Good day to all Dealers!
We are here to announce that we just released a new version (0.92) code-named “More Money”!
The first improvement, as the code-name suggests, is related to the money tiers that your customers will bring (and show) during their offers: we increased the number of different sprites and restyled all of them!
This will let you better understand with just a glance the level of money the customer is offering, which means that now your jaw should really drop if you see that your customer is bringing a suitcase or a safe full of money!
The next change in this release is connected to the VIPs that own or sign the items your customers bring you, we added the new VIP Pack #2 which is related to sports and gaming industry. You’ll see a lot of funny names that you’ll surely recognize as famous athletes or renowned game designers.
Next, we changed the soundtrack for the commercial district as we felt that it was a bit different from the others, both for thematic and genre reasons. So we browsed the collection of our beloved Kevin MacLeod and found a wonderful replacement, here’s the track along with some wonderful dancing mouse skills as always! 😉
Our huge thanks to Kevin MacLeod for his wonderful work in creating all these Creative Commons licensed amazing tracks!
Lastly, we fixed two bugs we introduced in 0.90 version:
- on some Android 8.0 devices (but apparently on no device that Google uses for its automated pre-launch report…) there was a bug that prevented the game from correctly launching.
- on French and Portuguese devices there was an issue with automatic language detection that set the language to French and Portuguese even if these localizations are currently not included.
We apologize for these inconveniences and we want to thank our players reports that let us know about these issues. We also would like to thank our friend Mario “Iocia” and our player Kym that helped us debugging the first and the second issue respectively, which helped us release a fix in less than half a day since each report.
So, what’s next now?
Well, we took a bit more time for this release (compared to the usual 4 weeks per release) because we were working very hard “under the hood” on new Encounters. This is actually already completed and it’s undergoing a final testing phase so very soon, after our tests and the localization of all the new dialogues, you can expect a new Beta release which will include a new special character (Randal Tombs, you can find more info here on our Roadmap) and a lot (and I mean REALLY a lot, the total number of encounters is more than doubled) of new encounters and dialogues. These will bring also improvements in the “My Story” section of your notebook to better describe all the encounters that you had, and new Achievements with some new achievements connected to them.
We are also developing the new Item Pack #5 which will be connected to sports: be sure to check the card on our Roadmap because soon we’ll post some screenshots about them!
Then we’ll very soon complete the new Newspaper Articles Pack which will also include the best submissions from our “Crazy news contest”! If you have not yet submitted your article, hurry up and check all the info here, then submit your article for a chance to be included in the game!
Last but not least, in these days the French localization was completed, it needs proofreading and the translation of all the new dialogues but we can assure you that it’ll be soon ready!
With all these changes in progress it’s easy to see our goal: we are closing all the major aspects of the game to release the “1.00 version” and close what we call an early access to the game!
With this great milestone of course we will not stop working on the game (the Roadmap is full of ideas and improvements) but we will be able to start with more confidence the iOS (and Steam probably) port and evaluate a price raise for the Premium version. But don’t worry, we’ll announce this change in time, so that everyone will be able to jump on the Premium train before its price increases. 🙂
And, speaking about price, be sure to check our social pages and our Premium version store page because we are going to celebrate one year from Dealer’s Life Lite release (on February 13rd) and one year from Dealer’s Life Premium release (on March 10th) and we are evaluating a “surprise”! 😉
That’s all for now, we hope you like this update, let us know what you think here in the comments or on our social pages!
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