Mad Games Tycoon 2
by Eggcode · 31 May, 2023
138 downloads
Multiplayer · Cracked Only
Cracked Co-op Only
Online works only between cracked copies — you can't join official servers or players who bought the game.
ProtonDB: Platinum
About the Game
Build and design your own game studio
Starting in any year between 1976 and 2020, begin building your dream game company. With every passing year you will need to research new technologies and features, develop or license better game engines, and make the decisions necessary to go from a small garage studio to an industry dominating mega company. Prepare to release your next hit game on home consoles, handhelds, computers or even arcade machines, each having their own unique market.
You will need to hire the top talent available, and they will need lounges, bathrooms and amenities that create a comfortable and clean environment to develop in.
Expand your studio with new office space, go from a few employees to hundreds, and make moves to grow from just being a developer to being a developer, publisher, and console manufacturer as you begin to control the entire gaming market and owning all the companies in it!
Key features include...
▪ Multiplayer for up to 4 players allowing you to work together or against each other. Trade technologies, send each other funds, or sabotage your friends as you compete for the top spots on all the charts.
▪ With "Mad Games Tycoon 2" you can create MMOs, Free to play games, Mobile games, Arcade games, Addons, Spin-offs, GOTY editions, Game Bundles, Budget games, Retro games, Sequels and Remasters or Ports your games. Buy popular licenses from things such as books, toys, movies and sports to give your games a built-in audience.
▪ Every game is a part of a growing IP (Intellectual Property/Franchise), build up the reputation of your IPs into gaming powerhouses that have your fans counting down the days until the next hit. Merchandise these IPs for extra income. Sell IPs you have let become dormant or buy popular IPs from other companies.
▪ Make your own game engines, or license them from competitors. Keep them up to date with the latest technologies to stay ahead of the competition and take a cut of the profits from every game made with it.
▪ Develop games for publishers while working independently, through contract work or sign exclusive publishing contracts for a monetary boost.
▪ Produce and distribute your own games or games from the competition. Choose the right price, how many copies you think you can sell and start your marketing campaigns to increase your chances of success.
▪ Create your own home and handheld consoles. Hire talented technicians to build a reliable console, pick the right parts that fit that era’s technology. Decide what kind of warranty you will offer, provide monetary incentives to attract developers to your console and boost your sales through game releases and exclusives. Make Pro/Slim/Upgraded versions of your existing consoles to extend their sales life and boost their technology.
▪ Determine the best time to release your next hit game, follow the trends, look at the market analysis, if it should be a multiplatform or should you accept financial incentives to develop exclusively for another console.
▪ With up to 100 competing companies, once you begin to get the upper hand on the competition you can buy them and give them specific guidelines on what kind of games you want them to make, or if you choose, just take all their IPs and shut them down completely.
▪ Gaming history to be made – tons of charts and numbers! Track your current and all-time successes. Historical records, current market analysis and market research. Want to see who won game of the year in 1986 when you’re still playing in 2044? It’s a few clicks away. Play for a century and beyond.
▪ Difficulty options ranging from very easy all the way up to a challenging legendary difficulty. These options can be further tweaked with other settings, and if that’s still not enough control for your playstyle there is a full sandbox mode with dozens of options to tailor the challenge exactly to the way you want to play.
And much more to discover in Mad Games Tycoon 2!
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 20855306
Up to date
Summer Update!
With summer coming to a close we wanted to post an update letting players know the changes that have been made in the previous weeks and months.
The game continues to progress, adding more features, gameplay improvements and request from players. We are very happy with the success and support we have received through this Early Access process and we hope you are enjoying the journey as well!
There have been over 24 patches/updates since the last posted notification - these patch notes are regularly posted on the Steam discussion forums with every patch but here are some of the highlighted changes -
- Game design settings (sliders) now factor in both the main genre and the sub-genre. Taking the previous 18 perfect genre settings and now making the combinations nearly 300! This will increase the variety of game designs allowing you to make more unique games and the usefulness of game reports from the Q&A department.
- There are now new events! Your games can become surprise hits, commercial failures or have bugs show up after release. Taking your time to polish your game before releasing it can help you avoid bugs after release!
- It's now possible to publish games for other companies. You can negotiate terms and release these games through your production facilities earning a profit on their work!
- When a game is in development you can now add additional new features to it, and once completed you will have the option to set aside the game to publish it at a later date rather than having to publish it immediately.
- Many background changes to improve game performance, the A.I and Multiplayer have been made. The A.I now is both more competitive and creates a larger variety of game types with near parity of all the choices the player has to create games.
Multiplayer has had data synchronization added making it more stable and much more difficult to cheat. Additionally several other multiplayer bugs have been fixed and the ability to share console research between players has been added.
- In the marketing department you can now perform a staff search! Need a programmer, or a game designer and there isn't one available? Start a search for the specific employee you need!
This is along with dozens of other changes that also include larger impact of 'Trendsetting' games, new publishers and developers, the ability to create 1st party manufacturer exclusive games for your own consoles, a reworking of the banking and loan system, changes to certain ways you gain fans along with the impact your fans have on sales and a continued ongoing focus on quality of life improvements and balancing existing features.
And there is still more to come! Please keep the feedback, suggestions, reviews and bug reports coming - they are much appreciated! Thank you!
The full most recent change log is below with the build numbers representing the date of release -
BUILD 2021.09.04A / 2021.09.07B -----------------------------------------
- The game design settings (design focus and design orientation) now depend not only on the main genre, but also on the subgenre. As a result, there are significantly more different perfect settings (almost 300 different ones).
For example, a platformer/adventure has different settings than like a platformer/sports game.
- New event: Games can now be a "surprise success".
- The gametooltip now also shows the subgenre.
- BALANCE: (Commercial Failure Event)
* Bundles are now excluded.
* Event is unlocked only from difficulty level "hard".
* Games that are trending (genre) are excluded.
* Two games in a row can no longer be a failure.
- BALANCE: (New Bugs Event)
* Is unlocked only from difficulty level "Normal".
* Chance that the event will appear decreased.
- BUG: If you activated / deactivated the heat or garbage filter, a wrong floor graphic was set in rooms.
- BUG: (GameDev menu -> Engine selection) Sometimes the icons were colored wrong.
BUILD 2021.09.01A / BUILD 2021.09.03A -----------------------------------------
- Staff menus: The number of employees per profession and the total skills are now displayed.
- Labor market menu: The number of applicants per profession is now displayed.
- Staff menu: Search function added.
- Game reports: Genres that have not yet been unlocked are no longer displayed in gernecombinations.
- Research "Other": Tooltips added.
- GameTabs (game list): An icon is now displayed when there are still bugs in a game.
- You can now create updates for NPC games you distribute.
- Multiplayer -> Give away research: You can now give away console compnents and console features. Research that the other player already owns is now highlighted.
- New event: "New bugs" can now appear for published games depending on the difficulty and polishing phase.
- New Event: Games can now become a "Commercial Flop" depending on the difficulty level.
- Bugs now have a high impact on user reviews.
- If you choose a higher starting year, the "Personal Computer" will be unlocked immediately.
- BALANCE: Fans generated by the "Mad Games Awards" are now limited.
- BALANCE: (Trendsetter): Hype is now generated and the IP bonus has been increased.
- BALANCE: The studio rating now increases significantly less when you distribute an NPC game.
- BUG: (Publishing offers) Games were not marked as multiplatform games and sequels.
- BUG: Archive->Game Concepts: Game concepts of NPC games you distributed were incorrectly displayed.
- BUG: (Multiplayer -> Give away research) The search function sometimes did not work.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Clients had two random genres unlocked at game start.
- BUG: (Sales menu of games) Wrong data was displayed in the first week of sales.
BUILD 2021.08.26A / BUILD 2021.08.30A -----------------------------------------
- Publishing offerings: Multiplatform games are now offered.
- Staff menus: The average skills of all staff members are now displayed.
- Sort filters are saved globally.
- Publishing contracts: The production menu now displays profit minus profit sharing.
- Complaint icons are now displayed in the employee tooltip.
- BALANCE: Number of publishing offers reduced.
- BUG: Employee group menu no longer worked.
- BUG: Profit sharing of publishing contracts was calculated incorrectly for very low numbers.
- BUG: (Exclusive games) Sometimes more consoles were sold than games were sold.
- BUG: NPC games could have more features than the game size allowed.
BUILD 2021.08.25A -----------------------------------------
- It is now possible to distribute games from NPC companies. To get distribution offers, you need to research production. Currently, only exclusive games are offered, otherwise this feature might be too powerful. Due to the exclusivity of the games on only one console, larger differences in sales figures are possible. But as always: Just write in the forum if the balance is too unbalanced ;)
- The search function is now reset as soon as you close the menu.
- BALANCE: Fans now have more influence on the sales figures of games.
- BUG: When a staff member quit, sometimes the "Bad mood" event was triggered.
- BUG: (NPC games) There were no names for racing games.
- BUG: NPC games were always scored like a retro game. This caused the review scores to be too high.
BUILD 2021.08.13A -----------------------------------------
- You can now add gameplay features to a game that is still in development.
- Added 9 new publishers / developer studios.
- Console hardware becomes obsolete over time, increasing production costs.
- NPC studios can now create budget games.
- Multiplayer: "Player ready" toggle added for clients.
- BALANCE: Maximum credit limit and interest are now linked to difficulty.
- BALANCE: Quality (graphic, sound points etc.) of NPC games increased.
- BUG: Selection of publishers for NPC games did not work correctly.
- BUG: In some cases the pause mode was terminated when watching a game review.
- BUG: Multiplayer: Sometimes lobby settings were not sent to clients.
- BUG: Multiplayer: After a few seconds all data in the "My IPs" menu disappeared.
BUILD 2021.07.19A / 2021.07.21A -----------------------------------------
- New platforms added: "Beam Deck" and "Intelvisual Amikos".
- 9 new objects added.
- The chance of success for the employee search is now linked to the current year and difficulty level.
- BALANCE: Success chance for employee search reduced.
- BALANCE: "Pretendo Zwitch" is removed from the market in 2025 and now has higher sales.
- BALANCE: "Pretendo Zwitch Pro" and "Pretendo MX" are now released several years later.
- BUG: "Update all items" button was not disabled when the build menu was open
- BUG: Starting money for the year 1995 was incorrect.
- BUG: When automatic was active in employee search, "Start automatic" was still displayed.
BUILD 2021.07.09A / 2021.07.13A -----------------------------------------
- Marketing department: You can now perform a staff search.
- Sales prices of games can now be automated.
- When loading a save game, the game is now paused.
- "Game Complete" menu: Current development cost and Estimated review score is now displayed.
- "Game complete" menu: "Delete game" and "Complete game" are now small buttons.
- Performance improved.
- MOD: (Add new quotes): It is no longer necessary to adjust the English text file to the other languages.
- BUG: Orange GameTabs stayed orange.
- BUG: Legendary staff sometimes had incorrect skill values.
- BUG: Clipping error removed from package contents.
- BUG: You could use rubber band to pick up your employees even if selecting employees was disabled.
- BUG: Picking up objects could cause a crash.
BUILD 2021.07.07A -----------------------------------------
- You can now finish games and put them on the waiting list. This allows the development office to get a new work and you can publish the game at a later time. Unpublished games are displayed on the right side of the game list and are highlighted in orange.
If you click on the game, you can publish the game.
- Game Completed Menu: When you have created a contract game, you can now see the most important info of the contract.
- Create research and game reports: If you have activated the automatic, you can now see how many tasks the room can still do.
- Prizes and content for newly released games are now saved and set automatically.
- You can no longer release Deluxe and Collectors editions for addons and GOTY editions.
- BALANCE: The release date can now be pushed back by 20 weeks.
- BUG: Sometimes objects were not placed back in their position (ESC key).
- BUG: Menu "Game completed": Some tooltips were not displayed.
- BUG: Sort function in the research menu sometimes had a wrong setting.
BUILD 2021.07.01A/B -----------------------------------------
- Buy objects menu: You can now move objects that have already been placed.
- In the stockroom you can now set that the stock is sold automatically.
- New object added: Soundstudio V
- BUG: The stockroom was not recalculated when you sold the remaining stock.
- BUG: Develop addons menu: The appropriate themes for the genre were not marked.
- BUG: Sometimes Save Games were not saved.
- BUG: The engine feature "Real 3D Sound" had technology level 7 instead of 8.
BUILD 2021.06.30A -----------------------------------------
- A button has now been added to the start menu to load the latest save game.
- Place objects: Snapping for rotation can now be activated separately.
- It is now possible to set the quality assurance to wait until a new game report can be created.
- Create game menu: Added a button to view the market research.
- Staff view: It is now shown if the employee is sick, freezing etc.
- The development costs for engines increase depending on the difficulty level.
- The NPCs now occasionally create games with very low scores.
- The button to find rooms without a task now goes through all rooms one by one.
- New item added: Modern air conditioner for server rooms
- Added new names for developer legends.
- BALANCE: NPCs do not create so many remasters anymore.
- BALANCE: Licenses are now much more expensive.
- BALANCE: The theme "Robots" now fits the genre "Plattformer" | The theme "Planes" now fits the genre "Racing".
- BALANCE: The gameplay feature "Mod Support" now fits to RPGs.
- BALANCE: Remaster sales numbers reduced.
- BUG: Sometimes Save Games with modified themes could not be loaded.
- BUG: Snapping setting no longer changes when buying or picking up an item.
BUILD 2021.06.28A -----------------------------------------
- Mad Games Awards: The number of fans is no longer static, but is calculated as a percentage of existing fans.
- BALANCE: The themes fairies, anime, and time travel now fit role-playing games.
- BALANCE: (Mad Games Awards) Only games that got less than 60% review score are now counted as "worst game of the year".
- BUG: The needs of the staff didn't work anymore.
- BUG: NPCs have not developed enough games.
- BUG: NPCs were creating retro and mobile games as early as the 70s.
- BUG: (Mad Games Awards) Sometimes the worst and best game of the year were identical.
BUILD 2021.06.24B -----------------------------------------
- The AI of the NPC studios has been completely revised.
The NPCs can now additionally publish retro games, standalone addons and MMO addons.
- Performance is now better when you have a lot of staff.
- BUG: You could no longer port games to arcade machines and cell phones.
BUILD 2021.06.22A / 2021.06.23A -----------------------------------------
- Manufacturer exclusive games can now be developed (exclusivity only for own consoles).
- Game design menu: You can now see the selected genres by the design sliders.
- Contract work: If you have activated the automatic, the remaining number of contracts is next to the room button.
- You can now use engines with higher technology level than the selected platforms.
- When converting an MMO to F2P, subscribers become active players.
- BALANCE: Production of arcade machines accelerated.
- BALANCE: (Special Marketing) The penalty for cheated user reviews has been increased significantly.
- BUG: The automatic selling price for own consoles has been applied to all consoles.
- BUG: Sometimes new platforms were not released on old save games.
BUILD 2021.06.20A / 2021.06.21A -----------------------------------------
- Trendsetters are now raising the IP rating.
- Completed console development menu: Added a button to release the console later.
- Custom Consoles: The desired profit can now be set for the automatic sales price.
- Menus can now be closed with the right mouse button (can be activated in the options).
- New object added: Workshop 5
- BALANCE: Selling price of own consoles now has a stronger effect.
- BUG: IP rating sometimes dropped too fast.
- BUG: If you wanted to develop an MMO addon and didn't have a staff member in the room, a crash occurred.
- BUG: If you placed animated objects during pause mode, the animation still played.
- BUG: Spanish language did not work anymore.
- BUG: There were some errors with the Portuguese language.
BUILD 2021.06.16A -----------------------------------------
- Arcade machine orders are now cancelled over time.
- You can now go bankrupt in multiplayer.
- The "Katari VCC" console has been added.
- When an employee quits, there is now a button to jump directly to the room.
- Autosave for multiplayer now works (at the turn of the year).
- The default console price is now $10 above the production cost.
- Brightness can now be adjusted in the options.
- BALANCE: You can only overdraw the account in the amount of the credit limit.
- BALANCE: "Beam Machine" is now rated as a computer.
- BUG: (Stockroom) "Sell total stock" did not work correctly.
