Mad Games Tycoon 2 update for 8 March 2021

BUILD 2021.03.08A -----------------------------------------

• Romanian language added.
• Management->Archive: Game concepts, fan letters, game reports and engines can now be archived so that they are no longer displayed in the lists.
• "Quality Assurance -> Improve Gameplay": It is now possible to select whether bugfixing or polishing should be performed afterwards.
• New objects: "Game of the Year" award.
• Update costs are displayed separately in the financial overview of games.
• It is now no longer possible to release the GOTY edition and the budget edition at the same time.
• BALANCE: Competitive products no longer have an impact on addon sales.
• BALANCE: Addons are no longer considered a competing product.
• BALANCE: Effectiveness of trainings increased.
• BUG: Sorting function was not saved in the "Publisher search" menu.
• BUG: Matching topics found by game reports from commissioned games were not marked green.

BUILD 2021.03.07A/B (Hotfix) -----------------------------------------

• BUG: "Mad Games Awards" have stopped working.
• BUG: Multiplayer: When trying to view another player's office, a crash could occur.
• BUG: When closing the review menu, in rare cases the pause mode was terminated.
• BUG: Statistics -> Mad Games Awards: The menu could cause a crash if no awards were given yet.

BUILD 2021.03.06A -----------------------------------------

• The "Mad Games Awards" winners of the last years can now be viewed in the stats.
• The costs for the "Mad Games Convention" are now added to the marketing costs of the selected games.
• BALANCE: Sales of addons no longer drop as much when the main game is removed from the market.
• BUG: Some objects were positioned incorrectly when placed.
• BUG: "Automatically update objects" was cancelled if you didn't have enough money.
• BUG: When creating a game report, all matching topics were highlighted in green.
• BUG: Some pictures had too high quality rating.

BUILD 2021.03.05A -----------------------------------------

• In the statistics menu you can now view all created contract games.
• You can now start the automatic via the room menu.
• The game tooltip now shows if the game is a contract game.
• The Game Concepts menu now also shows contract games.
• You can now also unlock additional platform slots with contract games.
• BALANCE: Increased revenue from in-app purchases for F2P games.
• BUG: Key "ESC" to place objects again did not work anymore.
• BUG: Menu "Buy objects": When you closed the menu, all collided objects kept flashing.
• BUG: In the menus "View game concepts and game reports" some tooltips were not displayed.

BUILD 2021.03.04A -----------------------------------------

• MMOs can now be converted to F2Ps.
• Event "Cyberattack" & "Power Crisis" will come once internet is available.
• Fans are now sorted by number.
• "Full Screen Mode" can now be selected in the options.
• Multiplayer: In the options, the automatic pause can be set at a later time.
• Collision boxes of round carpets improved.
• BUG: Selecting characters could cause a crash.
• BUG: Close button of the menu "Release date for F2P" did not work.
• BUG: Multiplayer: game speed was not always transferred.
• BUG: The function "Automatically update objects" could cause a crash.
• BUG: Sometimes the game did not exit pause mode.
• BUG: Engine fee was calculated without the turnover of in-app purchases.

BUILD 2021.03.03A -----------------------------------------

• F2P games can now be created.
• Staff groups can now be renamed.
• The default setting for target group is now "All".
• Austria and Finland added as company locations.
• The storage room now requires a minimum size of 2x2.
• BALANCE: A/AA/AAA contract games will be offered later in the year.
• BALANCE: Engines features now have a higher impact on the rating.
• BUG: Staff "always" preferred arcade machines to charge motivation.
• BUG: In the menu "Game Concepts" some texts were displayed in German.
• BUG: GOTY editions and addon bundles could become trendsetters.
• BUG: You could place objects in buildings that have not been purchased yet.

BUILD 2021.03.01A -----------------------------------------

• Create game concept: When choosing genres, the popularity of the genre is now displayed.
• Game Pack Menu: Prices can now be increased or decreased by 10 using the Shift key.
• New object added: Coffee Maker.
• Top of GUI now shows when a room has no task assigned.
• MMOs, now take away each other's buyers and subscribers.
• Translation costs are now no longer charged for the native language.
• New global event: Hacker attack
• Marketing: Optionally, the automatic "wait" can now be deactivated.
• BALANCE: Game sales figures revised (difficulty level increased).
• BALANCE: Competitive games that are on the market now have a stronger effect on sales figures.
• BUG: Sometimes the text size of the genre in reviews was unreadably small.
• BUG: Automatic game updates could reduce development costs below 0.
• BUG: Review texts were not displayed in Chinese language.
• BUG: On Korean language, there could be a crash when trying to buy items.

