Release Notes for City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins

v1.28.0

**Digital store**
- Interface rework, not final, still a work in progress. The feature list is going to get reworked
- Rework the feature list
- Streamline the feature development (fewer popups)
- Rework the feature-achieved popup
- Make some features not disableable (cross-platform and store)
- Fix the digital store when activating the store.
- Once activated, can't be disabled
- Fix the cross-platform feature:
- Once activated, can't be disabled
- Add a feature so you can assign a network manager to the digital store
- Assign a network manager to the digital store to reduce the server load overall
- Add a feature so you can organize festivals:
- Assign a marketing manager to the digital store to organize festivals
- Once the festival feature is activated, it shows the current festival theme when you hover over the feature item. It's a tiny detail, I do hope it counts

**Market Research**
- Remove the market research genre type
- Remove the market research platform type
- Add a new market research type, a unique one, that helps you research everything tied to a single genre, from platforms to themes. It's straightforward and streamlined.
- Take into account previous market research so we don't research the same items more than once.

**Interface**
- Improve the construction panel
- Improve the devkit panel

**Misc**
- Can adjust your own salary
- When starting a new game, save the following settings:
- Player name
- Character customizations (shirt, pants, hair, skin, accessory...)
- Company name, logo and specialization
- Map size
- Game speed
- Advanced start state
- Starting year (for advanced start)

**Optimization**
- Rework the launch mecanism to defer threads creation
- Prevent th game to reload itself twice for no reason
- Rework the launch mecanism to defer the initialization of the game managers

**Game engine**
- New feature when making games:
- Text-based games
- Split screen

**Game Creation**
- Rework the game engine button to list features (not visible at all)

**i18n**
- Rename "Puzzle" and "Classic Puzzle" in English to "Puzzle" and "Brain Teaser"

**Mod**
- Add a new field to the digital store and mods: disableable. So when a new feature is added, you can tell if it's disableable or not.

**HR**
- Add the ability to send your staff on vacation if they're not happy

**Game genre**
- Friendslop games
- Rework the game genre algorithm to hide the composed game genres. Not removed though, to stay backward compatible

**Mod**
- When there's a lot of mods to load, the game doesn't show anything until the first mod is loaded.
- When playing offline, don't load the mods (since the mods are not available).

**Cheatcode**
- You can now always win Game of the Year: `game always-win-goty 1` to enable

**Bugfix**
- Fix crash when closing the game
- Fix the pagination buttons (on the staff panel)
- Fix the tooltip when furnishing items
- Fresh compilation of the engine (Godot Engine 2.1 custom)
- Wait for the game to launch before creating any threads, to prevent race conditions.
- Fix an issue with the currency panel (null button)
- Fix Game DLC: assigning new studios didn't work at all.
- When loading a game, theme trends were recomputed (very old bug). Now everything is cached, and updated only when needed.
- GOTY: Events were not canceled when they should be (requires at least 3 competitors to run a GOTY event)
- Contract: fixed an issue where you couldn't take a contract once a console was off the market. Contracts are now forced to renew at least once a month to avoid this situation.
- Some USB devices might crash the game (Windows only)
- Closing City Game Studio while in fullscreen exclusive mode doesn't re-enable HDR (Windows only)
- Rework the User Interface popup algorithm to prevent a soft lock, meaning you cannot click on anything.
- Rework the scene management algorithm, fixing an issue when trying to load a savegame from within a savegame
- Staff appeared to be resting when the game was paused, but it was purely a display issue, behind the scenes, they weren't actually resting
- The panel to move items around now shows up when renting/buying a new building
- Dark mode: Font colors were not adjusted when using the dark theme. It was due to an improvement of the theme handler, but it led to that bug. Sorry folks, it's now fixed.
- When making a game, if a studio director ports it to other consoles, it would end up publishing everything but the original game. Since everything but the original game had been published, the in-progress panel was removed, making it impossible to publish the original game. Fixed.

v1.27.0

**Feature**
- Added a new server item to furnish your studio
- Added the ability to change the studio assigned to an update
- Added the ability to change the studio assigned to a DLC

**Interface**
- Added the hype value of announced games directly to the in-dev game panel
- Improved the server panel readability
- The yearly report now displays data by year instead of by month
- Fixed the yearly report not computing all values correctly
- Fixed the yearly report not taking dark mode into account
- Added a button to sort the studio list from the main view
- Reworked the bottom menu for better clarity and usability
- Reworked the discontinue game panel to display more figures, organized from income to expenses
- Release panel: adjusted the tooltip to correctly show trade publishing information when working with a publisher
- Reworked the studio customization panel
- Studio decoration: added a new wall type
- Conventions: Added a button to change all game slots at once
- Updated tab panel button colors for more intuitive navigation
- Added tooltips to the Game of the Year panel showing the full game name, company name, and game score
- Added more colors to the studio director panels
- Added a tooltip showing your exact currency amount when hovering over the currency display
- Added a tooltip showing your exact fanbase count when hovering over the fanbase display
- Removed the long-click confirmation button (the one requiring you to hold a click to confirm an action)

**Publishing Offers**
- Reworked publishing offers to make them more interesting: theme/genre and genre/platform matches now give a proper boost
- Capped simultaneous publishing offers at 24, as generating more is resource intensive
- Fixed the platform panel not updating when viewing a publishing offer
- Fixed currency formatting in publishing offers

**Localization**
- Months are now translated
- Scientific units are now translated

**Cheat Codes**
- Added the ability to set the custom platform score
- Added a 'man' command that lists all existing cheat codes
- Added a cheat code to instantly complete a DLC or an update
- Added a cheat code to set the number of points produced for a game: `game set-produced-point game_id 99999 99999 99999`

**Balancing**
- Set the maximum number of units sold for custom platforms to 1.25 billion
- Servers from 2007 are no longer available after 2020
- The number of generated contracts depends on the difficulty.
- Based on the total number of contract to generate, it won't generate more contracts per month than the total number of contracts to generate. It might take up to 3 months to generate the total number of contracts

**Studio director**
- When porting a game, select the platform's market share (minimum)
- Studio directors now prioritize continuing existing IPs over creating new ones

**Mod**
- Add a new attribute to the difficulty mod to balance the number of contract to generate.

**Hack Mini-game**
- Added a button to pay $1,000,000 to skip the hacking mini-game permanently

**Misc**
- Reworked the number formatting algorithm to be more efficient and to support localization
- Added a new in-game event: a Covid-related sales boost
- Fixed DLC installation and detection
- Reworked the game name generator
- Added a company name generator

**Banker**
- The banker can now offer a state loan in exchange for a 10% tax increase that lasts 10 years.
- The banker can now offer to buy your shares to help you avoid bankruptcy

**Optimization**
- Significantly improved performance when developing hundreds of games simultaneously. Signals are now routed through a single dispatcher instead of being broadcast to every active game panel individually