BUILD 2021.06.15A -----------------------------------------
- "Not enough money" limit removed. It is now possible to pay / buy everything and overdraw your account.
- The maximum bank credit is now additionally influenced by the studio rating and the reputation of clients.
- New objects added: Console development 4 & 5, Workshop 4
- Added another difficulty level "Very hard
- BUG: (Multiplayer) When a player bought a building, the message was displayed only in German.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Sometimes the client did not receive engine fees.
- BUG: (MMOs) Number of subscriptions of NPC games were calculated incorrectly.
BUILD 2021.06.12C (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- When there is no more server space, MMO sales are reduced.
- (Multiplayer): Modified genres are now synchronized.
- BALANCE: Sales of own consoles reduced.
- BALANCE: (Overcrowding) More people can now fit in one room.
- BUG: MMO addons were not added to the IP.
- BUG: (Own consoles) Exclusive games ignored the console's retail price.
- BUG: Crashes triggered by missing texts fixed.
BUILD 2021.06.10D -----------------------------------------
- Multiplayer: Modified gameplay features, NPC engines, engine features, hardware components, console features, copy protection and anti-cheat software are now synchronized. This prevents unwanted bugs caused by modified files and makes cheating in multiplayer more difficult.
- IP penalty due to neglect is now related to the difficulty level.
- BUG: Internet capability for own consoles was unlocked too late.
- BUG: You could select the same console twice at the "Mad Games Convention".
- BUG: You could sell your development kits for a negative price.
- BUG: (Console Development Report menu): "Lead Designer" was displayed instead of "Lead Technician".
- BUG: (Stats > Own Consoles > Available Games): Games were displayed that were still in development.
- BUG: Review texts of NPC games corrected.
- BUG: (NPC games) addons were created for the wrong platform.
- BUG: (Staff complaint) Overcrowding was not calculated correctly.
BUILD 2021.06.08A -----------------------------------------
- Contract work: You can now set rooms to wait for new contract work.
- You can now select two consoles at the fair.
- (Messages) You can now additionally set a message to appear when the NPC releases a game for your console.
- Start menu: Number of remaining perks is now displayed.
- (Multiplayer) "Wait for teammate" message and "Wait for server" message: Added a cancel button in case of disconnections.
- (Multiplayer) Modified publishers and developers are now syncronized.
- BALANCE: Development costs for AA and AAA players increased.
- BALANCE: (Staff complaints) Overcrowding for "Motion Capture Studio" and "Sound Studio" adjusted.
- BALANCE: NPCs are now releasing more game for player handhelds.
- BUG: When selling stock of games, it was not added to revenue.
- BUG: (Own Consoles menu): Text error fixed.
- BUG: Console production costs of several million dollars should no longer occur.
- BUG: (Contract games) Player console icons had incorrect coloring.
- BUG: (Room Options) An incorrect room type was displayed.
- BUG: Sometimes old save games were not loaded.
- BUG: (Contract Games) Engine fees for player engines were not billed.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Number of additional consoles sold by exclusive games was not sent.
BUILD 2021.06.05A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- In the Charts & OwnConsoles menu, there are now all-time charts for consoles.
- When building a room and in the room staff menu, you can now see how many staff the room is suitable for (without the staff complaining).
- In the console tooltip and in the "My Consoles->Console Details" menu, you can now see the date when the console was taken off the market.
- LOAD / SAVE GAME: An icon is displayed when a save game is out of date.
- BALANCE: Bonus increased for console and computer games that are also available on an arcade machine.
- BALANCE: NPC platforms now have a random factor of maximum 5% for historical sales.
- BUG: Crunch time has been enabled for customer support at 100% work progress.
- BUG: The gameplay feature "Modern Controller Support" was unlocked too late.
BUILD 2021.06.03A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- BUG: Penalty for neglecting an IP did not work correctly.
- BUG: Sometimes "-1" was displayed at the highest chart position.
- BUG: Multiplayer crashed when the game was set to French language.
- BUG: Some menus could not be closed with "ESC".
- BUG: (Menu: Financial statements) Text overlapping bug fixed.
- BUG: (Menu: Market Analysis) The correct number was not displayed.
BUILD 2021.06.02A -----------------------------------------
- Added button at the top of the GUI to update all objects in each room.
- Game development: Added a button to automatically set all known optimal design settings.
- Game development: Themes can now be sorted by market oversaturation.
- Game development: Genres can now be sorted by alphabet, popularity and experience.
- Price settings for consoles and arcade: Added additional buttons to set the price faster.
- You now get engine fees from contract games if you used an InHouse engine.
- The highest chart position is now displayed in the tooltip of games and in the revenue menu.
- If you have not released a product for an IP for a long time, the IP rating will drop.
- If you release a product for an IP too many times in a short period of time, the IP rating will increase slower.
- Game concept menu: Translation costs for languages are now displayed.
- BALANCE: Production research now costs $5,000,000.
- BALANCE: Arcade machines now stay on the market longer and sell more units.
- BUG: Games in development have increased the market oversaturation of topics.
- BUG: In the bank menu some texts were displayed only in German.
- BUG: (Console development) Automatic updating of objects did not work.
- BUG: Legendary technicians had a "<T>" in their name.
- BUG: (Console Price menu) When you set automatic price, the updated price was not displayed.
BUILD 2021.06.01A -----------------------------------------
- New objects added: Console development workplace II & III
- There are now legendary technicians / hardware specialists.
- Added an additional menu in the Custom Console Menu to view all available console games.
- Number of games with a specific topic: Addons and MMO addons no longer increase the number.
- Stats->Own Consoles->Console Games: Own games are now highlighted in green.
- BALANCE: (Difficulty level "Hard" and "Legendary"): Sales of own consoles reduced.
- BALANCE: Owned console lifespan reduced.
- BUG: Sometimes commissioned games were created for platforms that have already been removed from the market.
- BUG: The gameplay feature "Touch Screen Support" was unlocked too late. Therefore it was not possible to develop games for a custom handheld with touch screen.
BUILD 2021.05.31A -----------------------------------------
- Added contract work for console development.
- Engines: Consoles under development can now be selected as a special platform.
- "Develop Successors, Spinoffs, etc.": You can now sort the games by IP notoriety.
- The game report now shows the date from when the game was developed.
- "Hide walls", "Show pollution" etc: Buttons now reset when you start a new game.
- Research menu: Hardware components can now be sorted by their type and tech level.
- Cancel Task: You can set that this messagebox is not shown anymore.
- BALANCE: Console price now has a greater effect on sales.
- BUG: (Console development): You could select an MMO addon as a classic game.
- BUG: Sometimes objects remained Highlighted
View on Steam
With summer coming to a close we wanted to post an update letting players know the changes that have been made in the previous weeks and months.
The game continues to progress, adding more features, gameplay improvements and request from players. We are very happy with the success and support we have received through this Early Access process and we hope you are enjoying the journey as well!
There have been over 24 patches/updates since the last posted notification - these patch notes are regularly posted on the Steam discussion forums with every patch but here are some of the highlighted changes -
- Game design settings (sliders) now factor in both the main genre and the sub-genre. Taking the previous 18 perfect genre settings and now making the combinations nearly 300! This will increase the variety of game designs allowing you to make more unique games and the usefulness of game reports from the Q&A department.
- There are now new events! Your games can become surprise hits, commercial failures or have bugs show up after release. Taking your time to polish your game before releasing it can help you avoid bugs after release!
- It's now possible to publish games for other companies. You can negotiate terms and release these games through your production facilities earning a profit on their work!
- When a game is in development you can now add additional new features to it, and once completed you will have the option to set aside the game to publish it at a later date rather than having to publish it immediately.
- Many background changes to improve game performance, the A.I and Multiplayer have been made. The A.I now is both more competitive and creates a larger variety of game types with near parity of all the choices the player has to create games.
Multiplayer has had data synchronization added making it more stable and much more difficult to cheat. Additionally several other multiplayer bugs have been fixed and the ability to share console research between players has been added.
- In the marketing department you can now perform a staff search! Need a programmer, or a game designer and there isn't one available? Start a search for the specific employee you need!
This is along with dozens of other changes that also include larger impact of 'Trendsetting' games, new publishers and developers, the ability to create 1st party manufacturer exclusive games for your own consoles, a reworking of the banking and loan system, changes to certain ways you gain fans along with the impact your fans have on sales and a continued ongoing focus on quality of life improvements and balancing existing features.
And there is still more to come! Please keep the feedback, suggestions, reviews and bug reports coming - they are much appreciated! Thank you!
The full most recent change log is below with the build numbers representing the date of release -
BUILD 2021.09.04A / 2021.09.07B -----------------------------------------
- The game design settings (design focus and design orientation) now depend not only on the main genre, but also on the subgenre. As a result, there are significantly more different perfect settings (almost 300 different ones).
For example, a platformer/adventure has different settings than like a platformer/sports game.
- New event: Games can now be a "surprise success".
- The gametooltip now also shows the subgenre.
- BALANCE: (Commercial Failure Event)
* Bundles are now excluded.
* Event is unlocked only from difficulty level "hard".
* Games that are trending (genre) are excluded.
* Two games in a row can no longer be a failure.
- BALANCE: (New Bugs Event)
* Is unlocked only from difficulty level "Normal".
* Chance that the event will appear decreased.
- BUG: If you activated / deactivated the heat or garbage filter, a wrong floor graphic was set in rooms.
- BUG: (GameDev menu -> Engine selection) Sometimes the icons were colored wrong.
BUILD 2021.09.01A / BUILD 2021.09.03A -----------------------------------------
- Staff menus: The number of employees per profession and the total skills are now displayed.
- Labor market menu: The number of applicants per profession is now displayed.
- Staff menu: Search function added.
- Game reports: Genres that have not yet been unlocked are no longer displayed in gernecombinations.
- Research "Other": Tooltips added.
- GameTabs (game list): An icon is now displayed when there are still bugs in a game.
- You can now create updates for NPC games you distribute.
- Multiplayer -> Give away research: You can now give away console compnents and console features. Research that the other player already owns is now highlighted.
- New event: "New bugs" can now appear for published games depending on the difficulty and polishing phase.
- New Event: Games can now become a "Commercial Flop" depending on the difficulty level.
- Bugs now have a high impact on user reviews.
- If you choose a higher starting year, the "Personal Computer" will be unlocked immediately.
- BALANCE: Fans generated by the "Mad Games Awards" are now limited.
- BALANCE: (Trendsetter): Hype is now generated and the IP bonus has been increased.
- BALANCE: The studio rating now increases significantly less when you distribute an NPC game.
- BUG: (Publishing offers) Games were not marked as multiplatform games and sequels.
- BUG: Archive->Game Concepts: Game concepts of NPC games you distributed were incorrectly displayed.
- BUG: (Multiplayer -> Give away research) The search function sometimes did not work.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Clients had two random genres unlocked at game start.
- BUG: (Sales menu of games) Wrong data was displayed in the first week of sales.
BUILD 2021.08.26A / BUILD 2021.08.30A -----------------------------------------
- Publishing offerings: Multiplatform games are now offered.
- Staff menus: The average skills of all staff members are now displayed.
- Sort filters are saved globally.
- Publishing contracts: The production menu now displays profit minus profit sharing.
- Complaint icons are now displayed in the employee tooltip.
- BALANCE: Number of publishing offers reduced.
- BUG: Employee group menu no longer worked.
- BUG: Profit sharing of publishing contracts was calculated incorrectly for very low numbers.
- BUG: (Exclusive games) Sometimes more consoles were sold than games were sold.
- BUG: NPC games could have more features than the game size allowed.
BUILD 2021.08.25A -----------------------------------------
- It is now possible to distribute games from NPC companies. To get distribution offers, you need to research production. Currently, only exclusive games are offered, otherwise this feature might be too powerful. Due to the exclusivity of the games on only one console, larger differences in sales figures are possible. But as always: Just write in the forum if the balance is too unbalanced ;)
- The search function is now reset as soon as you close the menu.
- BALANCE: Fans now have more influence on the sales figures of games.
- BUG: When a staff member quit, sometimes the "Bad mood" event was triggered.
- BUG: (NPC games) There were no names for racing games.
- BUG: NPC games were always scored like a retro game. This caused the review scores to be too high.
BUILD 2021.08.13A -----------------------------------------
- You can now add gameplay features to a game that is still in development.
- Added 9 new publishers / developer studios.
- Console hardware becomes obsolete over time, increasing production costs.
- NPC studios can now create budget games.
- Multiplayer: "Player ready" toggle added for clients.
- BALANCE: Maximum credit limit and interest are now linked to difficulty.
- BALANCE: Quality (graphic, sound points etc.) of NPC games increased.
- BUG: Selection of publishers for NPC games did not work correctly.
- BUG: In some cases the pause mode was terminated when watching a game review.
- BUG: Multiplayer: Sometimes lobby settings were not sent to clients.
- BUG: Multiplayer: After a few seconds all data in the "My IPs" menu disappeared.
BUILD 2021.07.19A / 2021.07.21A -----------------------------------------
- New platforms added: "Beam Deck" and "Intelvisual Amikos".
- 9 new objects added.
- The chance of success for the employee search is now linked to the current year and difficulty level.
- BALANCE: Success chance for employee search reduced.
- BALANCE: "Pretendo Zwitch" is removed from the market in 2025 and now has higher sales.
- BALANCE: "Pretendo Zwitch Pro" and "Pretendo MX" are now released several years later.
- BUG: "Update all items" button was not disabled when the build menu was open
- BUG: Starting money for the year 1995 was incorrect.
- BUG: When automatic was active in employee search, "Start automatic" was still displayed.
BUILD 2021.07.09A / 2021.07.13A -----------------------------------------
- Marketing department: You can now perform a staff search.
- Sales prices of games can now be automated.
- When loading a save game, the game is now paused.
- "Game Complete" menu: Current development cost and Estimated review score is now displayed.
- "Game complete" menu: "Delete game" and "Complete game" are now small buttons.
- Performance improved.
- MOD: (Add new quotes): It is no longer necessary to adjust the English text file to the other languages.
- BUG: Orange GameTabs stayed orange.
- BUG: Legendary staff sometimes had incorrect skill values.
- BUG: Clipping error removed from package contents.
- BUG: You could use rubber band to pick up your employees even if selecting employees was disabled.
- BUG: Picking up objects could cause a crash.
BUILD 2021.07.07A -----------------------------------------
- You can now finish games and put them on the waiting list. This allows the development office to get a new work and you can publish the game at a later time. Unpublished games are displayed on the right side of the game list and are highlighted in orange.
If you click on the game, you can publish the game.
- Game Completed Menu: When you have created a contract game, you can now see the most important info of the contract.
- Create research and game reports: If you have activated the automatic, you can now see how many tasks the room can still do.
- Prizes and content for newly released games are now saved and set automatically.
- You can no longer release Deluxe and Collectors editions for addons and GOTY editions.
- BALANCE: The release date can now be pushed back by 20 weeks.
- BUG: Sometimes objects were not placed back in their position (ESC key).
- BUG: Menu "Game completed": Some tooltips were not displayed.
- BUG: Sort function in the research menu sometimes had a wrong setting.
BUILD 2021.07.01A/B -----------------------------------------
- Buy objects menu: You can now move objects that have already been placed.
- In the stockroom you can now set that the stock is sold automatically.
- New object added: Soundstudio V
- BUG: The stockroom was not recalculated when you sold the remaining stock.
- BUG: Develop addons menu: The appropriate themes for the genre were not marked.
- BUG: Sometimes Save Games were not saved.
- BUG: The engine feature "Real 3D Sound" had technology level 7 instead of 8.
BUILD 2021.06.30A -----------------------------------------
- A button has now been added to the start menu to load the latest save game.
- Place objects: Snapping for rotation can now be activated separately.
- It is now possible to set the quality assurance to wait until a new game report can be created.
- Create game menu: Added a button to view the market research.
- Staff view: It is now shown if the employee is sick, freezing etc.
- The development costs for engines increase depending on the difficulty level.
- The NPCs now occasionally create games with very low scores.
- The button to find rooms without a task now goes through all rooms one by one.
