v1.24.1-rc1 (2025-09-18)

Bugfixes

Fixed multi-texture rendering issues that could cause visual glitches

Resolved broken release panel when acting as a publisher

Fixed panel refresh issues that prevented proper UI updates

Corrected animated toggle components not refreshing properly

Fixed platform negotiation logic that could malfunction when refusing offers

Resolved performance degradation when competitors acquire other competitors

Fixed data loader inconsistencies that could corrupt static game data

Prevented silent crashes when exiting the game from the city map view

Fixed studio selection issues during game creation process

Resolved mod loader problems affecting the "Famous Game Developer" mod functionality

Fixed Studio Director not displaying the correct selected game genre

Fixed save game corruption caused by missing producer data

Fixed critical save corruption where studio data would be lost, preventing the game from loading
v1.24.0-rc11 (2025-09-04)

Misc

Add an option to set the windows "always on top"

Optimize the list of in-dev games

Rework the way City Game Studio opens/reads and closes files.

Optimize the released game charts panel

Competitors

When sending devkits and exclusive contract to a concurrent, it now gets the money, meaning it gets more powerful the more you send them devkits/money

When making a game for a competitor, the competitor will gets the royalties due

When making a game using a competitor's engine, the competitor will gets the royalties due

When paying a penality to a competitor, now the competitor gets the money

They are going to publish more games (adjusted to the difficulty, CEO hum hum)

Competitors are less likely to use your engine than to make their own

Competitors are going to update their game engine more often

Concurrent can make their own console:

They can release platforms after 2025.

They release platforms if you don't play in historical mode

They don't use the best components, but the most cost-effectivefor their spending

When buying a concurrent, you acquire it's platforms (no choice given here)

They can release platforms:

Every 400 to 800 weeks

If they have at least 100 000 fans

Display their consoles in the competitor view panel

Re-balance competitors (too powerful)

Custom-platforms

Rework the color replacement shader to make it look better

Rework the console cases

Rework the handled cases

Interface

Add the exact currency when clicking on it

Add an "Historical Mode" when creating a new game. When activated, concurrents don't create console, otherwise they do !

Not implemented yet.

When looking at the history panel, you can now select the gameport.

Rework the pause animation

Change the background of the mod loader button

Add a filter to the released games to hide the studio-director's generated games

Games name can get over 90 characters long

Fix the recruit panel (when recruiting / firing employees)

New option: Fullscreen borderless

New option: Windowed borderless

Game names can get cut when editing them

Notification (emails)

Add tooltip to the delete/spam buttons

Improve it's behavior (removing / restoring /spam / uspam an email works)

When clicking on a message on the upper left corner, it now opens the right email

When deleting all emails it should close the mailbox

Improve the e-mail user experience

Shaders

Improve shaders for the furnishing store

Improve shaders for platform list (should look much better now)

Clean up unused shaders

Platforms

Fix end of life for Skylight 1.0 and 2.0

Add end of life for the Grantendo Swap (circa 2028)

Game engine

Add a tab to the financial panel to show the revenu generated by game engines

Studio director

Add the ability to rename games made by studio directors

Limit the number of studio director to hire to 16.

Can update all existings games or only their own games or no update at all.

Assign them to only make updates

Studio Director could make games for platform even if it breaks an exclusivity deal (Fixed)

Bugfix

Balance competitor platform sales

Balance competitors buying out each other

When a competitor is being generated, it can be bought for 0$ (Fixed)

Some characters are not visible in Ukrainian

Competitor: Fix competitor stock balancing issues

Logger: Prevent logs from being truncated too frequently

Competitor: A competitor cannot get valued over 10T $ (otherwise it breaks the game for real)

Twitch connection: Fix a bug that keeps you disconnected

2 musics can play at the same time

When firing/hiring an employee, it doesn't refresh the staff panel correctly

When using a mod to change the game's speed, it might make the game laggy and even make it crashes.
v1.24.0-rc10 (2025-09-02)

Misc

Add an option to set the windows "always on top"

Optimize the list of in-dev games

Rework the way City Game Studio opens/reads and closes files.

Optimize the released game charts panel

Competitors

When sending devkits and exclusive contract to a concurrent, it now gets the money, meaning it gets more powerful the more you send them devkits/money

When making a game for a competitor, the competitor will gets the royalties due

When making a game using a competitor's engine, the competitor will gets the royalties due

When paying a penality to a competitor, now the competitor gets the money

They are going to publish more games (adjusted to the difficulty, CEO hum hum)

Competitors are less likely to use your engine than to make their own

Competitors are going to update their game engine more often

Concurrent can make their own console:

They can release platforms after 2025.