**Bugfix**
- Fixed a bug in the studio view preventing the computer upgrade panel from showing on the desk itself
- Fixed a bug when manually upgrading a server
- Fixed a save game corruption caused by a 6th difficulty slot becoming selectable after starting and canceling a new game. Selecting it worked once, but the dynamic difficulty data was never loaded, corrupting the save on subsequent loads
- When firing a Studio director it doesn't cancel it's project (game, update or gameport).
- Contract: When no studio were available, there was no tooltip shown on the Start button
- Contract: When unlocking a platform, the start button was not refreshed accordingly
- Fixed number formatting for Chinese players
- Fixed traditional publishing not computing income and expenses correctly
- Fixed studios not being sorted by name
- Fixed failed contracts being counted as income instead of expenses in the annual report
- Fixed failed games being counted as income instead of expenses in the annual report
- Fixed the exit menu in dark mode where some labels were difficult to read
- Refactored the sprite loader to prevent rare random crashes at start-up
- Fixed a crash when fast-loading a save game that was saved into a new slot
- Fixed significant lag when drawing your own company logo
- Fixed the starting currency not being properly reset when using advanced start in sandbox mode
- Fixed a freeze or unresponsive game caused by an invalid game name or game ID when saving
- Fixed games created by the studio director occasionally having no name due to a save game bug. A fallback now assigns a random name in that case
- Fixed a crash when attending conventions and using the button to set the same game across all slots, which was attempting to use non-existent seats
- Fixed particles not being attracted to the correct panel when creating a custom platform
- Fixed save games from v0.29.0 not being properly migrated to the current version

v1.26.0

**Rendering**
- Use higher resolution for platform sprites (1024px instead of 512px)

**Platforms**
- Add the Steam Frame
- Balance the Nintendo Switch units sold
- Balance the PlayStation 5
- Balance the Xbox Series X
- Adjust the end of life of the first Steam Machine

**Updates & DLC**
- Redesigned the game update interface
- Redesigned the game DLC interface

**Interface**
- Added the GOTY award to the "Misc" filter in the shop menu
- Added a way to access the devkit panel from the bottom menu
- The email panel now uses more colors to help you manage messages
- When unlocking a new game engine component, added a button to navigate directly to the game engine update panel
- Added a grid overlay when furnishing studios
- Redesigned the exit menu while in-game

**Custom-platforms**
- Add a copy-protection parameter to avoid the 1983 market crash

**Quality of Life**
- The game now remembers the sorting filter when opening the game genre panel
- The game now remembers the sorting filter when opening the platform panel

**Optimization**
- Reworked the tips thread to stop once completed
- Optimized startup time (39% faster on high-end computers, 55% faster on low-end computers)
- Replaced the `call` function with direct function calls (250% performance improvement)
- Optimized label refresh to only update visible labels
- Optimized the bouncing animation (switched from animation node to process)
- Optimize the function 'compute_employee_happiness' since it takes up to 2300 ms (with hover 1000 employees). It takes now ~66 ms. This function is used every 3 seconds in the game, it used to update the staff happiness.

**Clean-up**
- Removed 108 unused textures
- Closed all open I/O operations

**Modding**
- Add a new parameter when creating a new difficulty (copy_protection_costs)
- Add a new parameter when adding a new platform (copy_protection)
- Add a new parameter when adding a new platform (backward_compatibility)
- Add a new parameter when editing an existing platform (backward_compatibility)

**Staff Panel**
- Added a new filter to display employees not assigned to any studio
- Add the studio size to the studio name

**Balancing**
- Added a new threshold for additional cost reduction on custom platform manufacturing
- Balance the DLC, it was a real exploit allowing you to make 1000% profits on any game
- The banker no longer offers to sell empty studios, only furnished studios with assigned staff. A random studio is then selected from this list.

**Save Game**
- Redesigned the save game panel
- Added ability to name save games when duplicating
- Added ability to name save games when creating new slots
- The game now warns and asks for confirmation when overwriting existing saves
- Added ability to load save games while already in-game
- Added caching system for save game listing (internal optimization, not for browsing)

**Steamdeck**
- The twitch configuration panel was not taken into account correctly when playing on the Steam deck
- Improve compatibility with micro-transactions (automatically open the steam deck keyboard)
- Improve compatibility when making paid updates (automatically open the steam deck keyboard)
- Improve compatibility when renaming buildings (automatically open the steam deck keyboard)
- Improve compatibility when filtering game from the history panel (automatically open the steam deck keyboard)
- Improve compatibility when releasing a game to rename the game (automatically open the steam deck keyboard)

**Studio director**
- Balancing the genre the studio director uses. Unless the player specifies a genre, then the studio director will check for the studios happiness when picking a new genre. Meaning, you're going to make games for genre you don't master even if the settings says otherwise in order to keep your staff happy.

**Misc**
- Add support for 3440 x 1440 resolution
- Removed a yield while loading scenes (fixed memory leak and other issues)
- Configuration files are now only written when changes are detected
- Remove an in-game vanilla event which is breaking the coffee-machine. Mods event can still break object.
- Improved cross-promotion system to cache images per session (avoiding redundant loading) and randomly display multiple games

**Localization**
- Fixed grammar and idiomatic issues in English translations
- Currency symbol now correctly placed before the amount for English translations.
Required a significant refactor to normalize usage of the `format_currency` function,
resulting in better overall performance by avoiding redundant string formatting.

**Bugfixes**
- Fixed fullscreen mode (Windows only)
- Digital store: Fixed an issue where updating the assigned studio for a digital store feature wouldn't update the in-development panel
- Fixed a rare crash when closing in-game messages
- Fixed achievement unlocking incorrectly when releasing games on competitor-made consoles instead of own consoles
- Fixed the progress bar for manufacturing cost reduction on released custom platforms not progressing correctly
- Fixed an issue preventing GOTY awards from being placed
- Added migration to update the count of GOTY awards won
- Fixed mouse wheel scrolling the page when adjusting sliders
- Fixed slider mouse input positioning issues preventing accurate adjustment
- Fix a crash when updating a "green" game
- Cannot use the mousewheel to update the micro transactions price
- Fix an issue with the double slider (renting studio)
- Fix an issue with some savegames where the game price is not taken into account (due to the studio director)
- Fix an issue with the studio director where it ports games that has not yet been released.
- Fix an issue with the fanbase change label, it always shows 0 (which is not correct)
- Fix an issue when a savegame keeps hint, it might crash the game (at start up)
- Add a missing font size (godot 2.1 manages font size individually)
- Fix an issue with the cheat-code console (cannot set employee happiness)
- Fix an issue with the devkit panel (cannot close it)
- Fixed employees not being released when selling an engine via the banker
- Fixed the mail panel not being closable without pressing Escape when opening the engine panel from the last email in the mailbox
- Fixed panels occasionally failing to close (now works reliably 100% of the time)
- Fixed pillar collision shape to avoid visual glitches
- Fixed mods with missing fields now raising proper errors instead of failing silently
- Fixed a silent error when putting unreleased game ports on sale
- Fixed an internal error when manually sending devkits to only some competitors (instead of all)
- Fixed typo in the game engine panel

v1.25.1

**Bugfix**
- Fixed an issue preventing studio director management on low resolution displays (below 1360x768)
- The studio director could port games to consoles that weren't powerful enough (which wasn't ideal)
- The studio director didn't save the platform & dematerialized store parameters correctly
- The studio director didn't save the game size parameter correctly
- The studio director could port games even when an exclusivity contract was active
- Fixed a crash that occurred when returning to the main menu

v1.25.0

**Game of the Year**
- List all GOTY
- Reworked the game selection panel
- Reworked the award-winning game panel
- Rework the GOTY publishing panel
- Added physical award

**Studio Director**
- Reworked interface to allow players to choose whether the studio director makes only updates, games, or game ports, or everything
- Added porting capabilities:
- You can now set the minimum compatibility between platforms
- You can choose whether the studio director updates only its games or all available games

**Optimization**
- Studios with more employees now generate fewer visual particles to maintain smooth performance. Larger studios will no longer suffer from performance issues due to their size.

