Rule Your School
Room building/editing update!
It has been a while, but a new update has arrived!
A rewrite of the building system has been done. While most work is invisible for you as a player, it allows for better bug fixing! It also allowed us to add a new feature: edit and move complete classrooms!
This should make building your favorite school even easier.
If you have any suggestions or ideas, don't hesitate to send a message!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmxWB68Iv9A
Read the full change log below:
- Rewrite of the building system to improve performance
- Add 3D icons to build walls
- Add possibility to move a room, including all the objects inside
- Add check if name of the school is not empty
- Fix bug where walls that are being edited are not rendered correctly on two sides
- Fix bug where plints are being rendered in green, while they do not even exist
- Fix bug where the first student would have an empty name
- Fix rare silent error when creating new games from the main menu
- Update SteamWorks
- Fix text not displaying while choosing where to spawn new students
- Add more student comments
- Add more teacher comments
- Add proper mouse movement support for windowed games
- Fix tutorial text to make it clearer what has to be done
- Fix bug where the floor was removed from a classroom, even though we were not allowed to remove the classroom and we cancelled
- Add info message when trying to build a door when no rooms are available
- Add info message when building a wallpaper and no rooms are available
- Fix highlighting particles when an object is clickable
- Fix buttons of radio objects
- Fix bug that would allow the user to move the boss desk, even when used
- Fix bug where costs did not show up when editing a wall for the first time
- Allow vending machines to be placed outside
- Reduce the maximum amount of soccer fields to 1, since more soccer fields do not have any positive nor negative effect
- Fix bug where bins could not be removed or moved
- Fix bug where materials of the street are not being rendered properly
- Fix crash if the headmaster could not get to the bossdesk, but was still sent home
Thank you! Enjoy playing.
Sincerely,
WeersProductions
Rewriting the build system!
I am happy to announce that I am currently rewriting the build system! The big code mess of a few years ago will be changed into something useful.
What does this mean for you?
Expect an improvement to the building system! If it's not the first update, it will be the second, but I am working on taking all the feedback into account. Especially editing an object after placement and wall positioning should work a lot better in the future.
Don't hesitate to send me feedback, and have fun playing!
Sincerely,
Floris Weers
Camera update!
Thank you for all your feedback and enthusiasm!
This is a small, but hopefully useful update :). The camera controller is completely rewritten and should work a lot smoother, whatever your frame-rate is! Zooming via keyboard goes a lot faster and it's easier to control the speed of the camera.
If you have any feedback, don't hesitate to send a message!
Bug and performance update!
I am proud to announce another update of Rule Your School. It has been a while, but a lot of bugs have been fixed. The performance is also way better than before!
The game loads in the background of the main menu, path-finding is not as buggy and menu performance has increased!
The overall stability of the game should be way better now.
I'd like to thank everyone that supported the game and (while it has been a long time) I hope you like the update.
Full change-log:
- Object outlines update properly while building
- Buttons of Speech-bubbles work properly again
- Unity upgraded
- Diaries work properly again
- Fix bug where doors are not visually deleted (only internally)
- Fix loading accuracy
- Fix deleting objects and saving
- Fix typo in School Swimming news message
- Fix bug where floors are not removed in a room
- Fix walls not being removed when they are for two sides (two rooms next to each other)
- Fix saving of floors of rooms that have been removed
- If you don’t have money, floors are set to grass instead of the last material
- Fix input that was blocked after closing the Graphs menu
- Block the keyboard button ‘R’ (to rotate an object) if it’s not allowed
- Fix building grid removal if building objects like flowers (where you can drag to ‘paint’ objects)
- Grid shows on mouse hover when building objects like flowers (where you can drag to ‘paint’ objects)
- Reduce glitching of students and teachers when changing object placements while they’re walking
- Lower height of soccerfield
- Check input of the bank menu to make sure it’s a valid number
- Improve quality of explosion particles of chemistry tables
- Improve performance of students’ and teachers’ animations
- Improve main menu environment
- Improve loading screen of main menu
- Improve input performance
- Move speed is now dependent of level of zooming (now it’s way easier to move around in your school!)
- Improve performance of ‘hire teacher’ menu
- Improve main menu performance
- Increase render performance of grid
- Load main scene async while in Main Menu to reduce loading times
- Fix refresh of map list after deleting a map (in Main Menu)
- Now you will only place floors where you can see them
- Fix changing views
- Students will no longer select their own table to talk to (they’re not that lonely anymore)
- Particles are no longer outlined during building
- Improve performance of floor building
- While building floors, no other objects can be accidentally edited anymore
- UI now blocks input when building (no longer worry about placing floors everywhere just because you clicked a button!)