They release platforms if you don't play in historical mode

They don't use the best components, but the most cost-effectivefor their spending

When buying a concurrent, you acquire it's platforms (no choice given here)

They can release platforms:

Every 400 to 800 weeks

If they have at least 100 000 fans

Display their consoles in the competitor view panel

Re-balance competitors (too powerful)

Custom-platforms

Rework the color replacement shader to make it look better

Rework the console cases

Rework the handled cases

Interface

Add the exact currency when clicking on it

Add an "Historical Mode" when creating a new game. When activated, concurrents don't create console, otherwise they do !

Not implemented yet.

When looking at the history panel, you can now select the gameport.

Rework the pause animation

Change the background of the mod loader button

Add a filter to the released games to hide the studio-director's generated games

Games name can get over 90 characters long

Fix the recruit panel (when recruiting / firing employees)

New option: Fullscreen borderless

New option: Windowed borderless

Game names can get cut when editing them

Notification (emails)

Add tooltip to the delete/spam buttons

Improve it's behavior (removing / restoring /spam / uspam an email works)

When clicking on a message on the upper left corner, it now opens the right email

When deleting all emails it should close the mailbox

Improve the e-mail user experience

Shaders

Improve shaders for the furnishing store

Improve shaders for platform list (should look much better now)

Clean up unused shaders

Platforms

Fix end of life for Skylight 1.0 and 2.0

Add end of life for the Grantendo Swap (circa 2028)

Game engine

Add a tab to the financial panel to show the revenu generated by game engines

Studio director

Add the ability to rename games made by studio directors

Limit the number of studio director to hire to 16.

Can update all existings games or only their own games or no update at all.

Assign them to only make updates

Studio Director could make games for platform even if it breaks an exclusivity deal (Fixed)

Bugfix

Balance competitor platform sales

Balance competitors buying out each other

When a competitor is being generated, it can be bought for 0$ (Fixed)

Some characters are not visible in Ukrainian

Competitor: Fix competitor stock balancing issues

Logger: Prevent logs from being truncated too frequently

Competitor: A competitor cannot get valued over 10T $ (otherwise it breaks the game for real)

Twitch connection: Fix a bug that keeps you disconnected

2 musics can play at the same time

When firing/hiring an employee, it doesn't refresh the staff panel correctly

When using a mod to change the game's speed, it might make the game laggy and even make it crashes.
v1.24.0 (2025-09-11)

Misc

Add an option to set the windows "always on top"

Optimize the list of in-dev games

Rework the way City Game Studio opens/reads and closes files.

Optimize the released game charts panel

Competitors

When sending devkits and exclusive contract to a concurrent, it now gets the money, meaning it gets more powerful the more you send them devkits/money

When making a game for a competitor, the competitor will gets the royalties due

When making a game using a competitor's engine, the competitor will gets the royalties due

When paying a penality to a competitor, now the competitor gets the money

They are going to publish more games (adjusted to the difficulty, CEO hum hum)

Competitors are less likely to use your engine than to make their own

Competitors are going to update their game engine more often

Concurrent can make their own console:

They can release platforms after 2025.

They release platforms if you don't play in historical mode

They don't use the best components, but the most cost-effectivefor their spending

When buying a concurrent, you acquire it's platforms (no choice given here)

They can release platforms:

Every 400 to 800 weeks

If they have at least 100 000 fans

Display their consoles in the competitor view panel

Re-balance competitors (too powerful)

Custom-platforms

Rework the color replacement shader to make it look better

Rework the console cases

Rework the handled cases

Interface

Add the exact currency when clicking on it

Add an "Historical Mode" when creating a new game. When activated, concurrents don't create console, otherwise they do !

Not implemented yet.

When looking at the history panel, you can now select the gameport.

Rework the pause animation

Change the background of the mod loader button

Add a filter to the released games to hide the studio-director's generated games

Games name can get over 90 characters long

Fix the recruit panel (when recruiting / firing employees)

New option: Fullscreen borderless

New option: Windowed borderless

Game names can get cut when editing them

Notification (emails)

Add tooltip to the delete/spam buttons

Improve it's behavior (removing / restoring /spam / uspam an email works)

When clicking on a message on the upper left corner, it now opens the right email

When deleting all emails it should close the mailbox

Improve the e-mail user experience

Shaders

Improve shaders for the furnishing store

Improve shaders for platform list (should look much better now)

Clean up unused shaders

Platforms

Fix end of life for Skylight 1.0 and 2.0

Add end of life for the Grantendo Swap (circa 2028)

Game engine

Add a tab to the financial panel to show the revenu generated by game engines

Studio director

Add the ability to rename games made by studio directors

Limit the number of studio director to hire to 16.

Can update all existings games or only their own games or no update at all.

