Development Update!
Hello everyone!
It's been about 3 months since the full release of Mad Games Tycoon 2. In that time, the game has received over 500 reviews on Steam, with the vast majority being positive, and we're very happy with the response and support the game has received from the players!
Thank you!
We continue to update the game, adding new suggestions, tweaks, and additions to make the game experience that much better!
Today we are releasing another update, which you can find the details below along with a list of all the changes over the last couple months.
Suggestions
Many of the changes and additions throughout our early access journey came from player feedback and we are still seeking that feedback for things we can improve even after early access has ended.
We've recently opened up a new thread on the Steam discussion forums to collect suggestions to polish the game further, but you're also welcome to post your own threads with your ideas as we continue to monitor for feedback.
And of course, any bugs you may find please let us know so we can fix them ASAP!
So join the discussion, make a post, reply here, or leave a review and let us know what you think!
Full Recent Patch Notes
BUILD 2023.08.24A --------------------------------
- (Startup options) You can now set that the suitability of the genres is random.
- (Employee search) You can now set that the employee should not have negative perks.
- (Employee search) You can now select the gender.
- BUG: (Subsidiary menu) Sorting by "Progress" did not work.
BUILD 2023.08.23A --------------------------------
- (Research Room) You can now set automatic research for all categories.
- (Multiplayer) Contract games are now blocked when a player is working on a game concept.
- BUG: (Game Concept) When you closed and reopened the menu, the selected languages were flipped.
- BUG: (Research Room) Sometimes the staff was working when no task was given.
BUILD 2023.08.09A --------------------------------
- The age of the games now also counts when evaluating bundles.
- BALANCE: Sales figures for bundles reduced.
- BUG: (Genres) The platform suitability was reset when loading Save Games.
- BUG: (Options) Sometimes the framerate was set to 30 FPS on restart.
- BUG: (Building Rooms) Sometimes the error message came up that not all rooms are accessible.
- BUG: (Console Development) When a room supports another room, some tasks did not update the percentage bar.
- BUG: Sometimes you could distribute addons by yourself even if you haven't researched production yet.
BUILD 2023.07.27A --------------------------------
- Genres now have a suitability for platform types (e.g. economic simulations sell poorly on an arcade machine).
- BUG: Fixed an error in the calculation of reviews related to obsolete technologies.
BUILD 2023.07.25A --------------------------------
- The "Task completed" icons can now be deactivated in the options.
- MODDING: (NpcIPs.txt) <PLSTATIC> = Sequels have the same platform type of <PLx>.
For example, if you set <PL17> (Personal Computer), all sequels will also be released on the personal computer (if still available) and on consoles. The sequels will then no longer be released randomly on arcade machines or cell phones.
- BUG: NPC studios were sometimes not closed if you did not activate "all" competitors at game start.
BUILD 2023.07.21B --------------------------------
- NPC developers are now closed after historical data (can be disabled in startup options).
- (Game Completed - Screen) An icon is now displayed when a special marketing action is still in progress.
- (Develop console -> Built-in game) Added genre filter function.
- (Stats -> Publisher) It is now possible to sort by subsidiary.
- (Options) Framerate can now be set to 160, 165, 180, 200 and 240.
- BUG: (Own consoles) The bonus for "hit games" was only counted from games with 91% review instead of 90%.
- BUG: (Own consoles) You could choose a freeware game as pre-installed game.
- BUG: (Publishing offers) The tooltip no longer showed the estimated rating.
- BUG: (Publishing Offerings) Sorting by estimated quality did not work.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) It could happen that you could select a subsidiary of a fellow player as publisher.
- BUG: If NPC games you distribute had a hype over 100, the message for overhype was displayed.
- BUG: If you disabled some messages, they were also not displayed in the history.
BUILD 2023.07.13A --------------------------------
- MODDING: (NPC-IPs) You can now force a target platform with "<PLx>".
- MODDING: (NPC-IPs) You can now set the game as exclusive with "<EX>".
- MODDING: (NPC-IPs) You can now set the game as an MMO with "<MMO>".
- MODDING: (NPC-IPs) You can now use "<F2P>" to set the game as F2P.
- BUG: You could not create bundles and addon bundles with 5 stars.
- BUG: Global random factor was no longer rolled at game start.
- BUG: NPCs were mainly using the "Animals" theme.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) NPC game names were not randomized.
BUILD 2023.06.23A --------------------------------
- MODDING: You can now assign Legendary Employees the profession "Game Tester" <Q> and "Office Worker" <O>.
- MODDING: (Genres) If you set "true", successors will display years.
- MODDING: Successors of sports games are now not hardcoded with a year.
- MODDING: (NPC IPs) You can now use "<ROM>" and "<ARA>" to force successors to use Roman or Arabic numerals.
- MODDING: (NPC-Game Names) You can now set the topic "<Tx>" and subtopic "<STx>".
- MODDING: (NPC-Game Names) You can now set the target group "<TGx>".
- MODDING: (NPC-Game Names) You can now force successors to use Roman or Arabic numerals with "<ROM>" and "<ARA>".
- MODDING: Matching genres and age rating of topics, is now loaded from the English file instead of the German one.
- BALANCE: Support calls increased.
- BUG: In the production menu you could enter a negative number.
- BUG: In the developer legends database there were duplicate names.
- BUG: In the database of licenses there were duplicate names.
- BUG: (Console development) The task "Cost optimization" was not saved / loaded in the savegame.
BUILD 2023.06.08A - 2023.06.16B --------------------------------
- Multiplayer: Autosave now works.
- Performance improved.
- Production menu: Buttons for quick input added.
- Options: Auto-save can now be disabled.
- Buying objects: The hotkeys for snapping toggles are now the keys T and G. (to avoid problems with AZERTY keyboards).
- Game Development: When continuing development on a completed game, you can now set how many weeks development should continue.
- Support requests are now linked to difficulty.
- Game tooltips: The name of the IP is now displayed.
- BALANCE: Support requests reduced.
- PERFORMANCE: Gamepass menus should now open faster, and the framerate should now not drop as much.
- BUG: Steam achievements for which you had to have difficulty "Legendary" were also unlocked on low difficulty levels.
- BUG: InputFields no longer worked correctly.
- BUG: Outline shaders fixed.
- BUG: (Gamepass menus) The framerate should now not drop as much.
- BUG: On some PC systems the color scheme was wrong.
- BUG: NPC developers too often chose their main genre for their games.
- BUG: Contract games you didn't accept were released on the wrong platform.
- BUG: (GamePass -> Manage Games) The platform dropdown was not saved.
- BUG: (NPC games) Fixed bug with platform selection.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) When a player left the game, a wrong player could be deleted.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Profit sharing for own engines did not work correctly.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Fixed bug when sending IP rating.
- BUG: (Multiplayer) Some data of games was not transferred.