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Gameplay Deep Dive #4 - Focus on the HQ

As you gear up for the competitive world of endurance racing, having a well-oiled base of operations is crucial. Each building in your headquarters plays a vital role in your team's success, from financial management to car performance optimization. Let's take a sneak peek at the key facilities you'll be working with and the unique functionalities they offer.

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Racing Crew: Building a Winning Team

➡️ Your pit crew, strategists, and other team members are the unsung heroes of your team's success. This is where you will recruit and train these crucial members, shaping a team that operates with precision and skill. Key members of your team include the technical and sporting directors, engineers, pit stop crew, and mechanics, all focused on optimizing your race strategy, performance and efficiency. With their combined expertise, you'll reduce pit stop times and fine-tune your car for maximum efficiency. Additionally, a dedicated meteorologist will provide accurate weather forecasts, giving you the edge in adapting to changing conditions on race day.

Car Factory: Boosting Car Performance

➡️ Your garage is where the magic happens—where your car's performance is fine-tuned to perfection. Here, you'll focus on equipping your car with new chassis, engine, and aerodynamic parts to extract every ounce of speed, reliability, handling and tire degradation. As you progress, hiring top-tier engineers will be crucial in developing these parts and finding the perfect setups for each race.

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Private Testing: Perfecting Setups

➡️ Testing is crucial to refining your race strategy, and the Car Practice Facility is where you'll put your setups to the test. This facility allows you to simulate various weather scenarios on each race track, ensuring that your car is prepared for anything on race day. By fine-tuning your setups here, you'll be able to optimize performance and gain a competitive edge.

Driver Building

➡️ Here you will not only manage your drivers but also the specialized crew that supports them. You'll oversee the development of your drivers by recruiting engineers and coaches who work closely with them to push their performance even further in key areas such as their speed, wet weather pace, consistency and overtaking.

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Financial Hub: Managing Your Team's Financial Health

➡️ The financial health of your team is just as important as its on-track performance. In our deep dive below you'll discover how to manage sponsors, and how effective merchandising can significantly boost your revenue streams. The financial board will be your go-to tool for monitoring cash flow, making strategic investments, and ensuring your team stays in the green.

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The Marketing Building: Driving Revenue Growth

➡️ This is where you'll hire dedicated marketing staff to enhance your team's profitability. Launching merchandising campaigns from here can lead to substantial revenue gains, helping you secure the financial resources needed to stay competitive. Whether it's selling branded merchandise or striking lucrative sponsorship deals, your marketing team will be instrumental in driving revenue growth.

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Research Building: Innovating and Scouting New Talents

➡️ Innovation is the key to staying ahead in endurance racing, and the Research Building is where it all happens. Here, your team will research new car parts that can give you the edge on race day.


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GT Manager - Live Stream #3 with Q&A

Join us on Twitch next Tuesday, August 13th, at 6 PM CET for another live stream! We'll be diving into the car and team lineups across all categories and unveiling some exciting new features, including the car showroom and practice mode. Don't miss out!

Event Details:
📅 Date: Tuesday, August 13th
🕒 Time: 6 PM CET
📍 Platform: Twitch

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    Car and team lineup for Early Access
    Car showroom overview
    Introduction to the car practice feature
    Q&A session to answer your questions

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Are you ready to dominate the world of GT racing? The first step of your journey as a racing team manager starts here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2457030/GT_Manager/

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GT Manager - Live Stream #2 with Q&A

Join us on Twitch this Thursday, July 25th at 5 PM CET for another live stream, where we dive deep into the heart of our game's development, unveil new content, and share thrilling news about our Early Access plans.

Event Details:
📅 Date: Thursday, July 25th
🕒 Time: 5 PM CET
📍 Platform: Twitch

[h2]This livestream will cover:[/h2]
    New Gameplay Reveal
    Discussion on what you can expect next
    Q&A session to answer your questions

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Are you ready to dominate the world of GT racing? The first step of your journey as a racing team manager starts here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2457030/GT_Manager/

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Announcing GT Manager Early Access date!

The chance to lead a championship-winning team in the world of GT racing arrives in September!

