Hello Scholars,

Our latest update is here, called Parks and Recycling! We've added a couple new zones for your school some more UI improvements, and most importantly, a scenario mode to challenge veteran players!

Scenarios

If you feel like you've already mastered the game and want something more to challenge your school management skills, we got you! The scenario mode offers 5 scenarios for you to try to test your skills! We will be adding more scenarios soon, and if there is enough interest from you guys, we'll think about adding scenarios as a workshop feature. So let us know what you think!

Recycling Facility

Starting with this update garbage will become more of a problem you need to manage, and on that note you will be charged for your trash pickups from this point on! But fear not, if you recycle your trash you can subsidize that cost and help clean up the Earth!

School Park

Mental health and emotional labor are things that are being more and more recognized in this day and age. Make your school a pioneer by offering a school park for your students and staff to relax in! School parks improve energy faster than a regular chair or bench, so if you find you have students that often get tired, make them a park!

Updated UI

We continue to add new UI tweaks to hopefully make your game experience more pleasurable. This month we added completion animations for when you complete the zone, some improvements to the colors in zone linking, and a neat little blueprint pattern when you lay down zones, objects, etc. We also added a new report card panel to show you more information from your results in the prior year.

New Illustrations

We hope that you liked the illustration loading screens we added to the game last time because we also added illustrations for the game over, exams, and government loans screens.

Delinquency Report Updates

Similar to the Counselor reports, you can now track the delinquency "healing" of any delinquent students assigned to cleanup duty or detention.

Known Issues

When old save files are loaded, zones will appear as not completed but they will be checked and completed shortly.

Bugs and other Design Update

-Fixed staff doors being ignored after some days
- Fixed bug where workers don't fix broken objects in sandbox mode
- Fixed bug where workers get stuck outside of the map
- Removed money option in sandbox custom logo panel
- Lowered probability of eating cafeteria food to give chance to eat from vending machine
- Added feedback to settings panel
- Only resolve events if school has started
- Removed scenario button in main menu
- Temporarily removed video in title screen
- Added new orientation arrows when placing objects
- Changed look of highlighter when selecting tiles to be similar with blueprint
- Added blueprint look when placing zones and objects
- Improved shadows
- Optimized and Compressed Save Files before uploading in bug reports
- Fix UI issues (wrong button sizes, wrong object sprites, overlapping scrollbars, etc.)
- Fixed continuous dropout notifications bug
- Fixed wrong upload progress when submitting bug report
- Fixed janitor prioritization bug
- Fixed research bug
- Fixed incomplete required items for school park
- Fixed mismatched subject icons in Year End Evaluation
- Fixed students failing despite passing subjects
- Played animation and sound on zone completion
- Changed characters' behaviors towards the drinking fountain
- Fixed recycling zone flow and improved Janitor AI
- Fixed Recently Completed Achievements bug in Year End Evaluation
- Added new walls and floors
- Added new scenarios and updated old ones
- Implemented new Report Card when pressing the school logo in the top HUD
- Implemented new background for Bankrupt Grant, Game Over screen, and Year-end Exams
- Implemented crossing out scenario goals
- Changed labels for electricity and water cost in utility objects
- Changed water fountain behavior and benefits. They now recover energy
- Changed Zone Linking UI
- Fixed Reports Panel bug
- Fixed scenario bugs
- Fixed Recycling Zone bug
- Fixed Fish Pond not animating bug
- Updated scenarios
- Improved loading of background image
- Fixed Teachers bug after selling school
- Fixed wrong text color in Report Card
- Changed floor costs from $100 to $20
- Changed Graduate Pedigree computation from number of graduate students / 4th year students, to number of students who admit to universities and the community college
- Fixed wrong day segment shown