- New item added: Modern air conditioner for server rooms
- Added new names for developer legends.
- BALANCE: NPCs do not create so many remasters anymore.
- BALANCE: Licenses are now much more expensive.
- BALANCE: The theme "Robots" now fits the genre "Plattformer" | The theme "Planes" now fits the genre "Racing".
- BALANCE: The gameplay feature "Mod Support" now fits to RPGs.
- BALANCE: Remaster sales numbers reduced.
- BUG: Sometimes Save Games with modified themes could not be loaded.
- BUG: Snapping setting no longer changes when buying or picking up an item.
BUILD 2021.06.28A -----------------------------------------
- Mad Games Awards: The number of fans is no longer static, but is calculated as a percentage of existing fans.
- BALANCE: The themes fairies, anime, and time travel now fit role-playing games.
- BALANCE: (Mad Games Awards) Only games that got less than 60% review score are now counted as "worst game of the year".
- BUG: The needs of the staff didn't work anymore.
- BUG: NPCs have not developed enough games.
- BUG: NPCs were creating retro and mobile games as early as the 70s.
- BUG: (Mad Games Awards) Sometimes the worst and best game of the year were identical.
BUILD 2021.06.24B -----------------------------------------
- The AI of the NPC studios has been completely revised.
The NPCs can now additionally publish retro games, standalone addons and MMO addons.
- Performance is now better when you have a lot of staff.
- BUG: You could no longer port games to arcade machines and cell phones.
BUILD 2021.06.22A / 2021.06.23A -----------------------------------------
- Manufacturer exclusive games can now be developed (exclusivity only for own consoles).
- Game design menu: You can now see the selected genres by the design sliders.
- Contract work: If you have activated the automatic, the remaining number of contracts is next to the room button.
- You can now use engines with higher technology level than the selected platforms.
- When converting an MMO to F2P, subscribers become active players.
- BALANCE: Production of arcade machines accelerated.
- BALANCE: (Special Marketing) The penalty for cheated user reviews has been increased significantly.
- BUG: The automatic selling price for own consoles has been applied to all consoles.
- BUG: Sometimes new platforms were not released on old save games.
BUILD 2021.06.20A / 2021.06.21A -----------------------------------------
- Trendsetters are now raising the IP rating.
- Completed console development menu: Added a button to release the console later.
- Custom Consoles: The desired profit can now be set for the automatic sales price.
- Menus can now be closed with the right mouse button (can be activated in the options).
- New object added: Workshop 5
- BALANCE: Selling price of own consoles now has a stronger effect.
- BUG: IP rating sometimes dropped too fast.
- BUG: If you wanted to develop an MMO addon and didn't have a staff member in the room, a crash occurred.
- BUG: If you placed animated objects during pause mode, the animation still played.
- BUG: Spanish language did not work anymore.
- BUG: There were some errors with the Portuguese language.
BUILD 2021.06.16A -----------------------------------------
- Arcade machine orders are now cancelled over time.
- You can now go bankrupt in multiplayer.
- The "Katari VCC" console has been added.
- When an employee quits, there is now a button to jump directly to the room.
- Autosave for multiplayer now works (at the turn of the year).
- The default console price is now $10 above the production cost.
- Brightness can now be adjusted in the options.
- BALANCE: You can only overdraw the account in the amount of the credit limit.
- BALANCE: "Beam Machine" is now rated as a computer.
- BUG: (Stockroom) "Sell total stock" did not work correctly.
BUILD 2021.06.15A -----------------------------------------
- "Not enough money" limit removed. It is now possible to pay / buy everything and overdraw your account.
- The maximum bank credit is now additionally influenced by the studio rating and the reputation of clients.
- New objects added: Console development 4 & 5, Workshop 4
- Added another difficulty level "Very hard
- BUG: (Multiplayer) When a player bought a building, the message was displayed only in German.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Sometimes the client did not receive engine fees.
- BUG: (MMOs) Number of subscriptions of NPC games were calculated incorrectly.
BUILD 2021.06.12C (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- When there is no more server space, MMO sales are reduced.
- (Multiplayer): Modified genres are now synchronized.
- BALANCE: Sales of own consoles reduced.
- BALANCE: (Overcrowding) More people can now fit in one room.
- BUG: MMO addons were not added to the IP.
- BUG: (Own consoles) Exclusive games ignored the console's retail price.
- BUG: Crashes triggered by missing texts fixed.
BUILD 2021.06.10D -----------------------------------------
- Multiplayer: Modified gameplay features, NPC engines, engine features, hardware components, console features, copy protection and anti-cheat software are now synchronized. This prevents unwanted bugs caused by modified files and makes cheating in multiplayer more difficult.
- IP penalty due to neglect is now related to the difficulty level.
- BUG: Internet capability for own consoles was unlocked too late.
- BUG: You could select the same console twice at the "Mad Games Convention".
- BUG: You could sell your development kits for a negative price.
- BUG: (Console Development Report menu): "Lead Designer" was displayed instead of "Lead Technician".
- BUG: (Stats > Own Consoles > Available Games): Games were displayed that were still in development.
- BUG: Review texts of NPC games corrected.
- BUG: (NPC games) addons were created for the wrong platform.
- BUG: (Staff complaint) Overcrowding was not calculated correctly.
BUILD 2021.06.08A -----------------------------------------
- Contract work: You can now set rooms to wait for new contract work.
- You can now select two consoles at the fair.
- (Messages) You can now additionally set a message to appear when the NPC releases a game for your console.
- Start menu: Number of remaining perks is now displayed.
- (Multiplayer) "Wait for teammate" message and "Wait for server" message: Added a cancel button in case of disconnections.
- (Multiplayer) Modified publishers and developers are now syncronized.
- BALANCE: Development costs for AA and AAA players increased.
- BALANCE: (Staff complaints) Overcrowding for "Motion Capture Studio" and "Sound Studio" adjusted.
- BALANCE: NPCs are now releasing more game for player handhelds.
- BUG: When selling stock of games, it was not added to revenue.
- BUG: (Own Consoles menu): Text error fixed.
- BUG: Console production costs of several million dollars should no longer occur.
- BUG: (Contract games) Player console icons had incorrect coloring.
- BUG: (Room Options) An incorrect room type was displayed.
- BUG: Sometimes old save games were not loaded.
- BUG: (Contract Games) Engine fees for player engines were not billed.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Number of additional consoles sold by exclusive games was not sent.
BUILD 2021.06.05A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- In the Charts & OwnConsoles menu, there are now all-time charts for consoles.
- When building a room and in the room staff menu, you can now see how many staff the room is suitable for (without the staff complaining).
- In the console tooltip and in the "My Consoles->Console Details" menu, you can now see the date when the console was taken off the market.
- LOAD / SAVE GAME: An icon is displayed when a save game is out of date.
- BALANCE: Bonus increased for console and computer games that are also available on an arcade machine.
- BALANCE: NPC platforms now have a random factor of maximum 5% for historical sales.
- BUG: Crunch time has been enabled for customer support at 100% work progress.
- BUG: The gameplay feature "Modern Controller Support" was unlocked too late.
BUILD 2021.06.03A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- BUG: Penalty for neglecting an IP did not work correctly.
- BUG: Sometimes "-1" was displayed at the highest chart position.
- BUG: Multiplayer crashed when the game was set to French language.
- BUG: Some menus could not be closed with "ESC".
- BUG: (Menu: Financial statements) Text overlapping bug fixed.
- BUG: (Menu: Market Analysis) The correct number was not displayed.
BUILD 2021.06.02A -----------------------------------------
- Added button at the top of the GUI to update all objects in each room.
- Game development: Added a button to automatically set all known optimal design settings.
- Game development: Themes can now be sorted by market oversaturation.
- Game development: Genres can now be sorted by alphabet, popularity and experience.
- Price settings for consoles and arcade: Added additional buttons to set the price faster.
- You now get engine fees from contract games if you used an InHouse engine.
- The highest chart position is now displayed in the tooltip of games and in the revenue menu.
- If you have not released a product for an IP for a long time, the IP rating will drop.
- If you release a product for an IP too many times in a short period of time, the IP rating will increase slower.
- Game concept menu: Translation costs for languages are now displayed.
- BALANCE: Production research now costs $5,000,000.
- BALANCE: Arcade machines now stay on the market longer and sell more units.
- BUG: Games in development have increased the market oversaturation of topics.
- BUG: In the bank menu some texts were displayed only in German.
- BUG: (Console development) Automatic updating of objects did not work.
- BUG: Legendary technicians had a "<T>" in their name.
- BUG: (Console Price menu) When you set automatic price, the updated price was not displayed.
BUILD 2021.06.01A -----------------------------------------
- New objects added: Console development workplace II & III
- There are now legendary technicians / hardware specialists.
- Added an additional menu in the Custom Console Menu to view all available console games.
- Number of games with a specific topic: Addons and MMO addons no longer increase the number.
- Stats->Own Consoles->Console Games: Own games are now highlighted in green.
- BALANCE: (Difficulty level "Hard" and "Legendary"): Sales of own consoles reduced.
- BALANCE: Owned console lifespan reduced.
- BUG: Sometimes commissioned games were created for platforms that have already been removed from the market.
- BUG: The gameplay feature "Touch Screen Support" was unlocked too late. Therefore it was not possible to develop games for a custom handheld with touch screen.
BUILD 2021.05.31A -----------------------------------------
- Added contract work for console development.
- Engines: Consoles under development can now be selected as a special platform.
- "Develop Successors, Spinoffs, etc.": You can now sort the games by IP notoriety.
- The game report now shows the date from when the game was developed.
- "Hide walls", "Show pollution" etc: Buttons now reset when you start a new game.
- Research menu: Hardware components can now be sorted by their type and tech level.
- Cancel Task: You can set that this messagebox is not shown anymore.
- BALANCE: Console price now has a greater effect on sales.
- BUG: (Console development): You could select an MMO addon as a classic game.
- BUG: Sometimes objects remained Highlighted
Patchnotes
BUILD 2021.05.28A -----------------------------------------
- Console development is now available. You can publish stationary consoles and handhelds.
- You can now optionally change the name of IPs.
- In the menus "Develop successors", "Develop remasters" etc. there is now a search function.
- Brightness can now be set in the options.
- New platforms added: "Amigo CTV", "PhaserActive".
- Depending on the type of game (remaster, addons, budget etc.), there are now different amounts of points for the studio rating.
- Multiplayer: Modified platforms of the host are now sent to the clients.
- Performance improved.
- BALANCE: User rating is now taken into account to determine the "Game of the Year".
- BALANCE: Studio rating now increases slower.
- BUG: (Research menu): Upper/lower case was not ignored for all researches.
- BUG: Some room tasks were not removed from memory if you canceled them.
- BUG: You could create multiple games with the same name.
- BUG: Collision boxes of corners were too big. As a result, you could not place objects near corners.
- BUG: You could place wall objects on windows if the walls were turned invisible.
- BUG: You could not remove a mobile game from the market if you had not researched production.
- BUG: You could delete the name of games in the "Development Report" menu.
- BUG: Staff names had invisible characters.
- BUG: Crash could occur in the "IP menu" in rare cases.
- BUG: Statistic menu "Platforms": Arcade platforms were always displayed in first place when sorted by market share.
- BUG: NPCs kept making games for platforms that were already taken off the market.
- BUG: In multiplayer, the NPC did not pay the purchase price for client engines.
BUILD 2021.04.30A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- BALANCE: Star designers do not get negative perks.
- BALANCE: The "No Bugs" perk is now also set for game designers.
- BUG: Sometimes wall objects that were in the air were not automatically picked up.
- BUG: Fixed some bugs with theme-genre combinations.
- BUG: The employee perk "Talented" and "Untalented" were sometimes set at the same time.
- BUG: It was possible to place wall objects at corners 50% in the air.
- BUG: Sometimes it was not possible to manage InApp purchases for games unconverted from MMO to F2P.
BUILD 2021.04.29A -----------------------------------------
- IP menu revised: You can now see various stats like revenue, sales, awards, etc.
- Added 12 new employee perks (including negative perks).
- Employee perks are now selected by profession (for example "No bugs" only for programmers).
- Development report menu: When developing a contract game, you can now see the minimum rating, bonus payment etc. there.
- START YEAR: Depending on the start year, certain rooms and game sizes are unlocked immediately, as well as the starting capital has been increased.
- BALANCE: Impact of licenses increased.
- BUG: (Engine licenses) No license fee was paid for revenue from subscriptions and arcade games.
- BUG: When publishing games as budget, GOTY edition, etc., it could happen that the IP was not set correctly.
- BUG: (Produce vending machines): If the game had no more pre-orders, the vending machine animation was still played.
- BUG: (Exploit): It was possible to change the prices of vending machines while there were still pre-orders.
- BUG: Vending machine games received user reviews even if no machine was sold.
BUILD 2021.04.25A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- NPCs can now create Arcade Cabinet games.
- The chance of increasing the publisher relationship now depends on how good the game is and if it is just an addon.
- "Bored fans" no longer affects arcade games.
- Developing Addons: The languages of the main game are now automatically applied.
- BALANCE: Bonus sales from IP awareness is now scaled according to difficulty.
- BALANCE: Sales from F2P games through in-app purchases increased significantly.
- BUG: Ports and MMO addons could trigger "Bored Fans".
- BUG: Spin-offs did not trigger or cancel "Bored Fans".
BUILD 2021.04.22A/B/C -----------------------------------------
- Contract work for workshop is now working.
- Porting games: Machine games have a positive effect on retail game sales.
- Performance improved
- Added some new custom logos.
- Addon bundles: Games that no longer have addons available are no longer displayed.
- BALANCE: Contract work is now created more evenly for all rooms.
- BALANCE: Values of fan campaigns adjusted.
- BUG: When creating an add-on for a ported game, the text codes were displayed in the game name.
- BUG: Addons were not added to the IP.
- BUG: It was possible to create addons for budget games and GOTY editions.
- BUG: (Automatically remove games from the market): Arcade Cabinets were removed from the market while there were still pre-orders.
- BUG: (Mad Games Awards): Fixed some bugs that could lead to wrong results.
- BUG: Review texts were displayed in English for Japanese and Romanian language.
BUILD 2021.04.21A -----------------------------------------
- The IP rating now drops for bad games.
- The higher the difficulty, the slower the IP rating increases.
- My IPs menu: The tooltip now shows the IP's total sales, total revenue, etc.
- Develop Game Menu: The IP rating is now displayed.
- Iran added as a company location.
- Game tooltips: The game size is now also displayed.
- GameTabs: An icon is now displayed if the game uses a license.
BUILD 2021.04.20A -----------------------------------------
- IP system added: All games of the IP influence each other.
Hint:
For old save games, only the first game is set as the IP.
Successors, remasters, etc. are "not" added to the IP.
- Games can now be ported to other platform types.
- Contract games can now be sorted by "bonus".
- Reductions for development costs now work added together (mobile 25% + remaster 20% etc.)
- Company special genre no longer triggers "Bored Fans".
- Menu "My Game Concepts -> Game Description": The game description can now be saved to the clipboard.
- Menu "Development Report" made clearer.
- Menu "Develop game": For themes, it is displayed whether games with this theme are already on the market.
- For MMO addons, all languages that the MMO already has are activated.
- Game tooltips and game concepts now show the license used.
- Game tabs now additionally display the genre and game size.
- South Africa added as company location.
- BALANCE: MMO sales and subscriptions increased.
- BALANCE: Active players in in-app purchases of F2Ps increased.
View on Steam
BUILD 2021.05.28A -----------------------------------------
- Console development is now available. You can publish stationary consoles and handhelds.
- You can now optionally change the name of IPs.
- In the menus "Develop successors", "Develop remasters" etc. there is now a search function.
- Brightness can now be set in the options.
- New platforms added: "Amigo CTV", "PhaserActive".
- Depending on the type of game (remaster, addons, budget etc.), there are now different amounts of points for the studio rating.
- Multiplayer: Modified platforms of the host are now sent to the clients.
- Performance improved.
- BALANCE: User rating is now taken into account to determine the "Game of the Year".
- BALANCE: Studio rating now increases slower.
- BUG: (Research menu): Upper/lower case was not ignored for all researches.
