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Release of Alpha 10

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Alpha 10 Release

Initially planned for February, we're slightly late with our alpha 10 release. The new features brought fundamental changes to much of the game logic, introducing countless bugs. Today, we've finally reached a level of stability good enough for shipping the version to our gold supporters.

Savegames
Savegames from alpha 9 are still supported in alpha 10, however they need to be moved manually from the alpha 9 folder to the alpha 10 folder.
Savegames are located here:
Windows: %userprofile%\AppData\LocalLow\Hovgaard Games\Big Ambitions
Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/Hovgaard Games/Big Ambitions

Take a look at all those new features:

[h2]Delivery Contracts 📝[/h2]
Delivery contracts were first introduced in alpha 9. However, their handling through the contacts app didn't feel very good.

After a complete rework, you can now find delivery contracts in your shop's BizMan. Changes are easy and independent of the wholesalers' business hours.

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[h2]Headquarters 🏢[/h2]
Headquarters can be set up in any office building. Once your company grows, this is the place where all your managers will work to ease your life.

For now, you can only hire logistics managers and purchasing agents (more on this below). HR managers are scheduled for the beta 1 release.

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[h2]Warehouses and Logistics Managers 📦[/h2]
Warehouses are your distribution hub. Imported goods and deliveries from wholesalers will arrive here before being distributed to your shops.

You need to drive transport vehicles into the warehouses. Delivery drivers, a new employee type, can be assigned to one of the vehicles each.

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For each warehouse, you have to hire one logistics manager. They can handle delivery routes to assure none of your businesses will ever run out of goods.

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[h2]Harbor Import Businesses and Purchasing Agents 🚢[/h2]
Instead of buying goods from the wholesalers, you can save some money by importing them. Currently, two import businesses are set up at the harbor warehouses.

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Just sit down at the customer service agent inside these businesses to negotiate import contracts.

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Similarly to logistics managers, you need to staff your headquarters with one purchasing agent for each harbor import business.

Just tell the logistics manager what items you'd like to import and which warehouse should receive them. Be aware that import contracts come with a minimum order amount.

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[h2]Trucks and Pallets 🚚[/h2]
The new logistics features require handling increased amounts of goods. Your friendly truck dealership will be happy to provide you with modern, brand-new trucks.

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Pallet shelves from AJ Pederson & Son's appliance store will be perfect for your warehouses to store whole pallets instead of single boxes.

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[h2]New building entrance system for vehicles 🚘[/h2]
Feedback from our gold supporters showed us a problem with buildings allowing cars to drive in. This possibility wasn't obvious, causing many players to park the car and walk into the building instead.

You'll now see clearly marked green areas. A large blue button for entering the building will show once you drive into those areas. Alternatively, you can press E.

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[h2]Logo Customizer 🎨[/h2]
Previously scheduled for beta 1, we finished the logo customizer ahead of time and included it in alpha 10.

Choose from one of the predefined icons or upload your own (only PNG images supported), then set up your preferred colors and a nice-looking font.

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Some buildings support showing the logo beside the large name signboard.

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[h2]Billboard Ads 📢[/h2]
Alpha 9 introduced online marketing for your business at McCain's marketing agency. We recently received word that City Ads has opened their New York branch, offering billboard ads. Now you can see your own logo on those giant billboards all over the city - isn't that cool?

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[h2]Elevators 🔝[/h2]
Elevators are just behaving like regular doors, but they look fancy.

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[h2]Movable Placement Camera 🎥[/h2]
We got many complaints about item placement in buildings, and we listened! Now you can move the camera for positioning.

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[h2]Vehicle Improvements 🚙[/h2]
Vehicles now got rearview. The camera will turn around while holding C. No matter whether you're just backing out of a traffic accident or enjoy exploring the city in reverse, the camera will help with that.

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New in town and low on money? Sleeping in your car might save some money, although every bone will hurt the following morning.

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[h2]Tree Cutout Shader 🌳[/h2]
When walking through a park area, a cutout shader will create a hole in the tree leaves to keep the player visible at all times.

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[h2]Help System ❔[/h2]
A first version of the help system has been added. Currently only containing a few pieces of information, partly even just dummy texts. All contents will be finished before the final release in August.

