Game Tycoon 2
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Game Tycoon 2, Update to 0.5.1 released!
New:
- technologies and features will be released until 2050! Overall there are now more than 170!- speed of the game can be select with STRG AND keys 1-4 and with STRG AND space the game can be paused
- stocks will be have more companies, they can be bankruptcy
- stocks with changes, ups and downs
Fixed:
- save-/load-bug with distribution-contract: no earnings after resumed a saved game with game(s) in the market with distribution contract- small spelling mistakes
- descriptions of technology-features will not be displayed
- in tutorial the price of a game in the stock could be selected until 80 $/€
- add genre into overview of products in PC
- there's no info how actually engines are
- tutorial advisor will not shown in the map
- on the box in the stock area is the title text sometimes larger as the box
- the border of the character menu was moving sometimes
- the border of the screenshot in the magazine was not cut correctly
- when start an endless game and hit ESC saves the game
- announcement and help texts does now have a now box-background
- more contracts to distribute or publish own games
- there should be contracts without deadline and without minimum-quality, then with less royality
- own salary can't be 0
- in the saving book, higher values took some time to set them
- when bought a feature all technologies/features will be de-selected
- when switch between the exhibitions, the standard-booth will be shown a small part of a second
- left part of the bank-area can be selected when move the mouse over the HUD
- contracts should have a maximum quality of 80%
- font of the stock companies smaller
- the pager starting in 2000 didn't go down sometimes automatically
- there's no check if a game has the needed quality of the contract
- stocks will have more companies, they can be bankruptcy
- stocks with changes, ups and downs
Changed:
- helptexts now available in the folder in the office too* save-games from earlier versions are not compatible
Game Tycoon 2, Update to 0.5.0 released!
Main features added in this version:
- Reputation of the company- game-magazine with ratings and shots
- Online-games (starting 2000)
- Game Shop (see top-charts)
- Shopping mall (buy status symbols)
- Home (rest, use status symbols)
- New help-system
- Tutorial (until Release Update)
New:
- complete new technology-system with more than 170 technologies!- a delete button in the production is needed
Fixed:
- some spelling mistakes- the pager doesn't go down after a short time
- the time-calculation is a lot different than the final main development
- in lists, the first item should be selected, when entering this scene
- bugs and ratings without decimal place
- there's no message out of the office, that a technology was explored
- If there's not enough money, you can't pay back any loans
- street-prices can be 0 Euro/Dollar, so no earnings
- multiplayer-features can be purchased at start
- some features can be purchased while the research
- some features will be shown more times
- multiplayer-feautres can be sold directly
- quality (not rating) will not checked with contracts
- when open magazine, first game should be selected
- Woctrex release-box doesn't have a picture
- project based empoloyees are still employees after finishing the project
- in the license-menu, there was the info of the next release date even if it was in the past. Only with leave and enter the scene, it was updated correctly
- features can be bought with negative money balance
- making a sequel of an own engine will not have preset the old features
- developer can't removed from project in the board with the button, only with double-click
- the employee menu can be exit with the box that a employee should be send to training
- sometimes the same license will be shown more times in the list
- save-games of previous versions can't be used, but that occur sometimes in a freeze
Changed:
- re-productions can only be made with the old configuration of the box* save-games from earlier versions are not compatible
Game Tycoon 2, Update to 0.4.0 released!
Main features added in this version:
- marketing/PR (create advertising campaigns, book exhibition booths - and visit them!)- law (get jobs, publishing contracts)
- tutorial (until Update 4)
New:
- new backgrounds in the boxes for platform releases and announcements- in production, when click again on the game, the values for the production was again the standard ones
- finish successful a publishing contract, there appear now a message
- when come to production, on the right there can be changed the values without clicking a game. After clicking a game there will be shown then standard-values
- the GUI up on the screen is now on the map too
Fixed:
- display of mobile phone in the 90s is too dark- some developer can be assigned to more projects
- shares in contracts will be calculated wrong
- guaranted units must be calculated correct (get more money after the guaranteed units are sold)
- sometimes the advisor in the tutorial speak but there's no voice
- devs are in training and can be in projects
- mobile phone doesn't show the complete ticker text
- of all stock companies can be bought anytime 10 shares!
- employees can't be added to started projects
- employees can't be taken from started projects
- fixes in project board when loading/saving
- a lot of tutorial fixes
- all tutorials was updated with the new features, old tutorials too!
- ok-button of old, not useable save-games was missing
- on some tutorial texts the voice was missing
- when change the language an error occur in the features
- after fire an employee who isn't longer needed, on the project board was the info 1/1 for example
- the GUI up on the screen in the tutorial sometimes disappears
- sometimes games sold more and more over the next years
- when you reproduce games in the production, you can choose a lower quality. But then the settings shouldn't be changeable
- there should be a text when the game is in the production
- a text is missing when try to fire an employee that is in training
- when paying back earlier a credit, then you pay only 50% of the interest
- sell games off cheap will bring to less money
- for international users, there are too much holidays in the year. Change from 6 to 30
- in the project board there's a space between the timeline and project
- the company-logo on the box should be on the lower right side and the name in the middle
- there's no message after a successful investment
- there should be a next, when the game is ready for production
- some explored features will not be marked in green
- some issues when choose a project on the board, assign devs and didn't start it now. Then exit the board and come back
- when adding more devs on the board the project will be ready sooner (not respected of their quality (that will come soon!))
- when deleting devs on the board the project will be ready later (not respected of their quality (that will come soon!))