Assign them to only make updates

Studio Director could make games for platform even if it breaks an exclusivity deal (Fixed)

Bugfix

Balance competitor platform sales

Balance competitors buying out each other

When a competitor is being generated, it can be bought for 0$ (Fixed)

Some characters are not visible in Ukrainian

Competitor: Fix competitor stock balancing issues

Logger: Prevent logs from being truncated too frequently

Competitor: A competitor cannot get valued over 10T $ (otherwise it breaks the game for real)

Twitch connection: Fix a bug that keeps you disconnected

2 musics can play at the same time

When firing/hiring an employee, it doesn't refresh the staff panel correctly

When using a mod to change the game's speed, it might make the game laggy and even make it crashes.
v1.23.0 (2025-06-18)

Mod support

Rework the mod loader algorithm

Rework the mod creation panel (looks better)

Rework the mod list (looks better and loads all the images now)

Add a mod analyzer that adds meta data to the mod data to know what a mods change:

Platforms, custom platforms, digital store, competitor, competitor's games...

Add a seal of quality to all existing mods

When creating a new mod, if the mod might make City Game Studio imba, add a warning to the output log. You can still upload your mod tho.

When creating a new mod, if the mod is going to make City Game Studio imba, add a red warning to the output log. You can still upload your mod tho.

Balancing

When making a game, the number of genre point earned is now doubled.

Set 4X with History to Excellent instead of Good match

Staff

Can poach network administrator

Auto-assign staff is now more stable and faster than ever

Can transfert staff from a studio to another with a single click

Rework the human resource panel (complete rework)

Rework the specialist assignment button (looks better now)

Add an auto-assignement button to the HR panel allowing the HR to balance your studio by assigning your staff to specific tasks.

Rework the staff panel to be able to select several employees at once and apply actions such as unassign or to fire them.

Add the ability to move employees to other studio via the staff panel

Interface

Rework some icons from the game

Rework the custom platforms' planel interface to send devkits and sign exclusivity deals:

You can use a single button to max out the number of devkits you want to send.

You can use a single button to max out the exclusive contract duration.

Better user experience

Add a button to show the other platforms directly when making a custom platform

Rework the platform list panel (looks better now)

First part of the rework of the game creation (a bit better but it needs more work)

Rework the game creation panel

Rework the gameport creation panel

Rework the contract creation panel

Rework the engine creation panel

Rework the remake creation panel

Rework the game edition/publishing panels

Rework the market research panel to use the latest platform interface

When releasing a game, a gameport, a Goty, or publishing a game, rework the stars animation. It's smoother and doesn't use much computation cycle.

Increase the games' name to 96 characters

Rework the game engine selection panel:

You can see 9 engines at once

There are now icons to define their types (open source, in-house or proprietary)

Displays each engines capabilities intead of features list.

Features list is now visible from tooltips.

Savegame

Rework the savegame algorithm:

Always save the game when asked no matter what happen

When trying to close the game while saving, it's going to close the game anyway once it's been saved

Add double check when writing a new savegame

Rework the load algorithm, it's faster than it used to

Rework the game load, the first part wasn't using threads, it does now

Feature

Add a company overview panel showing:

Company creation date

Company rating

Company logo & name

Number of game engines made

Number of conventions attended

Number of game ports

Number of games released

Number of remakes released

Number of Digital store's users

Number of employees

Number of studios

Number of consoles made

Best 5 top selling games of all-time

Best 5 top selling remakes of all-time

Custom achievements (first engine, first studio, 1 K fans reached...)

Release panel

When a player sets a price that's too high for their custom platform (console), the game forcibly opens the release console panel - No more.

When a player sets a price that's too low for their custom platform (console), the game forcibly opens the release console panel - No more.

Bugfixes

Price and gauges are bugged

When releasing a custom platform in the early 80s, leads to a silent bug

When making a game for a custom platform in-dev, genres are not computed correctly

When a game names is too long, it's automatically clipped

Marketing research was not working

Researching custom-platforms via the market research panel lead to a crash (fixed)

Removing savegames might lead to a crash (rare)

Some labels were not translated

Some labels were not shown correctly (history panel...)

Fix a crash when assigning a studio to a Studio Director

Misc

Twitch: Do not try to connect when there's no need to open a connection

Rework the HTTP requester, used by mods to load images. Remove the Thread dependency, so it's now crash-free.