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[h2]94 fixed issues since alpha 9 🐛[/h2]

#20 - Shop: After paying it's possible to add more items and walk out without paying those
#193 - Drive-in wholesale store can drive in to the cash registers
#773 - Hand truck is not accessible in 16th FourthAvenue ApplicationStore
#775 - Invert Rotation doesn't apply to hotkeys "Q" and "E"
#776 - Player Customization: Name field should have focus
#777 - Subway ride will show only small parts of the map
#781 - Newly rented building become rented by AI
#782 - Unpaid Balance goes over 2 lines if too expensive
#784 - Possible to walk into drinks fridges at recruitment agency
#785 - Can't buy anything in generated supermarket
#786 - Hand truck can be picked up twice, after parking one will remain inside the player
#787 - Can't load savegame if saved while holding a hand truck
#793 - BizMan not updating details for law firm
#794 - No customer in jewelry store
#796 - Slider Overlaps duration of Ad campaign
#799 - I can no longer hire employees
#802 - Pressing F1 then F2 Can lead to camera rotation breaking
#803 - Leaf Hiding not always effective while driving
#804 - Spelling errors in MyEmployees app
#805 - Car can drive through Ikea's fence
#811 - Can't consume CupOfCoffee and Croissant
#812 - Clock and Time issues
#813 - Appliance Store: Buy 3, Pay 4!
#819 - Bank doesnt work
#822 - Оптимизация
#824 - No building Value or Rent
#826 - BizMan all empty after update
#827 - BizMan: Only salad sold in fast food restaurant
#829 - Call button missing from contacts
#834 - Missing error message when clicking on fresh food without a shopping basket
#835 - after upgrading from 337 to version 344, the businesses that was making a profit stopped making it
#836 - Hide language selector in options menu
#837 - missions
#843 - Ghost notifications in Contacts from recruitment agency
#844 - Limit FPS in main menu
#846 - Car got stuck on trash can
#847 - Firing employees doesn't remove "objective tasks" assigned to them
#848 - Holding a mop while exiting the interior designer will make the mop not work
#849 - Time Machine to end of shift sometimes doesn't work
#850 - Character stuck after exiting forklift outside of warehouse
#851 - Handicap spaces are marked as legal parking
#853 - Jewelry Store products not included in customer capacity calcuation
#854 - Calling contacts after midnight (before open) works
#855 - Floating furniture outside NPC Coffee Shop
#857 - Marketing Agency: dialogue box labeled Recruitment Agent
#858 - Marketing is heavily exploitable
#860 - there is no way to enter the buildings
#862 - Stuck in bench with hand truck
#863 - Missing Employee
#864 - Save game overwrite confirmation dialog appearing when saving with new name
#866 - Most NPCs can't be interviewed
#868 - Voogle Maps: labels missing on selected building in map filter
#875 - Phone apps show "HELP \[F1]" while F1 toggles display of control elements
#879 - Bank at 6 2nd Avenue + Harbor import businesses available for rent
#880 - Building info overlay position gets inverted on Voogle Maps when moving far away
#881 - Logo designer: Selected icon lost after save/reload
#882 - Customize Logo: "Select from disk" not working
#885 - Handtruck falls on the ground when taken out of vehicle
#886 - Incorrect error message when attempting to pick up a box with hands full
#887 - MyEmployees/BizMan: Employees assigned to business on closed days included in hours/week calculation
#888 - Cleaning: Dirt is invisible and mop has no effect on cleanliness bar
#889 - Warehouse at 76 FirstStreet has IKEA interior
#890 - Warehouse at 51 SecondStreet accessibility issues
#892 - dirty and needs to be cleaned
#893 - the car flies up after exiting
#894 - I can't leave the warehouse
#895 - No staff visible in MyEmployees
#896 - MyEmployees: Cleaners showing 0 working hours
#897 - Illegal
#898 - Logo Customizer: Selecting logo icon for one business applies it to all businesses
#899 - Delivery to the wrong place
#900 - no expensive jewelry in the delivery contract (at the port)
#902 - Interior Designer: Wall/floor choices apply to unrented buildings of the same type
#903 - Possible to sleep in vehicle while inside wholesale store
#904 - Warehouse shadow glitch
#905 - Not possible to delete save game from main menu
#906 - Warehouses require Cash Register/Checkout Counter and StackOfShoppingBaskets
#908 - Logistics Managers: Open In BizMan button broken
#910 - Tree in building / Tree doesnt hide with building
#911 - Harbor entrance next to the subway station / 1st Street blocked
#913 - Walking path blocked at many points in front of 1st Broadway Street
#914 - Wrong time displayed on day change while sleeping in car
#917 - Unblocked First Avenue Street
#919 - Logistics Managers delivering without routes setup
#920 - Can't terminate warehouse rental contract
#922 - Cant hire driver direct to warehouse.
#923 - Successful import delivery dialog refers to "weekly" shipment regardless of chosen delivery frequency
#924 - MyEmployees: DeliveryDriver has "no task"
#925 - Sign appearance editor available on buildings with no signs
#927 - Sleeping inside building doesnt show daily overview at midnight.
#928 - Possible to walk through pallets in NY Distro Inc wholesale store
#931 - Pizza oven next to industrial fryer placement
#932 - I can't sit on the benches
#939 - Stores don't work