**Interface**
- Expanded the released games panel
- Reworked the game charts (removed the fanbase chart)
- Reworked the platform charts (removed the catalog size chart)
- Reworked filters in the released games panel for better filtering and sorting
- Added cost reduction information to custom platforms
- Added tooltips to greyed-out options in the right panel
- Reworked the console sale panel (looks cleaner now)
- Reworked the game sale panel (looks cleaner now)
- Set revenue color to green for published games
- Set revenue color to yellow for trade-published games
- Added tooltips to disabled buttons explaining why they are disabled
- End of month now shows how much you've earned (in the currency menu at the bottom of the screen)

**Options**
- Reworked the interface for a cleaner look
- Added options for better game control
- Added tooltips to explain what certain options do
- Added 60/120 FPS options

**Cheat Codes**
- Added "complete-all-remakes" cheat code for remakes
- Added "complete-all-games" cheat code for publishing offers
- Added cheat code to make servers free (rent and monthly maintenance)

**Misc**
- When a game is pulled from the market, added clear messaging explaining why it was removed

**i18n**
- Fix various simplified chinese translations (Thanks to Jack Neksa)

**QOL**
- Producers now auto-unassign when a game is released
- Producers now auto-unassign when a remake is released

**Bugfix**
- Fixed sorting by profit in the released games panel
- Fixed missing translations when unlocking secret achievements
- Fixed studio director randomly selecting game features, which led to poor scores and strange behavior
- Fixed furniture being destroyed instead of sold when selling a studio
- Fixed furniture being destroyed instead of sold when demolishing a studio
- Fixed borderless fullscreen mode on Windows cutting off pixels on the left side of the screen
- Fixed resolution selector remaining active in fullscreen mode
- Fixed game window repositioning when changing resolutions
- Fixed right side panel not minimizing when chosen
- Fixed being able to port a game infinitely to your own custom platform when viewing the platform's game catalog
- Fixed popup blocking clicks when starting a minigame
- Fixed being able to crack the same game repeatedly
- Fixed being able to assign a network admin to an offline game
- Fixed studio director panel not displaying the correct options when first opened
- Fixed ports getting frozen during the porting process
- Fixed contract durations being miscalculated when game speed changes
- Fixed the game not displaying error messages when creating a mod with bugs
- Fixed random crash when updating mortgage (Windows only)
- Fixed random crash when opening the server usage panel (Windows only)
- Fixed being unable to sort by studio when poaching employees
- Fixed interface not refreshing correctly when training staff
- Fixed pagination issue caused by missing signal (it worked but caused degraded performance)
- Fixed random crashes with sliders (Windows only)
- Improved popup robustness

v1.24.1-rc1 (2025-09-18)

Bugfixes

Fixed multi-texture rendering issues that could cause visual glitches
Resolved broken release panel when acting as a publisher
Fixed panel refresh issues that prevented proper UI updates
Corrected animated toggle components not refreshing properly
Fixed platform negotiation logic that could malfunction when refusing offers
Resolved performance degradation when competitors acquire other competitors
Fixed data loader inconsistencies that could corrupt static game data
Prevented silent crashes when exiting the game from the city map view
Fixed studio selection issues during game creation process
Resolved mod loader problems affecting the "Famous Game Developer" mod functionality
Fixed Studio Director not displaying the correct selected game genre
Fixed save game corruption caused by missing producer data
Fixed critical save corruption where studio data would be lost, preventing the game from loading

v1.24.0-rc11 (2025-09-04)

Misc

Add an option to set the windows "always on top"
Optimize the list of in-dev games
Rework the way City Game Studio opens/reads and closes files.
Optimize the released game charts panel

Competitors

When sending devkits and exclusive contract to a concurrent, it now gets the money, meaning it gets more powerful the more you send them devkits/money
When making a game for a competitor, the competitor will gets the royalties due
When making a game using a competitor's engine, the competitor will gets the royalties due
When paying a penality to a competitor, now the competitor gets the money
They are going to publish more games (adjusted to the difficulty, CEO hum hum)
Competitors are less likely to use your engine than to make their own
Competitors are going to update their game engine more often
Concurrent can make their own console:
- They can release platforms after 2025.
- They release platforms if you don't play in historical mode
- They don't use the best components, but the most cost-effectivefor their spending
- When buying a concurrent, you acquire it's platforms (no choice given here)
They can release platforms:
- Every 400 to 800 weeks
- If they have at least 100 000 fans
Display their consoles in the competitor view panel
Re-balance competitors (too powerful)

Custom-platforms

Rework the color replacement shader to make it look better
Rework the console cases
Rework the handled cases

Interface

Add the exact currency when clicking on it
Add an "Historical Mode" when creating a new game. When activated, concurrents don't create console, otherwise they do !
- Not implemented yet.
When looking at the history panel, you can now select the gameport.
Rework the pause animation
Change the background of the mod loader button
Add a filter to the released games to hide the studio-director's generated games
Games name can get over 90 characters long
Fix the recruit panel (when recruiting / firing employees)
New option: Fullscreen borderless
New option: Windowed borderless
Game names can get cut when editing them

Notification (emails)

Add tooltip to the delete/spam buttons
Improve it's behavior (removing / restoring /spam / uspam an email works)
When clicking on a message on the upper left corner, it now opens the right email
When deleting all emails it should close the mailbox
Improve the e-mail user experience

Shaders

Improve shaders for the furnishing store
Improve shaders for platform list (should look much better now)
Clean up unused shaders

Platforms

Fix end of life for Skylight 1.0 and 2.0
Add end of life for the Grantendo Swap (circa 2028)

Game engine

Add a tab to the financial panel to show the revenu generated by game engines

Studio director

Add the ability to rename games made by studio directors
Limit the number of studio director to hire to 16.
Can update all existings games or only their own games or no update at all.
Assign them to only make updates
Studio Director could make games for platform even if it breaks an exclusivity deal (Fixed)

Bugfix

Balance competitor platform sales
Balance competitors buying out each other
When a competitor is being generated, it can be bought for 0$ (Fixed)
Some characters are not visible in Ukrainian
Competitor: Fix competitor stock balancing issues
Logger: Prevent logs from being truncated too frequently
Competitor: A competitor cannot get valued over 10T $ (otherwise it breaks the game for real)
Twitch connection: Fix a bug that keeps you disconnected
2 musics can play at the same time
When firing/hiring an employee, it doesn't refresh the staff panel correctly
When using a mod to change the game's speed, it might make the game laggy and even make it crashes.

v1.24.0-rc10 (2025-09-02)

Misc

Add an option to set the windows "always on top"
Optimize the list of in-dev games
Rework the way City Game Studio opens/reads and closes files.
Optimize the released game charts panel

Competitors

When sending devkits and exclusive contract to a concurrent, it now gets the money, meaning it gets more powerful the more you send them devkits/money
When making a game for a competitor, the competitor will gets the royalties due
When making a game using a competitor's engine, the competitor will gets the royalties due
When paying a penality to a competitor, now the competitor gets the money
They are going to publish more games (adjusted to the difficulty, CEO hum hum)
Competitors are less likely to use your engine than to make their own
Competitors are going to update their game engine more often
Concurrent can make their own console:
- They can release platforms after 2025.
- They release platforms if you don't play in historical mode
- They don't use the best components, but the most cost-effectivefor their spending
- When buying a concurrent, you acquire it's platforms (no choice given here)
They can release platforms:
- Every 400 to 800 weeks
- If they have at least 100 000 fans
Display their consoles in the competitor view panel
Re-balance competitors (too powerful)