- Improved bank menu using icons instead of text
Thank you for playing and have a nice day :)
Sincerely,
Floris Weers
Small update
Thank you for all your support!
This is a small update which improves performance, fixes various small bugs and fixes various translation errors. Hope you enjoy it!
Sincerely,
WeersProductions
Update!
It took us quite some time, but here we are with another update! This time we did not only fix a lot of bugs, we also added new features.
A complete Relation system is added to the game! This means students are not just lifeless creatures, but they now like (or hate) other students, or teachers.
You can read their diary when clicking on a student and then pressing the 'diary' menu item. This new system brings a lot more life to your school.
We also got various feedback about the 'view' system. If you did not know already, at the top of the screen a dropdown button was added in the last update.
It allows you to select what you want to see in your school. The default view does not contain anything special, but the 'wifi' view makes sure you can see the range of your routers!
This can be really nice if you are building that new classroom which (obviously) needs super fast internet!
Since it can be a bit hard sometimes to see what tables are unreachable, we added a new view. This view will show unreachable tables in your school!
Another thing we worked on is the design of menus. We remade the 'options' menu and the school paper. Now you can enjoy the schoolpaper even more!
Of course besides these new features, we also fixed bugs and improved the performance of the game. Pathfinding is now a lot faster, which means you will see less students/teachers thinking about how to walk ;).
- A new relation system
- At least 10 times faster loading of maps
- A new view that shows tables that are unreachable
- You can now set the starting position of the teachers and students
- Easier to edit buildings that are already built, just click and hold your mouse button!
- Added two new floors
- Redesign of the options and newspaper screens
- Improvement of the overall performance
- A lot of bug fixes!
If you find any bugs, don't hesitate to contact us! If you have any other suggestions, we would love to hear those as well of course.
Sincerely,
WeersProductions
Update!
We're happy to announce another small update. It contains various bug fixes:
- You can now edit objects while building! This means that you no longer have to close the building menu to simply edit an object. Just click and hold on an object to start editing it! (To edit walls, you still have to exit the building menu.)
- You can now zoom out a bit more!
- Players without a middle mouse button can now zoom as well, using '+' and '-' or 'm' and 'n'.
- Fixed a bug where removing the soccerfield was impossible.
- Changed various hitboxes of objects to be more accurate.
Hope you enjoy it :)
Update!
Thank you for your support! We love all the videos and screenshots you upload and stream. We've updated Rule Your School. The tutorial changed a little bit and some objects have a different price. It's now possible to build bins inside.
Beside these minor changes, we've also improved backend code to make the game a bit smoother.
A bug where you were unable to hire teachers is also fixed.
Enjoy!
Sincerely,
WeersProductions
Views and more!
We would like to thank everyone for supporting us. We're a very small team, but we really love Rule Your School. A new update has been published, which contains new objects!
- Wifi! We cannot live without it, and your students want it too! Build Routers and make sure all rooms have good wifi. A room without wifi means students who will complain.
- Views! To make sure it's easy to see the range of your Routers, we've added views. You can switch views on the top of your screen, or by pressing 'V'. Currently the game has two views, normal view and wifi view.
- Smoother building. To make our building system even smoother, we've changed some mechanics while building. You do not have to press the confirm button everytime you're done building, simply start building something else!
- Easier editing. You could already edit objects by clicking and holding your mouse button on an object you had build. To make it easier to edit whole classrooms, you can now simply start editing any object and it will finish the last one!
- Easier tutorial. We've made the tutorial easier to do. Every button you have to press will be highlighted. Now you no longer have to search for hours ;).
- Shortcuts. Use 'enter' to confirm a building, 'r' to rotate a building, 'v' to switch views and 'space' to switch time!
- Keybindings. You can assign different keys to all shortcuts above in the Unity start-up screen. (at the 'input' tab).
- Fixed all known bugs.
Thank you for your feedback! If you have any problems, don't hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
WeersProductions
Bug fixes!
We're happy to say we've published an update!
- You can now delete maps in the main menu.
- Fixed a bug where resizing a wall was blocked.
- Fixed a bug where editing an object gave or costed you money.
- Fixed a bug where the prom does not finish.
- Replaced tutorial elements to make sure all text is readable during the tutorial.
- Edited the formula for the ratio between teachers and students.
- Fixed a bug where people would not walk to their table and keep standing in the corner.
- Fixed a bug where the prom would crash if only 1 student would go.
- Fixed a bug where you could change the time while inside a menu.
- Fixed a bug where the game would crash during the tutorial.
Please report any bugs you find, it would help us a lot :).
Sincerely,
WeersProductions