Hello everyone! Once in a while, I like doing a post to share the content of the upcoming version. Well, I've been working on it for about 6 months already, let's imagine how big the update will be! Think even bigger!

What's already available on Steam's unstable branch

In-game events

At first, the update was supposed to contain only in-game events. Which is a rather large chunk. The first event is about theme trends. Suppose you publish a game, no matter how good it is, you get a chance to impact theme trends. Of course it impacts the sales, it doubles them for the first month, and afterwards, it's degressive. Clearly, you might want to tap into this and release another game with the same theme. Nevertheless, you will have to use a new genre to avoid the malus that prevents you from publishing the same genre/theme combination too often or you will get a poor rating. This means working on several different genres. Now tell me if some fans fall in love with your game. Well, they will immediately ask you to update it. You are going to get a notification that your game is popular. Depending on the difficulty you will have a certain amount of time to publish any update. For easy, it's 12 months, while for very hard, it's 5 months. I considered adding events saying a game has a bug and you have to fix it as soon as possible. However, it's an event which can negatively impact the game experience, therefore I chose to do something else instead. For example, let's say you make a great game, we're talking about a game that has a score above 90, and you don't make a sequel, well, you're going to get a letter from your fans telling you how much they love your game and how they're desperate for a sequel! If you decide to make a sequel, and you publish it, the reaction of the fans will be based on the quality of the sequel. I won't tell you more.

Interface

A gamer called Gonzi, a City Game Studio enthusiast, is helping me to revamp some of the game's interface. He is doing a wonderful job, I believe you are going to love it. The main interface has been revamped, and enhanced. On top of that, notifications management has been reworked. When hovering the mouse over a notification you can view its content, it is no longer necessary to open all notifications to understand what it is about. Also, consoles' news are grouped together whenever possible.

What is not yet implemented

I intend to add a success mechanism to the game. I'm doing this for folks who play offline or who play on platforms other than Steam. In addition to all that, I want to rework the interface a bit to add an annual report to give a short summary of what happened in the past year. There are other additions that I won't list here, as I'm keeping several surprises for you! Anyway, I think it's time for me to go back to the City Game Studio and do some coding! Have a nice weekend Xavier aka Binogure Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[ 2023-01-21 11:14:45 CET ] [ Original post ]