Custom-platforms

Rework the color replacement shader to make it look better
Rework the console cases
Rework the handled cases

Interface

Add the exact currency when clicking on it
Add an "Historical Mode" when creating a new game. When activated, concurrents don't create console, otherwise they do !
- Not implemented yet.
When looking at the history panel, you can now select the gameport.
Rework the pause animation
Change the background of the mod loader button
Add a filter to the released games to hide the studio-director's generated games
Games name can get over 90 characters long
Fix the recruit panel (when recruiting / firing employees)
New option: Fullscreen borderless
New option: Windowed borderless
Game names can get cut when editing them

Notification (emails)

Add tooltip to the delete/spam buttons
Improve it's behavior (removing / restoring /spam / uspam an email works)
When clicking on a message on the upper left corner, it now opens the right email
When deleting all emails it should close the mailbox
Improve the e-mail user experience

Shaders

Improve shaders for the furnishing store
Improve shaders for platform list (should look much better now)
Clean up unused shaders

Platforms

Fix end of life for Skylight 1.0 and 2.0
Add end of life for the Grantendo Swap (circa 2028)

Game engine

Add a tab to the financial panel to show the revenu generated by game engines

Studio director

Add the ability to rename games made by studio directors
Limit the number of studio director to hire to 16.
Can update all existings games or only their own games or no update at all.
Assign them to only make updates
Studio Director could make games for platform even if it breaks an exclusivity deal (Fixed)

Bugfix

Balance competitor platform sales
Balance competitors buying out each other
When a competitor is being generated, it can be bought for 0$ (Fixed)
Some characters are not visible in Ukrainian
Competitor: Fix competitor stock balancing issues
Logger: Prevent logs from being truncated too frequently
Competitor: A competitor cannot get valued over 10T $ (otherwise it breaks the game for real)
Twitch connection: Fix a bug that keeps you disconnected
2 musics can play at the same time
When firing/hiring an employee, it doesn't refresh the staff panel correctly
When using a mod to change the game's speed, it might make the game laggy and even make it crashes.

v1.24.0 (2025-09-11)

Misc

Add an option to set the windows "always on top"
Optimize the list of in-dev games
Rework the way City Game Studio opens/reads and closes files.
Optimize the released game charts panel

Competitors

When sending devkits and exclusive contract to a concurrent, it now gets the money, meaning it gets more powerful the more you send them devkits/money
When making a game for a competitor, the competitor will gets the royalties due
When making a game using a competitor's engine, the competitor will gets the royalties due
When paying a penality to a competitor, now the competitor gets the money
They are going to publish more games (adjusted to the difficulty, CEO hum hum)
Competitors are less likely to use your engine than to make their own
Competitors are going to update their game engine more often
Concurrent can make their own console:
- They can release platforms after 2025.
- They release platforms if you don't play in historical mode
- They don't use the best components, but the most cost-effectivefor their spending
- When buying a concurrent, you acquire it's platforms (no choice given here)
They can release platforms:
- Every 400 to 800 weeks
- If they have at least 100 000 fans
Display their consoles in the competitor view panel
Re-balance competitors (too powerful)

Custom-platforms

Rework the color replacement shader to make it look better
Rework the console cases
Rework the handled cases

Interface

Add the exact currency when clicking on it
Add an "Historical Mode" when creating a new game. When activated, concurrents don't create console, otherwise they do !
- Not implemented yet.
When looking at the history panel, you can now select the gameport.
Rework the pause animation
Change the background of the mod loader button
Add a filter to the released games to hide the studio-director's generated games
Games name can get over 90 characters long
Fix the recruit panel (when recruiting / firing employees)
New option: Fullscreen borderless
New option: Windowed borderless
Game names can get cut when editing them

Notification (emails)

Add tooltip to the delete/spam buttons
Improve it's behavior (removing / restoring /spam / uspam an email works)
When clicking on a message on the upper left corner, it now opens the right email
When deleting all emails it should close the mailbox
Improve the e-mail user experience

Shaders

Improve shaders for the furnishing store
Improve shaders for platform list (should look much better now)
Clean up unused shaders

Platforms

Fix end of life for Skylight 1.0 and 2.0
Add end of life for the Grantendo Swap (circa 2028)

Game engine

Add a tab to the financial panel to show the revenu generated by game engines

Studio director

Add the ability to rename games made by studio directors
Limit the number of studio director to hire to 16.
Can update all existings games or only their own games or no update at all.
Assign them to only make updates
Studio Director could make games for platform even if it breaks an exclusivity deal (Fixed)

Bugfix

Balance competitor platform sales
Balance competitors buying out each other
When a competitor is being generated, it can be bought for 0$ (Fixed)
Some characters are not visible in Ukrainian
Competitor: Fix competitor stock balancing issues
Logger: Prevent logs from being truncated too frequently
Competitor: A competitor cannot get valued over 10T $ (otherwise it breaks the game for real)
Twitch connection: Fix a bug that keeps you disconnected
2 musics can play at the same time
When firing/hiring an employee, it doesn't refresh the staff panel correctly
When using a mod to change the game's speed, it might make the game laggy and even make it crashes.

v1.23.0 (2025-06-18)

Mod support

Rework the mod loader algorithm
Rework the mod creation panel (looks better)
Rework the mod list (looks better and loads all the images now)
Add a mod analyzer that adds meta data to the mod data to know what a mods change:
- Platforms, custom platforms, digital store, competitor, competitor's games...
- Add a seal of quality to all existing mods
When creating a new mod, if the mod might make City Game Studio imba, add a warning to the output log. You can still upload your mod tho.
When creating a new mod, if the mod is going to make City Game Studio imba, add a red warning to the output log. You can still upload your mod tho.

Balancing

When making a game, the number of genre point earned is now doubled.
Set 4X with History to Excellent instead of Good match

Staff

Can poach network administrator
Auto-assign staff is now more stable and faster than ever
Can transfert staff from a studio to another with a single click
Rework the human resource panel (complete rework)
Rework the specialist assignment button (looks better now)
Add an auto-assignement button to the HR panel allowing the HR to balance your studio by assigning your staff to specific tasks.
Rework the staff panel to be able to select several employees at once and apply actions such as unassign or to fire them.
Add the ability to move employees to other studio via the staff panel

Interface

Rework some icons from the game
Rework the custom platforms' planel interface to send devkits and sign exclusivity deals:
- You can use a single button to max out the number of devkits you want to send.
- You can use a single button to max out the exclusive contract duration.
- Better user experience
Add a button to show the other platforms directly when making a custom platform
Rework the platform list panel (looks better now)
First part of the rework of the game creation (a bit better but it needs more work)
Rework the game creation panel
Rework the gameport creation panel
Rework the contract creation panel
Rework the engine creation panel
Rework the remake creation panel
Rework the game edition/publishing panels
Rework the market research panel to use the latest platform interface
When releasing a game, a gameport, a Goty, or publishing a game, rework the stars animation. It's smoother and doesn't use much computation cycle.
Increase the games' name to 96 characters
Rework the game engine selection panel:
- You can see 9 engines at once
- There are now icons to define their types (open source, in-house or proprietary)
- Displays each engines capabilities intead of features list.
- Features list is now visible from tooltips.