- BUG: Some room tasks were not removed from memory if you canceled them.
- BUG: You could create multiple games with the same name.
- BUG: Collision boxes of corners were too big. As a result, you could not place objects near corners.
- BUG: You could place wall objects on windows if the walls were turned invisible.
- BUG: You could not remove a mobile game from the market if you had not researched production.
- BUG: You could delete the name of games in the "Development Report" menu.
- BUG: Staff names had invisible characters.
- BUG: Crash could occur in the "IP menu" in rare cases.
- BUG: Statistic menu "Platforms": Arcade platforms were always displayed in first place when sorted by market share.
- BUG: NPCs kept making games for platforms that were already taken off the market.
- BUG: In multiplayer, the NPC did not pay the purchase price for client engines.
BUILD 2021.04.30A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- BALANCE: Star designers do not get negative perks.
- BALANCE: The "No Bugs" perk is now also set for game designers.
- BUG: Sometimes wall objects that were in the air were not automatically picked up.
- BUG: Fixed some bugs with theme-genre combinations.
- BUG: The employee perk "Talented" and "Untalented" were sometimes set at the same time.
- BUG: It was possible to place wall objects at corners 50% in the air.
- BUG: Sometimes it was not possible to manage InApp purchases for games unconverted from MMO to F2P.
BUILD 2021.04.29A -----------------------------------------
- IP menu revised: You can now see various stats like revenue, sales, awards, etc.
- Added 12 new employee perks (including negative perks).
- Employee perks are now selected by profession (for example "No bugs" only for programmers).
- Development report menu: When developing a contract game, you can now see the minimum rating, bonus payment etc. there.
- START YEAR: Depending on the start year, certain rooms and game sizes are unlocked immediately, as well as the starting capital has been increased.
- BALANCE: Impact of licenses increased.
- BUG: (Engine licenses) No license fee was paid for revenue from subscriptions and arcade games.
- BUG: When publishing games as budget, GOTY edition, etc., it could happen that the IP was not set correctly.
- BUG: (Produce vending machines): If the game had no more pre-orders, the vending machine animation was still played.
- BUG: (Exploit): It was possible to change the prices of vending machines while there were still pre-orders.
- BUG: Vending machine games received user reviews even if no machine was sold.
BUILD 2021.04.25A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- NPCs can now create Arcade Cabinet games.
- The chance of increasing the publisher relationship now depends on how good the game is and if it is just an addon.
- "Bored fans" no longer affects arcade games.
- Developing Addons: The languages of the main game are now automatically applied.
- BALANCE: Bonus sales from IP awareness is now scaled according to difficulty.
- BALANCE: Sales from F2P games through in-app purchases increased significantly.
- BUG: Ports and MMO addons could trigger "Bored Fans".
- BUG: Spin-offs did not trigger or cancel "Bored Fans".
BUILD 2021.04.22A/B/C -----------------------------------------
- Contract work for workshop is now working.
- Porting games: Machine games have a positive effect on retail game sales.
- Performance improved
- Added some new custom logos.
- Addon bundles: Games that no longer have addons available are no longer displayed.
- BALANCE: Contract work is now created more evenly for all rooms.
- BALANCE: Values of fan campaigns adjusted.
- BUG: When creating an add-on for a ported game, the text codes were displayed in the game name.
- BUG: Addons were not added to the IP.
- BUG: It was possible to create addons for budget games and GOTY editions.
- BUG: (Automatically remove games from the market): Arcade Cabinets were removed from the market while there were still pre-orders.
- BUG: (Mad Games Awards): Fixed some bugs that could lead to wrong results.
- BUG: Review texts were displayed in English for Japanese and Romanian language.
BUILD 2021.04.21A -----------------------------------------
- The IP rating now drops for bad games.
- The higher the difficulty, the slower the IP rating increases.
- My IPs menu: The tooltip now shows the IP's total sales, total revenue, etc.
- Develop Game Menu: The IP rating is now displayed.
- Iran added as a company location.
- Game tooltips: The game size is now also displayed.
- GameTabs: An icon is now displayed if the game uses a license.
BUILD 2021.04.20A -----------------------------------------
- IP system added: All games of the IP influence each other.
Hint:
For old save games, only the first game is set as the IP.
Successors, remasters, etc. are "not" added to the IP.
- Games can now be ported to other platform types.
- Contract games can now be sorted by "bonus".
- Reductions for development costs now work added together (mobile 25% + remaster 20% etc.)
- Company special genre no longer triggers "Bored Fans".
- Menu "My Game Concepts -> Game Description": The game description can now be saved to the clipboard.
- Menu "Development Report" made clearer.
- Menu "Develop game": For themes, it is displayed whether games with this theme are already on the market.
- For MMO addons, all languages that the MMO already has are activated.
- Game tooltips and game concepts now show the license used.
- Game tabs now additionally display the genre and game size.
- South Africa added as company location.
- BALANCE: MMO sales and subscriptions increased.
- BALANCE: Active players in in-app purchases of F2Ps increased.
Patchnotes
BUILD 2021.04.14A -----------------------------------------
- New object added: Machine III
- "Game Completed" menu: You can now cancel if you accidentally clicked on "Distribute game yourself".
- BUG: "Game completed" menu: For spin-offs, the text was displayed in German.
- BUG: You could distribute spin-offs yourself even though you signed a publisher exclusivity contract.
BUILD 2021.04.13A -----------------------------------------
- You can now create spin-offs of a main IP.
- New object added: Workbench III
- Game reviews: It is now indicated in the text if it is a sequel.
- Multiplayer: When you view a review of a game, you can now open the game description there.
- BUG: (Arcade Cabinet production): Sort function did not work.
- BUG: (Develop Game Menu): Fixed incorrect tooltip for platforms.
BUILD 2021.04.12A -----------------------------------------
- New object added: Machine II
- In Chinese language, most texts are now "not" bold.
- BALANCE: Production costs for arcade games increased.
- BALANCE: Updates for Acrade games adjusted.
- BUG: Arcade games could be produced in the production room.
- BUG: (Workshop) support did not work correctly.
BUILD 2021.04.10A -----------------------------------------
- New object added: Workbench II
- Market Research: Interest in Arcade Cabinets is now displayed.
- Added Ireland as a company location.
- BUG: It was not possible to place radios in the workshop.
- BUG: You had to research production first to be able to take arcade games off the market.
- BUG: There were too few user reviews for arcade games.
- BUG: Market research: The most popular and least popular platforms could be identical.
BUILD 2021.04.09A -----------------------------------------
- Arcade Cabinet games can now be developed.
- Market research: platforms are now divided into computers, consoles, handhelds and cell phones.
- Added some new gameplay features.
- Depending on the platform type, some gameplay features are now locked. For example, "steering wheel support" for mobile games.
- Georgia added as a company location.
- BUG: When creating an contract game, the title of the Windows was in German.
- BUG: Mobile games were listed in the weekly charts.
- BUG: The player received the income from in-app purchases of NPC companies.
BUILD 2021.04.08A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- Some critical bugs were removed. The full patch notes will come tomorrow, once the update has been completed.
BUILD 2021.04.07A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- BALANCE: Sales figures / downloads of MMOs and F2Ps increased.
- BALANCE: The "Mad Games Awards" had too much influence on the studio rating.
- BUG: Sometimes the progress bar of tasks was not displayed.
- BUG: (Multiplayer): Using your own logo could trigger different bugs.
- BUG: (Multiplayer): When you looked at the offices of other players, you could see the footprints of objects.
- BUG: (Multiplayer): You could buy engines from other players that were not for sale.
Info:
It is now possible to research and build the workshop (for arcade cabinet production). But currently it is not possible to develop an arcade game! This will be added in the next days.
Therefore, you can ignore the workshop for the moment. ;)
BUILD 2021.04.04A -----------------------------------------
- Two new cell phones added.
- NPC studios can now develop mobile games.
- Mobile games are now unlocked once the first cell phone is released.
- Mad Games Awards: Winning an award greatly affects the studio rating.
- Contract work now has a minimal effect on the studio rating.
- BUG: You could no longer place heaters under windows.
- BUG: (Mad Games Convention - sorting function) Games that are still in development were displayed at the bottom of the list.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Teammates did not receive a message when a new legend was available on the job market.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) When you were in build mode and a message appeared, all objects were selected.
BUILD 2021.04.03A -----------------------------------------
- New object added: Sound Studio IV
- The higher the studio reputation, the better employees will apply to you.
- NPC studios can now develop FreeToPlay games.
- Reviews of mobile games now use a website as background.
- Placing wall objects now works much better.
- BUG: Camera zoom was activated when using the mouse wheel between game tabs.
- BUG: (Minimized game tabs) Stock was also displayed for games that are only distributed digitally.
- BUG: When reviewing F2P games, the pause mode was terminated.
BUILD 2021.04.01A/B -----------------------------------------
- Added 3 new cell phones.
- BUG: You could release addons even if the main game was not yet released.
- BUG: If you wanted to develop a "remaster" or a "successor", you could no longer change the platform type.
- BUG: Menu "Marketing": The sorting of the games was incorrect.
- BUG: You could not click room buttons if they were under the right game list.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) If someone uses their own logo, it should no longer cause crashes with the other players.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) It could happen that a game got a 0% rating.
- BUG: (Save Game) There could be a crash when creating a game report.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Contract games were incorrectly displayed as games from other players.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Contract games were not sold.
BUILD 2021.03.31A -----------------------------------------
- You can now create cell phone games.
- Studio rating now affects the sales of self-distributed games.
- MMOs now also have an interest value.
- View Game Design Menu: Added button to copy "only" the design settings.
- Develop Game Menu: The total user count of all platforms is now displayed.
- Menu "Marketing": Sorting by date is now done in reverse order.
- Marketing" menu: The last selected game is now always kept.
- BALANCE: Lifespan of MMOs shortened.
- BUG: The genre "skill game" was free to research.
- BUG: (F2P updates) support and crunch times did not work.
- BUG: Awards menu: An incorrect number was displayed for Hit and Trash awards.
- BUG: Calculation error for F2P interest fixed.
- BUG: The gameplay feature "In-App Purchases" had an incorrect type.
- BUG: Development costs for remasters were calculated incorrectly.
BUILD 2021.03.28A -----------------------------------------
- F2P updates can now be created.
- F2P games now have an "interest" value that can be increased with F2P updates.
- Building objects: Footprints are now displayed so you can see what the front is.
- Staff overview: it can now be sorted by profession.
- The starting genre is now randomized.
- Options: GUI size is now set automatically on many resolutions.
- BUG: A platform had wrong ID. This could lead to different bugs.
- BUG: When creating a budget game, the hype was not reset.
- BUG: An NPC engine had a main platform with too low tech level.
BUILD 2021.03.26A/B -----------------------------------------
- Info: Some cell phones have been added as platforms. However, they are "currently not" usable.
- Platforms can now be sorted by type and number of users.
- Staff AI now pays attention if you have not allowed "leave building".
- BALANCE: Random development events appeared too often late in the game.
- BALANCE: High prizes for games have a greater impact on sales.
- BUG: Trendsetter awards were not credited.
- BUG: Sub-theme did not affect age rating.
- BUG: Platform buttons: Text issues fixed.
- BUG: Sometimes the design sliders and remaining design points were displayed incorrectly.
BUILD 2021.03.25A -----------------------------------------
- Market share for platforms is now divided into computers, consoles, handhelds and cell phones.
- 12 new themes added.
- BUG: Cabinets could not be placed in front of images.
BUILD 2021.03.24A -----------------------------------------
- Added more than 60 new game screenshots.
- The employee AI can now be activated.
- Create new game menu: When selecting topics, the age rating is now also displayed.
- New item added: Publisher of the Year Award
- Multiplayer: Lobby is now closed as soon as the game is started.
- Staff menus: The number of selected employees is now displayed.
- Group management: The number of employees in a group is now displayed.
- Addons no longer consume licenses (standalone addons are excluded).
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Fixed some bugs related to multiplayer lobbies.
BUILD 2021.03.23A -----------------------------------------
- NPCs can now create MMOs.
- New object added: Trendsetter award
- Added studio rating.
- Create Game menu: added search function for gameplay features.
- Search function for themes (game concept menu) can now be executed by pressing "Enter".
- BALANCE: NPC now sell more games.
- BUG: Different bugs and crashes could occur with old game saves.
View on Steam
BUILD 2021.04.14A -----------------------------------------
- New object added: Machine III
- "Game Completed" menu: You can now cancel if you accidentally clicked on "Distribute game yourself".
- BUG: "Game completed" menu: For spin-offs, the text was displayed in German.
- BUG: You could distribute spin-offs yourself even though you signed a publisher exclusivity contract.
BUILD 2021.04.13A -----------------------------------------
- You can now create spin-offs of a main IP.
- New object added: Workbench III
- Game reviews: It is now indicated in the text if it is a sequel.
- Multiplayer: When you view a review of a game, you can now open the game description there.
- BUG: (Arcade Cabinet production): Sort function did not work.
- BUG: (Develop Game Menu): Fixed incorrect tooltip for platforms.
BUILD 2021.04.12A -----------------------------------------
- New object added: Machine II
- In Chinese language, most texts are now "not" bold.
- BALANCE: Production costs for arcade games increased.
- BALANCE: Updates for Acrade games adjusted.
- BUG: Arcade games could be produced in the production room.
- BUG: (Workshop) support did not work correctly.
BUILD 2021.04.10A -----------------------------------------
- New object added: Workbench II
- Market Research: Interest in Arcade Cabinets is now displayed.
- Added Ireland as a company location.
- BUG: It was not possible to place radios in the workshop.
- BUG: You had to research production first to be able to take arcade games off the market.
- BUG: There were too few user reviews for arcade games.
- BUG: Market research: The most popular and least popular platforms could be identical.
BUILD 2021.04.09A -----------------------------------------
- Arcade Cabinet games can now be developed.
- Market research: platforms are now divided into computers, consoles, handhelds and cell phones.
- Added some new gameplay features.
- Depending on the platform type, some gameplay features are now locked. For example, "steering wheel support" for mobile games.
- Georgia added as a company location.
- BUG: When creating an contract game, the title of the Windows was in German.
- BUG: Mobile games were listed in the weekly charts.
- BUG: The player received the income from in-app purchases of NPC companies.
BUILD 2021.04.08A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- Some critical bugs were removed. The full patch notes will come tomorrow, once the update has been completed.
BUILD 2021.04.07A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- BALANCE: Sales figures / downloads of MMOs and F2Ps increased.
- BALANCE: The "Mad Games Awards" had too much influence on the studio rating.
- BUG: Sometimes the progress bar of tasks was not displayed.
- BUG: (Multiplayer): Using your own logo could trigger different bugs.
- BUG: (Multiplayer): When you looked at the offices of other players, you could see the footprints of objects.
- BUG: (Multiplayer): You could buy engines from other players that were not for sale.
Info:
It is now possible to research and build the workshop (for arcade cabinet production). But currently it is not possible to develop an arcade game! This will be added in the next days.
Therefore, you can ignore the workshop for the moment. ;)
BUILD 2021.04.04A -----------------------------------------
- Two new cell phones added.
- NPC studios can now develop mobile games.
- Mobile games are now unlocked once the first cell phone is released.
- Mad Games Awards: Winning an award greatly affects the studio rating.
- Contract work now has a minimal effect on the studio rating.
- BUG: You could no longer place heaters under windows.
- BUG: (Mad Games Convention - sorting function) Games that are still in development were displayed at the bottom of the list.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Teammates did not receive a message when a new legend was available on the job market.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) When you were in build mode and a message appeared, all objects were selected.
BUILD 2021.04.03A -----------------------------------------
- New object added: Sound Studio IV
- The higher the studio reputation, the better employees will apply to you.
- NPC studios can now develop FreeToPlay games.
- Reviews of mobile games now use a website as background.
- Placing wall objects now works much better.
- BUG: Camera zoom was activated when using the mouse wheel between game tabs.
- BUG: (Minimized game tabs) Stock was also displayed for games that are only distributed digitally.
- BUG: When reviewing F2P games, the pause mode was terminated.