[h2]Get access now![/h2]
Alpha 10 is available to all our gold supporters. You can get access right now by buying the gold version of Big Ambitions at www.bigambitionsgame.com

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All the best,
Jonas#1 & Daniel#2

Devlog #32

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Hi friends,

We're back with a first insight into the development of alpha 10, which will bring lots of new features.

Before we go into details, let's take a look at the updated Steam wishlist: 32,324!

Peek through the trees 🌳

Walking through our beautiful Madison Square Park can be difficult due to trees hiding the player.

Jonas#2 and Ilie created a nice cutout feature to remove the leaves while walking under the trees. It's limited to the park and won't be active for single trees on the streets.

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Revised Delivery Contracts 📝

Alpha 9 brought the first version of delivery contracts, which were slightly impractical. You couldn't see them in the BizMan but only through the Contacts app (and only during business hours of the wholesales store).

Thanks to Jonas#1 and David#NaN, the next big update will bring a completely revised version. Once in contact with your favorite wholesales store, you can set up the contract easily inside the BizMan app. Multiple contracts with several wholesalers will be shown here as well. That's easier than pizza delivery!

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Big boys need big cars 🚚

A while ago, we introduced medium-sized trucks - now it’s your turn to get hold of them!

Jonas#1 just opened the doors of our truck dealership, awaiting you with shiny new vans and trucks. Don't ask me how they got those trucks into the building...

Of course, you will be able to drive the trucks yourself. We won't even ask for a driver's license. Jonas#2 made sure steering them won't be too much of a hassle, although New York's streets for sure are far from perfect for large vehicles.

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Warehouses - a forklift driver's playground 📦

Your newly bought trucks are awaited by the warehouses! Created collectively by Jonas#1, Jonas#2, David#NaN, and Daniel#1 from our 3D team, they're your new logistics hub.

Deliveries will arrive at the warehouse and are subsequently distributed to all your shops by your own trucks. Jonas#2 added pallets and a pallet shelf, relieving you of handling single boxes. Each pallet can hold up to six boxes of mixed content.

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Import cheap stuff from overseas 🚢

Having contracts is nice, but aren't those wholesales stores way too expensive? If you ever bought souvenirs from a gift shop, you might have noticed that most of them are made overseas with much lower production costs.

For this purpose, Jonas#1 introduced the Harbor Import businesses. You can't buy products right away but instead only sign delivery contracts. Those contracts have to be handled by a purchasing agent (more about them in the next section) and come with a minimum weekly purchase requirement. If you order less than required, you'll still have to pay the whole amount. In return, their low prices promise huge profits.

Just head to the harbor area and check it out once alpha 10 has arrived!

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So many new tasks... I need help! 🏢

With all the new features, days might become too short for taking care of your growing company. Let's set up a headquarter!

Located in any office building of your choice, the headquarter will be the center of your power. You'll be able to hire logistics managers and purchasing agents, with more to come later. Jonas#1 and David#NaN have spent much effort to add this automation.

