUG: Vending machine games received user reviews even if no machine was sold. BUILD 2021.04.25A (Hotfix) ----------------------------------------- - NPCs can now create Arcade Cabinet games. - The chance of increasing the publisher relationship now depends on how good the game is and if it is just an addon. - "Bored fans" no longer affects arcade games. - Developing Addons: The languages of the main game are now automatically applied. - BALANCE: Bonus sales from IP awareness is now scaled according to difficulty. - BALANCE: Sales from F2P games through in-app purchases increased significantly. - BUG: Ports and MMO addons could trigger "Bored Fans". - BUG: Spin-offs did not trigger or cancel "Bored Fans". BUILD 2021.04.22A/B/C ----------------------------------------- - Contract work for workshop is now working. - Porting games: Machine games have a positive effect on retail game sales. - Performance improved - Added some new custom logos. - Addon bundles: Games that no longer have addons available are no longer displayed. - BALANCE: Contract work is now created more evenly for all rooms. - BALANCE: Values of fan campaigns adjusted. - BUG: When creating an add-on for a ported game, the text codes were displayed in the game name. - BUG: Addons were not added to the IP. - BUG: It was possible to create addons for budget games and GOTY editions. - BUG: (Automatically remove games from the market): Arcade Cabinets were removed from the market while there were still pre-orders. - BUG: (Mad Games Awards): Fixed some bugs that could lead to wrong results. - BUG: Review texts were displayed in English for Japanese and Romanian language. BUILD 2021.04.21A ----------------------------------------- - The IP rating now drops for bad games. - The higher the difficulty, the slower the IP rating increases. - My IPs menu: The tooltip now shows the IP's total sales, total revenue, etc. - Develop Game Menu: The IP rating is now displayed. - Iran added as a company location. - Game tooltips: The game size is now also displayed. - GameTabs: An icon is now displayed if the game uses a license. BUILD 2021.04.20A ----------------------------------------- - IP system added: All games of the IP influence each other. Hint: For old save games, only the first game is set as the IP. Successors, remasters, etc. are "not" added to the IP. - Games can now be ported to other platform types. - Contract games can now be sorted by "bonus". - Reductions for development costs now work added together (mobile 25% + remaster 20% etc.) - Company special genre no longer triggers "Bored Fans". - Menu "My Game Concepts -> Game Description": The game description can now be saved to the clipboard. - Menu "Development Report" made clearer. - Menu "Develop game": For themes, it is displayed whether games with this theme are already on the market. - For MMO addons, all languages that the MMO already has are activated. - Game tooltips and game concepts now show the license used. - Game tabs now additionally display the genre and game size. - South Africa added as company location. - BALANCE: MMO sales and subscriptions increased. - BALANCE: Active players in in-app purchases of F2Ps increased.