BUILD 2021.04.01A/B -----------------------------------------
- Added 3 new cell phones.
- BUG: You could release addons even if the main game was not yet released.
- BUG: If you wanted to develop a "remaster" or a "successor", you could no longer change the platform type.
- BUG: Menu "Marketing": The sorting of the games was incorrect.
- BUG: You could not click room buttons if they were under the right game list.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) If someone uses their own logo, it should no longer cause crashes with the other players.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) It could happen that a game got a 0% rating.
- BUG: (Save Game) There could be a crash when creating a game report.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Contract games were incorrectly displayed as games from other players.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Contract games were not sold.
BUILD 2021.03.31A -----------------------------------------
- You can now create cell phone games.
- Studio rating now affects the sales of self-distributed games.
- MMOs now also have an interest value.
- View Game Design Menu: Added button to copy "only" the design settings.
- Develop Game Menu: The total user count of all platforms is now displayed.
- Menu "Marketing": Sorting by date is now done in reverse order.
- Marketing" menu: The last selected game is now always kept.
- BALANCE: Lifespan of MMOs shortened.
- BUG: The genre "skill game" was free to research.
- BUG: (F2P updates) support and crunch times did not work.
- BUG: Awards menu: An incorrect number was displayed for Hit and Trash awards.
- BUG: Calculation error for F2P interest fixed.
- BUG: The gameplay feature "In-App Purchases" had an incorrect type.
- BUG: Development costs for remasters were calculated incorrectly.
BUILD 2021.03.28A -----------------------------------------
- F2P updates can now be created.
- F2P games now have an "interest" value that can be increased with F2P updates.
- Building objects: Footprints are now displayed so you can see what the front is.
- Staff overview: it can now be sorted by profession.
- The starting genre is now randomized.
- Options: GUI size is now set automatically on many resolutions.
- BUG: A platform had wrong ID. This could lead to different bugs.
- BUG: When creating a budget game, the hype was not reset.
- BUG: An NPC engine had a main platform with too low tech level.
BUILD 2021.03.26A/B -----------------------------------------
- Info: Some cell phones have been added as platforms. However, they are "currently not" usable.
- Platforms can now be sorted by type and number of users.
- Staff AI now pays attention if you have not allowed "leave building".
- BALANCE: Random development events appeared too often late in the game.
- BALANCE: High prizes for games have a greater impact on sales.
- BUG: Trendsetter awards were not credited.
- BUG: Sub-theme did not affect age rating.
- BUG: Platform buttons: Text issues fixed.
- BUG: Sometimes the design sliders and remaining design points were displayed incorrectly.
BUILD 2021.03.25A -----------------------------------------
- Market share for platforms is now divided into computers, consoles, handhelds and cell phones.
- 12 new themes added.
- BUG: Cabinets could not be placed in front of images.
BUILD 2021.03.24A -----------------------------------------
- Added more than 60 new game screenshots.
- The employee AI can now be activated.
- Create new game menu: When selecting topics, the age rating is now also displayed.
- New item added: Publisher of the Year Award
- Multiplayer: Lobby is now closed as soon as the game is started.
- Staff menus: The number of selected employees is now displayed.
- Group management: The number of employees in a group is now displayed.
- Addons no longer consume licenses (standalone addons are excluded).
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Fixed some bugs related to multiplayer lobbies.
BUILD 2021.03.23A -----------------------------------------
- NPCs can now create MMOs.
- New object added: Trendsetter award
- Added studio rating.
- Create Game menu: added search function for gameplay features.
- Search function for themes (game concept menu) can now be executed by pressing "Enter".
- BALANCE: NPC now sell more games.
- BUG: Different bugs and crashes could occur with old game saves.
BUILD 2021.03.22A -----------------------------------------
- New objects added: Best Graphics award, 3 new cabinets, 3 new rugs.
- Topics now affect the age rating.
- Search function for research can now be done with the "Enter" key.
- Message display duration can now be set in options and messages are no longer deleted when the game is paused.
- Renamed "Extreme Violence" to "Explicit Content".
- BUG: Sorting function for special marketing was reset when the menu was closed.
- BUG: Age rating for NPC games was set incorrectly.
- BUG: Special marketing did not show if a gold demo was already released.
- BUG: Genres: If all target groups were matched, "All" was still displayed as the wrong target group.
- BUG: Crash could occur when loading multiplayer save games.
- BUG: Menu "Create Game Report": You could not sort by release date.
BUILD 2021.03.21B (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- For old savegames, all design sliders are set to 5.
- Objects can now also be rotated with the "R" and "F" keys.
- BUG: With old savegames no remaster could be developed.
- BUG: Develop remaster: Some design sliders were not locked.
BUILD 2021.03.21A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- The malus for wrong design settings now depends on the difficulty level.
- BUG: Optimal design settings for puzzle games was incorrect.
- BUG: When creating an cointract game, the remaining design points were displayed incorrectly.
- BUG: Random concept settings no longer worked.
BUILD 2021.03.20C/D (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- BUG: Develop New Game Menu: Tooltips for copy protection and AntiCheat software were swapped.
- BUG: Develop New Game Menu: Design sliders were reset when closing the menu.
- BUG: Develop New Game: Design sliders were not carried over from the previous game.
- BUG: Sometimes the number of remaining design points was displayed incorrectly.
BUILD 2021.03.20B (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- Hotfix for a bug in multiplayer.
BUILD 2021.03.20A -----------------------------------------
- Game concepts: The game design settings (slider) have been completely revised.
- Age rating (MGSR) can now be influenced independently of the target group.
- 9 new company locations added.
- Develop sequel: The main genre is now locked.
- BALANCE: The genre "First Person Shooter" is now unlocked in 1991.
- BALANCE: Reduced the chance of a game becoming a trendsetter.
- BUG: Sound award object was called a graphics award.
- BUG: When starting a single player game, it was no longer possible to create a Steam lobby.
BUILD 2021.03.18B -----------------------------------------
- 2 new objects added: Motion Capture Studio III, Award "Best Graphics
- 14 new Topics added.
- Added 4 new company locations: Argentina, Romania, Thailand, Philippines
- Options: It is now possible to set how often an autosave is made.
- BALANCE: Games can now only become trendsetters in the first 24 weeks after release.
- BALANCE: Visual Novel and RPR is now a good combination.
- BUG: If you forbade the cleaning robot to leave the building, they sometimes stopped.
- BUG: Multiplayer: The chat was positioned incorrectly on some resolutions.
- BUG: You could mistakenly have the motion capture studio updated to level 2 in 1995.
BUILD 2021.03.18A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- BUG: Some topics were no longer highlighted when creating a game report.
- BUG: All created game reports from contract games were no longer displayed.
- BUG: It was not possible to create game reports from contract games.
- BUG: Error in the Chinese text file that could lead to different bugs.
BUILD 2021.03.17A -----------------------------------------
Multiplayer-Update:
The multiplayer functions have been completely overhauled. The multiplayer should now run more error-free. It is no longer necessary to enter the IP of the host. The host now starts a Steam lobby and clients can join or be invited to the game via Steam.
Old game saves of the multiplayer mode are unfortunately no longer compatible.
BUILD 2021.03.15A -----------------------------------------
- Japanese language added.
- Topics that do not match the genre are now marked in red.
- Create Game Menu: Added a button to enable only appropriate gameplay features.
- Staff menu: It is now possible to set that cleaning robots do not leave their building.
- BUG: It was possible to turn MMOs into F2Ps before 2003.
- BUG: Menu "Develop game" and "Develop addons": The sorting function for gameplay features was reset as soon as the menu was closed.
- BUG: Overhype always remained at 200.
- BUG: Critical bug fixed in multiplayer (3 players or more). It is strongly advised to create a new savegame if at least 3 players have played!
BUILD 2021.03.14A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- Added Mexico, Hungary, Brazil, Portugal as company location.
- BUG: English language was not counted for Canada.
- BUG: Create Addons: Work priority was not taken from the main game.
BUILD 2021.03.13A -----------------------------------------
- Staff menu: You can now forbid your employees to leave the building.
- New Game Settings: You can now choose your own special genre.
- New company locations: Netherlands, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia
- Sales of re-releases like budget games or GOTY editions are now related to the age of the game.
- Music is no longer randomly selected, but rotates through the playlist.
- A confirmation prompt now appears when you want to disable picking of objects and staff.
- BALANCE: Sales of NPC games increased (depending on difficulty).
- BUG: Room menus and dropdowns of the main menu could be selected via Arrow keys.
- BUG: (Mutliplayer Leaderboard): Company name was too long.
- BUG: "Marketing", "Create Remaster", "Warehouse": Sorting was reset as soon as the menu was closed.
BUILD 2021.03.12A -----------------------------------------
- Gameplay features now have a suitability in connection with genres. (new game required!)
- New object: Motion Capture Studio 2
- 8 new soundtracks added.
- Switzerland and Turkey added as locations.
- BUG: For Austria (German) and Australia (English) the native language was not set.
- BUG: In-App purchases were not reset if you wanted to develop a commissioned game.
- BUG: It was possible to run special marketing twice (with two rooms).
- BUG: Menu "Create game concept": When clicking on "All Languages", the click sound was played several times.
- BUG: Menu "Create MMO Addons": Sort function for gameplay features did not work.
- BUG: Error in Chinese translation fixed. This bug could lead to a crash.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) clients could not create a GOTY edition.
BUILD 2021.03.10A -----------------------------------------
- Marketing Department: Special Marketing is now available.
- New objects: Developer of the Year award.
- Bugfixing now automatically changes to polishing once the game is finished.
- In the menu "Game reports" there is now a button to view the fan letters.
- BUG: Costs for game updates did not increase anymore.
- BUG: When you manually removed a game from the market, the pause mode was terminated.
- BUG: You could not release budget games that were already released as GOTY editions.
- BUG: When you created a budget game, the update costs were taken from the original game.
- BUG: (Multiplayer): Sometimes the round carpets were not displayed when trying to view a player's office.
- BUG: (Multiplayer): It could happen that an old save game did not work anymore.
- BUG: When the quality assurance was finished with "Improve Gameplay", sometimes automatic bugfixing was not started.
View on Steam
- New objects added: Best Graphics award, 3 new cabinets, 3 new rugs.
- Topics now affect the age rating.
- Search function for research can now be done with the "Enter" key.
- Message display duration can now be set in options and messages are no longer deleted when the game is paused.
- Renamed "Extreme Violence" to "Explicit Content".
- BUG: Sorting function for special marketing was reset when the menu was closed.
- BUG: Age rating for NPC games was set incorrectly.
- BUG: Special marketing did not show if a gold demo was already released.
- BUG: Genres: If all target groups were matched, "All" was still displayed as the wrong target group.
- BUG: Crash could occur when loading multiplayer save games.
- BUG: Menu "Create Game Report": You could not sort by release date.
BUILD 2021.03.21B (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- For old savegames, all design sliders are set to 5.
- Objects can now also be rotated with the "R" and "F" keys.
- BUG: With old savegames no remaster could be developed.
- BUG: Develop remaster: Some design sliders were not locked.
BUILD 2021.03.21A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- The malus for wrong design settings now depends on the difficulty level.
- BUG: Optimal design settings for puzzle games was incorrect.
- BUG: When creating an cointract game, the remaining design points were displayed incorrectly.
- BUG: Random concept settings no longer worked.
BUILD 2021.03.20C/D (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- BUG: Develop New Game Menu: Tooltips for copy protection and AntiCheat software were swapped.
- BUG: Develop New Game Menu: Design sliders were reset when closing the menu.
- BUG: Develop New Game: Design sliders were not carried over from the previous game.
- BUG: Sometimes the number of remaining design points was displayed incorrectly.
BUILD 2021.03.20B (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- Hotfix for a bug in multiplayer.
BUILD 2021.03.20A -----------------------------------------
- Game concepts: The game design settings (slider) have been completely revised.
- Age rating (MGSR) can now be influenced independently of the target group.
- 9 new company locations added.
- Develop sequel: The main genre is now locked.
- BALANCE: The genre "First Person Shooter" is now unlocked in 1991.
- BALANCE: Reduced the chance of a game becoming a trendsetter.
- BUG: Sound award object was called a graphics award.
- BUG: When starting a single player game, it was no longer possible to create a Steam lobby.
BUILD 2021.03.18B -----------------------------------------
- 2 new objects added: Motion Capture Studio III, Award "Best Graphics
- 14 new Topics added.
- Added 4 new company locations: Argentina, Romania, Thailand, Philippines
- Options: It is now possible to set how often an autosave is made.
- BALANCE: Games can now only become trendsetters in the first 24 weeks after release.
- BALANCE: Visual Novel and RPR is now a good combination.
- BUG: If you forbade the cleaning robot to leave the building, they sometimes stopped.
- BUG: Multiplayer: The chat was positioned incorrectly on some resolutions.
- BUG: You could mistakenly have the motion capture studio updated to level 2 in 1995.
BUILD 2021.03.18A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- BUG: Some topics were no longer highlighted when creating a game report.
- BUG: All created game reports from contract games were no longer displayed.
- BUG: It was not possible to create game reports from contract games.
- BUG: Error in the Chinese text file that could lead to different bugs.
BUILD 2021.03.17A -----------------------------------------
Multiplayer-Update:
The multiplayer functions have been completely overhauled. The multiplayer should now run more error-free. It is no longer necessary to enter the IP of the host. The host now starts a Steam lobby and clients can join or be invited to the game via Steam.
Old game saves of the multiplayer mode are unfortunately no longer compatible.
BUILD 2021.03.15A -----------------------------------------
- Japanese language added.
- Topics that do not match the genre are now marked in red.
- Create Game Menu: Added a button to enable only appropriate gameplay features.
- Staff menu: It is now possible to set that cleaning robots do not leave their building.
- BUG: It was possible to turn MMOs into F2Ps before 2003.
- BUG: Menu "Develop game" and "Develop addons": The sorting function for gameplay features was reset as soon as the menu was closed.
- BUG: Overhype always remained at 200.
- BUG: Critical bug fixed in multiplayer (3 players or more). It is strongly advised to create a new savegame if at least 3 players have played!
BUILD 2021.03.14A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- Added Mexico, Hungary, Brazil, Portugal as company location.
- BUG: English language was not counted for Canada.
- BUG: Create Addons: Work priority was not taken from the main game.
BUILD 2021.03.13A -----------------------------------------
- Staff menu: You can now forbid your employees to leave the building.
- New Game Settings: You can now choose your own special genre.
- New company locations: Netherlands, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia
- Sales of re-releases like budget games or GOTY editions are now related to the age of the game.
- Music is no longer randomly selected, but rotates through the playlist.
- A confirmation prompt now appears when you want to disable picking of objects and staff.
- BALANCE: Sales of NPC games increased (depending on difficulty).
- BUG: Room menus and dropdowns of the main menu could be selected via Arrow keys.
- BUG: (Mutliplayer Leaderboard): Company name was too long.
- BUG: "Marketing", "Create Remaster", "Warehouse": Sorting was reset as soon as the menu was closed.
BUILD 2021.03.12A -----------------------------------------
- Gameplay features now have a suitability in connection with genres. (new game required!)
- New object: Motion Capture Studio 2
- 8 new soundtracks added.
- Switzerland and Turkey added as locations.
- BUG: For Austria (German) and Australia (English) the native language was not set.
- BUG: In-App purchases were not reset if you wanted to develop a commissioned game.
- BUG: It was possible to run special marketing twice (with two rooms).
- BUG: Menu "Create game concept": When clicking on "All Languages", the click sound was played several times.
- BUG: Menu "Create MMO Addons": Sort function for gameplay features did not work.
- BUG: Error in Chinese translation fixed. This bug could lead to a crash.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) clients could not create a GOTY edition.
BUILD 2021.03.10A -----------------------------------------
- Marketing Department: Special Marketing is now available.
- New objects: Developer of the Year award.
- Bugfixing now automatically changes to polishing once the game is finished.
- In the menu "Game reports" there is now a button to view the fan letters.
- BUG: Costs for game updates did not increase anymore.
- BUG: When you manually removed a game from the market, the pause mode was terminated.
- BUG: You could not release budget games that were already released as GOTY editions.