Rework the game to work even if Steam is not detected. But mods won't get loaded
v1.22.3 (2025-04-02)

Optimization

Optimize the gauge setting panel

Optimize the panel loading algorithm

Bugfix

Fix an issue with the game over panel

Fix an issue when cancel a game made by the studio director by selling all your studios (crash)
v1.22.2 (2025-04-01)

Bugfix

Salary wage raise computation error

when selling a datacenter (or a studio with servers, it leads to a crash
v1.22.1-rc0 (2025-03-31)

Bugfix

Discontinue game panel shows the wrong number of unit sold for offline games

Discontinue game panel, fix an error preventing the discontinue panel to shows up

Updating old games leads to poorer sales (fixed)

Fix an issue when creating a new custom-platform (leads to not creating anything or with wrong components)

Fix an issue when copy/pasting a studio layout that has a cat in it

When selecting studios, if it's to update a studio list, always shows unavailable studios
v1.22.1 (2025-03-31)

Bugfix

Discontinue game panel shows the wrong number of unit sold for offline games

Discontinue game panel, fix an error preventing the discontinue panel to shows up

Updating old games leads to poorer sales (fixed)

Fix an issue when creating a new custom-platform (leads to not creating anything or with wrong components)

Fix an issue when copy/pasting a studio layout that has a cat in it

When selecting studios, if it's to update a studio list, always shows unavailable studios
v1.22.0 (2025-03-25)

Feature

Can copy/paste studio's layout (only smaller studios to the same area or bigger)

Custom-platform

Console manufacturing costs are adjusted according to the number of copies sold.

Added notification when your console reaches a new manufacturing cost reduction threshold

A tooltip is added when the console price is so high that it adversely affects console sales.

Adjust the timeframe when the email is sent

Adjust the suggested retail price for the email

When setting the custom-platform price, the game computes it's profit per unit then dynamically adjusts the console's price based on it's profit when the manufacturing costs gets cheaper.

Platforms

Add Grantendo Swap 2

Studio director

Add an option not to publish bad quality games

Add an option to hide the magazine/website reviews

Misc

When updating a game and having a very large company, it might makes the game really slow

Optimize convention generation

Optimize post-mortems generation

Optimize game creation

Optimize buying out a competitor

Optimize contract generation

Optimize yearly report generation (financial report)

Optimize GoTY generation

Optimize remake generation

Optimize competitor staff generation

Optimize marketing campaign archives

Optimize label formatting (40% more efficient)

Balancing

Adjust Grantendo swap data

Adjust Gamestation 4 data

Adjust Gamestation 5 data

Adjust VBox series V data

Add end of life for the VBox zero and adjust data

Add end of life for the Vega Vita

Add end of life for the Grantendo 3DS and adjust data

i18n

Complete rework on the Simplified chinese translations

UI

Add a list of games published by the competitors to the competitors panel

When hovering a studio => if it's rented show the rent value, otherwise show it's value

City map button not visible enough

Bigger font for the studio list, and sort them regarding their activity and their name

Rework the history game panel game's list to add more filters

Rework the remake game panel game's list to add more filters

Rework the gameport panel game's list to add more filters

Rework the too hard difficulty popup when creating a new game.

Tooltips from the new game settings won't show more than once if you hide them

Rework the studio selection panel:

Show studio availability

Replace texts by icons and add tooltips

Add a filter button to show only available studios

Rework some icons of the game to look better

Discontinue panel has been updated to show the subscription count

Rework the top selling games from the figital store panel

Game update

Increase the number of IAP when updating a game (+4 per update)

Publishing updates for old games leads to a decrease in sales.

Bugfix

Fix an issue with game-type costs computation (might lead to a crash)

[Windows] Fix issue with mouse cursor that's off

[Windows] Fix issue where you cannot close the game usig ALT+F4 with confined mouse cursor

Can buy the same studio more than once

Studio director doesn't start a new game if they cancelled the last one

When updating a game and adding micro-transactions using a template, it doesn't work

[DE] Translation: "Time since last used" and "Game Type" are switched around (at least in the german version?). In my case it read (translated): "You have already released a Cyberpunk-8-Game in the last RPG Months"

Cannot cancel a game update

When loading a savegame with a game that's is being updated, then you cannot update this game anymore

In-game console parser now removes invisible newlines and replace them by spaces.

Fix issue with paginations leading to empty pages or crashing the game

Fix issue with paginations with no feedback sound FX

Improve logger handler - No more crash due to it

If a game is a hit and you set a marketing manager, you're going to sell like crazy and sell more unit that it should (Rare)

When making a GoTY it doesn't save the specialists, you have to set it manually afterwards

When making a GoTY it keeps the studio director, so you have to it for nothing

When releasing a game port, the number of fanbases is truncated, so I revamped that part

Mod maker

Add games to the concurrent games and update the mod-maker

Cheat code

Add cheatcode to set Staff happiness

Fix an issue with setting staff stats not triggering the cheat detection
v1.21.5-rc0 (2024-12-18)

Bugfix

When making a sequel, the game might randomly crash

When releasing a game for an upcoming custom platform, the game might randomly crash

When acting as a publisher and porting the game, it might crash the game

Fix an issue with cz translations

Fix the company logo drawer. When opening it for the first time it leads to a silent error that makes the game unstable afterwards.

