Community14 Mar 2024DevLog #8 - Spring Sale 2024 + Important UpdateHi everyone! Spring is just around the corner and that means a seasonal sale is starting here on Steam! You can get DevLife -65% off during it! 🌷🌳 I want to use this occasion to give you an update on the full release of the game. But unfortunately, the news I bring is not a good one... What's Going On? As you've probably heard, if you are at least somewhat interested in gamedev, this and the…
Hi everyone! With a huge delay, but it's finally here - a fresh update for DevLife including the new map, Interactive Events about music and random life situations, and a new decision system! Alongside it comes the biggest discount to date -65% as part of Steam's Capitalism and Economy Fest 2024 ! I already went over the details in another post and of course, you can test them for yourselves. J…
Hi everyone! I'm happy to announce that DevLife will be a part of the Capitalism and Economy Fest that starts in just two days on Steam, with the biggest discount to date! 💵 As promised the new update focused on music and random life situations will be released on the same day, that is 8th of January 2024 at 18:00 CET. An hour later when the event itself starts I'll be streaming the game on St…
Hi everyone! It's time for me to shed some light on the next update coming to DevLife! But before we do that, I want to remind you that the game is available for -60% off during Steam's Summer Sale! 🏝️🏖️☀️ It's our biggest discount yet, so it's a great time to purchase it in case you are still undecided! Unfortunately, as you can see, the plan for releasing it in the first half of 2023 didn't…
Hello everyone! A bit delayed but it's finally here - a new update for DevLife featuring Interactive Events simulation for employees! From now on, characters in your game will live their own stories and adventures that will influence who they are. Or in more technical terms, most of the existing and also future Interactive Events will be simulated for your employees and allow them to change tra…
Hi everyone! As promised on our Discord , today we released a small hotfix for not working drag and drop for components and skills. Additionally, because one of the features planned for the next big update - contextual notifications about changes in money and fans, was already done we decided to push it now instead of waiting a few more months ;) As always, if you find any new bugs or have sugg…
Hello everyone! First of all, happy holidays, and everything best for the new year! 🎄🎆 We hope you had a fantastic time and that 2023 will be even better than the previous year! Today we'll walk you through a new roadmap for DevLife guiding us toward the full release in the next year. But before we start just a small reminder that the Christmas event is currently available in the game until t…
Hi everyone! We hope you all are staying healthy because from now on your characters and employees in DevLife won't! With this new update, we are introducing 6 different health conditions, both contagious and serious - deadly even, but also those we need to deal with on a regular basis. It will be up to you how you handle the situation and how it will affect your company and more importantly: y…
Hello everyone! This year Halloween comes a bit earlier to DevLife! 🎃 Starting October 25th you will once again be able to access special content prepared for this holiday. New decorations, camera filter, and spooky soundtrack await you! The game is also available for -40% off during the whole week! With this small patch, we've added better support for Steam Deck (auto UI scaling and showing s…
Hi everyone! As I wrote in the announcement post for the latest update with animals, unfortunately, things got delayed and we won't be able to release the full game this year. But today, I'll walk you through the updated roadmap for 2022 and share some more details about what's coming to DevLife ;) As you can see on the graphic above we plan to release two updates before the 1.0 version that is…
Hi everyone! It's been a while. But before we start happy pride! 🏳️🌈 As you can probably tell from the fact that this update, which was planned for Q1 of this year, was released in June things got delayed. So unfortunately we will have to reshape our plans for the future updates and the full release of the game. But I'll give more details about that in a separate post soon. For now, let's fo…
Because of my big fuckup with setting up OBS correctly on the last stream, I'm going to go live once again on April 1st at 5:00 PM CET and this time you will be able to hear my voice throughout the whole thing :P We are going to continue playing the same save so if want to catch up on the beginning you will get the chance on March 31st at 6:00 PM CET as I was recording it for the replay and in…
Hi everyone! We are proud to announce that DevLife made it to the SimFest: Hobby Edition! Because of that I - Roman will be streaming from the work in progress version of the next update on March 30th at 6:00 PM CET. I'll show you the new changes and also answer any questions about the game. If you won't be able to make it on time don't worry as the stream will be replayed every day at the same…
Hi everyone! Happy new year! We wish you all the best for 2022! This year is going to be special for us as we plan to release the full version of DevLife! So hopefully this is the last roadmap before that happens :D Today I will walk you through all of the plans and share some details mostly about the update coming in Q1 2022. Our goal is to deliver two content updates in the first half of the…