- BUG: When you created a budget game, the update costs were taken from the original game.
- BUG: (Multiplayer): Sometimes the round carpets were not displayed when trying to view a player's office.
- BUG: (Multiplayer): It could happen that an old save game did not work anymore.
- BUG: When the quality assurance was finished with "Improve Gameplay", sometimes automatic bugfixing was not started.
BUILD 2021.03.08A -----------------------------------------
- Romanian language added.
- Management->Archive: Game concepts, fan letters, game reports and engines can now be archived so that they are no longer displayed in the lists.
- "Quality Assurance -> Improve Gameplay": It is now possible to select whether bugfixing or polishing should be performed afterwards.
- New objects: "Game of the Year" award.
- Update costs are displayed separately in the financial overview of games.
- It is now no longer possible to release the GOTY edition and the budget edition at the same time.
- BALANCE: Competitive products no longer have an impact on addon sales.
- BALANCE: Addons are no longer considered a competing product.
- BALANCE: Effectiveness of trainings increased.
- BUG: Sorting function was not saved in the "Publisher search" menu.
- BUG: Matching topics found by game reports from commissioned games were not marked green.
BUILD 2021.03.07A/B (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- BUG: "Mad Games Awards" have stopped working.
- BUG: Multiplayer: When trying to view another player's office, a crash could occur.
- BUG: When closing the review menu, in rare cases the pause mode was terminated.
- BUG: Statistics -> Mad Games Awards: The menu could cause a crash if no awards were given yet.
BUILD 2021.03.06A -----------------------------------------
- The "Mad Games Awards" winners of the last years can now be viewed in the stats.
- The costs for the "Mad Games Convention" are now added to the marketing costs of the selected games.
- BALANCE: Sales of addons no longer drop as much when the main game is removed from the market.
- BUG: Some objects were positioned incorrectly when placed.
- BUG: "Automatically update objects" was cancelled if you didn't have enough money.
- BUG: When creating a game report, all matching topics were highlighted in green.
- BUG: Some pictures had too high quality rating.
BUILD 2021.03.05A -----------------------------------------
- In the statistics menu you can now view all created contract games.
- You can now start the automatic via the room menu.
- The game tooltip now shows if the game is a contract game.
- The Game Concepts menu now also shows contract games.
- You can now also unlock additional platform slots with contract games.
- BALANCE: Increased revenue from in-app purchases for F2P games.
- BUG: Key "ESC" to place objects again did not work anymore.
- BUG: Menu "Buy objects": When you closed the menu, all collided objects kept flashing.
- BUG: In the menus "View game concepts and game reports" some tooltips were not displayed.
BUILD 2021.03.04A -----------------------------------------
- MMOs can now be converted to F2Ps.
- Event "Cyberattack" & "Power Crisis" will come once internet is available.
- Fans are now sorted by number.
- "Full Screen Mode" can now be selected in the options.
- Multiplayer: In the options, the automatic pause can be set at a later time.
- Collision boxes of round carpets improved.
- BUG: Selecting characters could cause a crash.
- BUG: Close button of the menu "Release date for F2P" did not work.
- BUG: Multiplayer: game speed was not always transferred.
- BUG: The function "Automatically update objects" could cause a crash.
- BUG: Sometimes the game did not exit pause mode.
- BUG: Engine fee was calculated without the turnover of in-app purchases.
BUILD 2021.03.03A -----------------------------------------
- F2P games can now be created.
- Staff groups can now be renamed.
- The default setting for target group is now "All".
- Austria and Finland added as company locations.
- The storage room now requires a minimum size of 2x2.
- BALANCE: A/AA/AAA contract games will be offered later in the year.
- BALANCE: Engines features now have a higher impact on the rating.
- BUG: Staff "always" preferred arcade machines to charge motivation.
- BUG: In the menu "Game Concepts" some texts were displayed in German.
- BUG: GOTY editions and addon bundles could become trendsetters.
- BUG: You could place objects in buildings that have not been purchased yet.
BUILD 2021.03.01A -----------------------------------------
- Create game concept: When choosing genres, the popularity of the genre is now displayed.
- Game Pack Menu: Prices can now be increased or decreased by 10 using the Shift key.
- New object added: Coffee Maker.
- Top of GUI now shows when a room has no task assigned.
- MMOs, now take away each other's buyers and subscribers.
- Translation costs are now no longer charged for the native language.
- New global event: Hacker attack
- Marketing: Optionally, the automatic "wait" can now be deactivated.
- BALANCE: Game sales figures revised (difficulty level increased).
- BALANCE: Competitive games that are on the market now have a stronger effect on sales figures.
- BUG: Sometimes the text size of the genre in reviews was unreadably small.
- BUG: Automatic game updates could reduce development costs below 0.
- BUG: Review texts were not displayed in Chinese language.
- BUG: On Korean language, there could be a crash when trying to buy items.
BUILD 2021.02.27A -----------------------------------------
- Each genre now has a popularity score (Stats -> Info & History).
- Polishing is automatically enabled once game improvements are completed.
- Place objects: It is displayed again which objects collide with each other.
- BUG: Polishing: Only one game was displayed, even if you had several games in development.
- BUG: Only a few movie licenses were offered.
- BUG: Manage InApp Purchases menu: Games that were already removed from the market were also displayed.
- BUG: Menu Addon-Bundles: Games were shown which had no addons.
- BUG: Multiplayer (Send Money): If you didn't enter anything in the input field, there could be a crash.
- BUG: Multiplayer (Send Money): It was possible to enter negative values and steal money.
- BUG: Multiplayer (Mad Games Awards): The wrong "Worst Game of the Year" was displayed.
- BUG: Sometimes objects and walls blinked continuously.
BUILD 2021.02.26A -----------------------------------------
- Graphic studios, sound studios, MoCap and QA can now perform polishing.
- Multiplayer: Game speed can now be adjusted.
- New global event: Loss of trust (no new licenses)
- BUG: (Russian language) When loading a save game, many texts were displayed in English again.
BUILD 2021.02.25A -----------------------------------------
- Added special icons for license types to make licenses easier to recognize.
- Addons now have a limited selling price.
- BALANCE: Unpopular business models of in-app purchases will now have a greater impact on sales.
- BALANCE: Lifetime of in-app purchases reduced.
- BALANCE: Sports and book licenses should now appear much more frequently.
- BUG: Room line was displayed when building rooms.
- BUG: Loading save games could cause a crash.
- BUG: Building toilets could cause a crash.
- BUG: Outline shader could cause a crash.
- BUG: Licenses had no effect on sales.
- BUG: Move / Support task: If you clicked on the wrong room, the menu was closed.
- BUG: When automatic research was cancelled, "Not enough money" was always displayed as the reason.
- BUG: Moving tasks from rooms could cause a crash.
- BUG: Multiplayer: You could see the game concepts of other players.
BUILD 2021.02.24A -----------------------------------------
- Unity engine updated.
- (Timezone bug) The bug that the game did not work for Chinese players should be fixed.
Info:
Updating the Unity engine may have unexpectedly created new bugs.
BUILD 2021.02.23A -----------------------------------------
- Italian language added.
- Added new global event: Energy crisis.
- Game reports can now be created from contract games.
- Staff applications can now be deleted (single player only).
- Modern consoles now require "Modern Controller Support".
- BALANCE: Development costs and development effort for addons & MMO addons reduced.
- BUG: Budget game sequels could be developed.
- BUG: The selection rubber band did not work when the GUI size was adjusted.
- BUG: It was possible to set in-app purchases for contract games.
- BUG: The sorting function in the "My Games - Sales" menu did not work correctly.
- BUG: In-app purchases did not work for MMOs.
- BUG: MMOs: Subscriptions could be higher than sales.
- BUG: Remasters could not become "Game of the Year".
- BUG: Sometimes the collision system for objects did not work.
BUILD 2021.02.21A -----------------------------------------
- In-app purchases are now available. (New game required!)
- A sorting function has been added for the turnover menu.
- Engines can now be sorted by specialty platform.
- Rating for NPC games is now related to difficulty.
- BUG: Remasters could not get awards at the "Mad Games Awards".
- BUG: Server room: The message "Server overheating" was only displayed in German.
- BUG: In the "Buy DevKits" menu, it was not possible to see if a platform was Internet-enabled.
- BUG: In multiplayer mode the NPC could buy engines, but the engines were not offered for sale.
- BUG: If you placed a door in front of an object, the object was not lifted.
- BUG: MMO addons were not transferred correctly in multiplayer.
View on Steam
- Romanian language added.
- Management->Archive: Game concepts, fan letters, game reports and engines can now be archived so that they are no longer displayed in the lists.
- "Quality Assurance -> Improve Gameplay": It is now possible to select whether bugfixing or polishing should be performed afterwards.
- New objects: "Game of the Year" award.
- Update costs are displayed separately in the financial overview of games.
- It is now no longer possible to release the GOTY edition and the budget edition at the same time.
- BALANCE: Competitive products no longer have an impact on addon sales.
- BALANCE: Addons are no longer considered a competing product.
- BALANCE: Effectiveness of trainings increased.
- BUG: Sorting function was not saved in the "Publisher search" menu.
- BUG: Matching topics found by game reports from commissioned games were not marked green.
BUILD 2021.03.07A/B (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- BUG: "Mad Games Awards" have stopped working.
- BUG: Multiplayer: When trying to view another player's office, a crash could occur.
- BUG: When closing the review menu, in rare cases the pause mode was terminated.
- BUG: Statistics -> Mad Games Awards: The menu could cause a crash if no awards were given yet.
BUILD 2021.03.06A -----------------------------------------
- The "Mad Games Awards" winners of the last years can now be viewed in the stats.
- The costs for the "Mad Games Convention" are now added to the marketing costs of the selected games.
- BALANCE: Sales of addons no longer drop as much when the main game is removed from the market.
- BUG: Some objects were positioned incorrectly when placed.
- BUG: "Automatically update objects" was cancelled if you didn't have enough money.
- BUG: When creating a game report, all matching topics were highlighted in green.
- BUG: Some pictures had too high quality rating.
BUILD 2021.03.05A -----------------------------------------
- In the statistics menu you can now view all created contract games.
- You can now start the automatic via the room menu.
- The game tooltip now shows if the game is a contract game.
- The Game Concepts menu now also shows contract games.
- You can now also unlock additional platform slots with contract games.
- BALANCE: Increased revenue from in-app purchases for F2P games.
- BUG: Key "ESC" to place objects again did not work anymore.
- BUG: Menu "Buy objects": When you closed the menu, all collided objects kept flashing.
- BUG: In the menus "View game concepts and game reports" some tooltips were not displayed.
BUILD 2021.03.04A -----------------------------------------
- MMOs can now be converted to F2Ps.
- Event "Cyberattack" & "Power Crisis" will come once internet is available.
- Fans are now sorted by number.
- "Full Screen Mode" can now be selected in the options.
- Multiplayer: In the options, the automatic pause can be set at a later time.
- Collision boxes of round carpets improved.
- BUG: Selecting characters could cause a crash.
- BUG: Close button of the menu "Release date for F2P" did not work.
- BUG: Multiplayer: game speed was not always transferred.
- BUG: The function "Automatically update objects" could cause a crash.
- BUG: Sometimes the game did not exit pause mode.
- BUG: Engine fee was calculated without the turnover of in-app purchases.
BUILD 2021.03.03A -----------------------------------------
- F2P games can now be created.
- Staff groups can now be renamed.
- The default setting for target group is now "All".
- Austria and Finland added as company locations.
- The storage room now requires a minimum size of 2x2.
- BALANCE: A/AA/AAA contract games will be offered later in the year.
- BALANCE: Engines features now have a higher impact on the rating.
- BUG: Staff "always" preferred arcade machines to charge motivation.
- BUG: In the menu "Game Concepts" some texts were displayed in German.
- BUG: GOTY editions and addon bundles could become trendsetters.
- BUG: You could place objects in buildings that have not been purchased yet.
BUILD 2021.03.01A -----------------------------------------
- Create game concept: When choosing genres, the popularity of the genre is now displayed.
- Game Pack Menu: Prices can now be increased or decreased by 10 using the Shift key.
- New object added: Coffee Maker.
- Top of GUI now shows when a room has no task assigned.
- MMOs, now take away each other's buyers and subscribers.
- Translation costs are now no longer charged for the native language.
- New global event: Hacker attack
- Marketing: Optionally, the automatic "wait" can now be deactivated.
- BALANCE: Game sales figures revised (difficulty level increased).
- BALANCE: Competitive games that are on the market now have a stronger effect on sales figures.
- BUG: Sometimes the text size of the genre in reviews was unreadably small.
- BUG: Automatic game updates could reduce development costs below 0.
- BUG: Review texts were not displayed in Chinese language.
- BUG: On Korean language, there could be a crash when trying to buy items.
BUILD 2021.02.27A -----------------------------------------
- Each genre now has a popularity score (Stats -> Info & History).
- Polishing is automatically enabled once game improvements are completed.
- Place objects: It is displayed again which objects collide with each other.
- BUG: Polishing: Only one game was displayed, even if you had several games in development.
- BUG: Only a few movie licenses were offered.
- BUG: Manage InApp Purchases menu: Games that were already removed from the market were also displayed.
- BUG: Menu Addon-Bundles: Games were shown which had no addons.
- BUG: Multiplayer (Send Money): If you didn't enter anything in the input field, there could be a crash.
- BUG: Multiplayer (Send Money): It was possible to enter negative values and steal money.
- BUG: Multiplayer (Mad Games Awards): The wrong "Worst Game of the Year" was displayed.
- BUG: Sometimes objects and walls blinked continuously.
BUILD 2021.02.26A -----------------------------------------
- Graphic studios, sound studios, MoCap and QA can now perform polishing.
- Multiplayer: Game speed can now be adjusted.
- New global event: Loss of trust (no new licenses)
- BUG: (Russian language) When loading a save game, many texts were displayed in English again.
BUILD 2021.02.25A -----------------------------------------
- Added special icons for license types to make licenses easier to recognize.
- Addons now have a limited selling price.
- BALANCE: Unpopular business models of in-app purchases will now have a greater impact on sales.
- BALANCE: Lifetime of in-app purchases reduced.
- BALANCE: Sports and book licenses should now appear much more frequently.
- BUG: Room line was displayed when building rooms.
- BUG: Loading save games could cause a crash.
- BUG: Building toilets could cause a crash.
- BUG: Outline shader could cause a crash.
- BUG: Licenses had no effect on sales.
- BUG: Move / Support task: If you clicked on the wrong room, the menu was closed.
- BUG: When automatic research was cancelled, "Not enough money" was always displayed as the reason.
- BUG: Moving tasks from rooms could cause a crash.
- BUG: Multiplayer: You could see the game concepts of other players.
BUILD 2021.02.24A -----------------------------------------
- Unity engine updated.
- (Timezone bug) The bug that the game did not work for Chinese players should be fixed.
Info:
Updating the Unity engine may have unexpectedly created new bugs.
BUILD 2021.02.23A -----------------------------------------
- Italian language added.
- Added new global event: Energy crisis.
- Game reports can now be created from contract games.
- Staff applications can now be deleted (single player only).
- Modern consoles now require "Modern Controller Support".
- BALANCE: Development costs and development effort for addons & MMO addons reduced.
- BUG: Budget game sequels could be developed.
- BUG: The selection rubber band did not work when the GUI size was adjusted.
- BUG: It was possible to set in-app purchases for contract games.
- BUG: The sorting function in the "My Games - Sales" menu did not work correctly.
- BUG: In-app purchases did not work for MMOs.
- BUG: MMOs: Subscriptions could be higher than sales.
- BUG: Remasters could not become "Game of the Year".
- BUG: Sometimes the collision system for objects did not work.
BUILD 2021.02.21A -----------------------------------------
- In-app purchases are now available. (New game required!)
- A sorting function has been added for the turnover menu.
- Engines can now be sorted by specialty platform.
- Rating for NPC games is now related to difficulty.
- BUG: Remasters could not get awards at the "Mad Games Awards".
- BUG: Server room: The message "Server overheating" was only displayed in German.
- BUG: In the "Buy DevKits" menu, it was not possible to see if a platform was Internet-enabled.