Savegame

Rework the savegame algorithm:
- Always save the game when asked no matter what happen
- When trying to close the game while saving, it's going to close the game anyway once it's been saved
- Add double check when writing a new savegame
Rework the load algorithm, it's faster than it used to
Rework the game load, the first part wasn't using threads, it does now

Feature

Add a company overview panel showing:
- Company creation date
- Company rating
- Company logo & name
- Number of game engines made
- Number of conventions attended
- Number of game ports
- Number of games released
- Number of remakes released
- Number of Digital store's users
- Number of employees
- Number of studios
- Number of consoles made
- Best 5 top selling games of all-time
- Best 5 top selling remakes of all-time
- Custom achievements (first engine, first studio, 1 K fans reached...)

Release panel

When a player sets a price that's too high for their custom platform (console), the game forcibly opens the release console panel - No more.
When a player sets a price that's too low for their custom platform (console), the game forcibly opens the release console panel - No more.

Bugfixes

Price and gauges are bugged
When releasing a custom platform in the early 80s, leads to a silent bug
When making a game for a custom platform in-dev, genres are not computed correctly
When a game names is too long, it's automatically clipped
Marketing research was not working
Researching custom-platforms via the market research panel lead to a crash (fixed)
Removing savegames might lead to a crash (rare)
Some labels were not translated
Some labels were not shown correctly (history panel...)
Fix a crash when assigning a studio to a Studio Director

Misc

Twitch: Do not try to connect when there's no need to open a connection
Rework the HTTP requester, used by mods to load images. Remove the Thread dependency, so it's now crash-free.
Rework the game to work even if Steam is not detected. But mods won't get loaded

v1.22.3 (2025-04-02)

Optimization

Optimize the gauge setting panel
Optimize the panel loading algorithm

Bugfix

Fix an issue with the game over panel
Fix an issue when cancel a game made by the studio director by selling all your studios (crash)

v1.22.2 (2025-04-01)

Bugfix

Salary wage raise computation error
when selling a datacenter (or a studio with servers, it leads to a crash

v1.22.1-rc0 (2025-03-31)

Bugfix

Discontinue game panel shows the wrong number of unit sold for offline games
Discontinue game panel, fix an error preventing the discontinue panel to shows up
Updating old games leads to poorer sales (fixed)
Fix an issue when creating a new custom-platform (leads to not creating anything or with wrong components)
Fix an issue when copy/pasting a studio layout that has a cat in it
When selecting studios, if it's to update a studio list, always shows unavailable studios

v1.22.1 (2025-03-31)

Bugfix

Discontinue game panel shows the wrong number of unit sold for offline games
Discontinue game panel, fix an error preventing the discontinue panel to shows up
Updating old games leads to poorer sales (fixed)
Fix an issue when creating a new custom-platform (leads to not creating anything or with wrong components)
Fix an issue when copy/pasting a studio layout that has a cat in it
When selecting studios, if it's to update a studio list, always shows unavailable studios

v1.22.0 (2025-03-25)

Feature

Can copy/paste studio's layout (only smaller studios to the same area or bigger)

Custom-platform

Console manufacturing costs are adjusted according to the number of copies sold.
Added notification when your console reaches a new manufacturing cost reduction threshold
A tooltip is added when the console price is so high that it adversely affects console sales.
Adjust the timeframe when the email is sent
Adjust the suggested retail price for the email
When setting the custom-platform price, the game computes it's profit per unit then dynamically adjusts the console's price based on it's profit when the manufacturing costs gets cheaper.

Platforms

Add Grantendo Swap 2

Studio director

Add an option not to publish bad quality games
Add an option to hide the magazine/website reviews

Misc

When updating a game and having a very large company, it might makes the game really slow
Optimize convention generation
Optimize post-mortems generation
Optimize game creation
Optimize buying out a competitor
Optimize contract generation
Optimize yearly report generation (financial report)
Optimize GoTY generation
Optimize remake generation
Optimize competitor staff generation
Optimize marketing campaign archives
Optimize label formatting (40% more efficient)

Balancing

Adjust Grantendo swap data
Adjust Gamestation 4 data
Adjust Gamestation 5 data
Adjust VBox series V data
Add end of life for the VBox zero and adjust data
Add end of life for the Vega Vita
Add end of life for the Grantendo 3DS and adjust data

i18n

Complete rework on the Simplified chinese translations

Add a list of games published by the competitors to the competitors panel
When hovering a studio => if it's rented show the rent value, otherwise show it's value
City map button not visible enough
Bigger font for the studio list, and sort them regarding their activity and their name
Rework the history game panel game's list to add more filters
Rework the remake game panel game's list to add more filters
Rework the gameport panel game's list to add more filters
Rework the too hard difficulty popup when creating a new game.
Tooltips from the new game settings won't show more than once if you hide them
Rework the studio selection panel:
- Show studio availability
- Replace texts by icons and add tooltips
- Add a filter button to show only available studios
Rework some icons of the game to look better
Discontinue panel has been updated to show the subscription count
Rework the top selling games from the figital store panel

Game update

Increase the number of IAP when updating a game (+4 per update)
Publishing updates for old games leads to a decrease in sales.

Bugfix

Fix an issue with game-type costs computation (might lead to a crash)
[Windows] Fix issue with mouse cursor that's off
[Windows] Fix issue where you cannot close the game usig ALT+F4 with confined mouse cursor
Can buy the same studio more than once
Studio director doesn't start a new game if they cancelled the last one
When updating a game and adding micro-transactions using a template, it doesn't work
[DE] Translation: "Time since last used" and "Game Type" are switched around (at least in the german version?). In my case it read (translated): "You have already released a Cyberpunk-8-Game in the last RPG Months"
Cannot cancel a game update
When loading a savegame with a game that's is being updated, then you cannot update this game anymore
In-game console parser now removes invisible newlines and replace them by spaces.
Fix issue with paginations leading to empty pages or crashing the game
Fix issue with paginations with no feedback sound FX
Improve logger handler - No more crash due to it
If a game is a hit and you set a marketing manager, you're going to sell like crazy and sell more unit that it should (Rare)
When making a GoTY it doesn't save the specialists, you have to set it manually afterwards
When making a GoTY it keeps the studio director, so you have to it for nothing
When releasing a game port, the number of fanbases is truncated, so I revamped that part

Mod maker

Add games to the concurrent games and update the mod-maker

Cheat code

Add cheatcode to set Staff happiness
Fix an issue with setting staff stats not triggering the cheat detection

v1.21.5-rc0 (2024-12-18)

Bugfix

When making a sequel, the game might randomly crash
When releasing a game for an upcoming custom platform, the game might randomly crash
When acting as a publisher and porting the game, it might crash the game
Fix an issue with cz translations
Fix the company logo drawer. When opening it for the first time it leads to a silent error that makes the game unstable afterwards.
Delay the game update signal by one frame to prevent the game from showing altered informations nor crashing

Misc

Improve Steam integration
Roll back the company wide/studio wide button

Known bugs

Unit sold for online games includes the rentetion number, that I need to get rid of.

