MARCH UPDATE NOW LIVE - Course Builder, Terrain Generator, Character Creator

Hello all,

I'm excited to announce that Resort Boss: Golf's March update is now live!

The March update sees the debut of a course builder, allowing you to freely link their holes together into a guided course for their resort’s golfers, a terrain generator, a character creator and a selection of new cosmetic options, diversifying your golf resorts.

There’s still plenty to come from Resort Boss: Golf’s Early Access period, with tournaments, wildlife, challenge scenarios and more already confirmed for release across April and May.

New Features

• Expanded the hole panel, with more information and tools for evaluating the holes you have built.
• Added two new tools for hole building: (these tools are accessible both from the hole info panel and from the hole builder)
• Shot Analyzer: Allows you to place the ball on any spot near a hole, and see what are the options that the AI is more likely to choose.
• Heatmap: For holes with play history, shows you the most commong landing spots for shots.
• Added the Course Builder, which allows you to create and customize the courses in your resort. It allows you to:
• Choose the holes that belong to a course
• Name and price the course
• View the history of play on the course, complete with shot visualizers
• View overall information regarding the golfers' opinion on the course
• Added three new tilesets that the players can choose when creating their resort:
• Sandy Desert: A desert themed landscape
• Winter Wonderland: A winter/snowy themed landscape
• Deadwood: A horror-ish themed landscape
• Added two new terrain options for creating the resort:
• Rolling Hills: Creates a terrain that features smooth variations in height, creating long hills
• Thousand Lakes: Creates a terrain with several little lakes spread around the map
• Added the Golfer Creator. Players are now able to create and customize not only their own Resort Boss, but also golfers and VIPs that can appear during general gameplay.
• Added an option to select the boss that will own the resort that the player is creating.
• Added support for Portuguese language.

Fixes

• Path no longer overlaps with the tee box.
• Building editor will now choose a random wall type everytime you start a new building.
• Adjusted the wind function to have less insane changes.
• Removed the limit of 18 holes for the resort.
• Replaced the game logo with higher resolution one on the loading screen.
• Wind arrow should now point to the correct direction.
• Tiles with trees are no longer marked as OB, but will have large penalties for the AI calculations.
• Landscapers will now try to find the orders that are closer to them first.
• Planting trees in the Winter tileset has a chance to spawn them with snow.
• Taking a loan will no longer also include the interest in the loaned amount.
• Buildings will now no longer generate income while still in the planning stage.
• Double clicking the hole button will no longer result in invisible holes.
• Tutorial panels now hide properly if you load/create a new game while playing the tutorial.
• Fixed issue with a nullreference when trying to close the hole panel which led to the panel not closing.
• Modified the failsafe to make the AI stop if it stops approaching the target object.
• Adjusted AI logic to be able to finish the hole.
• Course builder has been disabled during tutorial.
• Course selector will now be properly highlighted, and fixed issue with the attributes not updating.
• Golfers will no longer attempt to play a closed hole.
• Courses are now being properly cleared when starting/loading another game.
• Set the correct label for the localization and added auto-resize to the text that didn't have it.
• Add/Remove buttons are now properly localized.
• Not completing the hole tutorial will no longer lock the hole builder in regular play.
• Fixed the issue with the tutorial options being clumped up together on the scroll view.
• Fixed issue with an Add button that was being labelled Remove.
• Fixed issue with a Remove button that was being labelled Add.
• Fixed another issue that was leading to the hole builder tool becoming unusable.
• Set the proper replacement flags for the text.
• Courses are now being properly loaded when loading a save game.
• Added localization for Reset Tutorial.
• Course button is now properly unlocked after finishing the tutorial.
• Added missing localization bindings.
• Added missing Portuguese translations.
• Added a failsafe for calling golfers from the queue, to avoid the null reference issue.

Thanks,
The Resort Boss: Golf Team