- distribution contract assigned but no sales
- after platforms was taken from the market, but projects are still for this platform planned, they are still on the project board and can't be deleted
- on the project-board will be shown, when the planned beta starts
- entering the menu and resume a game with the resume-button in the endless-menu will hold the menu music in the current scene
- engines which have a one time license can be used for more projects
- the text, if a dev should be fired and is in a project assigned is wrong
* save-games from earlier versions are not compatible
Game Tycoon 2, Update to 0.3.3 released!
Main features added in this version:
- PC (plan games) area developed complete new- skills based on the genre was added in the PC
New:
- based on the available boxes per year, the view on the production-table change- adding technologies or features in PC both with double-click
- still in research technologies have not the correct status
- there was no info-message after a game was produced
Fixed:
- click more than once on the console will let the calculated price raise- click on platform in pc and you maybe can't leave the PC
- tutorial 1 again works now
- technologies and features are in one list
- names with spaces will be cut in the production
- after finish the planing of a game, there is no message in the info-text-area
- the button 'start project' can be click anytime, it should be disabled after starting a project
- some english words in the folder are cut
- buttons at the financial area will not shown correct, when choose something, go out of the scene and back
- the quality in contracts should sink when a contract will be negotiated
- in the production some systems will be shown more times in the dropdown
- some times endless developments
- in the projectboard the bars for the devs are longer than for the whole project
- objects in the background can be highlighted even if a menu is in the front
- if set a compilation at the production table, only one check will shown
- some mouse over areas was highlightet when move the mouse over them, but even that if a menu infront is opened
- wrong text when click on Release in the stock but no contract is assigned
* save-games from earlier versions are not compatible
Game Tycoon 2, major update to 0.3.0 (70% of the game) released!
Main features added in this version:
- Law (buy engines, close publisher/distributor deals, buy licenses)- Production/Warehouse (produce games, create boxes, see stock, assign contracts with stocks, sell budget games)
- Tutorial (until Update 3)
New:
- added message log in the company office, which shows the last news messages- change the direction of the ticker news
- platform announcements and releases have now headlines
- platform announcements and releases have now blue prints of the upcoming system pictures and then final pictures
- added a pause-button to pause at any time
- added a new design of the top-object name view
- games which will be hyped can later be sold as license
- when buy/sell shares, you see an info how much you own
- first, but not complete calculation of sales
- distribute games (publish in a later update)
- Longer ticker texts are now available
- buy a engine and you have those features pre-selected when use the engine
Fixed:
- minor design issues- change position of quit game "yes" and "no"
- optimized release dates of platforms
- longer company name possible
- employee in training, train and promote button disabled
- when entering the share-area, the first share is selected and it will be updated
- show selected button in bank
- a bug in the employee-board, when developer will be added for different technologies and features
- employee can't be added to already started projects
- some texts was too long for drop-down-fields
- flag in research menu was set to the first after the player go into that menu
- all menus where to select something are marked when the row is selected
- employee board at the university didn't show sometimes new devs
- technologies can be used, even it is in the research!
* save-games from earlier versions are not compatible
Game Tycoon 2, major update to 0.2.0 released!
Main features added in this version:
- Company office (set standard settings developer)- Research (set which technologies should be researched or buy them later)
- Finance (trade stocks, take credit)
- Tutorial (until Update 2)
New:
- map locations which can be visited should be marked better- $ or € to choose in menu
- changed design of options-menu
- added anti-aliasing-option in option-menu
- all new systems must now be confirmed with a button
- show how long the dev is still in the training
- the employee-board with the train information will be updated automatically
- more tech-stages
- only add sort of developer, which features was planned (f. e. text-adventure without graphics and sound, can be done by a coder!
- added arcade-systems
- optimized the performance
- mouse-info in header for mouse-over regions
- product overview at the PC
- popup on employee-board, after employee was trained
- added more company logos
Fixed:
- texts in drop-downs too long/overlapping- scrollbars in all lists which can be scrolled
- the system-symbol in the PC is not marked at the start
- the back-button in tutorial doesn't work all the time
- the chosen employee-board should be better marked
- Employee board: first employee should be selected automatically
- languages-buttons are hard to see if pressed or not
- mission icons optimized
- pressing two times ESC in the game, leave the save-message on the HUD
- if there are no employees, the fire-button should be disabled
- double click to add devs to a project on the project-board
- back-button in the research-panel put you on the map
- View of the buttons should be clearer
- currently there will not be any costs/month, without the employed devs
- Sounds in dev and company office short fade at the same time
- voice volume of advisor in the tutorial was lowered
- characters in the menu are breathing in the same tact!
- projects take more time in the development
- try to add dev later to a started project doesn't work
- thousand-delimiter-point will be shown with numbers smaller than thousand
* save-games from earlier versions are not compatible
Game Tycoon 2, Update to 0.1.1 released!
Fixed:
- loading a tutorial bring sometimes an error in the bubble. Try to click on back a few times, until the text is appear and then go on- "Name of the G" when creating a game instead of "Name of the game"
- devs to train, are longer there than 40 days.
- joystick-Support available before a console starts with joysticks!
- dropdown in PC will be shown, when going back
- limit maximum fps to 60 to lower cpu-usage
- problems with different resolutions, not all areas/boxes clickable should work now
- mouse limit to the screen of the game, using more than one monitor
- "Media Center" renamed into "Shopping mall"
- fixed some spelling mistakes
Added:
- system message when trying to use an old, not compatible, save-game* save-games from earlier versions are not compatible