Delay the game update signal by one frame to prevent the game from showing altered informations nor crashing

Misc

Improve Steam integration

Roll back the company wide/studio wide button

Known bugs

Unit sold for online games includes the rentetion number, that I need to get rid of.

What's coming next

Rework the studio furnishing (add copy / paste template)

Add the console hardware selling price get cheaper when selling more units
v1.21.3-rc0 (2024-12-14)

Bugfix

Studio director doesn't honor exclusivity deal and can makes games for other manufacturers

Your staff goe son vacation and never comes back, but you keep paying them
v1.21.2 (2024-12-12)

Bugfix

When steam is ont detected and using dark theme, you can't read the text.

Force game to exit if the user keeps pushing the exit button

Studio director didn't use the largest platform market share.

i18n

Fix CZ translations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)

Fix EN translations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)

Translate steam ahievements in CZ.
v1.21.1 (2024-12-10)

Bugfix

Add an explanation tooltip when trying to sell a busy studio.

The studio director can get frozen if an employee is moved or quit.

The studio director can get frozen if you sell the last desk of the last studio.

Optimization

When having more than 2 000 employees, automatically assigning them leads to a silent crash.

When having more than 2 000 employees, automatically withdrawing them them leads to a silent crash.
v1.21.0-rc16 (2024-12-09)

UI

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel

Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor

Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)

Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)

Improve the studio selling confirmation popup

Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)

Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise

Add assign employees to the studio options

Add withdraw all employees to the studio options

Add fix everything to the studio options

Add upgrade computers to the studio options

Add upgrade servers to the studio options

Add send to vacation to the studio options

Rework the digital store cut slider

Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director

Can assign a studio director to a desk

Can poach a studio director

Can check the employee data from the studio itself

Can sort by bonus on profits

Optimize the studio director panel

When disabling a studio director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

When firing a studio director

Unassign the studio to the director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre

Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine

Implement bonus profit share

Can update games they made

Auto market the game (announcement only)

Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director

Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations

Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)

Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)

Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)

Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)

Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)

Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)

Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)

Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)

Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container

Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen

In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized

When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games

When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.

Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game

Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel

Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug

Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform

Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused
v1.21.0-rc15 (2024-12-09)

UI

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel

Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor

Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)

Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)

Improve the studio selling confirmation popup

Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)

Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise

Add assign employees to the studio options

Add withdraw all employees to the studio options

Add fix everything to the studio options

Add upgrade computers to the studio options

Add upgrade servers to the studio options

Add send to vacation to the studio options

Rework the digital store cut slider

Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director

Can assign a studio director to a desk

Can poach a studio director

Can check the employee data from the studio itself

Can sort by bonus on profits

Optimize the studio director panel

When disabling a studio director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

When firing a studio director

Unassign the studio to the director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre

Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine

Implement bonus profit share

Can update games they made

Auto market the game (announcement only)

Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director

Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations

Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)

Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)

Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)

Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)

Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)

Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)

Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)

Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)

Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container

Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen

In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized

When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games

When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.

Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game

Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel

Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug

Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform

Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused
v1.21.0-rc14 (2024-12-07)

UI

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel

Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor

Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)

Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)

Improve the studio selling confirmation popup

Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)

Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise

Add assign employees to the studio options

Add withdraw all employees to the studio options

Add fix everything to the studio options

Add upgrade computers to the studio options

Add upgrade servers to the studio options

Add send to vacation to the studio options

Rework the digital store cut slider

Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director

Can assign a studio director to a desk

Can poach a studio director

Can check the employee data from the studio itself

Can sort by bonus on profits

Optimize the studio director panel

When disabling a studio director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

When firing a studio director

Unassign the studio to the director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre

Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine

Implement bonus profit share

Can update games they made

Auto market the game (announcement only)

Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director

Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations

Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)

Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)

Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)

Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)

Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)

Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)

Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)

Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)

Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container

Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen

In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized

When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games

When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.

Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game

Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel

Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug

Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform

Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused
v1.21.0-rc13 (2024-12-06)

UI

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel

Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor

Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)

Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)

Improve the studio selling confirmation popup

Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)

Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise

Add assign employees to the studio options

Add withdraw all employees to the studio options

Add fix everything to the studio options

Add upgrade computers to the studio options

Add upgrade servers to the studio options

Add send to vacation to the studio options

Rework the digital store cut slider

Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director

Can assign a studio director to a desk

Can poach a studio director

Can check the employee data from the studio itself

Can sort by bonus on profits

Optimize the studio director panel

When disabling a studio director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

When firing a studio director

Unassign the studio to the director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre

Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine

Implement bonus profit share

Can update games they made

Auto market the game (announcement only)

Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director

Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations

Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)

Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)

Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)

Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)

Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)

Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)

Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)

Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)

Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container

Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen

In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized

When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games

When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.

Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game

Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel

Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug

Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform

Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused
v1.21.0-rc12 (2024-12-04)

UI

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel

Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor

Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)

Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)

Improve the studio selling confirmation popup

Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)

Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise

Add assign employees to the studio options

Add withdraw all employees to the studio options

Add fix everything to the studio options

Add upgrade computers to the studio options

Add upgrade servers to the studio options

Add send to vacation to the studio options

Rework the digital store cut slider

Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director

Can assign a studio director to a desk

Can poach a studio director

Can check the employee data from the studio itself

Can sort by bonus on profits

Optimize the studio director panel

When disabling a studio director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

When firing a studio director

Unassign the studio to the director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre

Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine

Implement bonus profit share

Can update games they made

Auto market the game (announcement only)

Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director

Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations

Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)

Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)

Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)

Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)

Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)

Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)

Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)

Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)

Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container

Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen

In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized

When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games

When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.

Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game

Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel

Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug

Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform

Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused
v1.21.0-rc11 (2024-12-04)

UI

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel

Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor

Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)

Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)

Improve the studio selling confirmation popup

Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)

Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise

Add assign employees to the studio options

Add withdraw all employees to the studio options

Add fix everything to the studio options

Add upgrade computers to the studio options

Add upgrade servers to the studio options

Add send to vacation to the studio options

Rework the digital store cut slider

Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director

Can assign a studio director to a desk

Can poach a studio director

Can check the employee data from the studio itself

Can sort by bonus on profits

Optimize the studio director panel

When disabling a studio director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

When firing a studio director

Unassign the studio to the director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre

Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine

Implement bonus profit share

Can update games they made

Auto market the game (announcement only)

Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director

Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations

Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)

Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)

Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)

Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)

Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)

Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)

Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)

Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)

Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container

Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen

In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized

When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games

When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.

Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game

Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel

Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug

Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform

Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused
v1.21.0-rc10 (2024-12-02)

UI

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel

Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor

Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)

Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)

Improve the studio selling confirmation popup

Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)

Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise

Add assign employees to the studio options

Add withdraw all employees to the studio options

Add fix everything to the studio options

Add upgrade computers to the studio options

Add upgrade servers to the studio options

Add send to vacation to the studio options

Rework the digital store cut slider

Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director

Can assign a studio director to a desk

Can poach a studio director

Can check the employee data from the studio itself

Can sort by bonus on profits

Optimize the studio director panel

When disabling a studio director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

When firing a studio director

Unassign the studio to the director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre

Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine

Implement bonus profit share

Can update games they made

Auto market the game (announcement only)

Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director

Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations

Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)

Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)

Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)

Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)

Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)

Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)

Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)

Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)

Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container

Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen

In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized

When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games

When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.

Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game

Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel

Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug

Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform

Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused
v1.21.0 (2024-12-09)

UI

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel

Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor

Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)

Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)

Improve the studio selling confirmation popup

Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)

Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise

Add assign employees to the studio options

Add withdraw all employees to the studio options

Add fix everything to the studio options

Add upgrade computers to the studio options

Add upgrade servers to the studio options

Add send to vacation to the studio options

Rework the digital store cut slider

Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director

Can assign a studio director to a desk

Can poach a studio director

Can check the employee data from the studio itself

Can sort by bonus on profits

Optimize the studio director panel

When disabling a studio director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

When firing a studio director

Unassign the studio to the director

Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)

Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre

Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine

Implement bonus profit share

Can update games they made

Auto market the game (announcement only)

Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director

Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations

Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)

Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)

Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)

Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)

Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)

Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)

Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)

Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)

Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container

Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen

In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized

When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games

When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.

Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game

Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel

Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug

Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform

Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused
v1.20.0 (2024-09-19)

UI

Remove the studio management panel

Rework the bottom menu

Staff panel: Filter by studio

Hire panel: Select another studio

Poach panel: Select another studio

Training: Can rename and demolish a university

Attend convention: remove the right part of the panel, to make it more straightforward

Organize convention: remove the right part of the panel, to make it more straightforward

Organize convention: Can rename and demolish a convention center

Marketing campaigns: remove the right part of the panel, to make it more straightforward

World map: Clicking on a convention center leads to the convention management panel

World map: Clicking on a university leads to the training panel

Add a pagination to the released game panel, including:

Self-published games

Trade-published games

Publishing deal game

Remake

Gameport

Game of the year

When you buy out a competitor, you can decide whether you want to take over their studios too.

When you buy out a competitor, you can decide whether you also want their video games back.

When you buy out a competitor, you can decide whether you also want their staff back.

Rework the bottom menu so when you click on any button it opens a popup menu that helps you find your stuff

Remove the "Build a studio button" and merge it with the "Buy a studio"

QoL

Can withdraw staff from a studio (single button)

Can withdraw staff from the company (single button)

Can rename a convention center from the convention panel

Can rename a university from the training panel

Can edit the company from the financial tab

Banker

Game over is now only triggered by the banker

The banker offers you the possibility of selling your game engine to avoid bankruptcy

The banker offers you the possibility of selling your latest custom platform to avoid bankruptcy

The banker offers you the possibility of selling one of your studio (including all of its employees) to avoid bankruptcy

Starting in 1990, there's a new banker inspired from a famous CEO. No spoiler, I won't give her name.

