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Dealer’s Life 1.22 Update: Games and Legends!

Good day to all Great Dealers out there! ːdldollarː



We hope you had wonderful holidays! After a small break for Christmas, we are again full of energy and ready to release awesome new content for Dealer’s Life! :D
Today we are proud to announce the release of the Games & Legends 1.22 Update, with a lot of new content and nice changes! ːdlgiftː

Here are the release notes:

V. 1.22

- New Item Pack #12 - Games and Legends! Look for 25 brand new items related to iconic video games and cartoons!
- Improved background quality
- Dynamic "max year" for modern items, VIPs and historical contexts
- Enabled share button for taking screenshots
- Performance improvements
- Bug fixes ("Hire" label on the "Hire Employee" article)

First of all we gave some love to PC platform by greatly improving the visual quality of shops, so now they look much better on a PC screen. On Steam we also enabled a dedicated in-game button to take screenshots of items, just like the mobile version.



Talking about items, we improved the year calculation of modern items and features by automatically considering the current year as the maximum year of production available! With this change, the game will automatically consider the current year (e.g.: 2020) in ranges for all modern items, VIPs and historical contexts, instead of a fixed year (e.g.: 2019).

But the biggest improvement we’re releasing with Dealer's Life 1.22 update is our third and final step into the geek world: the new and shiny Item Pack #12 with 25 new items dedicated to video games and iconic characters!



This item pack, along with “Heroes & Bad Guys” and “Movies & Games” packs previously released, would like to be our personal and most devoted tribute to all great titles and characters we loved in the years, from the far 80’s till recent days. We have to say we are particularly fond of these items since many of them were an important part of our childhood as gamers and anime fans, along with many others we didn’t manage to include but we love in the same way. It’s thanks to them that we are now here, developing Dealer’s Life and hopefully many other titles in the future. That’s why this specific update is very important for us: it defines a very big milestone for Dealer’s Life, a big accomplishment for us with a personal touch to celebrate in our way the whole world of entertainment that has a special place in our hearts.

As of now, developing Dealer’s Life took us more than three full-time years and it now includes over 540 different items combined with nearly 200 special features (from connections with famous personalities to historical or fictional events), more than 100 different special characters encounters and random events, and literally countless references to movies, video games, real life events and much much more!
We spent really a lot of time and energy on our creation, polishing, improving and creating new content for it. Everything was released in more than one hundred free updates since our very first Alpha release on Android devices in September 2016.

Comparison between DL early alpha and DL 1.14 update (January 2019, just before the Steam release!)

Now that we feel that our game is solid and polished, we want to increase its price a bit to include all these years of work and all these free updates. ːdlgiftː
This is something that will help us but will not affect at all any player that has already bought the game, which we think is very important as we always want to be as fair as possible, especially with all the players that have already supported us!

What will come next, you say? Well, it’s been quite a while that we’re talking about something big coming out soon. Actually, all I can say about it is that big news require big effort to be announced. Be patient, Great Dealers, as something very big is coming

And with this cryptic statement we conclude today’s update! Stay tuned and keep up the good deals in this wonderful beginning of a new year! :D

Your friendly indie devs,
Abyte Entertainment

Dealer's Life Winter Event and Sale -40%!

Hello and welcome to all Great Dealers out there!

We have a huge announcement for you: Dealer's Life joined Steam Winter Sale ːdlgiftː and it's now on sale at 40% off for less than $5! ːdldollarː This is the lowest price ever! ːdldollarː



Also, the in-game Winter event is live: your shop is sparkling with lights and decorations, look for some special items that are available only during the event! And if you find them, post a screenshot in the Community Hub! ːdlgiftː



Dealer's Life now includes more than 520 items with 7 new content updates, all released for FREE in these months after the game release in late January!
The new 1.22 "Games and Legends" update, the 8th free content update, is currently in Beta, more info here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/982270/announcements/detail/3998565024857617643
It includes 25 brand new items for a new total of more than 540 items! If everything goes well in Beta, it will be released after the Winter event in early January!

