Market Tycoon
Market Tycoon Update Version 1.5.2
Welcome to update 1.5.2
So, it has been some time since the last update. We've been working on getting a new huge market which is exactly what this update is all about.
In this update, you will have a new market to play on which is about 4x bigger than the old bigger market. And with the countless items that you can get from the Steam Workshop thanks to our community, you will be able to fill up your new market with many items for your customers.
Of course, there are the usual bug fixes and minor improvements as always. We will continue with more patches and improvements for the few next small updates.
As for the next update we are looking to add new gameplay features like day/night cycle and different working shifts and many more.
For more frequent updates about the development of Market Tycoon, join our Discord server by clicking here
That's all for now, more big things to come soon.
Market Tycoon Update V. 1.5.1
This is the biggest content update to date for Market Tycoon. There are a lot of improvements and new features so let's get right into it.
First, continuing on what we started with the previous update (Introducing Workshop for Market Tycoon) You can now add wall and floor paint to Steam Workshop for Market Tycoon. You can view the updated guide here for more information on how to use the tool.
Now let's get to the exciting stuff.
New market! Yes! There is a new bigger market with this update. The new market is twice as big as the older bigger market. And the good news is, another even bigger market is on the works for the next update so stay tuned.
Another heavily requested feature is decorations, and so here it is. With this version, there are 12 different pots and plants to decorate your market and 5 indoor fountains and one wall-mounted fountain for you to add to your markets. Not only that, but we also added two posters a wall mounted poster and a standing poster in which you can choose an item to promote for better sales (More poster designs coming in a future update)
On top of the new decorations, we also added 5 new fridges, 5 freezers, and one new rack. We are very excited to see how you will use all those new features and content to create spectacular looking markets. If you haven't done so already, join our discord server to share images of your market and stay up to date with the development of Market Tycoon.
As usual with any update, there are many small bug fixes and game balances and improvements. The graphic when placing an object has changed not to a grid visual that looks much better than previous updates and a new cool smoke effect when selling an object.
Please note that saved games prior to this version are not compatible with the new version.
That's it for now, update Market Tycoon now and enjoy the new features!
NOW Introducing Workshop for Market Tycoon
Finally, we bring to you Steam Workshop for Market Tycoon.
This might be considered as the biggest update to Market Tycoon yet.
First of all, we added one new gameplay feature and that is global auto restock. You can now select what items to auto restock from the quick Stats & price change page instead of having to select what items to auto restock per location.
As a small team, creating and adding items would take a lot of time from us that we would love otherwise to spend in adding more gameplay features. And since the game revolves around creating your own supermarket, offering more items is the meat of the game. Unfortunately, when developing Market Tycoon there were no plans to add any kind of support for any user-generated content. But since Market Tycoon has grown and became more popular than ever imagined and since the release of the game, we received many requests to support Steam Workshop to allow the community to add more items to Market Tycoon. And so, we decided to almost rewrite the core code of the game to allow user-generated content to work with Market Tycoon. So here we are today, with the introduction of Steam Workshop for Market Tycoon the possibilities are endless. At the time of this writing, we've had the workshop up for a week for a small group of people to test things out and there are already over 60 ready to use new items to chose from. And now with the Workshop going out to the public, we look forward to what you guys can bring to Market Tycoon.
And this is just the beginning. For now, you can only add items but we will be working to allow you to add more than that. Very soon you will have the option to create objects like shelves, fridges, freezers, and decorations as well as floor and wall paint and even a whole Market. More information on that when the time comes, so make sure to join our discord server for more updates.
If you are interested in creating Items for Market Tycoon, make sure to first read Market Tycoon Item Tool Guide. We made it extremely easy to use the tool, all you need is a 3D model in .obj or .fbx format and any textures.
Make sure to join our discord server for faster support when using the tool and to keep up to date with the development of Market Tycoon.
Please note that markets created prior to version 1.5.0 are not compatible anymore.
Enjoy!
Join Workshop Beta Testing
Steam Workshop for Market Tycoon is ready.
But before officially launching Steam Workshop for Market Tycoon to the public we would like to run a beta program first just to make sure everything is working as expected.