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Featuring 5 racing categories from GT4 to Hypercars, 25 iconic racing cars from 16 world-renowned manufacturers, 40 official drivers, and 35 official Endurance teams, we are gearing up to take you on a whistle-stop tour of the world of motorsports!

Transform your fledgling GT4 squad into a dominant force in the world-renowned Hypercar championship. In GT Manager, you’ll build your dream driver lineup, assemble an elite team of mechanics to ensure smooth operations in the pit lane and secure lucrative sponsorships to fuel your rise to the top and maximise your car’s performance.

As head honcho, every decision is crucial! Will you recruit a hotshot driver or prioritise car upgrades? Will you squeeze out raw speed or focus on generating greater traction through the corners? Push the boundaries with aggressive fuel strategies, knowing extra pit stops could cost you the win; it's your team, so the buck stops with you!

Your journey begins in the competitive, talent-rich world of GT4. As you climb the ladder of racing categories, new challenges and strategic decisions will test your leadership at every turn. GT Manager's extensive progression system ensures a steady stream of fresh content and strategic dilemmas, keeping rookie and veteran racing managers alike on the edge of their seats.

"As you progress, the game evolves, revealing layers of complexity and strategic depth across its five distinct categories. It's a journey that starts with accessible fun and grows into a rich, multifaceted challenge that will test players’ management skills to the fullest.", said Stéphane Baudet, Creative Director at The Tiny Digital Factory.

Following February's Steam Fest, we gathered valuable feedback from the community and have been diligently refining the game's mechanics, focusing on both the team factory management and the racing experience.

Under The Hood:
  • Transform a regional factory into a tech powerhouse with cutting-edge facilities and research departments
  • Scout talents, recruit top engineers, and train your crew for perfect pit stops
  • Research and develop new parts to make your car unbeatable on the track, balancing performance and reliability in the pursuit of perfection
  • Practice between races to customise every aspect of your car’s performance on every track of the championship and under various weather conditions
  • Oversee team budget and investments with an extensive financial board to balance the books
  • Anticipate opponents’ moves and make crucial calls on pit stops, fuel level, tyre strategy, and driver pace to maximise your chance of victory
  • Make split-second decisions to capitalise on race incidents, yellow flags, and weather changes
  • Featuring 25 official racing cars across the GT4, GT3, GT2, GTE, and Hypercar categories, new cars will be added to the game during Early access.
  • Cars officially licensed from Porsche, Mercedes, BMW, Audi, Aston Martin, Peugeot, Alpine, Lotus, Ford, Glickenhaus, Chevrolet, Corvette, Brabham, Bugatti, KTM and Saleen.

GT Manager will be released at a discounted €19.99 (rising to €24.99 at full launch), available as a Deluxe Edition that includes the Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR Pro and Bugatti Bolide.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2457030/GT_Manager/

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Interview with Jordan Untereiner Technical Game Designer at TDF

How do you determine the ideal length of a race to keep players interested without it becoming too long or repetitive?

➡️ We have 2 types of race, Sprint and Endurance, respectively 7 and 14 laps, which both offer a different experience. Our aim is to create races that demand challenge and concentration, but that don't drag on, which is why the player has the option of speeding up time to focus on the key moments of a race. In terms of experience, we'd like a player to be able to complete a full season in just one evening.

What kind of variations (weather, etc.) do you envisage for the races, and how will these affect players' racing strategies?

Several events come into play to add diversity to the races, starting with the weather, which can vary during the races and impact on strategy. Accidents, too, are often unexpected and can upset the course of a race.



How do you integrate strategic elements (such as pit stops, tire management, fuel consumption) into the game to encourage players to make tactical decisions during races?

Each resource, such as tires, reliability and fuel, has an impact on the race that needs to be managed differently, depending on the circuit, the weather, but also events such as the Yellow Flag or the position of our car.



All these factors have been designed to ensure that vehicle micro-management plays a constant role, and demands constant attention from the player.

What approach do you use to balance the difficulty of the races as the player progresses through the game, to ensure a constant challenge while allowing for significant skill and vehicle upgrades?

Our aim is to keep things challenging as the player progresses, so that the AIs evolve at the same time as the player, as if they were other players. So they too upgrade their cars and invest in their buildings.

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