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Hi everyone, This week the main focus has been on support and bug fixing. Last Saturday Startup Company was featured as Steam's Daily Deal. We had an amazing week where we welcomed a lot of new players. We even managed to break the old record of max concurrent players from 1403 to 1969 on April 21, 2019. (Super close to 2000!).

Bugfixes and changes this week

Third floor added to the HQ building.
Removed framework max level limitation to allow for modding.
Fixed HTML in Korean speech bubbles.
Increased aging speed by 33%.
Removed landing page as a premium feature option.
Fixed a bug causing contracts not to be cancelled when firing sales executives.
Fixed bug where an employee could have two demands for firing the same employee.
Fixed bug allowing players to generate components for free by cancelling current task.
Fixed keyboard shortcuts that did not work.
Increased maximum negotiation bid for expert candidates to $25.000.
Fixed bug making it hard to unlock the Researcher achievement.
Adding sorting to Sales Executive leads and sort default by time of creation.
Removed framework max limit limitation for mods.
Fixed bug making it impossible to move items or workstations between floors.

New citymap planned for Beta 24

Bruno has returned and is working on the new citymap. We still need to make it more obvious what buildings are rent-able and some additional details, but overall I'm pretty happy with the result already.

Community Translations

Localizor, our upcoming game translation tool from Hovgaard Games is soon going into beta testing. The tool will be used to allow you guys (the community) to mainly help translate Startup Company into more languages, but also to improve the existing translations. If you're interested in joining the beta, make sure to subscribe to our newsletter at the Startup Company website and following Hovgaard Games on Steam.

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

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

[ 2019-04-28 10:01:02 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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