Release of Alpha 9

Originally posted by The Big Ambitions Team
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Alpha 9 release

Although a bit late, our Christmas gift from Hovgaard Games is here: a brand new Alpha filled with many great features and quality of life improvements!

I could talk about how awesome the new features are, but it’s better if you see them yourself!

[h2]Cleaners[/h2]
Let’s start with the most important addition: you can now hire and assign cleaners to your businesses! Yaay! You’ll need one mop per cleaner, and they’ll clean your business between 12 AM and 4 AM. They can also be assigned to more than one business. Just make sure not to exhaust them too much!

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[h2]Delivery Contracts[/h2]
Another heavily asked feature: no more trips to the wholesale store! Select the item to be delivered, the amount of boxes, the day, and which business you want it to be delivered to, and there you’ll have it! At 12 AM the day selected, the hard-working people from the wholesale stores will deliver the boxes and put them on your storage shelves. Make sure you don’t run out of space or they’ll charge for the trip and won’t deliver the box.

[h2]Sports Car[/h2]
A new faster, prettier and more dangerous car! All yours (if you ever become rich enough to afford it, of course!).

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[h2]New Office Business Type (Law Firm)[/h2]
One of the big features of Alpha 9 is the new law firm business: buy an office, fill it with lawyers and… Start to earn tons of money!

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[h2]Storage Shelves and Shelves Fill Amount Visualization[/h2]
Shelves now show the amount of items it has. From now on, the metal storage shelves will be used for storing boxes. Cheap Gifts will require Rounded Shelves.

[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog30/storage-space.mp4[/video]

[h2]New POI System[/h2]
The Points of Interest system has been reworked, making it more professional and adding small quality of life improvements. Definitely a great upgrade!

[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog31/newpoi.mp4[/video]

[h2]World Border[/h2]
The world border is now visually filled with non-interactable buildings and in-accessible streets. Also, a “fog of war” has been added to make it even cooler!

[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog31/fog.mp4[/video]

[h2]Contacts App[/h2]
Another big feature that will definitely improve your life inside the game is the contacts app. After visiting a business and talking to an employee for the first time (cashiers excluded), a new contact will be added to the app and will let you call them to do the same you could do when visiting them. It includes: recruiting new employees, creating marketing campaigns, starting new deliveries and taking loans.

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[h2]Schedule UI Rework[/h2]
After gathering and analyzing players’ feedback, we’ve completely redone the way schedules work. Now, both opening times and work shifts are modified on the same window, and we’ve designed it to make it as responsive as possible. Employees can be dragged to the work stations, and their working hours can also easily be modified. One last addition is that the opening hours now support up to two different schedules per day!

[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog31/scheduler.mp4[/video]

[h2]Screenshot Mode[/h2]
Pressing F1 will hide the UI, and pressing F2 will enable the free mode camera, letting you move and rotate as you wish! The print key button will instantly add a screenshot to the Big Ambitions folder located inside of the Pictures folder.

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[h2]Traffic System Improvements[/h2]
Engine sounds and honks have been added, and vehicle lights have been updated with more realistic visuals.

[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog30/lightcookies.mp4[/video]

[h2]Zoom + Inverted Camera Rotation Option[/h2]
Two more requested features have been added: zoom and the option to invert the direction when rotating the camera (can be changed through the options menu inside the main menu).

[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog30/zoominout.mp4[/video]

[h2]Pack Furniture[/h2]
Furniture can now be repacked into boxes and moved to different buildings!

[video]https://www.bigambitionsgame.com/assets/devlog31/packing.mp4[/video]

[h2]73 closed issues since Alpha 8[/h2]

[h2]And much more![/h2]
There are many more small features and improvements, and you can find them right… Now!! Alpha 9 is available to all our gold supporters. If you are not a gold supporter and can’t wait until the full release of the game, get the Gold Package for Big Ambitions now and start playing right away!
You can order the Gold package of Big Ambitions at www.bigambitionsgame.com.

Originally posted by The Big Ambitions Team
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