Competitor

Rework the algorithm when you acquire a competitor so it's based on the game's difficulty and the player's company score.

When acquiring a competitor shows the number of fan gained

When acquiring a competitor shows the competitor's logo

Misc

Clean up the code base, removing 30 files that are no more used

Clean up the code base, removing 2 files that are no longer used

Game launches faster (uses slightly less RAM):

Main menu uses ~1.3G of RAM instead of ~2.5G

In game uses ~1.9G of RAM instead of ~2.7G

Add 13 new competitors

Add 10 new logos for your company

Rework the company logo drawer to make it more appealing.

Add the upcoming games of Binogure Studio to the main menu.

Rework the company logo drawer to make it more appealing.

Add "Running With a Fork" company

Bugfix

Marketing research panel: Icons are poorly rendered

Fix a bug with the employee panel where it generates ton of errors in early stage

Add the file "steam_appid.txt" next to the executable, so the Steam API is initialized correctly (not more Steam cannot be reached)

Rework the Steam detection algorithm

Rework the "Steam cannot be reached" panel.

Move camera using WASD while building studios

When a competitor buys another competitor, it buys it at a lower value as the player can acquire it.

Employees' generated points are automatically cleared as soon as the task they are working on is over.

Fix an issue when sorting released game panel games

Fix the bouncing button (the dice that bounce when you click on it)

Fix a crash when leaving the game

Items informations are not updated correctly on the shop menu

Attended conventions aren't well initialized
v1.19.0 (2024-06-26)

Feature

Automatic furnishing to generate denser studios at the expense of happiness

Automatic furnishing can generate studios with many more desks than before. To a point where only desks fit in the studio. To the detriment of happiness, as always. Twitch

Connect to a Twitch channel

Disconnect from a Twitch channel

Viewers can type !help in the chatroom to get informations about how to interact with City Game Studio

Viewers can become producer, artist, tester, developper, accountant, marketing manager, networking manager or HR

Viewers can help naming games

Viewers can help naming engines

Viewers can help naming remasters

Viewers can help naming convention centers

Viewers can help naming universities

Viewers can help naming consoles

Viewers can help naming the digital store

Viewers can help naming the company

Viewers can help naming the CEO

Add option to set the polling time (default 60 secs, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120, 300)

Add tooltip to twitch button

You cannot rename a viewer

Viewers can show emoji hover their head (heart or tears) Misc

Add 14 new logos for your company

Add borderless window option (only by adding borderless_window=true to the configuration.cfg.local file)

Add a button to the exit menu to go back to the main menu without saving

Add a button to the exit menu to quit without saving

Game engine: Add a rewrite button to deal with legacy code. So you don't have to create a new engine.

Update the difficulty selection panel regading new difficulty options.

Add cheat code to change employee happiness

Clean-up the generic panel to use less memory/CPU

Bigger item from the store UI

Add an option to get larger fonts

Add "Do not show again" from the tooltip

Rework the animated toggle to use custom icons (ON / OFF) Custom-platforms

Add a new NVMe drive for handheld platforms

Add a new NVMe drive for home platforms Mod

Add a new parameter for the game engine creation

Mod maker button is greyed out when first opening the mod menu panel i18n

Improve CS translations (Thanks to MasterStudioCZ)

Add UK translations (Thanks to TheCyberAngel) Optimization

Creating games with a lot of employees, over 1000 makes the game feels laggy Minigame

DDos protection: Can press enter or space to simulate a click (first click on the button you want to press) Bugfix

When unlocking a game engine feature it always says it's a design feature

Logos on the city might be too big

Logos in the studio can be cut if they are imported

Demolish a building (convention center or university) doesn't reset its land price

Universities and convention centre ain't taken into account to the company value

When gaining/losing fanbases via events (from vanilla or mods), you won't be able to make the game imba anymore.

When renaming a convention, attendance changes

Fix a bug with custom-platforms and genre overview (not impacting the gameplay)

Recruits were not generated correctly

Custom platform: might returns more unit than it sells.