As time goes by, we feel that we have worked a lot on the game: we started working on Dealer's Life more than three years ago, the first internal Beta release for Android was exactly three years ago and the official release on Android was in February 2017. We spent *really* a lot of time and energy on our creation, polishing and improving it with nearly 20 free updates, till we were confident that it was solid enough to be released here on Steam, for you, our PC players.

Comparison between DL early alpha and DL 1.14 update (January 2019, just before the Steam release!)

That's why we decided to avoid Early Access and immediately go for a full release last January: we knew we would definitely keep updating Dealer's Life (one thing over all... Storage Auctions! Released last June with the 1.18 update) but we also knew that it was a solid game with more than two years of development behind it.
Now we feel that, after another year of development and other 8 free content updates, this is even more true. So, starting from early January, we will increase a bit Dealer's Life price to include all these months of work and all these free updates.
This is also something that will not affect at all any player that has already bought the game, in a similar way the Early Access does (low price at the beginning, higher price later), which we think is very important as we always want to be as fair as possible, especially with all the players that have already supported us! ːdlgiftː

So, don't miss the chance to live the ultimate pawn shop experience! ːdlsuitcaseː
Be sure to grab your copy before the offer ends because it's the lowest price you'll see for a long time!

Your friendly indie devs,
Abyte Entertainment

[Beta] Dealer’s Life 1.22 Update: Games and Legends!

Hello to every Great Dealer out there!



We just released a new Beta version! Remember to opt-in if you want to try it, all details on how to do so here:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1661557917

Current Beta version is: 1.22_W19

V. 1.22

- New Item Pack #12 - Games and Legends! Look for 25 brand new items related to iconic video games and cartoons!
- Improved background quality
- Dynamic "max year" for modern items, VIPs and historical contexts
- Enabled share button for taking screenshots
- Performance improvements
- Bug fixes ("Hire" label on the "Hire Employee" article)

You can also find (and comment) the full list of changes on the 1.22 card on our Roadmap, here there are also details on how to join the Beta on other platforms and more info about each change (just select the task you'd like to read about)!
As always, please let us know if you find anything strange while playing so that we can investigate and fix any potential issue!

This is the eighth content update for Dealer's Life (for a total number of more than 540 items!), all released for FREE in these months after the game release in late January!

And remember that Dealer's Life is now on sale at 15% off, so if you missed the latest Autumn Sale you know what to do now! ːdlgiftː
Be sure to grab your copy before the offer ends to live the ultimate pawn shop experience! ːdlsuitcaseː

Your friendly indie devs,
Abyte Entertainment

Dealer's Life and the Steam Awards!

Hello and welcome to all Great Dealers out there!



First of all, embracing the Thanksgiving spirit, we’d like to thank all of you for your awesome response in these Steam Autumn Sale days: Dealer’s Life is receiving dozens of positive reviews and its popularity is skyrocketing, it’s even featured in some categories!
We are both really and humbly grateful for this demonstration of love! 🧡 ːsteamhappyː

We would also like to remind you that you can nominate Dealer’s Life for the “2019 Steam Awards”! Remember that you can earn a Steam badge for completing tasks related to these awards, so if you really like Dealer’s Life you can nominate it then review it, earning a new badge in the process!



That’s all for today, don’t forget that Dealer’s Life is now on sale for less than $5, be sure to grab an extra copy to gift it to your friend that you know loves negotiating and too often says “The best I can do is 10 bucks...”! ːdldollarː ːlunar2019laughingpigː



Have a great weekend and keep up the good deals!

Your friendly indie devs,
Abyte Entertainment

Dealer's Life Autumn Sale -30%!

Hello and welcome to all Great Dealers out there!

We have a huge announcement for you: Dealer's Life joined Steam Autumn Sale and it's now on sale at 30% off for less than $5! ːdldollarː This is the lowest price ever! ːdldollarː



And remember that Dealer's Life includes more than 70 new items (for a total number of more than 520 items!) and 7 new content updates, all released for FREE in these months after the game release in late January!

Be sure to grab your copy before the offer ends to live the ultimate pawn shop experience! ːdlsuitcaseː

Your friendly indie devs,
Abyte Entertainment