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Hi everyone, Great week. I have been doing a lot of playtesting on Beta 15 and am confident everything will be ready for the April 12 release date. :-) The devlog gives a sneak peek into what has been developed on the game over the past week. It is not a new release and is not available yet. New features are always released as official Beta releases.

New demands

A lot of new demands have been added to the game. As I want users to experience them in-game, I will not go and spoil it by revealing them all here. However, I have provided a taster of one of the new demands in the screenshot above. Here, Mildred Burns is evidently not happy about Scott Currys work effort!

Switching from Steam Cloud API to Steam Auto-Cloud

A number of new players have experienced that their first savegame never gets saved, resulting in a loss of progress. After days of debugging, Ive never been able to reproduce the issue. However, I believe its related to Cloud sync/conflicts. Beta 15 is now using Steams Auto-Cloud feature, which I hope will solve the problem. :-)

Discords Rich Presence

Startup Company now supports Discords Rich Presence functionality. The current in-game day and tier will automatically be shown. The feature can be disabled in your Discord settings.

Other Beta 15 changes

Fixed recruitment bug causing fewer candidates to be put forward if fast-forwarding or using time-machine. Deleted entered email from options.json after subscribing to the newsletter. Improved Big UI/4K support for the product tabs. Fixed bug causing an error to happen when firing employees. Allow mods/workshop items to be installed even if Steam Cloud Sync is disabled. Buffed rate of losing users when potential users are lower than registered users. Rebalanced Adjusted required tiers when for unlocking employees to fit new investor feature. Reduced server requirements and increased prices for Virtual Clusters. Increased income per user for all product types. Fixed bug causing changes to mods to be reset when reloading the game. Force player to create a product when starting a new game. Disabled Angular debug info for performance gains. Im really looking forward to next weeks release. Fingers crossed youll like it! :-) Thats all for now. Thanks for reading. All the best, Jonas

[ 2018-04-06 15:35:29 CET ] [ Original post ]

Startup Company

Hovgaard Games Developer

Hovgaard Games Publisher

2020-04-10 Release

Indie Strategy Simulation Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 113

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Very Positive (5626 reviews)

https://www.startupcompanygame.com

Steam Store

The Game includes VR Support

Public Linux Depots:

Linux [210.09 M]

About the game

Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game. You play as the CEO of a newly formed software company. With an empty bank account you are forced to complete client contracts, but as soon as you get enough money you will be able to start competing against the largest tech giants, building your very own products and services.

Startup Company includes:

* Build Mode: Design your very own office.
* Contract Work: Win contracts by competing on price and service.
* Crafting System: Merge components to create modules. Use modules to create products.
* Products: Build outstanding products by adding features, managing servers and running marketing campaigns.

Hiring

A great company is built by great people. Optimize your staff benefits and working conditions to attract the best employees.

Win Contracts

You'll be facing hundreds of available contracts, but not all of them will be good for your team. Work your way up and compete with the best in the industry to win the big contracts!

Develop, Merge, Repeat

That's right, even software needs a little piecing together!

No matter if you want to deliver contracts or build your own product you need components and modules. Use developers, designers and lead developers to produce what you need.

Startup Company includes a fully featured crafting/development system where you will be able to merge components into modules, servers or product features.

Release, Update and Expand

Creating successful products is all about making the right decisions. Implementing or upgrading the right features is what generates hype. Hype generates users and users generate money.

You'll have to constantly pay attention to your hype otherwise users will start to drift away from your product. Keeping the product under constant development and releasing new versions is key to success.

It's your sandbox, let your imagination run wild!

Development Stream on Twitch

All parts of the game development are being streamed on Twitch. Come join the community and the stream at:
https://www.twitch.tv/jhovgaard

MINIMAL SETUPOS: Ubuntu 16.04 and later
Processor: 2 GHz Dual CoreMemory: 2 GB RAM
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 or similar
Storage: 1 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Only 64-bit. The game may be working on other distributions. but not guaranteed or supported.

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