Hi everyone! It is time for the next big update for DevLife introducing Interactive Events! Version marked as Alpha Build #4 (0.6.69) is now available for download on Steam! We hope that you will enjoy the content that we have prepared for this update! If you encounter any problems with the game or have any feedback or suggestions, you can leave them on mesotegames.com/bugsreport or on our Discord server :D

Changelog:

New Features:

• Added Interactive Events
• Added new character traits associated with Interactive Events
• Added display of employee traits in workstation trackers
• Added company goal for finishing a certain number of own projects with a certain number of components
• Added additional tooltips in Game UI
• Added colors for buttons opening different windows in Game UI
• Added new names for characters
• Added automatic closing of the text tutorial and environment settings windows when turning one on while the other is active

Mechanic Changes:

• Employees' vacations now last 30 seconds and can be started at any time; depending on the option selected, they regenerate the appropriate amount of energy and provide modifiers to employee satisfaction
• Added the ability to open the Commission Manager after completing the first commission search (previously it unlocked after completing the first project)

Game Balance:

• Increased number of bugs in more advanced components
• Reduced penalties for not completing commissions before creating company
• Increased deadlines for game development commissions
• Increased vacation costs
• Decreased the maximum chance for a player character death from old age to 25%.
• Decreased the cooldown of the employee salary change to 60 seconds (previously 180 seconds)

Corrections:

• Improved accuracy of predicting income from own projects
• Changed the blur in the UI (from now on it is more accurate, especially in the Pause Menu)
• Removed border in character trait icons.
• Added missing Polish translations
• Improved accuracy of predicting income from your own projects
• Improved scaling of trait icons when there is a large number of them
• Improved formatting of transaction description text for completing company goals
• Improved formatting of large numbers in Quick Notifications
• Fixed position of the arrow pointing to the project in the Interactive Tutorial
• Fixed text formatting in headers of commissions and projects panels
• Fixed text formatting in the message list in the Message Window
• Corrected appearance of characters in the Main Menu (sleeve color + incorrect leg animation)
• Corrected appearance of the list of employees in the commission summary, when more than two of them worked on the project
• Updated list of developers in the Credits

Bugs Fixes:

• Blocked the automatic deletion of unopened messages
• Blocked the possibility to try to save the game using a shortcut while in the Main Menu
• Fixed a bug that caused employees' energy to regenerate twice as fast
• Fixed overlapping of the Company Goals button with the Messages button after exiting Build Mode
• Fixed a game-breaking bug that appeared in the Main Menu when the game save didn't have a screenshot
• Fixed bugs related to adding, removing, and duplicating employee mood modifiers related to overwork
• Fixed a bug that caused the winter appearance of the Main Menu to appear every time you returned to it from the game
• Fixed a non-working button to pause game time in the Game UI
• Fixed a missing furniture model "Darkwood Desk 16:9 Monitor + 4:3 Monitor"
• Fixed a bug related to workstations causing the game to not load
• Fixed a bug locking the game after double-clicking on permanent notifications
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to fire an employee from the Employees Manager
• Fixed a bug that made it impossible to change the appearance of the environment after creating a company
• Fixed tooltips appearing off-screen in Skill Trees