Hey there, just a quick update for the folks using older hardware. I didn't notice this until I looked up some reason for refunding, but apparently people couldn't run the game because of some video driver issues. I didn't expect to encounter this issue since I thought most hardware should already support this driver version or at least that the game would automatically switch to the older version. But this wasn't the case until just recently, so I had to update the game engine that I'm using to the latest version and now older hardware should also be able to run this game, hopefully. I'm not sure how the performance is going to be though. I've also adjusted the default volume for the music since it seems for some people it might be too low that they don't even notice that there is any sound. Another thing I might have fixed is that the game should now use its own icon instead of the game engine one on Windows. I never noticed that is still used the default one on Windows, but should be fixed now.

There were more people than expected that played this game. I am really glad that so many people seem to enjoy the game and thank you for all the feedback which helped my find some bugs and improve on some other parts of the game. I tried to fix as many as I could but unfortunately I couldn't figure out all of them. I might need to improve the way of sending feedback to get more information. Nevertheless I have fixed and improved quite a few things in this update. There were surprisingly a lot of players from China and the font I use does not support the language which causes some UI problems. But there is not much I can do about it. At least it can still be shown and most of the stuff still works. Anyway here are the changes for this update:

Word Lists

Other Updates

• I decreased the default background music volume. It might have been too loud for many people. Sorry about that.
• I removed unrelated food words for manager level. It might have caused some confusion since people might not immediately notice them as invalid words.
• You now still receive money even if you typed the word wrong. Since you already lose the multiplier, there is no need for another punishment.
• I added a help document in the settings where you can read the description for each level again
• Adjusted the money multiplier for each level and renamed it in the UI so it's more noticeable.
• I added couple new words for english
• There is now an extra steam status when in-game, so that all your friends know you are working.

Bug Fixes

• FIxed a bug where using the coffee while the bar is blinking didn't reset the timer, so you would still lose.
• There is a bug in the stress increase where it just fill up way too fast, but I couldn't reproduce it either. I have now tried to limit the values wherever possible which might fix this problem.
• Simplified the scene transitions. I couldn't reproduce this either, but sometimes the transition seem to get stuck on a black screen. Hopefully this fixes it.
• Resignation document won't show your steam username if it contains non-typeable characters like Chinese or Japanese characters.

The game is finally out! This grew larger than expected, but I think it can be called finished now. I still had some other ideas planned like a multiplayer mode or more support for mods to add more languages or customize other stuff. But I dont think its really worth the time right now, maybe if there is enough interest for some stuff. Now I want to focus on my many other games ideas that I have and hopefully make something even better next time. This game taught me that I should not just go for a game idea without a clear goal in mind or without enough play testing the idea. So if you would like to help out in that regard, my discord server is open to everyone!

I've now uploaded the final demo build of the game which contains some bigger changes to the gameplay. Main changes includes:

The Steam NEXT fest has ended and there has been more players than expected. I thought I would get drowned by all the other games and would have no chance without marketing. Maybe typing games are just a niche that interested players will still find. So I have a small update and improvements for the demo version of the game. Some I noticed myself after playing and seeing all your scores. Also some feedback of yours has helped me improving the game.

Leaderboard

• A major point was also that you lost your leaderboard rank if you start a new game which defeats the purpose of the leaderboard. I don't know why I did that, maybe because I didn't have a way to save the score. But I've now added a local score too, so you can now try to beat your own score.
• I changed the friends leaderboard to local ranks. I don't think it makes sense to show the global rank there.
• I did a rework of the leaderboard to make it less cramped. You can actually read some of the username now!

Steam Cloud Save

Some Quality of Life Improvements

• Added a warning before quitting your job
• Reset the word using backspace too instead of just ESC
• Moved email to the top screen so it doesn't block the words
• You can scroll using the keyboard now!
• I've adjusted the difficulty of the levels a bit, so more people might reach higher levels and try the features. There is also now a promotion tip at the end of the day which tells you what needs to be improve to reach the next level. It's now just the WPM that decides that.