Road to Dog Sled Saga 1.0

This is the fifth of several upcoming updates themed around major changes to the game. We've mapped out the rest of the game's development looking towards exiting Early Access and releasing our mobile versions. We'd love your feedback as we go! Keep your eyes open for the rest of the final stretch. View this update on our website Previously: 4) Informed Decisions Update 3) Sponsorship Update 2) Operating Cost Update 1) Dog Dynamics Update

Changes

Ever feel like you can't keep all your growing kennel of dogs practiced and rested? Now you can hire one or two extra pairs of hands! Employees can let you multitask (or just regimen more dogs,) and some of them have perks to do tasks better than you can. You'll have to pay for employees on hire and with your monthly expenses.

• Employees
  • Can hire employees for additional regimen capacity
    • 1 employee slot after reaching League 3
    • 2 employee slots after reaching League 6
  • Employee perks increase Caretaking and Training effectiveness at additional monthly cost
    • Lvl 1 perks available in League 4 or higher
    • Lvl 2 perks available in League 5 or higher

 
 

• Behind the scenes - Preliminary Localization support
  • Reworked external strings
  • Partially removed existing hardcoded strings

• Various bug fixes and improvements

 
This is a smaller update post than the past few, but we're excited to release a nice new management feature and cool employee art that's been queued up for a while! Let us know in the comments, forums, Twitter, or Facebook if you have any feedback on this update. -  Dan and Lisa

[ 2016-06-17 17:41:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

Road to Dog Sled Saga 1.0

This is the fifthof several upcoming updates themed around major changes to the game. We've mapped out the rest of the game's development looking towards exiting Early Access and releasing our mobile versions. We'd love your feedback as we go! Keep your eyes open for the rest of the final stretch. View this update on our website Previously: 4) Informed Decisions Update 3) Sponsorship Update 2) Operating Cost Update 1) Dog Dynamics Update

Changes

Ever feel like you can't keep all your growing kennel of dogs practiced and rested? Now you can hire one or two extra pairs of hands! Employees can let you multitask (or just regimen more dogs,) and some of them have perks to do tasks better than you can. You'll have to pay for employees on hire and with your monthly expenses.

• Employees
  • Can hire employees for additional regimen capacity
    • 1 employee slot after reaching League 3
    • 2 employee slots after reaching League 6
  • Employee perks increase Caretaking and Training effectiveness at additional monthlycost
    • Lvl 1 perks available in League 4 or higher
    • Lvl 2 perks available in League 5 or higher

• Behind the scenes - Preliminary Localization support
  • Reworked external strings
  • Partially removed existing hardcoded strings

• Variousbug fixes and improvements

This is a smaller update post than the past few, but we're excited to releasea nice new management feature and cool employee art that's been queued up for a while! Let us know in the comments, forums, Twitter, or Facebookif you have any feedback on this update. -Dan and Lisa

[ 2016-06-17 17:41:42 CET ] [ Original post ]