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Logistics managers are assigned to warehouses and take care of product distribution to your businesses. No more empty shelves! For this purpose, every logistics manager will need a van or truck at hand to do the deliveries.

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Purchasing agents handle the contracts with harbor import businesses to assure that products arrive at your warehouses. You can select which products to import. Additionally, they'll tell you the required weekly purchase and when the next delivery is expected to arrive.

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Next stop: Floor 7 1/2! 🛗

Last but not least, Jonas#1 and David#NaN added elevators. Let's move up and down - but please don't press all buttons at once!

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Closed issues since the last devlog 🐛

#20 - Shop: After paying it's possible to add more items and walk out without paying those
#193 - Drive-in wholesale store can drive in to the cash registers
#200 - Shop 19th Fourth Ave (next to the bank) entered through the wrong door
#656 - Interior designer: One wall color and multiple floor styles wrong
#703 - Player doesn't stop working at the right time if business hours are changed while working
#709 - Traffic lights progress when game paused
#727 - Contacts app: Buttons in recruitment agency messages overlap
#728 - Vehicles stack up at car dealer
#729 - Drive-In Wholesales: Car is not entering straight; when driving out of the building, camera angle will be wrong
#734 - Cars in the bridge
#736 - Daily Summary still plays while paused
#738 - Business school not open on sunday
#739 - Can't grab paper bag with food after placing it on the floor
#740 - Missing text in new business schedule UI options
#741 - Map Filter: Category lines hiding when scrolling on resolution below 1080p
#742 - Scrolling my mouse wheel in combobox causes camera zoom
#744 - Bought items can sometimes show the "Unpaid Total" text under the Place/Discard/Pack buttons
#745 - Cleaners can't be unassigned from a business and thus can't be trained
#746 - All employees can be assigned to Cashregister and Mop, no matter their profession
#747 - Cant pick up any item
#748 - BizMan: ESC for closing not working while focus is on combobox
#749 - Cleaner's salary not part of EconoView
#750 - Impossible to leave Drive-In Wholesales backwards
#751 - No Salad at Drive-In Wholesales store, but available for delivery
#752 - POI markers shown while sleeping on bench
#754 - Hand truck magically disappears when put into an already full car
#755 - Hand truck holding flying box if car is full
#756 - Scrolling not working properly in new schedule UI
#757 - Picking up a counter with cash register while being staffed is possible
#758 - Savegame broken because of SpawnCustomersOnStart()
#759 - "is dirty and needs to be cleaned" task showing even with cleaner assigned
#760 - Law Firm gets broken permanently when adding more than two desks
#761 - BizMan Scheduler: Wrong color for employees when filtering cleaners
#763 - Marketing Agency: Sitting offset to seat location
#764 - Marketing Agency: Desks and counters are just an illusion (you can walk through them)
#765 - Wrong tasks for employees (not assigned to a business, not assigned to any tasks)
#766 - Entering apartment 34 Fifth Avenue breaks several things in game
#767 - No customers in law firm
#768 - Restaurant doesn't sell anymore after one "shelf" is empty
#769 - Low traffic index in Hell's Kitchen
#770 - Car horns still heard in 17th Street Apartment [Low Priority]
#773 - Hand truck is not accessible in 16th FourthAvenue ApplicationStore
#775 - Invert Rotation doesn't apply to hotkeys "Q" and "E"
#776 - Player Customization: Name field should have focus
#777 - Subway ride will show only small parts of the map
#781 - Newly rented building become rented by AI
#785 - Can't buy anything in generated supermarket
#787 - Can't load savegame if saved while holding a hand truck
#793 - BizMan not updating details for law firm
#794 - No customer in jewelry store
#796 - Slider Overlaps duration of Ad campaign
#799 - I can no longer hire employees
#802 - Pressing F1 then F2 Can lead to camera rotation breaking
#803 - Leaf Hiding not always effective while driving
#804 - Spelling errors in MyEmployees app
#811 - Can't consume CupOfCoffee and Croissant
#812 - Clock and Time issues
#813 - Appliance Store: Buy 3, Pay 4!
#819 - Bank doesnt work
#822 - Оптимизация
#826 - BizMan all empty after update
#827 - BizMan: Only salad sold in fast food restaurant
#829 - Call button missing from contacts
#834 - Missing error message when clicking on fresh food without a shopping basket

Coming soon to a Steam client near you!

