Effort slots have been increased to 4. The outsource button has been removed, since it was rarely used and wasn't adding much to the game.
[Community suggestion] There is now an auto-allocate button that will try to optimally allocate your available EP based on feedback history.
Genre expertise has been increased to 4. It now counts towards work quality.
At the end of each year, you will receive a report showing stats.
Your books can become bestsellers.
[Community suggestion] You can write sequels once your genre expertise is 4. Sequels have better chances of becoming bestsellers.
You can now view your previously published books in the Character Dialog.
The fans limit has been removed from the Mansion.
Balancing improvements.
Minor UI improvements.
You should be able to continue playing by loading a previous save. The first end of year report might not be accurate. If you run into other issues, it is recommended to start a new game.
Early Access Update (v0.15.0)
Changes:
You can now buy a Mansion after year 18.
Fixed a bug where the fans limit would fail to update after switching to a new home.
Early Access Update (v0.14.0)
Changes:
You can now self-publish your books. You don't need an agent to self-publish and you get to keep all the profits, but you have to spend money on marketing and book printing. Self-publishing is unlocked by a book sometime after year 12.
The book design dialog has been moved to the self-publishing flow. When publishing your books traditionally, you will receive a random book design.
[Community suggestion] You can now query agents in the Character dialog. Hiring an agent costs 50XP. Better agents become available as the quality of your published works improves.
Apartment: Your initial monthly expenses have been reduced to $600, but your rent will increase every year until you buy your own house.
House: The fans limit has been increased to 500K.
There's a new button on the book sales chart to withdraw your book from circulation early (in case it's not well received).
New EP book: Plot
Gameplay rebalancing: Your income will increase more gradually as the game progresses.
Fixed an issue where old publisher offers would accumulate in the Mail dialog causing the game to crash.
Fixed several issues with autosave.
You should be able to continue playing by loading a previous save. If you run into issues, it is recommended to start a new game.
Early Access Update (v0.13.0)
Changes:
The reviews dialogs for both Articles and Short-Stories have been redesigned.
You can now select which publishers to query. The probability of a query being successful depends on your work's quality and each publisher's audience reach score. Publishers will accept your work even if the genre/topic combo is not ideal.
Reviews of previously published works can now be viewed in the Character dialog.
The UI and slide-up notifications have been improved.
Fixed an issue where dialogs would not properly center on screen.
You should be able to continue playing by loading a previous save, but you won't be able to view previous reviews in the Character dialog. If you run into issues, it is recommended to start a new game.
Early Access Update (v0.12.0)
Changes:
The task progress dialog was taking up too much space in smaller screens and has been redesigned to be more compact. The current task is now displayed at the bottom-right corner of the screen, just below the work queue.
Character dialog: Fiction/non-fiction genres have been split into separate groups and are clearly marked.
Work status dialog: The summary page has been redesigned.
[Community suggestion] You can now keep working even if your Inspiration has dropped to zero, however you won’t be gaining any XP from writing and your writing speed will be slower until your Inspiration recovers.
[Community suggestion] When reading Effort Point books, you will now slowly recover Inspiration at the Idle rate.
[Community suggestion] Genres/topics in the Write dialog are sorted alphabetically.
[Community suggestion] There's no need anymore to manually complete your work during the Revising stage. When your work reaches maximum clarity it will now auto-complete.
[Community suggestion] Autosave is now enabled by default (triggers monthly and when quitting the game). It can be disabled in the options menu.
[Community suggestion] The awards ceremony can be optionally skipped.
Early Access Patch (v0.11.2)
Changes:
Fixed a bug preventing the new game screen from showing up
Early Access Patch (v0.11.1)
Changes:
Fixed an issue where the game would sometimes fail to enter fullscreen mode
[Community suggestion] The game can now be played in windowed mode (Options->Disable Fullscreen)
Early Access Update (v0.11.0)
Changes:
You can now buy a new home after year 6
The initial apartment has been updated and the placeholder background has been removed
Reduced the rate that Vacation cost is increased to 10%
The on-topic area at maximum Genre Expertise has been increased to 70%
You should be able to continue by loading a v0.10.0 save. For all other versions, or if you run into issues, it is recommended to start a new game.
Early Access Update (v0.10.0)
Changes:
New mechanic: Genre Expertise - determines how fast you reach maximum Clarity when writing. You can increase your Expertise by spending XP
You don't have to buy the Market Report anymore and it is now accessible from the "Write" dialog. Audience demand for genres/topics is dynamic and depends on your recently published works
You will now receive a message after unlocking each work type listing the minimum fan/quality requirements to publish (no more trial and error)
The task progress dialog has been redesigned
Your monthly expenses have been reduced to $900
Balancing improvements
Minor UI improvements
Fixed an issue with some Nvidia cards
This update might break old saves. It is recommended to start a new game and enable the tutorial, which explains the new gameplay changes.
Early Access Patch (v0.9.1)
Changes:
Fixed a bug where the game would crash just before publishing Non-fiction/Novels
The game engine should now have better compatibility with some graphics cards