- BUG: In multiplayer mode the NPC could buy engines, but the engines were not offered for sale.
- BUG: If you placed a door in front of an object, the object was not lifted.
- BUG: MMO addons were not transferred correctly in multiplayer.
Patchnotes
BUILD 2021.02.18A -----------------------------------------
- For addons and MMO addons the subtopic can now be changed.
- Start menu: It is now possible to choose whether the working speed is adjusted to the game speed.
- Production and stock menu: Games can now be sorted by "release date".
- Options: It can now be set whether minimized game tabs should only show the game name.
- BALANCE: Sales of bundles reduced.
- BALANCE: Random platform popularity: Market strength should now be more realistic.
- BALANCE: MMO addons and standard addons no longer generate calls, emails.
- BALANCE: NPCs developed too bad games on high difficulty levels.
- BUG: Multiplayer (research menu): You could not click on other players.
- BUG: The game tabs of digital-only games also flashed red.
- BUG: Production menu: Sort function did not work.
- BUG: For addon bundles and GOTY editions you also got awards.
- BUG: Bundles and budget games could trigger "Bored Fans".
- BUG: It was possible to remaster budget games.
- BUG: If you moved a task in a room that supported another room, employees stopped working.
- BUG: Carpets could protrude through walls when shrinking a room.
BUILD 2021.02.17A -----------------------------------------
- Save Games should now load much faster.
- When you minimize the Game Tabs, you can now see the most important data.
- The working speed of the staff is now adapted to the game speed.
- Multiplayer menu: You can now view the awards of the other players.
- BUG: In the menu "Mad Games Convention" the button "Remove product" did not work.
- BUG: In the menu "Mad Games Convention" it was possible to select contract games.
- BUG: Staff skills should not go above 100 now.
- BUG: Sometimes the windows from the building disappeared when you built a room.
- BUG: When minimizing the GameTabs, the tab was not highlighted in red when the stock was at 0.
BUILD 2021.02.16A -----------------------------------------
- GOTY editions can now be released.
- Multiplayer: "Random Game Concepts" can now be activated.
- BALANCE: Support department effectiveness increased.
- BUG: Addon bundles were displayed in the "Game Concepts" and "Fan Letters" menu.
- BUG: It was possible to select budget games for addon bundles.
- BUG: You could create bundles even if you didn't have this option unlocked yet.
- BUG: For some languages the "Number of researches" was unrecognizable.
- BUG: Some languages had text problems in the options menu.
- BUG: It was possible to create updates for bundles.
- BUG: Budget games were listed in game reports.
BUILD 2021.02.15A -----------------------------------------
- Addon bundles can now be created and produced.
- Complaint "Crowded" is now calculated by the number of employees instead of the number of desks.
- BUG: MMO subscriptions should no longer drop below 0.
- BUG: Radios were not replaced in the "Update objects" function.
- BUG: Reviews did not work in Russian language.
- BUG: Multiplayer: Bundles were not transferred correctly.
- BUG: When Spanish language was enabled, some menus could crash.
BUILD 2021.02.12A -----------------------------------------
- Game bundles can now be created and produced.
- Automatic production should work better now.
- Game tooltip: Number of updates and addons is now displayed.
- The "Q" and "E" keys can now be used to rotate the camera.
- Budget games are now listed in the weekly charts.
- BALANCE: Global events now come only from the second year.
- BUG: Rotating the camera via keys was invitational.
- BUG: If the production quantity was deleted, a crash could occur.
- BUG: If you wanted to change the name of an employee and closed the menu with "ESC", you could not move the camera anymore.
- BUG: Sometimes "budget games" were marked as "successors".
BUILD 2021.02.10A -----------------------------------------
- There are now legendary graphic designers, programmers and composers.
- Multiplayer: Technologies can now be given away.
- Snapping can now be enabled / disabled with the "T" key.
- BUG: NPCs created remasters before the year 1986.
- BUG: Sometimes remasters of NPCs had no name.
- BUG: Develop Addons: Work priority texts were displayed only in German.
BUILD 2021.02.09A -----------------------------------------
- Multiplayer: Engine and licenses can now be given away to other players.
- Multiplayer: Engine tooltips now show the developer.
- New game speed "Marathon" added.
- The display time for fan letters can now be set in the options.
- Load / save game: "Delete all save games" button added.
- BUG: The copy protection "Quantum Shield v1.0 - v3.0" was released at the same time.
- BUG: When support department was over 100%, crunchtime was disabled.
BUILD 2021.02.08A -----------------------------------------
- Multiplayer: It is now possible to give "financial help" to a player.
- Multiplayer: Players who force an automatic pause are marked in red.
- Number of characters allowed for game descriptions increased.
- Arabic language added.
- BUG: Sound and graphics were mixed up in the game awards.
- BUG: In the sound studio, the staff learned an incorrect skill.
- BUG: If you had "Create game reports" set to automatic and loaded a savegame, a crash could occur.
- BUG: An appropriate subgenre for simulations was incorrectly simulations.
BUILD 2021.02.06A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- When you pick up an employee (assigned to a room), you can cancel by pressing the ESC key.
- BUG: If you wanted to tear down a room and cancelled the operation, the sales value was not reset.
BUILD 2021.02.05A -----------------------------------------
- Multiplayer: You can now choose the starting year.
- Multiplayer: "Disable random events", "Random platform popularity" and "Higher random factor on reviews" can now be enabled.
- Shut down servers can no longer overheat.
- BALANCE: The support department now works more effectively.
- BUG: If a game controller, steering wheel, etc. was connected, there could be problems with menu operation.
- BUG: In multiplayer, the market share for platforms could be unsyncronous.
- BUG: When loading a save game, "Server overheating" was incorrectly displayed in server rooms.
View on Steam
BUILD 2021.02.18A -----------------------------------------
- For addons and MMO addons the subtopic can now be changed.
- Start menu: It is now possible to choose whether the working speed is adjusted to the game speed.
- Production and stock menu: Games can now be sorted by "release date".
- Options: It can now be set whether minimized game tabs should only show the game name.
- BALANCE: Sales of bundles reduced.
- BALANCE: Random platform popularity: Market strength should now be more realistic.
- BALANCE: MMO addons and standard addons no longer generate calls, emails.
- BALANCE: NPCs developed too bad games on high difficulty levels.
- BUG: Multiplayer (research menu): You could not click on other players.
- BUG: The game tabs of digital-only games also flashed red.
- BUG: Production menu: Sort function did not work.
- BUG: For addon bundles and GOTY editions you also got awards.
- BUG: Bundles and budget games could trigger "Bored Fans".
- BUG: It was possible to remaster budget games.
- BUG: If you moved a task in a room that supported another room, employees stopped working.
- BUG: Carpets could protrude through walls when shrinking a room.
BUILD 2021.02.17A -----------------------------------------
- Save Games should now load much faster.
- When you minimize the Game Tabs, you can now see the most important data.
- The working speed of the staff is now adapted to the game speed.
- Multiplayer menu: You can now view the awards of the other players.
- BUG: In the menu "Mad Games Convention" the button "Remove product" did not work.
- BUG: In the menu "Mad Games Convention" it was possible to select contract games.
- BUG: Staff skills should not go above 100 now.
- BUG: Sometimes the windows from the building disappeared when you built a room.
- BUG: When minimizing the GameTabs, the tab was not highlighted in red when the stock was at 0.
BUILD 2021.02.16A -----------------------------------------
- GOTY editions can now be released.
- Multiplayer: "Random Game Concepts" can now be activated.
- BALANCE: Support department effectiveness increased.
- BUG: Addon bundles were displayed in the "Game Concepts" and "Fan Letters" menu.
- BUG: It was possible to select budget games for addon bundles.
- BUG: You could create bundles even if you didn't have this option unlocked yet.
- BUG: For some languages the "Number of researches" was unrecognizable.
- BUG: Some languages had text problems in the options menu.
- BUG: It was possible to create updates for bundles.
- BUG: Budget games were listed in game reports.
BUILD 2021.02.15A -----------------------------------------
- Addon bundles can now be created and produced.
- Complaint "Crowded" is now calculated by the number of employees instead of the number of desks.
- BUG: MMO subscriptions should no longer drop below 0.
- BUG: Radios were not replaced in the "Update objects" function.
- BUG: Reviews did not work in Russian language.
- BUG: Multiplayer: Bundles were not transferred correctly.
- BUG: When Spanish language was enabled, some menus could crash.
BUILD 2021.02.12A -----------------------------------------
- Game bundles can now be created and produced.
- Automatic production should work better now.
- Game tooltip: Number of updates and addons is now displayed.
- The "Q" and "E" keys can now be used to rotate the camera.
- Budget games are now listed in the weekly charts.
- BALANCE: Global events now come only from the second year.
- BUG: Rotating the camera via keys was invitational.
- BUG: If the production quantity was deleted, a crash could occur.
- BUG: If you wanted to change the name of an employee and closed the menu with "ESC", you could not move the camera anymore.
- BUG: Sometimes "budget games" were marked as "successors".
BUILD 2021.02.10A -----------------------------------------
- There are now legendary graphic designers, programmers and composers.
- Multiplayer: Technologies can now be given away.
- Snapping can now be enabled / disabled with the "T" key.
- BUG: NPCs created remasters before the year 1986.
- BUG: Sometimes remasters of NPCs had no name.
- BUG: Develop Addons: Work priority texts were displayed only in German.
BUILD 2021.02.09A -----------------------------------------
- Multiplayer: Engine and licenses can now be given away to other players.
- Multiplayer: Engine tooltips now show the developer.
- New game speed "Marathon" added.
- The display time for fan letters can now be set in the options.
- Load / save game: "Delete all save games" button added.
- BUG: The copy protection "Quantum Shield v1.0 - v3.0" was released at the same time.
- BUG: When support department was over 100%, crunchtime was disabled.
BUILD 2021.02.08A -----------------------------------------
- Multiplayer: It is now possible to give "financial help" to a player.
- Multiplayer: Players who force an automatic pause are marked in red.
- Number of characters allowed for game descriptions increased.
- Arabic language added.
- BUG: Sound and graphics were mixed up in the game awards.
- BUG: In the sound studio, the staff learned an incorrect skill.
- BUG: If you had "Create game reports" set to automatic and loaded a savegame, a crash could occur.
- BUG: An appropriate subgenre for simulations was incorrectly simulations.
BUILD 2021.02.06A (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------
- When you pick up an employee (assigned to a room), you can cancel by pressing the ESC key.
- BUG: If you wanted to tear down a room and cancelled the operation, the sales value was not reset.
BUILD 2021.02.05A -----------------------------------------
- Multiplayer: You can now choose the starting year.
- Multiplayer: "Disable random events", "Random platform popularity" and "Higher random factor on reviews" can now be enabled.
- Shut down servers can no longer overheat.
- BALANCE: The support department now works more effectively.
- BUG: If a game controller, steering wheel, etc. was connected, there could be problems with menu operation.
- BUG: In multiplayer, the market share for platforms could be unsyncronous.
- BUG: When loading a save game, "Server overheating" was incorrectly displayed in server rooms.
BUILD 2021.02.04A -----------------------------------------
- NPCs can now create addons.
- Added two new postive perks for employees.
- Toggles such as "Show trash" or "Hide walls" are now saved.
- If you release extremely bugged games, your fans can get angry.
- Key "G" can now open the staff group menu.
- Icon for english language adapted.
- BALANCE: Salary and minimum rating for contract games adjusted.
- BUG: You could not train gametesters in the training room.
- BUG: In the training room <TEXT> was shown as preferred profession.
- BUG: Addon reviews: The text for the genre was unreadably small.
- BUG: Games of NPCs always had an age rating from 0 years.
- BUG: Sort function in "Mad Games Convention" menu was not saved.
- BUG: Character count for game names was reset to 30.
BUILD 2021.02.03A -----------------------------------------
- Added Czech language.
- Random Platform Popularity and Random Concept Settings can now be enabled at game start.
- Training Room: Employees who have reached their maximum skill will now stop working and the "zZz" icon will be displayed.
- Custom Engines: You can now see the number of licenses sold and the revenue generated.
- New event added: Real Estate Crash
- BUG: Market share of platforms could have a negative value.
- BUG: Sales bonus for platforms of exclusive games was calculated incorrectly.
- BUG: Work priority was not applied to Sequels and Remasters.
BUILD 2021.02.02A -----------------------------------------
- The history now works.
- Exclusive games (system sellers): The game tooltip and billing menus now show how many additional consoles have been sold.
- Platinum Record and Diamond Record added.
- "Bored Fans" only becomes active on Hard difficulty.
- NPCs can now create remasters.
- Weather effects can now be disabled in the options.
- BUG: It was possible to place doors in front of objects.
- BUG: In Quality Assurance, the Gameplay skill was also trained.
- BUG: In Sound Studio the skill Graphics was trained instead of Sound.
- BUG: In the MotionCapture Studio the wrong profession was displayed.
BUILD 2021.02.01A/B -----------------------------------------
- When you find a theme in a game report that fits the genre, it is now highlighted in green in the game concept.
- Languages now affect sales figures differently.
- Translation costs now depend on the size of the game.
- The game description can now be changed in the "Development Report" menu.
- Added age rating "Banned".
- Multiplayer: The port can now be chosen by the player.
- BALANCE: "Fans are bored" debuff now appears only after using the same genre 4x.
- BALANCE: More employees now appear on the job market in multiplayer.
- BUG: Age rating was not displayed correctly in game tooltips.
- BUG: You could no longer get fans with the status "Bored fans" if you won an award, etc.
BUILD 2021.01.31A -----------------------------------------
- "Bored fans" added: If you use the same genre all the time, fans get bored.
- Staff now complain about crowded offices.
- The "Staff in this room" menu now shows which job groups are most effective.
- Number of allowed characters for game and engine names increased.
- Staff complaints and work icons can be disabled in the options.
- BALANCE: Salary for contract games adjusted.
- BUG: Two QAs could create a game report from the same game at the same time.
- BUG: Multiplayer: Sometimes the wrong player name was displayed when a game was published.
- BUG: The background of the splash screen was displayed black for some players.
- BUG: Removed some bugs when building rooms.
- BUG: The flying numbers were positioned incorrectly when resizing the GUI.
BUILD 2021.01.29A -----------------------------------------
- Added Christmas season and summer slump (affects units sold).
- You can now also view game concepts of addons, standalone addons etc.
- Game concepts now show achieved gameplay, graphics, sound points etc.
- New platform added: "Philops CD-X"
- Added button to open or close all GameTabs
- In the menu "Game Concepts" & "Game Reviews" you can now access the game review.
- Game sizes now affect the game review.
- "All Time Charts" & "Best Games of All Time" limited to 500 entries.
- BALANCE: Exclusive games now affect platform market share more.
- BUG: The engine billing menu incorrectly displayed the game name instead of the engine name.
- BUG: MMOs distributed by a publisher were not removed from the market.
BUILD 2021.01.28A -----------------------------------------
- AI of cleaning robot improved.
- Polish language added.
- Some languages updated.
- BALANCE: It is now more difficult to become "Developer of the Year".
- BALANCE: Effect of training increased.
- BUG: If you turned the walls invisible, you could put objects in the wall.
- BUG: In the production room the message "No storage space available" was displayed in German.
- BUG: Removed some graphic bugs (flickering) on the map.
- BUG: If you paused the game with the space key and closed a menu, the pause was deactivated again.
- BUG: When tearing down a room and making the walls invisible, the walls were displayed again.
- BUG: Legendary designers could appear multiple times.
BUILD 2021.01.27A -----------------------------------------
- Engine accounting menu can now be disabled in the options.
- Scrolling by mouse cursor at the edge of the screen can now be disabled in the options.
- Some language updated.
- BUG: Redesigning rooms could cause a crash.
- BUG: It was not possible to build heaters under medicine cabinets.
- BUG: Left games list in GUI was cut off at higher resolutions.
- BUG: If you chose a higher start year, the annual financial statements had a wrong date.
- BUG: On some languages the review text was displayed in English.
View on Steam
- NPCs can now create addons.
- Added two new postive perks for employees.
- Toggles such as "Show trash" or "Hide walls" are now saved.
