Hey everyone! A huge work week has just passed, and I don't have much to tell you except that v1.22 will be by far the most stable version of City Game Studio with fixes that will make the game even more stable!

Week Recap

Thanks for the welcome you gave to the last devlog, it was very pleasant to read your feedback. Even if the studio copy/paste feature is great, some people always want more, and I completely understand why!
Besides that, the latest changes greatly improve the competitors view. In fact, you'll now be able to see their game catalog directly through the competitors panel. It's super convenient, you can see the publication date, when they were removed from the market, and their score. That's already pretty good! Well, to do this I had to work on pagination. And so, I reviewed all panels that have pagination because there were two bugs. The first one allowed viewing pages without any information to show. In the best case, it displayed nothing, but in some cases it crashed the game. This bug is now behind me and the game is better for it. Another change this time concerns the game's log management. I completely rewrote it. The old version was slowing down your machine because it consumed a lot of I/O, while the new one will use more RAM. Don't worry, it's not even 1 MB being consumed, but in terms of performance, this will clearly impact you, not to mention stability. Using RAM returns fewer errors than using a hard drive. I should have done this earlier, but I only thought about it later...

What's Next

I plan to work on tooltips, to prevent them from making your life miserable when you want to disable them. After that, I'll work on online games to ensure the game displays the correct data. If I have time, I'll add a filter for the published games history, so you can filter your games from those that come from competitors you've bought. Well, this devlog is slightly shorter than the previous one, that's because I spent a lot of time debugging to understand where a crash was coming from, and why my fix wasn't working. Now that it's fixed, well, I'm pretty satisfied, and I can finally add even more features to City Game Studio. By the way, my other game is about to release, for now it's free, so take advantage of it and go play it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1810050/Fortune_Avenue/?utm_source=cgs That's all from me See you next week Take care of yourselves Xavier aka Binogure

[ 2025-02-14 16:20:55 CET ] [ Original post ]