Big Ambitions alpha versions are available exclusively to our Gold supporters. You can order the Gold package of Big Ambitions at www.bigambitionsgame.com to get immediate access.

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That's all for today. We'll be back soon with further updates.

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All the best,
Jonas#1 & Daniel#2

Release of Alpha 9

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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.

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Thank you for reading!
Jonas#1 & David#NaN

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1331550/Big_Ambitions/

Dev Summary #3

The third dev summary of Big Ambitions is finally here!

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I would really appreciate any constructive feedback on how we can improve these video updates. Feel free to share in the comments! ❤

All the best,
Jonas

Devlog #31

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Hi friends,

We're back with the first devlog in 2022 and some good progress, hoping to release alpha 9 for our gold supporters next week.

Before we go into details, let's take a look at the updated Steam wishlist: 30,671!

Plan your business hours 🕗

Based on user feedback, David#NaN and Jonas#1 have spent lots of time finishing a new UI for the business schedule.

Before, it was split into two screens: One for adjusting the business hours, and another one for setting up the employee shifts. Now it's all in one screen where you can easily set the business hours, add or remove work shifts and assign employees.

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New business type: Office 💼

Many of our gold supporters asked for office businesses - and finally, we've got there! Jonas#1 implemented the new building type for office space and everything required to use it.

Mr. Scott will be happy to provide you with everything needed to furnish your business. He opened up his office supply store next to the existing furniture store.

The first office business available to set up is a law firm, employing lawyers. We all know that making big money starts with a good lawyer suing all competitors out of business!

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Let me guide you anywhere! 📍

Jonas#2, assisted by Jonas#1, has implemented a new POI system. Finding your way should be more convenient now with those nice-looking icons. On Voogle Maps you'll additionally see a marker indicating your current position.

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Rotate the camera as you please 🔄

One of the most frequent complaints was the camera rotation, which felt inverted to many players. Jonas#2 added a setting allowing you to choose your preferred style.

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TMI! 🏷️

Currently, name labels are shown for every single item. This can look pretty chaotic at times, particularly when they overlap. Most of the information won't be needed anyways - I'm sure you recognize a mop even without a label.

In alpha 9, labels will only be displayed for relevant items - those containing additional information or buttons. Just in case you need all of them, you can still activate them temporarily by pressing .

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Are we in London, or where does all this fog come from? 🌫️

We didn't like the "world border" just showing an empty area, completely ruining the immersion in the game. That's why Jonas#2, assisted by 3d artist Paul, added buildings, roads, and the famous "fog of war". The city now seems to continue, simply keeping you back by roadblocks. No big city without road construction!

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All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go... 📦

Now you can pack just everything! Eager to move into a new, bigger, more luxurious apartment? Stuff your bed, fridge, and everything else into a box - and off you go!
Besides, to make life easier for newbies, boxes placed on the floor can be picked up through left-click as well. Of course, right-click still works just as well but didn't seem to be very intuitive for new players.

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Closed issues since the last devlog 🐛

#524 - Taking a loan before having a job
#672 - Massive FPS drop when speeding up your shift
#715 - Map no work when in car.
#716 - Infinite loading screen
#717 - Endless loading sreen is shown in case saved with equipped hand truck
#718 - Supermarket: Can't add anything to shopping basket
#719 - Possible to leave supermarket while holding a shopping basket, impossible to discard it afterwards
#720 - People don't immediately get spawned in shops on reload if saving paused game
#722 - Forklift in drive-in wholesales is for single use only
#723 - Can't pick up anything in drive-in wholesales except paperbags
#724 - Objectives: Buy paperbags and cheap gifts not registered as done if bought earlier or separately
#725 - New "blocked-out" buildings don't hide when walking in front of them
#726 - Player doesn't walk around cars anymore since introduction of new traffic system
#730 - Drive-In Wholesales: Expensive gifts sold as single item
#731 - Buildings hiding too late when driving car
#732 - Invisible Doors
#733 - Weird Circular effect
#735 - No doors for toilet areas in buildings
#737 - 17th Third street occupied

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