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Hi everyone! This week I've continued the work on improving usability and adding "Quality of Life" features. Together with below, I've also been putting some time into preparing the game for Japanese. Today I can confirm that Beta 22 will officially add official support for Japanese!

Updated employee demands

"Fire Employee" is now more rare and will only occur for existing employees, and not new candidates.
Employees demands are now more realistic, especially with desks, including demanding the correct Programmer/Executive desk at Expert level.
Differ the amount of new demands generated on employee upgrade based on level.

New loans

Beta 22 brings two new loans allowing you to loan 1 and 2 million. Loans will only be available if you meet the minimum company valuation (valuation of all websites combined). Fever Inc (the 600k loan) has also been limited to companies with a valuation of minimum 1.2 million.

Last chance before bankruptcy

I've added an additional mechanic which gives the player a last chance before the company is declared bankrupt. The offer only comes if the player owns more than 15% of his website, hasn't bought out the investor and no loan options are available in the banks.

Improved hosting stats

The stats in the bottom of the hosting center has been improved to support large numbers. A "bottleneck alert" has also been added to make it easier to understand what to increase in order to increase produced CU.

Furniture/desk inventory

When removing furniture and desks from your office they will now be added to your "purchase inventory", allowing you to save items for later use.

Minor changes

Fixed bug causing events to be launched too early (at game start)
Fixed bug causing hosting building temperature not to update correctly.
Fixed bug causing employee name changes not to update on overlays.
Added support for panning using arrow keys.
Added PageUp/PageDown keyboard shortcut for changing floor.
Added Q/E keyboard shortcut for toggle between employees (switcher).
Improved sliders when buying/selling competitor stocks.
Added time limitation to investment offers.
Limit feature efficiency from maximum 104% to 100% (only affects new savegames, not existing ones).
Changed overlay label to "At home" when not at the office.

All the notes that are listed above are simply a preview of what's coming up in Startup Company. These new changes and items are not yet available in the public build of the game.

Do you have suggestions or ideas for the game? 
Check out our Conflux board.

That's it for this week! Best, Jonas & Robert [url=https://discord.gg/hovgaardgames]

[ 2019-02-24 18:35:44 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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