Game Tycoon 2, major update to final 1.0 released! Also the game leave Early Access! Patch notes below.

Main features added in this version:

- there will be a box with each released game, which shows the rating of the game and a picture - there will be a box if a System will be taken from the market soon - balancing of the complete game - lot of statistic for each product

New:

- charts can be viewed now for one, six and twelve years - there will be shown now the headlines for contracts or my contracts - taxes of earnings at the end of the yes was added and integrated into the balance - when fired freelancer, they will not get any more money and are directly out - in the market magazine there will be shown now the popularity of the systems next of the popularity of the genres - the price of games can be changed after the release in the stock - an information was added in the stock area, for which price stocks was bought - when earn money with stocks, 25% of the earning will be paid for taxes - earnings done with licensing's should be displayed in the balance - there is now an info, for which system the concept/game is - some genres now have dependencies - developers will be getting older and have motivations - the up-to-date state of own developed engines can be seen now in the PC - some additional helptexts was added - later in the game (starting in year 2000) new employees can be hired in the PC too - the designer-couch has magic functions :) - in the year 2000 there appear now a message with the news - there is a text, if you leave the stock-exchange with your company, after your stock was taken from the stock-exchange - the new features was added to the tutorials - the passbook at the bank has now various interests per month which can raise or drop - the volume of other stock-market companies changes now - there will be a text, after a game was release via the online-server - if pause-button is active, it flashes now - games can be sold cheap within six month, if they was not sold before (maybe when produced wrong) - in the advertising agency there can be shown a market overview of the opponents - added the last two achievements

Fixed:

- problems with release online-games - when I close an advertising agreement for one game, I can't do it for another one - the text for bring the company to the stock market wasn't complete - when I want to submit a game for a publisher, there wasn't a text if the quality is too low - games which was released online, will not displayed in the magazine - sometimes the system was not displayed in the magazine - after won mission 19, the finish-screen wasn't shown - when try to reproduce a game with different systems, no systems will be shown - in the large office the door for the server-room will still be displayed - after bought the large office and resume the game, it can't be entered and must be bought new - when played until 1986, then try to start a new game and choose 1985. Then I start in 1984 - the last patch can be done multiple times - sometimes I can't go back with right click after entering the game store - sometimes when start a new tutorial some old texts of the advisor will be displayed - when having a better reputation of 75% in mission 13, the mission is finished directly - in some situations when entering the menu or the map in the tutorials and go back I can't go on with the tutorials - the stock exchange doesn't work properly - after played one year the balance can be chosen when click on the rack on the desk - the balance should be shown on the last day of the year - personal costs will not increased after adding platforms/systems or beta-phase to the project - the employee motivation drops to 0. There's no difference if I spent more holidays and so on - the balance should be shown only until 1980, when scroll them back - there should be a space between long names and the age on the bulletin board - the game can be launched multiple times - the name of the server room will not be shown in the upper info area - the year of the exhibition isn't correct in the advertising menu - an icon is missing on the project-board, if there will be developed an engine - some graphics does have bad textures - the plant in the law area was cropped - the option to buy the large office will not disappear - in the last month of a year there are no balance movements, so no costs and no earnings - the price for the engines should be changed with more steps or set detailed - system and title should be played in a separate field in the magazine - the big trophy will be shown through the announcement box when rotating - there is no text, when the concept was finished - the box of the help-text should be a bit larger - exhibitions in the USA will be booked without exception - when negotiate a contract too often, it will be deleted. When try to negotiate the new chosen one, I must choose it again - the screenshot was not shown clean with the edges in the magazine - the tutorial dialog window overlaps the pop-up info window - compilations should only be done with games for the same systems - after updating the server (technology or virus scanner) it should be up-to-date for awhile - after re-enter the project-board the current year should be chosen - too long genres in the upper info-area will be breaked into two lines - the speech bubble should be a bit smaller - calculator should be displayed a bit lower - too long publisher names in the stock will be breaked into two lines - number of bugs changes after load/save games - in the production some texts will not be displayed - only games in already reached years in endless mode can be started - not each year at the there will appear a balance - the check will be shown over long names on the production table. All checked items will be shown now with a green background - when be with the company at the stock market and the stock was delisted, another stock was displayed with the amount of owned stocks of the own - developer didn't get retired with 68 - after I played a long game, it occur, that I can't resume a game and I get the message, that the save-game is old - I want to research some features but I get the message, that I must first research other technologies. But there are no more - later in the game there was only distribution contracts for PC or all systems - texts in the options are missing - on some older games in the magazine, there will not be shown any ratings or details sometimes - at the server only one game can be chosen in the online-publisher menu - in the passbook it should be possible to pay in larger values faster - after see the exhibition icon on the map and start a mission, the icon on the map was visible all the time - in some lists it is not clear, which item was chosen - an info is missing, when games was released - when developer have poor satisfaction and leave the company, they are still in the project and work - online lists are not marked clear - if I add short before the start of the beta-phase more developer, the game is finished - from year 2002 to 2004 only three systems will be shown in the market magazine - on the release-boxes the title isn't in the middle - if I develop a game and I am in the project-board and delete all developers, the project is on demand, but the beta-start is still there - the last message in the log is cropped - the patch button can be used even if there was released the content patch

Changed:

- in the list on the upper left the buttons should be still there even the lists was expand or not - money done with cheats should only be displayed when cheats was used :) - the goals of mission 4 and 10 was changed a bit - engines have now a maximum price and the sales are more balanced * save-games from earlier versions are not compatible

[ 2016-04-08 13:05:48 CET ] [ Original post ]

Game Tycoon 2, major update to final 1.0 released! Also the game leave Early Access! Patch notes below.

