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EDIT: The update has passed certification. Please be patient if you don’t see it straight away. It can take up to 24 hours to roll out.

We have submitted a new update for Game Dev Tycoon which fixes the majority of known issues.
Thanks to everyone for reporting these problems. We estimate that the update should be live in the next 2-5 days.

Here is the changelog:

v1.0.2 14 Dec. 2012

– Fixed: When G3 window shows just before a dev stage, dev progress will not progress any further until the game is reloaded.
– Fixed: SDK was available as a game feature and would result in NaN costs and cause other issues.
– Fixed: ‘Find publishing deal’ would occasionally crash when all topics had been researched.
– Fixed: Game crashes after researching the final 3D Graphics technology.
– Fixed: Could not de-select Stereoscopic 3D in feature selection.
– Fixed: Supporter achievement was not granted when game was bought straight from the Store.
– Fixed: Numerous grammatical errors in messages.

An update to Game Dev Tycoon is now live in the Windows Store. Please be patient if you don’t see it straight away as I think it can take up to 24 hours for the update to become available.

This update fixes the most common issues. If you see any other crashes, errors or other issues please report them to us at support@greenheartgames.com

Our thanks to everyone who has submitted issues and for all your patience. We thought that we had tested the game quite thoroughly but obviously we missed a few things. Sorry for the trouble! If you have been affected by the ‘too much money’ issue and you want a pure experience it’s best to start a new game with the new update.

v1.0.1:

– Fixed: In rare cases games could sell forever, resulting in huge amounts of money. No one should be that rich!
– Fixed: Platforms retire after year 25.
– Fixed: The end-of-trial screen was showing in certain save games even when the game was already purchased.
– Fixed: Selecting SDK as a game feature crashed the app.

First of all, thanks to everyone for buying the game. We don’t have the numbers yet but we certainly heard from a number of people on facebook, twitter and via email. Thank you all for your support!

Thanks also for reporting issues to us. We have identified a handful of troubling issues and prepared a fix for them already. These fixes are currently in review with Microsoft and should be available in 1 to 7 days.

I’m sorry if you have been affected by any of these issues. We spent a long time testing the game thoroughly but obviously we have missed a few problems.

If you see any other issues then please report them to support@greenheartgames.com

List of changes:

– Fixed: In rare cases games could sell forever, resulting in huge amounts of money. No one should be that rich!
– Fixed: Platforms retire after year 25.
– Fixed: The end-of-trial screen was showing in certain save games even when the game was already purchased.
– Fixed: Selecting SDK as a game feature crashed the app.

The wait is over. The full version of Game Dev Tycoon is available now on the Windows Store. You can visit the Store page here:

http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/game-dev-tycoon/4f09063e-be82-49bf-8051-0650cbef707e

To find out more about the features of the full game visit our updated website:

http://www.greenheartgames.com/app/game-dev-tycoon/

Have fun playing!

We have been very quiet lately but that’s only because we are focused on getting the game done. We have said all along that our plan is to release Game Dev Tycoon later this year and slowly but surely our time frame is closing. As it is often with software projects we are a bit overtime but we used the time well and made the game bigger and better than we initially planned. Now, after a year of hard work and some very intense months recently, Game Dev Tycoon is feature complete.

When will the game be available?

Since Microsoft is the last deciding entity we can never guarantee a date but our estimate is that the game will be available for PCs and intel-based tablets later this month. For an up to date estimate you can visit our status page.

Right at the moment we are testing the game extensively and tweaking some balance-related things to make sure that the difficulty is right and that different play-styles work well. We estimate to have this done this week by which point we will prepare the release and submit it to the Windows Store. When this is done we just have to wait for the game to pass submission. Usually this takes around 5 days but in case it gets rejected for some reason (which we don’t expect) it could take another 5.

What features will the game have and how much will it cost?

Please see the updated Game Dev Tycoon page with a lot of new information and new screenshots.

What about ARM devices?

The lite version is already available on ARM devices and running quite well but we are seeing some performance issues in the full game, particularly in the later level where you have many characters on screen. We are optimistic that we will be able to deliver the full game for ARM devices soon but since we currently do not know the exact cause for the issues we see we cannot tell for sure. Once the first release is out the ARM version will be our priority. If we are lucky we can solve everything before Christmas, if not it will be early next year.

Game translations?

Once the first release has settled a bit and we have the ARM version sorted we will start to make the game translatable. There is a surprising amount of text in the full game so this will take some time to prepare. At first we will likely translate the game to German (because we are both native German speakers so this makes it easy to test) and then we will consider other languages based on demand.

To celebrate the Windows 8 release we leave you with this image (click for large version):

Microsoft not only released Windows 8 to the world today but they also accepted a little update to our Game Dev Tycoon Lite app to the Store. Thank you Microsoft 🙂

You can get the update from the Windows 8 Store. If you don’t have Windows 8 yet you should read up on it here. Until January next year Microsoft offers a fantastic upgrade offer that allows you to upgrade from Windows 7, Windows Vista and even Windows XP(!) for just under 40$.

The full version of Game Dev Tycoon is still under development. We will post some new information about the full game in due course.