Hi everyone! Today I'm glad to present to you a small, quite unexpected update with full Russian localization made possible by the hard and very quick work of @ZHE5TJ ! It is added as an officially supported language on Steam and I hope we will be able to maintain full translation for future updates / posts. Alongside this new language, I've also optimized the way of how texts in-game are chang…
Hi everyone! As we announced previously in a post here on Steam we decided to split content planned for the next update and release as soon as possible which is now! This update introduces a lot of new furniture and random decorations on them that allow you for even more personalization of your workspace! And that's not all of them. There are also 6 new Interactive Events and many other changes…
Hi everyone! Sorry for being silent for so long. I wanted to hop on here to let you know about a project that recently took almost all of my free time - Packing House. It's a game that I'm helping on together with Adrian, our PR manager, and it's going to premiere soon. You can wishlist it now on Steam! I'm writing this from a train to Poznań because we managed to get a booth from Indie Games P…
Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing amazing :D Today I want to let you know about how the work on the next update is going, when it's going to be released, and overall what is happening with the game right now. If you want to get this information sooner then feel free to join us on our Discord server! Release Schedule Maybe I will start with the information on when the update releases. Unf…
Hi everyone! I hope you are all having a good time! Today I present to you a small patch for the game with some corrections and most importantly bug fixes. The most important one is the one with missing game UI elements for some users. Everything should now be fixed, but this error doesn't occur on any of my devices so it's hard for me to know for sure. If the problem still exists or you find a…
Hi everyone! Today we are happy to present to you a new update for DevLife with the last skill tree - Desktop Applications! You can now choose from 25 new skills and start your carrier in developing programs for personal computers! Alongside it, we fixed found bugs and changed the game's balance, especially in the later stages. You can read the full changelog below. Previously we announced that…
Hi everyone! Today I'm happy to announce that we have prepared a Demo version of DevLife, available right now, for free, here on Steam! In this version of the game, you will get a chance to experience the full first five years of the game. No other limitations, no cut-out content! The game time will stop at the beginning of 2006 and to continue playing you will have to buy the full version. Sav…
Hi everyone! First of all, Happy Pride to everyone who is celebrating! 🌈 We hope that you are all doing great and that you will enjoy what we have prepared in this update! Oh, and did I mention that you can now get DevLife -20% off for a limited time? :D Anyway, this update introduces a lot of new things which I described in detail in the previous post. Please go ahead and read it if you want…
Hi everyone! Welcome to the second roadmap for DevLife! Today I want to talk about plans for the nearest future of the game. As you know recently we finally released the update with Interactive Events. From now on we plan to release updates much quicker, as the base of the game is ready. Now we need to fill it with content and fix the remaining bugs! All dates above are approximate and probably…
Hi everyone! It is time for the next big update for DevLife introducing Interactive Events! Version marked as Alpha Build #4 (0.6.69) is now available for download on Steam! We hope that you will enjoy the content that we have prepared for this update! If you encounter any problems with the game or have any feedback or suggestions, you can leave them on mesotegames.com/bugsreport or on our Disc…
Hi everyone! We are happy to announce that the update with Interactive Events will premiere here on Steam on the 29th of April 2021 ! To celebrate this occasion, we have prepared a new gameplay trailer showing the most important elements of the game. Below you can see the most interesting features you will see in the new update: · Added Interactive Events · Added new character traits associated…
Hi everyone! Welcome to probably the last of work in progress reports about Interactive Events. Or at least the last before the release of the first update with them. Things left to do. Today's post will be short as there is not much to be discussed. We just want to inform you that all events are now completed and the remaining things to do are: · Translating into Polish · Creating missing grap…
Hi everyone! Welcome to another Work in Progress report from creating Interactive Events for DevLife! Today I'll talk about the overall progress and also show you a teaser of the new map! Release delay. But, first things first. Unfortunately due to the level of complexity of events and the amount of work that still needs to be done this update won't be released in Q1 2021 as promised before. Ju…
Hi everyone! It's Roman again and welcome to the next Work in Progress report from working on Interactive Events for DevLife. First of all, I want to let you know, that the game is on a -25% sale during Lunar New Year on Steam! So if you have been hesitating with your purchase, or you want to make a gift for a friend, this is a great opportunity to do so. Today I wanted to talk a little bit abo…
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