Patchnotes: 2021.04.20A - 2021.05.28A

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.