What's coming next

Rework the studio furnishing (add copy / paste template)
Add the console hardware selling price get cheaper when selling more units

v1.21.3-rc0 (2024-12-14)

Bugfix

Studio director doesn't honor exclusivity deal and can makes games for other manufacturers
Your staff goe son vacation and never comes back, but you keep paying them

v1.21.2 (2024-12-12)

Bugfix

When steam is ont detected and using dark theme, you can't read the text.
Force game to exit if the user keeps pushing the exit button
Studio director didn't use the largest platform market share.

i18n

Fix CZ translations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)
Fix EN translations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)
Translate steam ahievements in CZ.

v1.21.1 (2024-12-10)

Bugfix

Add an explanation tooltip when trying to sell a busy studio.
The studio director can get frozen if an employee is moved or quit.
The studio director can get frozen if you sell the last desk of the last studio.

Optimization

When having more than 2 000 employees, automatically assigning them leads to a silent crash.
When having more than 2 000 employees, automatically withdrawing them them leads to a silent crash.

v1.21.0-rc16 (2024-12-09)

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel
Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor
Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)
Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)
Improve the studio selling confirmation popup
Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)
Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise
Add assign employees to the studio options
Add withdraw all employees to the studio options
Add fix everything to the studio options
Add upgrade computers to the studio options
Add upgrade servers to the studio options
Add send to vacation to the studio options
Rework the digital store cut slider
Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director
Can assign a studio director to a desk
Can poach a studio director
Can check the employee data from the studio itself
Can sort by bonus on profits
Optimize the studio director panel
When disabling a studio director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
When firing a studio director
- Unassign the studio to the director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre
Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine
Implement bonus profit share
Can update games they made
Auto market the game (announcement only)
Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director
Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations
Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)
Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)
Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)
Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)
Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)
Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)
Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)
Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)
Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container
Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen
In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized
When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games
When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.
Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game
Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel
Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug
Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform
Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused

v1.21.0-rc15 (2024-12-09)

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel
Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor
Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)
Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)
Improve the studio selling confirmation popup
Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)
Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise
Add assign employees to the studio options
Add withdraw all employees to the studio options
Add fix everything to the studio options
Add upgrade computers to the studio options
Add upgrade servers to the studio options
Add send to vacation to the studio options
Rework the digital store cut slider
Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director
Can assign a studio director to a desk
Can poach a studio director
Can check the employee data from the studio itself
Can sort by bonus on profits
Optimize the studio director panel
When disabling a studio director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
When firing a studio director
- Unassign the studio to the director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre
Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine
Implement bonus profit share
Can update games they made
Auto market the game (announcement only)
Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director
Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations
Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)
Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)
Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)
Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)
Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)
Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)
Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)
Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)
Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container
Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen
In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized
When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games
When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.
Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game
Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel
Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug
Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform
Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused

v1.21.0-rc14 (2024-12-07)

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel
Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor
Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)
Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)
Improve the studio selling confirmation popup
Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)
Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise
Add assign employees to the studio options
Add withdraw all employees to the studio options
Add fix everything to the studio options
Add upgrade computers to the studio options
Add upgrade servers to the studio options
Add send to vacation to the studio options
Rework the digital store cut slider
Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director
Can assign a studio director to a desk
Can poach a studio director
Can check the employee data from the studio itself
Can sort by bonus on profits
Optimize the studio director panel
When disabling a studio director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
When firing a studio director
- Unassign the studio to the director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre
Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine
Implement bonus profit share
Can update games they made
Auto market the game (announcement only)
Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director
Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations
Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)
Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)
Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)
Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)
Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)
Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)
Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)
Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)
Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container
Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen
In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized
When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games
When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.
Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game
Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel
Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug
Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform
Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused

v1.21.0-rc13 (2024-12-06)

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel
Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor
Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)
Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)
Improve the studio selling confirmation popup
Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)
Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise
Add assign employees to the studio options
Add withdraw all employees to the studio options
Add fix everything to the studio options
Add upgrade computers to the studio options
Add upgrade servers to the studio options
Add send to vacation to the studio options
Rework the digital store cut slider
Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director
Can assign a studio director to a desk
Can poach a studio director
Can check the employee data from the studio itself
Can sort by bonus on profits
Optimize the studio director panel
When disabling a studio director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
When firing a studio director
- Unassign the studio to the director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre
Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine
Implement bonus profit share
Can update games they made
Auto market the game (announcement only)
Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director
Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations
Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)
Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)
Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)
Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)
Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)
Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)
Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)
Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)
Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container
Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen
In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized
When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games
When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.
Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game
Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel
Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug
Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform
Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused

v1.21.0-rc12 (2024-12-04)

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel
Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor
Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)
Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)
Improve the studio selling confirmation popup
Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)
Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise
Add assign employees to the studio options
Add withdraw all employees to the studio options
Add fix everything to the studio options
Add upgrade computers to the studio options
Add upgrade servers to the studio options
Add send to vacation to the studio options
Rework the digital store cut slider
Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director
Can assign a studio director to a desk
Can poach a studio director
Can check the employee data from the studio itself
Can sort by bonus on profits
Optimize the studio director panel
When disabling a studio director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
When firing a studio director
- Unassign the studio to the director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre
Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine
Implement bonus profit share
Can update games they made
Auto market the game (announcement only)
Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director
Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations
Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)
Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)
Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)
Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)
Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)
Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)
Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)
Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)
Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container
Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen
In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized
When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games
When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.
Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game
Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel
Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug
Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform
Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused

v1.21.0-rc11 (2024-12-04)

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel
Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor
Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)
Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)
Improve the studio selling confirmation popup
Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)
Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise
Add assign employees to the studio options
Add withdraw all employees to the studio options
Add fix everything to the studio options
Add upgrade computers to the studio options
Add upgrade servers to the studio options
Add send to vacation to the studio options
Rework the digital store cut slider
Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director
Can assign a studio director to a desk
Can poach a studio director
Can check the employee data from the studio itself
Can sort by bonus on profits
Optimize the studio director panel
When disabling a studio director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
When firing a studio director
- Unassign the studio to the director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre
Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine
Implement bonus profit share
Can update games they made
Auto market the game (announcement only)
Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director
Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations
Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)
Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)
Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)
Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)
Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)
Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)
Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)
Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)
Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container
Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen
In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized
When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games
When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.
Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game
Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel
Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug
Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform
Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused

v1.21.0-rc10 (2024-12-02)

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel
Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor
Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)
Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)
Improve the studio selling confirmation popup
Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)
Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise
Add assign employees to the studio options
Add withdraw all employees to the studio options
Add fix everything to the studio options
Add upgrade computers to the studio options
Add upgrade servers to the studio options
Add send to vacation to the studio options
Rework the digital store cut slider
Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director
Can assign a studio director to a desk
Can poach a studio director
Can check the employee data from the studio itself
Can sort by bonus on profits
Optimize the studio director panel
When disabling a studio director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
When firing a studio director
- Unassign the studio to the director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre
Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine
Implement bonus profit share
Can update games they made
Auto market the game (announcement only)
Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director
Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations
Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)
Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)
Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)
Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)
Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)
Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)
Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)
Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)
Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container
Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen
In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized
When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games
When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.
Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game
Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel
Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug
Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform
Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused

v1.21.0 (2024-12-09)

Rework the unlock panel tutoriel
Add a "Cancel" button to the logo editor
Add shortcut to the game sales panel (min / max)
Add shortcut to the custom platform sales panel (min / max)
Improve the studio selling confirmation popup
Rework the studio list from the main menu (it has a brand new drop down allowing you to buy / sell and demolish the building)
Studio list sohw a black information icon if the studio is idle, it's blue otherwise
Add assign employees to the studio options
Add withdraw all employees to the studio options
Add fix everything to the studio options
Add upgrade computers to the studio options
Add upgrade servers to the studio options
Add send to vacation to the studio options
Rework the digital store cut slider
Rework the custom platform game catalog (score is ugly, and show off our games better)

