Beta v8.1

v0.8.1.0

• Added: Corrupt mode – enabling this will not allow you to load a game when you go bankrupt
• Added: Tutorial

v0.8.0.2

• Added: Player can now market published games
• Added: Options menu added
• Added: Penalties will no longer cancel and incur a penalty when the deadline isn’t met. You will still be able to finish the contract, but you will get a discounted price. This will help the player figure out what kind of contracts they can accept without causing too much burden.
• Updated: How frequently companies will self-publish is moddable
• Updated direction calculations
• Fixed: Bug with viewing different contracts/publishers/buyouts
• Fixed: Expenses now display expected expenses for month. Also fixes AI expenses
• Fixed: Story was being reset after direction in Art Production
• Fixed: Bug with maximum contracts/publishers/buyouts
• Built script for publishing and marketing games

v0.8.0.1

• Added: More random events
• Added: New challenge – hacked
• Fixed: Expos are now simulated
• Fixed: All forms now close when game is over
• Fixed: Bug where random events would give multiple success rates (missing 70-90)
• Fixed: Console Full Schedule now displayed
• Fixed: When building a new game, engines and consoles will display when being selected
• Fixed: Direction stage calculations

v0.8.0.0

• New: Max staff is now 20
• Added: Employees will quit if they reach a threshold of pay below average

Fixed:

• Fixed: Bug where publisher was not added when developing game
• Fixed: Bug in Art Production stage and story points fell
• Fixed: Bug when setting up progress bars if they’re over maximum
• Fixed: Bug where the progress gained in setting the lead for each part wasn’t getting added properly
• Fixed: Project management bug for engine creation that caused everything to go havoc
• Fixed: Bug where engine or console development wasn’t displaying direction setting properly
• Fixed: Game freezing when determining if a company exists already

Balancing:

• Balancing: Contracts are too easy with little reward
• Adjusted: Player gets salary updates so they don’t get stressed out
• Balancing: Employees returning from PTO
• Balancing: Console development
• Balancing: Direction mathematics (Basically, the equation changed from the product of current development progress and direction bonus based on position per stage -> product of lead’s skill and the whole team and then the product of that if there’s a direction bonus and then added to the current development progress)

v0.7.7.2

• Fixed: Contracts should no longer error out when selecting the last one
• Fixed: Consoles were creating an error when a company went bankrupt and the console was still for sale

v0.7.7.1

• New feature: Updater now functional
• Fixed: Starting a new game

v0.7.7.0
New features:

• Ability to create consoles
• Consoles now have random events
• Stage direction now includes console
• Player now gets paid for consoles
• Player can now change game name at release
• Player can now market console
• Expos can now advertise both consoles and games
• AI companies will now publish themselves if they have enough assets
• AI will now announce a console months in advance before releasing
• Engines and consoles are now included in expo and marketing calculations
• Engines and consoles can now be marketed

Fixes:

• Fixed: extra stock code loading wrong information
• Fixed: saving/loading console data
• Fixed: AI console sales were getting full price rather than difference of cost and price
• Fixed: New game clears console and banking information
• Fixed: Console sales, income, etc. never referred to right company

Balancing:

• Adjusted: PC sales so they’re not so they’re dominate past 1990

v0.7.6.1

• Fixed issue with new game/engine charts

v0.7.6.0

• Stock UI is complete
• User may now be publisher
• User now gets income from publishing
• AI gets income from publishing other developer games
• Added publisher array to company data
• Generated companies will now publish with a pre-existing company

v0.7.5.0

• Made marketing factors editable, also made some adjustments
• Fixed: a bug where new hires weren’t showing for recent addition
• Adjusted: development stages influence
• New feature: simulation for years up to start date
• Adjusted: Development from EXP change
• Adjusted: Prototype development

v0.7.4.0

• Updated Awards screen
• Fixed bug where weekly sales earnings were not calculating correctly
• Fixed: New Game setup
• Adjustment: Marketing
• Fixed: Removed most duplicated games
• Various bug fixes
• It costs $1,000 to look at candidates and now $5,000 to hire them
• Adjusted game awards screen
• Adjusted hire screen
• Added staff screen
• Included investments in the challenge frequency
• Staff screen is functional - You can give raises and terminate employment
• Reduced how often employees gain EXP
• Adventure games were not getting a rating for AI or the player, this has been addressed
• You can now have up to 10 employees
• Re-adjusted PTO stress reduction
• Added development stage influence

v0.7.3.0

• Implemented new theme

v0.7.2.0

• Worked on stocks
• Stocks will be based on percentage not number (i.e. 80 = 80%, not 80 stocks)
• Fixed: Bug where investments didn’t get removed
• Fixed: Reputation being added/subtracted when a game is cancelled

v0.7.1.0

• Moddable: Employee stress levels
• New feature: challenge – highly successful businesses will begin to suffer detrimental or positive effects
• New feature: challenges – highly successful business may have sales negatively effected
• Moddable: Frequency of challenges based on cash amount
• Fixed: Marketing bugs
• Rebalancing: Employee stress
• Fixed: A minor issue when AI games were created they were all being rated the same as an action game
• Fixed: Bug creating duplicate games
• Worked on rebuilding the expo visitor generator.
• Balanced: Expo visitors
• Fixed: Bug where a game in development didn’t have a console saved
• Made Trends/Reputation easy viewable
• Fixed: Bug with selling games
• Added pop-up for weekly sales
• Provided pop-up for production progress bars to help player determine when their deadlines are
• Companies will now go public when they have a lot of money (stocks)
• Player can view stock options

v0.7.0.0

• End game added
• Fixed: Bug that prevent the main screen from loading

v0.6.2.5

• Finished year end awards
• Game of the year games get re-released
• Fixed: Various issues resuming games with an engine in progress
• Fixed: Various issues resuming games with a game in progress
• Fixed: Engine tech/usability rating for player''s engines
• Fixed: Bug when building an engine the third console was hidden
• Fixed: Bug when engine wasn''t building at all
• Balancing: Engine development
• Balancing: Game development
• Balancing: Increased loan payoff to 3 years
• Balancing: Expo visitors

v0.6.2.4

• Fixed: Bug where month didn''t save/load
• Fixed: Bug where project status wasn''t saved properly
• Expanded trends to include interests
• Fixed: bug with a game rating getting below 1
• Made consoles reduce in technology/cost over time
• Engines now retire when a console retires
• Started building end of year awards
• Fixed: Bug with engine/development bars going below 0
• Fixed: Bug where the size of the development team wasn''t saving/loading
• Balancing: Game development
• Balancing: Engine development
• Fixed: Bug where saving/loading games while developing didn''t resume development
• Fixed: Bug with purchasing investments
• Fixed: Bug with generating interest for investments

v0.6.2.3

• PC sales adjusted to match consoles in later years
• Built art for expo booths
• Added booths into expos
• Fixed: Consoles saved and loaded twice
• Adjusted contracts
• Fixed: Splash screen remained shown if game was loaded
• Adjust Expo costs

v0.6.2.2

• Working on reputation mechanic
  o When engine is purchased
  o When game is released based on rating
  o When contract is complete
  o When contract fails
  o When game is cancelled
• Trends are implemented and based off high quality games
• Other company game sales will receive a boost if the genre is a hot trend
• Player now receives a boost if the genre is a hot trend
• Player can set the trend if a game is high quality
• Adjust PC sales so they''re similar to console to represent PC Gamers