BUILD 2021.02.27A -----------------------------------------

• Each genre now has a popularity score (Stats -> Info & History).
• Polishing is automatically enabled once game improvements are completed.
• Place objects: It is displayed again which objects collide with each other.
• BUG: Polishing: Only one game was displayed, even if you had several games in development.
• BUG: Only a few movie licenses were offered.
• BUG: Manage InApp Purchases menu: Games that were already removed from the market were also displayed.
• BUG: Menu Addon-Bundles: Games were shown which had no addons.
• BUG: Multiplayer (Send Money): If you didn't enter anything in the input field, there could be a crash.
• BUG: Multiplayer (Send Money): It was possible to enter negative values and steal money.
• BUG: Multiplayer (Mad Games Awards): The wrong "Worst Game of the Year" was displayed.
• BUG: Sometimes objects and walls blinked continuously.

BUILD 2021.02.26A -----------------------------------------

• Graphic studios, sound studios, MoCap and QA can now perform polishing.
• Multiplayer: Game speed can now be adjusted.
• New global event: Loss of trust (no new licenses)
• BUG: (Russian language) When loading a save game, many texts were displayed in English again.

BUILD 2021.02.25A -----------------------------------------

• Added special icons for license types to make licenses easier to recognize.
• Addons now have a limited selling price.
• BALANCE: Unpopular business models of in-app purchases will now have a greater impact on sales.
• BALANCE: Lifetime of in-app purchases reduced.
• BALANCE: Sports and book licenses should now appear much more frequently.
• BUG: Room line was displayed when building rooms.
• BUG: Loading save games could cause a crash.
• BUG: Building toilets could cause a crash.
• BUG: Outline shader could cause a crash.
• BUG: Licenses had no effect on sales.
• BUG: Move / Support task: If you clicked on the wrong room, the menu was closed.
• BUG: When automatic research was cancelled, "Not enough money" was always displayed as the reason.
• BUG: Moving tasks from rooms could cause a crash.
• BUG: Multiplayer: You could see the game concepts of other players.

BUILD 2021.02.24A -----------------------------------------

• Unity engine updated.
• (Timezone bug) The bug that the game did not work for Chinese players should be fixed.
  Info:
  Updating the Unity engine may have unexpectedly created new bugs.

BUILD 2021.02.23A -----------------------------------------

• Italian language added.
• Added new global event: Energy crisis.
• Game reports can now be created from contract games.
• Staff applications can now be deleted (single player only).
• Modern consoles now require "Modern Controller Support".
• BALANCE: Development costs and development effort for addons & MMO addons reduced.
• BUG: Budget game sequels could be developed.
• BUG: The selection rubber band did not work when the GUI size was adjusted.
• BUG: It was possible to set in-app purchases for contract games.
• BUG: The sorting function in the "My Games - Sales" menu did not work correctly.
• BUG: In-app purchases did not work for MMOs.
• BUG: MMOs: Subscriptions could be higher than sales.
• BUG: Remasters could not become "Game of the Year".
• BUG: Sometimes the collision system for objects did not work.

BUILD 2021.02.21A -----------------------------------------

• In-app purchases are now available. (New game required!)
• A sorting function has been added for the turnover menu.
• Engines can now be sorted by specialty platform.
• Rating for NPC games is now related to difficulty.
• BUG: Remasters could not get awards at the "Mad Games Awards".
• BUG: Server room: The message "Server overheating" was only displayed in German.
• BUG: In the "Buy DevKits" menu, it was not possible to see if a platform was Internet-enabled.
• BUG: In multiplayer mode the NPC could buy engines, but the engines were not offered for sale.
• BUG: If you placed a door in front of an object, the object was not lifted.
• BUG: MMO addons were not transferred correctly in multiplayer.