So, if you are a 3D modeler and interested in adding more items to Market Tycoon please join Market Tycoon Workshop Creators group
Members of the group will be granted access to the Workshop page for Market Tycoon and a closed beta version of the game that includes the tool for creating items to be added to Steam Workshop. You have to join the group to get access to the Workshop in the Beta phase.
Before starting, check out Market Tycoon Item Creation Guide
Once you joined the group, head to the announcement tab on the group for further instructions.
Join our discord channel to stay up to date with the development of Market Tycoon.
Help Balancing Market Tycoon Game-play
With Steam Workshop just around the corner, we decided to further balance how often items are bought to make it more realistic. Please answer as many questions as you can.
https://forms.gle/SQ22ubLoVaARCVLD9
Also, join our discord channel for more updates about the development of Market Tycoon.
https://discord.gg/Pzf4A2g
Cheers,
Market Tycoon V. 1.4.5 Patches
• Customers leaving without paying bug fixed
• Fixed a bug that allowed you to place more items than you physically could
• Other minor bug fixes & improvements
Market Tycoon V. 1.4.5 P.2 (30/Nov/2019)
• Fixed a bug that caused expired items to stay until sold
Market Tycoon V. 1.4.5 P.1 (22/Nov/2019)
• Minor bug fixes
Market Tycoon V. 1.4.5
We first want to apologize for taking too long to bring you this update, we underestimated how much work was needed to get the new item placing system ready for Steam Workshop. But enough excuses here is to a new time with faster more frequent updates.
As you know, we are working to support Steam Workshop on Market Tycoon. As said before we didn't plan for the game to be this big, and there were no plans to add workshop/mod support when we first started developing the game. For the past 5 months, many-core game code was changed to accommodate Steam Workshop. And in this update, you will start to see the results.
So, what is new in this update?
Mainly, it's a new item placing system. On previous versions of Market Tycoon, every item had a preset list of where it can be put, how the items are configured in the shelf and a preset amount in each set. With this update information about the item and where you are trying to place it is fed to the new system and the game will automatically figure out if the item can physically be placed on the shelf and how to configure the item within the shelf. You will also be able to choose how many items to place using the arrow keys to add or subtract items. The system isn't perfect yet, there is still room for improvements and in a feature update you will have the option to chose how to configure the item from a normal style to a pyramid style or some other ways.
We believe this will drastically change how Market Tycoon is played by finding the best way to maximize profits and minimize expenses by choosing how much exactly of an item you want to be placed.
We have also split the items into more categories and they are,
- Fruits & vegetables
- Snacks
- Breakfast & Cereals
- Bakery
- Beverage
- Meat & Meals
- Grains & Pasta
- Soups
- Canned Food
- Condiments
- Dairy
- Household Essentials
- Pet Supplies (No items available in this category as of this update)
- Health and Beauty (No items available in this category as of this update)
- Clothing (No items available in this category as of this update)
- Electronics (No items available in this category as of this update)
- Auto (No items available in this category as of this update)
- Other
When is Steam Workshop coming?
In the next update. We have already begun working on it a few weeks ago. The tool is almost done it just needs a little more work and UI. Here is a sneak peek at the tool
as you can clearly see the tool is still in work but the main controls are there. The final version of the tool will not like that at all.
What will I be able to do with this tool?
With its first release, you will be able to add items to Market Tycoon and share it with the community. The tool will be very easy to use all you will have to do is upload a 3D model, verify/add textures, verify/modify size and rotation, and fill the information and you are done. You will then be able to share your item on Steam Workshop for other members of the community to download.
We are so excited so what items will be added.
In a feature update, you will be able to not only add items but objects like cashiers, shelves, fridges, freezer, and decorations you will also be able to add wall and floor paint as well.
As for adding market models, there are plans for that too but it might take longer due to the many variables associated with adding a market model. We would rather work on adding more gameplay features at this stage than developing a tool for adding markets. However, we will add more markets for you to play in a feature update. We will run a poll on our Discord channel to see what you guys want to see next.
Please note that markets saved prior to this update might not work as expected or might not load. New games made with this version will work just fine.
If you found any bugs please report them using the in-game bug reporter.
Thank you for your patience for this update. We will try our best to bring you Steam Workshop as soon as possible.