Main features added in this version:

- there will be a box with each released game, which shows the rating of the game and a picture - there will be a box if a System will be taken from the market soon - balancing of the complete game - lot of statistic for each product

New:

- charts can be viewed now for one, six and twelve years - there will be shown now the headlines for contracts or my contracts - taxes of earnings at the end of the yes was added and integrated into the balance - when fired freelancer, they will not get any more money and are directly out - in the market magazine there will be shown now the popularity of the systems next of the popularity of the genres - the price of games can be changed after the release in the stock - an information was added in the stock area, for which price stocks was bought - when earn money with stocks, 25% of the earning will be paid for taxes - earnings done with licensing's should be displayed in the balance - there is now an info, for which system the concept/game is - some genres now have dependencies - developers will be getting older and have motivations - the up-to-date state of own developed engines can be seen now in the PC - some additional helptexts was added - later in the game (starting in year 2000) new employees can be hired in the PC too - the designer-couch has magic functions :) - in the year 2000 there appear now a message with the news - there is a text, if you leave the stock-exchange with your company, after your stock was taken from the stock-exchange - the new features was added to the tutorials - the passbook at the bank has now various interests per month which can raise or drop - the volume of other stock-market companies changes now - there will be a text, after a game was release via the online-server - if pause-button is active, it flashes now - games can be sold cheap within six month, if they was not sold before (maybe when produced wrong) - in the advertising agency there can be shown a market overview of the opponents - added the last two achievements

Fixed:

- problems with release online-games - when I close an advertising agreement for one game, I can't do it for another one - the text for bring the company to the stock market wasn't complete - when I want to submit a game for a publisher, there wasn't a text if the quality is too low - games which was released online, will not displayed in the magazine - sometimes the system was not displayed in the magazine - after won mission 19, the finish-screen wasn't shown - when try to reproduce a game with different systems, no systems will be shown - in the large office the door for the server-room will still be displayed - after bought the large office and resume the game, it can't be entered and must be bought new - when played until 1986, then try to start a new game and choose 1985. Then I start in 1984 - the last patch can be done multiple times - sometimes I can't go back with right click after entering the game store - sometimes when start a new tutorial some old texts of the advisor will be displayed - when having a better reputation of 75% in mission 13, the mission is finished directly - in some situations when entering the menu or the map in the tutorials and go back I can't go on with the tutorials - the stock exchange doesn't work properly - after played one year the balance can be chosen when click on the rack on the desk - the balance should be shown on the last day of the year - personal costs will not increased after adding platforms/systems or beta-phase to the project - the employee motivation drops to 0. There's no difference if I spent more holidays and so on - the balance should be shown only until 1980, when scroll them back - there should be a space between long names and the age on the bulletin board - the game can be launched multiple times - the name of the server room will not be shown in the upper info area - the year of the exhibition isn't correct in the advertising menu - an icon is missing on the project-board, if there will be developed an engine - some graphics does have bad textures - the plant in the law area was cropped - the option to buy the large office will not disappear - in the last month of a year there are no balance movements, so no costs and no earnings - the price for the engines should be changed with more steps or set detailed - system and title should be played in a separate field in the magazine - the big trophy will be shown through the announcement box when rotating - there is no text, when the concept was finished - the box of the help-text should be a bit larger - exhibitions in the USA will be booked without exception - when negotiate a contract too often, it will be deleted. When try to negotiate the new chosen one, I must choose it again - the screenshot was not shown clean with the edges in the magazine - the tutorial dialog window overlaps the pop-up info window - compilations should only be done with games for the same systems - after updating the server (technology or virus scanner) it should be up-to-date for awhile - after re-enter the project-board the current year should be chosen - too long genres in the upper info-area will be breaked into two lines - the speech bubble should be a bit smaller - calculator should be displayed a bit lower - too long publisher names in the stock will be breaked into two lines - number of bugs changes after load/save games - in the production some texts will not be displayed - only games in already reached years in endless mode can be started - not each year at the there will appear a balance - the check will be shown over long names on the production table. All checked items will be shown now with a green background - when be with the company at the stock market and the stock was delisted, another stock was displayed with the amount of owned stocks of the own - developer didn't get retired with 68 - after I played a long game, it occur, that I can't resume a game and I get the message, that the save-game is old - I want to research some features but I get the message, that I must first research other technologies. But there are no more - later in the game there was only distribution contracts for PC or all systems - texts in the options are missing - on some older games in the magazine, there will not be shown any ratings or details sometimes - at the server only one game can be chosen in the online-publisher menu - in the passbook it should be possible to pay in larger values faster - after see the exhibition icon on the map and start a mission, the icon on the map was visible all the time - in some lists it is not clear, which item was chosen - an info is missing, when games was released - when developer have poor satisfaction and leave the company, they are still in the project and work - online lists are not marked clear - if I add short before the start of the beta-phase more developer, the game is finished - from year 2002 to 2004 only three systems will be shown in the market magazine - on the release-boxes the title isn't in the middle - if I develop a game and I am in the project-board and delete all developers, the project is on demand, but the beta-start is still there - the last message in the log is cropped - the patch button can be used even if there was released the content patch

Changed:

- in the list on the upper left the buttons should be still there even the lists was expand or not - money done with cheats should only be displayed when cheats was used :) - the goals of mission 4 and 10 was changed a bit - engines have now a maximum price and the sales are more balanced * save-games from earlier versions are not compatible

[ 2016-04-08 13:05:48 CET ] [ Original post ]