Thank you for your patience! Airline Founder is now available in Early Access on Steam. Continue building your airline with sandbox mode, Steam multiplayer, Workshop support, and more ways to grow your business over the long term. Thank you to everyone who played the Demo, shared their experiences, and offered suggestions. The Early Access version removes the Demo’s limits on operating time, fl…
Update Notes: · Added a mission system. · Added Brazilian Portuguese. · Optimized the economy system for small aircraft. · Improved and fixed music volume and sound effects. · Fixed incorrect information for some airports. · Added support for importing external background music. · Fixed several bugs.
Over the past week, I’ve made several more updates to the game based on player feedback. The changes are listed below. The update will most likely be released sometime between 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM UTC on August 29. I’ve also received a lot of feedback that the game can feel overwhelming due to the amount of information presented. To better balance realism and accessibility, you can now choose th…
After completing the Demo 0.3.2 update, I continued working on one of the issues most frequently mentioned in player feedback: the UI. UI is a difficult problem. Some obvious issues are relatively easy to solve, such as excessive information density. However, other issues are more subjective and therefore harder to address, so I developed a customizable UI system. (Incomplete screenshot. Conten…
Bug Fixes & Improvements · Fixed route display issues when zooming. · Reduced stuttering during fast-forward when managing multiple routes. · Fixed demand map overflow on the 3D globe. · Improved the clarity of several data labels and descriptions. · Refined the Honors screen UI. Additionally, v0.4 will support customizable UI.
Fixed an issue where the 3D globe view would reset to the Gulf of Guinea after switching pages. · Fixed an issue that prevented the Demand, Slot, Rivals, and Profit strategic layers from appearing on the 3D globe. · Added the Airline Slot Tier system. As your airline expands, its monthly slot allocations increase across airports, while each airport’s own ceiling still applies. · Improved severa…
Update Notes: · Updated the map system with a new 2D satellite map, standard 3D globe, and 3D satellite globe. · Added German, Arabic, and Italian language support. · Improved the UI for the Staff and Routes systems. · Added a Frequent Flyer Program system. · Improved business and economic logic, fixing economic balance issues with custom routes and short-haul routes. · Added Public Service Obl…
Update Notes: · Improved the management system across different difficulty levels. · Improved the tutorial. · Made route planning more convenient. · Fixed some incorrect airport names and population data. · Improved the save system. · Optimized the font sizes of some text elements.
The demo has now been available for three days. Thank you all for your support! During this time, I’ve received a lot of feedback from players. This update addresses some of the issues and suggestions you’ve shared, while others will be worked on in future updates. Update Notes Language & Tutorial · On first launch, the game will now prioritize the game language selected in Steam. If the Steam…
Today, I am very happy to announce that the demo of Airline Founder has officially been released. You can now download and play it. The demo is a pre-release version of the game intended primarily to gather your thoughts, feedback, and suggestions before the full release. The demo allows you to play for up to 18 in-game months, operate up to eight active routes and ten aircraft, and use up to t…
I’m excited to share the latest update with everyone. Today, I submitted the game files for the demo to Steam for review. Once the review is complete and the build is approved, the demo will be released. The Airline Founder Demo will be the first public version of Airline Founder and will be available for free. As this is the first public release, you may encounter bugs or other issues. Please…
Over the past month, we have continued working toward the release of the demo version. The demo will offer 18 in-game months of gameplay, with content that is largely consistent with the full version. If everything goes according to plan, the demo will be released sometime in July. After the demo launches, we will spend approximately one month fixing issues and making improvements based on the…
This week, I continued optimizing the game as I move toward the release of the first demo. First, I further improved the way national borders are displayed on the map. For special or disputed borders, the map now uses dashed lines to avoid creating political ambiguity. I also optimized the logic for map vertices to ensure that the map can be zoomed smoothly and stably even on lower-end computer…
It has been over a month since development began on Airline Founder, and we are getting closer and closer to the Demo version. If everything goes smoothly, I hope to release the first Demo by the end of June. During the past week, I updated and optimized the visual display of city and route data. Previously, the relevant data was shown purely as text. After this update, players can now clearly…
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