Studio director

Can hire a studio director
Can assign a studio director to a desk
Can poach a studio director
Can check the employee data from the studio itself
Can sort by bonus on profits
Optimize the studio director panel
When disabling a studio director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
When firing a studio director
- Unassign the studio to the director
- Unassign the studio director from the game if it's in-progress (so the player can finish it)
Can specify a specific genre or add condition to pick a genre
Can specify a specific engine or add condition to pick a engine
Implement bonus profit share
Can update games they made
Auto market the game (announcement only)
Add a short tutoriel explaining how to activate / deactive the studio director
Add a short tutoriel explaining how it works

Custom Platform

When making a sale, display the suggested retail price instead of the making costs

Platforms

Set the Gamestation 4 to end in 2025

i18n

Fix the portuguese and portuguese BR achievements translations
Fix ukrainian translations (i and ï)
Improve it translations (thanks to frankieorabona)
Improve en translations (thanks to kappasims and PwaDesu)
Improve pt-BR translations (thanks to menguele)
Improve pl translations (thanks to olsza)
Improve es translations (thanks to GianluPlay)
Improve ru translations (thanks to AftarNik)
Improve cz tranlsations (thanks to MasterStudioCZ)
Improve zh translations (thanks to caiyundc)

Optimization

Upgrading computer for a very large company takes at most 2 seconds (had to write garbage code to optimize that...)

Misc

When closing the game, the game has 10 seconds top to close itself, afterward it kills itself.

Bugfix

Console devkit panel needs a scroll container
Large font: Improve the game rendering, so every buttons fit in the screen
In dev items: "9999.99K $" replaced with "-", meaning not yet initialized
When porting a remake to the digital store, it does not appear in the top selling games
When having more than one page of released games (right panel), cancelling the last game, won't updat ethe pagination accordingly.
Windows only: Fix a crash when launching the game
Producer bonus ain't shown correctly on the game creation panel
Going through the marketing campaign panel without having any game to makret leads to a silent bug
Fix an issue that shows the wrong tooltip when trying to make a game while having a manufacturer exclusivity that doens't match the selected platform
Pause / unpause sound is played even if the game isn't paused/unpaused

v1.20.0 (2024-09-19)

Remove the studio management panel
Rework the bottom menu
Staff panel: Filter by studio
Hire panel: Select another studio
Poach panel: Select another studio
Training: Can rename and demolish a university
Attend convention: remove the right part of the panel, to make it more straightforward
Organize convention: remove the right part of the panel, to make it more straightforward
Organize convention: Can rename and demolish a convention center
Marketing campaigns: remove the right part of the panel, to make it more straightforward
World map: Clicking on a convention center leads to the convention management panel
World map: Clicking on a university leads to the training panel
Add a pagination to the released game panel, including:
- Self-published games
- Trade-published games
- Publishing deal game
- Remake
- Gameport
- Game of the year
When you buy out a competitor, you can decide whether you want to take over their studios too.
When you buy out a competitor, you can decide whether you also want their video games back.
When you buy out a competitor, you can decide whether you also want their staff back.
Rework the bottom menu so when you click on any button it opens a popup menu that helps you find your stuff
Remove the "Build a studio button" and merge it with the "Buy a studio"

QoL

Can withdraw staff from a studio (single button)
Can withdraw staff from the company (single button)
Can rename a convention center from the convention panel
Can rename a university from the training panel
Can edit the company from the financial tab

Banker

Game over is now only triggered by the banker
The banker offers you the possibility of selling your game engine to avoid bankruptcy
The banker offers you the possibility of selling your latest custom platform to avoid bankruptcy
The banker offers you the possibility of selling one of your studio (including all of its employees) to avoid bankruptcy
Starting in 1990, there's a new banker inspired from a famous CEO. No spoiler, I won't give her name.

Competitor

Rework the algorithm when you acquire a competitor so it's based on the game's difficulty and the player's company score.
When acquiring a competitor shows the number of fan gained
When acquiring a competitor shows the competitor's logo

Misc

Clean up the code base, removing 30 files that are no more used
Clean up the code base, removing 2 files that are no longer used
Game launches faster (uses slightly less RAM):
- Main menu uses ~1.3G of RAM instead of ~2.5G
- In game uses ~1.9G of RAM instead of ~2.7G
Add 13 new competitors
Add 10 new logos for your company
Rework the company logo drawer to make it more appealing.
Add the upcoming games of Binogure Studio to the main menu.
Rework the company logo drawer to make it more appealing.
Add "Running With a Fork" company

Bugfix

Marketing research panel: Icons are poorly rendered
Fix a bug with the employee panel where it generates ton of errors in early stage
Add the file "steam_appid.txt" next to the executable, so the Steam API is initialized correctly (not more Steam cannot be reached)
Rework the Steam detection algorithm
Rework the "Steam cannot be reached" panel.
Move camera using WASD while building studios
When a competitor buys another competitor, it buys it at a lower value as the player can acquire it.
Employees' generated points are automatically cleared as soon as the task they are working on is over.
Fix an issue when sorting released game panel games
Fix the bouncing button (the dice that bounce when you click on it)
Fix a crash when leaving the game
Items informations are not updated correctly on the shop menu
Attended conventions aren't well initialized

v1.19.0 (2024-06-26)

Feature

Automatic furnishing to generate denser studios at the expense of happiness
Automatic furnishing can generate studios with many more desks than before. To a point where only desks fit in the studio. To the detriment of happiness, as always. Twitch
Connect to a Twitch channel
Disconnect from a Twitch channel
Viewers can type !help in the chatroom to get informations about how to interact with City Game Studio
Viewers can become producer, artist, tester, developper, accountant, marketing manager, networking manager or HR
Viewers can help naming games
Viewers can help naming engines
Viewers can help naming remasters
Viewers can help naming convention centers
Viewers can help naming universities
Viewers can help naming consoles
Viewers can help naming the digital store
Viewers can help naming the company
Viewers can help naming the CEO
Add option to set the polling time (default 60 secs, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120, 300)
Add tooltip to twitch button
You cannot rename a viewer
Viewers can show emoji hover their head (heart or tears) Misc
Add 14 new logos for your company
Add borderless window option (only by adding borderless_window=true to the configuration.cfg.local file)
Add a button to the exit menu to go back to the main menu without saving
Add a button to the exit menu to quit without saving
Game engine: Add a rewrite button to deal with legacy code. So you don't have to create a new engine.
Update the difficulty selection panel regading new difficulty options.
Add cheat code to change employee happiness
Clean-up the generic panel to use less memory/CPU
Bigger item from the store UI
Add an option to get larger fonts
Add "Do not show again" from the tooltip
Rework the animated toggle to use custom icons (ON / OFF) Custom-platforms
Add a new NVMe drive for handheld platforms
Add a new NVMe drive for home platforms Mod
Add a new parameter for the game engine creation
Mod maker button is greyed out when first opening the mod menu panel i18n
Improve CS translations (Thanks to MasterStudioCZ)
Add UK translations (Thanks to TheCyberAngel) Optimization
Creating games with a lot of employees, over 1000 makes the game feels laggy Minigame
DDos protection: Can press enter or space to simulate a click (first click on the button you want to press) Bugfix
When unlocking a game engine feature it always says it's a design feature
Logos on the city might be too big
Logos in the studio can be cut if they are imported
Demolish a building (convention center or university) doesn't reset its land price
Universities and convention centre ain't taken into account to the company value
When gaining/losing fanbases via events (from vanilla or mods), you won't be able to make the game imba anymore.
When renaming a convention, attendance changes
Fix a bug with custom-platforms and genre overview (not impacting the gameplay)
Recruits were not generated correctly
Custom platform: might returns more unit than it sells.
Custom platform: there's a bug in total unit sold
Duplicating a save slot rename your company by adding +1
Twitch viewers ain't sync to their specialties
Animated toggle button: Can make the game unplayable
Financial tab: DLCs tab is blank
Staff: When hiring, firing, unassigning an employee the list is put backward
Game engine: Not getting royalties
Custom console: release date is off by 1 month
Financial panel: when making a mortgage, doesn't show up on the financial panel
Custom platform: Platform profits are mis-computed. If you make 3 consoles making 50 $ each, then you're going to make 50 + (50 + 50) + (50 + 50 + 50)
Studio employee count: Due to the twitch integration. In fact an employee can get assigned to the same desk more than once because you can hire the same employee more than once. To fix it, unassign all your employees, and assign
Canceling a custom platform doesn't cancel the attached games (add migrations)

