Calendar booking system
We have always wanted a touring system and the community has been asking for a way to book events further into the future so we decided it was time to re-design our booking system. The new calendar UI allows for you to book/cancel events as far into the future as you would like. This brings with it an obvious warning... DO NOT BOOK 50 YEARS WORTH OF EVENTS at once. It will both slow down your game and be a serious pain if you have a sudden change of plans for your band.
Steam Cloud
A single user suggested that we add Cloud support because he wasn't able to play his save file on his laptop while at work away from home. I felt so bad for him that I spent the necessary time to implement it. I'm sure this is the case for a lot of people that game outside of their home.
Stability and bug fixes
The game isn't bug free obviously as we are a small team but as the programmer, I work VERY hard to respond to and resolve as many bugs as possible. I think it is important that everyone is aware that we both care A LOT about crashes and even just pesky little bugs. Please report any you run into and you can expect that we'll fix it ASAP.
This build fixes a lot of issues and potential crashes players may have ran into previously. The list is too big to go over here so you'll have to refer to the changelog below if you are interested in specifics.
Changelog 1.1.2.0
Features
- Calendar booking system
- Steam Cloud support
Balancing
- Recording studios with higher rating affect recording/rehearsal quality more
Minor changes
- You can now cancel events by pressing Ctrl+Left MB on occupied date boxes
- Santa Fe and Albuquerque are no longer in opposite positions on the map
- Easton and Dover are no longer in opposite positions on the map
- Confirmation message when cancelling album finalization
- Maximum profit is now shown on gig booking UI
- Randomize button for name choice and band choice
- When writing a song that already exists in your files, you will not be prompted to write the song
- The "Easy Song Access (F2)" will no longer allow you to write song names that already exists in your files
Bug fixes and performance
- Studios were not properly including their quality when calculating the rehearsal experience gained
- Removed username based song directory (Will automatically delete for previous users)
- Wrote a conversion script to automatically convert old song files to the new name format upon launching this update or a newer one
- Fixed possible crash with rehearsals due to corrupted save files
- Minor event message system is now nullified by other present events, this will prevent overlapping events
- Fixed memory leak and possible crashes due to the player missing recording/rehearsal events
- Removed a lot of code occurences of string_hash_to_newline() that were added when porting from GMS 1 to GMS 2, this could slightly increase performance in some places
- Hovering your mouse over the date boxes while a message is being displayed will no longer trigger the tooltips for it
Live Development Roadmap
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