- If you release extremely bugged games, your fans can get angry.
- Key "G" can now open the staff group menu.
- Icon for english language adapted.
- BALANCE: Salary and minimum rating for contract games adjusted.
- BUG: You could not train gametesters in the training room.
- BUG: In the training room <TEXT> was shown as preferred profession.
- BUG: Addon reviews: The text for the genre was unreadably small.
- BUG: Games of NPCs always had an age rating from 0 years.
- BUG: Sort function in "Mad Games Convention" menu was not saved.
- BUG: Character count for game names was reset to 30.
BUILD 2021.02.03A -----------------------------------------
- Added Czech language.
- Random Platform Popularity and Random Concept Settings can now be enabled at game start.
- Training Room: Employees who have reached their maximum skill will now stop working and the "zZz" icon will be displayed.
- Custom Engines: You can now see the number of licenses sold and the revenue generated.
- New event added: Real Estate Crash
- BUG: Market share of platforms could have a negative value.
- BUG: Sales bonus for platforms of exclusive games was calculated incorrectly.
- BUG: Work priority was not applied to Sequels and Remasters.
BUILD 2021.02.02A -----------------------------------------
- The history now works.
- Exclusive games (system sellers): The game tooltip and billing menus now show how many additional consoles have been sold.
- Platinum Record and Diamond Record added.
- "Bored Fans" only becomes active on Hard difficulty.
- NPCs can now create remasters.
- Weather effects can now be disabled in the options.
- BUG: It was possible to place doors in front of objects.
- BUG: In Quality Assurance, the Gameplay skill was also trained.
- BUG: In Sound Studio the skill Graphics was trained instead of Sound.
- BUG: In the MotionCapture Studio the wrong profession was displayed.
BUILD 2021.02.01A/B -----------------------------------------
- When you find a theme in a game report that fits the genre, it is now highlighted in green in the game concept.
- Languages now affect sales figures differently.
- Translation costs now depend on the size of the game.
- The game description can now be changed in the "Development Report" menu.
- Added age rating "Banned".
- Multiplayer: The port can now be chosen by the player.
- BALANCE: "Fans are bored" debuff now appears only after using the same genre 4x.
- BALANCE: More employees now appear on the job market in multiplayer.
- BUG: Age rating was not displayed correctly in game tooltips.
- BUG: You could no longer get fans with the status "Bored fans" if you won an award, etc.
BUILD 2021.01.31A -----------------------------------------
- "Bored fans" added: If you use the same genre all the time, fans get bored.
- Staff now complain about crowded offices.
- The "Staff in this room" menu now shows which job groups are most effective.
- Number of allowed characters for game and engine names increased.
- Staff complaints and work icons can be disabled in the options.
- BALANCE: Salary for contract games adjusted.
- BUG: Two QAs could create a game report from the same game at the same time.
- BUG: Multiplayer: Sometimes the wrong player name was displayed when a game was published.
- BUG: The background of the splash screen was displayed black for some players.
- BUG: Removed some bugs when building rooms.
- BUG: The flying numbers were positioned incorrectly when resizing the GUI.
BUILD 2021.01.29A -----------------------------------------
- Added Christmas season and summer slump (affects units sold).
- You can now also view game concepts of addons, standalone addons etc.
- Game concepts now show achieved gameplay, graphics, sound points etc.
- New platform added: "Philops CD-X"
- Added button to open or close all GameTabs
- In the menu "Game Concepts" & "Game Reviews" you can now access the game review.
- Game sizes now affect the game review.
- "All Time Charts" & "Best Games of All Time" limited to 500 entries.
- BALANCE: Exclusive games now affect platform market share more.
- BUG: The engine billing menu incorrectly displayed the game name instead of the engine name.
- BUG: MMOs distributed by a publisher were not removed from the market.
BUILD 2021.01.28A -----------------------------------------
- AI of cleaning robot improved.
- Polish language added.
- Some languages updated.
- BALANCE: It is now more difficult to become "Developer of the Year".
- BALANCE: Effect of training increased.
- BUG: If you turned the walls invisible, you could put objects in the wall.
- BUG: In the production room the message "No storage space available" was displayed in German.
- BUG: Removed some graphic bugs (flickering) on the map.
- BUG: If you paused the game with the space key and closed a menu, the pause was deactivated again.
- BUG: When tearing down a room and making the walls invisible, the walls were displayed again.
- BUG: Legendary designers could appear multiple times.
BUILD 2021.01.27A -----------------------------------------
- Engine accounting menu can now be disabled in the options.
- Scrolling by mouse cursor at the edge of the screen can now be disabled in the options.
- Some language updated.
- BUG: Redesigning rooms could cause a crash.
- BUG: It was not possible to build heaters under medicine cabinets.
- BUG: Left games list in GUI was cut off at higher resolutions.
- BUG: If you chose a higher start year, the annual financial statements had a wrong date.
- BUG: On some languages the review text was displayed in English.
- Added Christmas season and summer slump (affects units sold).
- You can now also view game concepts of addons, standalone addons etc.
- Game concepts now show achieved gameplay, graphics, sound points etc.
- New platform added: "Philops CD-X"
- Added button to open or close all GameTabs
- In the menu "Game Concepts" & "Game Reviews" you can now access the game review.
- Game sizes now affect the game review.
- "All Time Charts" & "Best Games of All Time" limited to 500 entries.
- BALANCE: Exclusive games now affect platform market share more.
- BUG: The engine billing menu incorrectly displayed the game name instead of the engine name.
- BUG: MMOs distributed by a publisher were not removed from the market.
View on Steam
- You can now also view game concepts of addons, standalone addons etc.
- Game concepts now show achieved gameplay, graphics, sound points etc.
- New platform added: "Philops CD-X"
- Added button to open or close all GameTabs
- In the menu "Game Concepts" & "Game Reviews" you can now access the game review.
- Game sizes now affect the game review.
- "All Time Charts" & "Best Games of All Time" limited to 500 entries.
- BALANCE: Exclusive games now affect platform market share more.
- BUG: The engine billing menu incorrectly displayed the game name instead of the engine name.
- BUG: MMOs distributed by a publisher were not removed from the market.
- AI of cleaning robot improved.
- Polish language added.
- Some languages updated.
- BALANCE: It is now more difficult to become "Developer of the Year".
- BALANCE: Effect of training increased.
- BUG: If you turned the walls invisible, you could put objects in the wall.
- BUG: In the production room the message "No storage space available" was displayed in German.
- BUG: Removed some graphic bugs (flickering) on the map.
- BUG: If you paused the game with the space key and closed a menu, the pause was deactivated again.
- BUG: When tearing down a room and making the walls invisible, the walls were displayed again.
- BUG: Legendary designers could appear multiple times.
View on Steam
- Polish language added.
- Some languages updated.
- BALANCE: It is now more difficult to become "Developer of the Year".
- BALANCE: Effect of training increased.
- BUG: If you turned the walls invisible, you could put objects in the wall.
- BUG: In the production room the message "No storage space available" was displayed in German.
- BUG: Removed some graphic bugs (flickering) on the map.
- BUG: If you paused the game with the space key and closed a menu, the pause was deactivated again.
- BUG: When tearing down a room and making the walls invisible, the walls were displayed again.
- BUG: Legendary designers could appear multiple times.
Patchnotes
BUILD 2021.01.26A/B -----------------------------------------
- The game tabs on the right side of the GUI can now be scrolled.
- Move camera now also works when moving the mouse to the edge of the screen.
- language added.
- Pathfinding improved: employees now prefer objects in their building.
- Russian & Chinese (traditonal) language added.
- Some languages updated.
- BALANCE: Percentage of digital sales increased.
- BUG: "Improve Gameplay" required the skill "Game Design". Now "Game Testing".
- BUG: Games that were on the market for more than 100 weeks were suddenly sold again.
- BUG: When the GUI size was changed, the support room arrow was positioned incorrectly.
- BUG: It was not possible to have two MoCap studios working on two different games.
- BUG: In rare cases there was a crash when loading a savegame.
- BUG: If you had a lot of games on the market, the framerate dropped extremely.
BUILD 2021.01.25A -----------------------------------------
- Multiplayer: Players with IPv6 should now be able to host.
- Depending on the starting year you now get more money and the features are unlocked.
- Hungarian language added
- Chinese language updated.
- BUG: It was possible to build rooms that blocked other rooms.
- BUG: In rare cases, you could not choose a publisher.
- BUG: The "Support room" function could cause a crash.
- BUG: The "Reduce Bugs" event created new bugs.
BUILD 2021.01.24A/B -----------------------------------------
- Singleplayer: The game can now be paused with the Space button.
- Spanish & Brazilian-Portuguese language added.
- Turkish & French language updated.
- When developing a successor, design priorities are now inherited from the predecessor.
- BALANCE: Hype generated by employees reduced.
- BUG: Employees should now not leave the building when taking a normal break.
- BUG: Workload of updates was calculated too high.
- BUG: When creating a remaster, the correct values were not applied in the game concept.
- BUG: When the game was set to Turkish language, you could not research gameplay features.
- BUG: For game concepts, the work priority was displayed incorrectly.
- BUG: In some menus, the release date was displayed incorrectly for games that were not yet finished.
- BUG: You should no longer get the golden record twice for one game.
BUILD 2021.01.23A/B/C -----------------------------------------
- Most menus now have the sort function saved.
- Game Reports menu: "Sort by release date" added.
- You can now see the stats of staff members, even if unpicking is disabled.
- French language added
- Turkish language improved.
- All platform names and dates revised.
- BALANCE: Support (answering emails & calls) should be faster now.
- BALANCE: Event "Global employee dissatisfaction" now doesn't affect as much.
- BUG: It happen that a wrong language is displayed.
- BUG: (Engine menu) "Show only own engines" toggle did not work.
- BUG: Some sounds were not stopped in pause mode.
- BUG: You could not use two graphic studios, sound studios etc.
- BUG: All cleaning robots started to run when there was garbage on the floor.
- BUG: The profession of the own character was not taken over.
BUILD 2021.01.22D -----------------------------------------
- If you cancel a commissioned game, your reputation will now drop.
- BALANCE: The hype gain from the "Mad Games Convention" is now dependent on the difficulty level.
- BUG: Production orders gave you an extreme amount of reputation.
- BUG: Games were wrongly marked as "In Development" in fan letters.
- BUG: You could duplicate your game in the pack menu.
- BUG: If you canceled a production order, your reputation dropped to 0.
- BUG: "Katari 2600" was not released until 1987.
- BUG: "Siga Play Gear" was not removed from the market until 2000.
BUILD 2021.01.22C -----------------------------------------
- Number of characters for game names and engine names increased.
- English & Turkish texts corrected
- BALANCE: Salary for contract games is now tied to the difficulty level.
- BALANCE: Employees should now quit much less often.
- BUG: If a development studio had no staff and you wanted to develop an addon, there was a crash.
- BUG: Licenses could be used infinitely.
- BUG: Employees complained about heat and quality outside of buildings.
- BUG: When supporting a room and moving the task, a crash could occur.
- BUG: You could not pick up employees.
- BUG: Chart position was displayed incorrectly when sorting by user ratings.
- BUG: The game starts with German texts.
- BUG: Crash could occur when starting the game.
- BUG: Game started in 1024x768 resolution.
- BUG: It was not possible to advertise games that were still in development.
- BUG: Fixed some bugs in the tutorial.
- BUG: Some texts were displayed in german.
- BUG: If an employee used an object and you picked up this employee, the object was not reset.
- BALANCE: Effect of training increased.
View on Steam
BUILD 2021.01.26A/B -----------------------------------------
- The game tabs on the right side of the GUI can now be scrolled.
- Move camera now also works when moving the mouse to the edge of the screen.
- language added.
- Pathfinding improved: employees now prefer objects in their building.
- Russian & Chinese (traditonal) language added.
- Some languages updated.
- BALANCE: Percentage of digital sales increased.
- BUG: "Improve Gameplay" required the skill "Game Design". Now "Game Testing".
- BUG: Games that were on the market for more than 100 weeks were suddenly sold again.
- BUG: When the GUI size was changed, the support room arrow was positioned incorrectly.
- BUG: It was not possible to have two MoCap studios working on two different games.
- BUG: In rare cases there was a crash when loading a savegame.
- BUG: If you had a lot of games on the market, the framerate dropped extremely.
BUILD 2021.01.25A -----------------------------------------
- Multiplayer: Players with IPv6 should now be able to host.
- Depending on the starting year you now get more money and the features are unlocked.
- Hungarian language added
- Chinese language updated.
- BUG: It was possible to build rooms that blocked other rooms.
- BUG: In rare cases, you could not choose a publisher.
- BUG: The "Support room" function could cause a crash.
- BUG: The "Reduce Bugs" event created new bugs.
BUILD 2021.01.24A/B -----------------------------------------
- Singleplayer: The game can now be paused with the Space button.
- Spanish & Brazilian-Portuguese language added.
- Turkish & French language updated.
- When developing a successor, design priorities are now inherited from the predecessor.
- BALANCE: Hype generated by employees reduced.
- BUG: Employees should now not leave the building when taking a normal break.
- BUG: Workload of updates was calculated too high.
- BUG: When creating a remaster, the correct values were not applied in the game concept.
- BUG: When the game was set to Turkish language, you could not research gameplay features.
- BUG: For game concepts, the work priority was displayed incorrectly.
- BUG: In some menus, the release date was displayed incorrectly for games that were not yet finished.
- BUG: You should no longer get the golden record twice for one game.
BUILD 2021.01.23A/B/C -----------------------------------------
- Most menus now have the sort function saved.
- Game Reports menu: "Sort by release date" added.
- You can now see the stats of staff members, even if unpicking is disabled.
- French language added
- Turkish language improved.
- All platform names and dates revised.
- BALANCE: Support (answering emails & calls) should be faster now.
- BALANCE: Event "Global employee dissatisfaction" now doesn't affect as much.
- BUG: It happen that a wrong language is displayed.
- BUG: (Engine menu) "Show only own engines" toggle did not work.
- BUG: Some sounds were not stopped in pause mode.
- BUG: You could not use two graphic studios, sound studios etc.
- BUG: All cleaning robots started to run when there was garbage on the floor.
- BUG: The profession of the own character was not taken over.
BUILD 2021.01.22D -----------------------------------------
- If you cancel a commissioned game, your reputation will now drop.
- BALANCE: The hype gain from the "Mad Games Convention" is now dependent on the difficulty level.
- BUG: Production orders gave you an extreme amount of reputation.
- BUG: Games were wrongly marked as "In Development" in fan letters.
- BUG: You could duplicate your game in the pack menu.
- BUG: If you canceled a production order, your reputation dropped to 0.
- BUG: "Katari 2600" was not released until 1987.
- BUG: "Siga Play Gear" was not removed from the market until 2000.
BUILD 2021.01.22C -----------------------------------------
- Number of characters for game names and engine names increased.
- English & Turkish texts corrected
- BALANCE: Salary for contract games is now tied to the difficulty level.
- BALANCE: Employees should now quit much less often.
- BUG: If a development studio had no staff and you wanted to develop an addon, there was a crash.
- BUG: Licenses could be used infinitely.
- BUG: Employees complained about heat and quality outside of buildings.
- BUG: When supporting a room and moving the task, a crash could occur.
- BUG: You could not pick up employees.
- BUG: Chart position was displayed incorrectly when sorting by user ratings.
- BUG: The game starts with German texts.
- BUG: Crash could occur when starting the game.
- BUG: Game started in 1024x768 resolution.
- BUG: It was not possible to advertise games that were still in development.
- BUG: Fixed some bugs in the tutorial.
- BUG: Some texts were displayed in german.
- BUG: If an employee used an object and you picked up this employee, the object was not reset.
- BALANCE: Effect of training increased.
Current Release
20855306
Uploaded Nov 19, 2025
System Requirements
OS
N/A
CPU
Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher / AMD 3Ghz or Higher
RAM
4 GB RAM
GPU
DirectX 10 compatible with 512 RAM or better
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .RAR file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run Mad Games Tycoon 2.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Size
351 MB
Build
20855306
Password: cracked-games.org or 123
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