v1.16.0 (2023-11-23)

Steam deck

Improve font rendering, make them bigger
Improve font rendering for emails
Improve menu rendering for lower configuration (below 1600x900)
Enhance panels for lower resolution (below 1600x900)
Adjust the tooltips accordignly (hide keyboard/mouse references)
Renaming an employee didn't bring the virtual keyboard
Renaming a studio didn't bring the virtual keyboard

Email panel: Rework the icons (trash / spam / restore)
Game of the year: Improve the game score rendering
Financial tab: Add tooltips to the columns
Studio: Rework the shop
Click on a tooltip to close it (without it being a button)
On low resolution hide the currency change label
On low resolution hide the fanbase change label
Tooltips: When selling an online game but the servers are overloaded, the game will always show a tooltip explaining what's happening (refund...)
Rework the City Game Studio's logo
On low resolution improve the readability of the in-game tutorial
Add a new tooltip when creating games to help understand how to make Big/AAA games

Misc

It starts fullscreen the first time you launch the game

Bugfixes

Windowed: windows position change while saving (autosaving) game
Fanbase ain't properly shown for game ports
On low resolution some icons are distorded
When steam bug, there's no main menu or anything explainig what's happening in the game. From now on, there's a popup asking for the player to restart Steam in order to fix the issue.
Custom platform: The catalog size number is not accurate

Gamepad layout

Refresh the gamepad layout steam://controllerconfig/726840/2739149565

Balancing

When you start losing fans, you can't lose more than 50k at once (depends on many inputs)
Leaderboard: Convention score have been balanced (10k visitors = 1 point, used to be 100 visitors for 1 point)

v1.15.0 (2023-09-30)

Features

Improve UI for in-dev games
Add console generation to its description
When acquiring competitor, assign their employees
Demolish studio
Demolish university
Demolish convention centre
Add a save-game-as button

Optimization

Buying a competitor is more efficient

User Interface

In dev game panel: new button to port to consoles
In dev remake panel: new button to port to consoles
In dev game of the year panel: new button to port to consoles
Add tooltip to the Demolish/Sell studio/convention/univerties buttons
Rework the studio manager panel (better icons)

Misc

Added orange stray cat
Rework the background of the map/studio

Bug

Competitors can start using your engine even if it's not yet ready
Stray cat not working anymore (oups)
Genre: Localization issue (miss-named)
Hire & Assign not working anymore

v1.13.0-rc1 (2023-05-26)

Feature

Better character customization
Add studio building happiness
Add a new achievement when you publish a AAA game in the 90s
Add a new achievement when you publish a custom platform in the 90s
Add a new achievement when your digital store reaches 1 million user
Character customization: Add color ramp for accessories

Custom platforms

Add console cases by integrating the mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2804483837 made by Toaster ( https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198012827928 )

Misc

Make in-game achievements optional

Improve shop menu (slider rendering)
Can update a game by clicking on the circular progress node
Hide trends when building/furnishing offices
Rework server rentals
Improve tooltips of locked buttons
When making a game, show the upcoming steps for the game engine, so you know how much point you can put for the upcoming steps.
Universities: Add a tooltip explaining you can train your staff beyond their cap using universities
Studio view: Add some decoration to the studio
Add entrance for studios

Balancing

When training an employee, pay will be higher depending on the difficulty.

Bugfix

Cannot remake a GoTY edition
Cheatcode: unlock-all-hints not working properly
Game creation: keeping hint shows the wrong number of hints on the game genre panel
Can send 40 devkits even if competitors can't take them
Can click on the background buttons while hacking a competitor's game even after winning/losing
HR panel doesn't show all the employees (missing one)

v1.13.0-rc0 (2023-05-25)

Feature

Better character customization
Add studio building happiness
Add a new achievement when you publish a AAA game in the 90s
Add a new achievement when you publish a custom platform in the 90s
Add a new achievement when your digital store reaches 1 million user
Character customization: Add color ramp for accessories

Custom platforms

Add console cases by integrating the mod https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2804483837 made by Toaster ( https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198012827928 )

Misc

Make in-game achievements optional

Improve shop menu (slider rendering)
Can update a game by clicking on the circular progress node
Hide trends when building/furnishing offices
Rework server rentals
Improve tooltips of locked buttons
When making a game, show the upcoming steps for the game engine, so you know how much point you can put for the upcoming steps.
Universities: Add a tooltip explaining you can train your staff beyond their cap using universities
Studio view: Add some decoration to the studio
Add entrance for studios

Balancing

When training an employee, pay will be higher depending on the difficulty.

Bugfix

Cannot remake a GoTY edition
Cheatcode: unlock-all-hints not working properly
Game creation: keeping hint shows the wrong number of hints on the game genre panel
Can send 40 devkits even if competitors can't take them
Can click on the background buttons while hacking a competitor's game even after winning/losing
HR panel doesn't show all the employees (missing one)

v1.12.1 (2023-04-08)

i18n

Improved pt-br translations (Thanks to mengueule)
Translations issues: LABEL_STUDIO_5_DESCRIPTION, LABEL_STUIDO_NAME, "hannounced"

Feature

2 Genres for one theme
Can start spying from the game genre unlocking panel

Events

When sued for owning stocks of a competitors, remove legal fees
Uniq game genre unlocked, add game genre icon

Save game panel: Rework it to make it looks great
Auto-save: Add auto save icon
Game port: Select all platforms
Game sells: Replace marketing icons (marketing campaigns)
Improve mortgage panel
Stocks: Add filters to list only owned shared competitors
Specialist assignment panel: Revamp
List studio available in town
Rework all the gauges of the game
Rework the marketing campaign panel
Improve in-game creation sliders

Misc

Leaderboard: Rework the score computation algorithm for custom-platform. It takes into account the platform catalog size
Leaderboard: Add an information about top 10% / 20%...
Game score computation: Adjusting score above 100%

Bugfix

Tooltip panel for game update at the wrong position
Random slider: Was not working properly for interviews and trade-publishing games
Map/studio zoom were not working properly
Mouse wheel was not working properly on during game creation