Market Tycoon Dev Update
Here with another update. We have some good news and some bad news.
We will start with the bad news as we like to keep the best for last. The bad news is we will delay the next update, but for a good reason that you'll like.
Here with the good news. As you know we are working on a tool to support Steam workshop which will allow you yo make content like items, objects, paint, etc.
We decided that to make this tool as useful as possible we have to make all items fit anywhere if it can physically fit within a shelf, not only items made with the tools but of course items that are already in-game.
The way you place items on shelves now is using a preset number of items that may or may not fit in some shelves, fridges, or freezers some items have more or less as you can see from the items menu or using the arrow keys and you'll notice there is a maximum of 3 presets but most have only one.
We are working on a new system that will take each item and place it on a shelf one-by-one until it is full or as many as you want. For example, right now, if you want to place a set of apples you are forced to place 20 apples (unless you are restocking, but you will only able to restock on the place of the missing apples from those 20) the new system will allow you to place from 1 piece and up to the maximum number of apple that can physically fit in the given shelf. And that will apply to all items.
We are sorry again for the delay of this update but we hope you like what is coming and understand the reason for the delay, it will only bring you a better more polished product.
We are looking at a time frame from 2-4 weeks but we'll try our best to get it sooner.
Thanks for your continued support of Market Tycoon many exciting stuff is yet to come.
Market Tycoon Dev Update
Many asked when is the next update? Here to let you know our plans.
When we first started developing the game it was supposed to be much smaller than it is right now, as we didn't expect that much people will like it or be interested in the game. So thanks for everyone's continued support for the game.
And as you know the next big thing for Market Tycoon is workshop, and since we didn't plan for the game to be this big there were no plans to add workshop/mod support when we first started. After seeing the number of people that liked the game our goals changed for a bigger game with much more features than planned. As you can notice the last 2 updates last of which was a little over a week ago were all about bug fixes but what we didn't say is these updates also uses a new code that can accommodate workshop support.
Right now we are working on building tools for the community to use to make items, objects, paints, and eventually markets (We also want to add decorations and posters to the game which of course the community would be able to make more of). Initially, the tool will support making items and then the other stuff will be added to the tool as it gets ready. We are trying to make the tool as easy to use as possible and we are figuring out the best way to do so. Plans of how the tool will work are laid out and we'll start working on it in the upcoming days. We expect the tool will be ready for making items sometime next month but we can't guarantee exact timing yet, but be assured it's coming soon enough.
Thank you for your continued support for Market Tycoon.
Market Tycoon V. 1.4.4 (Bug Fixes & Future Update)
Thank you for your patience for this update, we understand that this took too long.
Let's get into it, this update is kinda small in terms of gameplay but it improved on core game code setting it up for the support of Steam Workshop.
We focused on fixing bugs for this one but the main thing is that we rewrote the entirety of the code that handled the placement of items which took a lot of time. You might notice that most items can now be placed on shelves that weren't allowed to be placed there while it should have been. Previously items had a predefined list of shelves that can go into but now it calculates if it physically fit and of course whether an item is getting placed in a shelf, fridge, or freezer.
Many small bugs were fixed and improvements have been made. One big improvement is that when you train a cashier employee you had to click on the cashier and open it manually after training is done, that confused a lot of players on thinking that the employee just never comes back. Now, with this update, the employee automatically returns once training is done.
For the next update, we are planning on developing the tool for Steam Workshop that will initially let the community make items and later all sort of stuff like cashiers, shelves, fridges, freezers, decorations, paint, and even the market itself.
Also, we want to optimize the game more especially with the UI so let us know what you want us to focus on more in our Discord server which you can join from here: https://discord.gg/Pzf4A2g
Thank you again for your patience for this update we have a lot of exciting ideas which will make this game much more fun.
19 Jun Update V. 1.4.4 P.1
•Fixed a bug that rendered cashiers unable to sell or assign new employees to.
• Fixed a that caused people to leave without paying.
•Fixed invisible people.
•Other minor bug fixes and small improvements.
21 Jun Update V. 1.4.4 P.2
•Minor bug fixes.
13 Jul Update V. 1.4.4 P.3
•More bug fixes.