Custom platform: there's a bug in total unit sold

Duplicating a save slot rename your company by adding +1

Twitch viewers ain't sync to their specialties

Animated toggle button: Can make the game unplayable

Financial tab: DLCs tab is blank

Staff: When hiring, firing, unassigning an employee the list is put backward

Game engine: Not getting royalties

Custom console: release date is off by 1 month

Financial panel: when making a mortgage, doesn't show up on the financial panel

Custom platform: Platform profits are mis-computed. If you make 3 consoles making 50 $ each, then you're going to make 50 + (50 + 50) + (50 + 50 + 50)

Studio employee count: Due to the twitch integration. In fact an employee can get assigned to the same desk more than once because you can hire the same employee more than once. To fix it, unassign all your employees, and assign

Canceling a custom platform doesn't cancel the attached games (add migrations)
v1.16.0 (2023-11-23)

Steam deck

Improve font rendering, make them bigger

Improve font rendering for emails

Improve menu rendering for lower configuration (below 1600x900)

Enhance panels for lower resolution (below 1600x900)

Adjust the tooltips accordignly (hide keyboard/mouse references)

Renaming an employee didn't bring the virtual keyboard

Renaming a studio didn't bring the virtual keyboard

UI

Email panel: Rework the icons (trash / spam / restore)

Game of the year: Improve the game score rendering

Financial tab: Add tooltips to the columns

Studio: Rework the shop

Click on a tooltip to close it (without it being a button)

On low resolution hide the currency change label

On low resolution hide the fanbase change label

Tooltips: When selling an online game but the servers are overloaded, the game will always show a tooltip explaining what's happening (refund...)

Rework the City Game Studio's logo

On low resolution improve the readability of the in-game tutorial

Add a new tooltip when creating games to help understand how to make Big/AAA games

Misc

It starts fullscreen the first time you launch the game

Bugfixes

Windowed: windows position change while saving (autosaving) game

Fanbase ain't properly shown for game ports

On low resolution some icons are distorded

When steam bug, there's no main menu or anything explainig what's happening in the game. From now on, there's a popup asking for the player to restart Steam in order to fix the issue.

Custom platform: The catalog size number is not accurate

Gamepad layout

Refresh the gamepad layout steam://controllerconfig/726840/2739149565

Balancing

When you start losing fans, you can't lose more than 50k at once (depends on many inputs)

Leaderboard: Convention score have been balanced (10k visitors = 1 point, used to be 100 visitors for 1 point)
v1.15.0 (2023-09-30)

Features

Improve UI for in-dev games

Add console generation to its description

When acquiring competitor, assign their employees

Demolish studio

Demolish university

Demolish convention centre

Add a save-game-as button

Optimization

Buying a competitor is more efficient

User Interface

In dev game panel: new button to port to consoles

In dev remake panel: new button to port to consoles

In dev game of the year panel: new button to port to consoles

Add tooltip to the Demolish/Sell studio/convention/univerties buttons

Rework the studio manager panel (better icons)

Misc

Added orange stray cat

Rework the background of the map/studio

Bug

Competitors can start using your engine even if it's not yet ready

Stray cat not working anymore (oups)

Genre: Localization issue (miss-named)

Hire & Assign not working anymore
v1.13.0-rc1 (2023-05-26)

Feature

Better character customization

Add studio building happiness

Add a new achievement when you publish a AAA game in the 90s

Add a new achievement when you publish a custom platform in the 90s

Add a new achievement when your digital store reaches 1 million user

Character customization: Add color ramp for accessories

Custom platforms

Add console cases by integrating the mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2804483837 made by Toaster ( https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198012827928 )

Misc

Make in-game achievements optional

UI

Improve shop menu (slider rendering)

Can update a game by clicking on the circular progress node

Hide trends when building/furnishing offices

Rework server rentals

Improve tooltips of locked buttons

When making a game, show the upcoming steps for the game engine, so you know how much point you can put for the upcoming steps.

Universities: Add a tooltip explaining you can train your staff beyond their cap using universities

Studio view: Add some decoration to the studio

Add entrance for studios

Balancing

When training an employee, pay will be higher depending on the difficulty.

Bugfix

Cannot remake a GoTY edition

Cheatcode: unlock-all-hints not working properly

Game creation: keeping hint shows the wrong number of hints on the game genre panel

Can send 40 devkits even if competitors can't take them

Can click on the background buttons while hacking a competitor's game even after winning/losing

HR panel doesn't show all the employees (missing one)
v1.13.0-rc0 (2023-05-25)

Feature

Better character customization

Add studio building happiness

Add a new achievement when you publish a AAA game in the 90s

Add a new achievement when you publish a custom platform in the 90s

Add a new achievement when your digital store reaches 1 million user

Character customization: Add color ramp for accessories

Custom platforms

Add console cases by integrating the mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2804483837 made by Toaster ( https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198012827928 )

Misc

Make in-game achievements optional

UI

Improve shop menu (slider rendering)

Can update a game by clicking on the circular progress node

Hide trends when building/furnishing offices

Rework server rentals

Improve tooltips of locked buttons

When making a game, show the upcoming steps for the game engine, so you know how much point you can put for the upcoming steps.

Universities: Add a tooltip explaining you can tra