Good morning,

I'm excited, I've been working like crazy since mid-January with the 150 beta testers of City Game Studio.
The user interface has been completely redesigned, and it is gorgeous.



Creating a game is a pleasant experience. It is easy to compare different game consoles and computers (market share, game catalog size...)



Publishing a game with a publisher is more attractive, informations are immediately available and organized. Porting a game to several platforms is done in a few clicks, and it's even easier for post-mortems.



It's wonderful to see how the growing community is there and helps me a lot to make a game that meets their expectations and eventually go further.
I have talked a lot about the aesthetics so far, which is pleasant. Let's now turn to the balancing of the game.
There are already 2 people who have already managed to beat the game (-Captain- and Bright Glory). Congratulations to them, they scored over 2 Billion (which broke the counter).

City Game Studio is going early access in a few days, on 21 February, I keep working hard on it and hope you will enjoy the last minute changes Im doing!



Binogure

Happy new year to all!

I bet that just like me when you play a tycoon game you like to see beautiful animated charts! Since I've developped one for City Game Studio, I took few minutes of my time to open source the code[/ur] and create a chart-gd library, its free, and under the MIT license.Did you notice that too? I redesigned the UI of City Game Studio, I hope you like it! Did you know that there are more than 60 game genres in City Game Studio? Well thanks to our brand new system you can new unlock them as soon as you have enough experience!The government hid it from you for years, but in reality e-mails already existed back in 1976. We have proof of that (satiric)!Finally we will talk about [url]translating City Game Studio. More and more of you are helping me to translate the game into various languages.
Thanks to Skayo, LHPixel, menguele, MaximumOverflow, ErMANWood, mastermarkus, karpejev and Kloriun City Game Studio is available in French, English, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian and Ukrainian.



If you are eager to become a beta-tester of City Game Studio then join us on discord, our last beta phase will start in a few days!

That's all folks, we'll meet again in February.
Binogure

Hey fellows game makers!

Have you ever wanted to create online games? Managing your own servers? Hang in there because you're going to have to follow the demand! Creating an online game has never been easier.



Competing studios feature has just been released! You will have to use logic to be able to anticipate them, buy them back and dominate the entire city! In the meantime if you want to gain more popularity you will have to deal with Ubihard, Circle Enix and the others competing companies!



It takes time to compete with other companies. Makeover your studios has never been that easy. It's wonderful what we can do with technology these days!




I put that here, I just like making appealing gifs ːsteamhappyː



Do you have trouble assigning your employees to their workstations one by one? Do you waste a lot of time updating all of your workstations across all your studios? Now you can assign all of your employees and update all your computers with a single click!



City Game Studio will be officially available on steam in no time! So it is time, if you want to contribute by suggesting new features, check out our Official discord!

                                    

And for those who want to help us, well talk about City Game Studio on your favorite social network (for us it's twitter).

And that's all for this month!

Binogure

We started the beta on October 31st and everything is rolling smoothly ! We are constantly improving City Game Studio's stability, not even mentioning your manifold suggestions. Most of them are now on our to-do list.



In a word, during the past few weeks, the game has been completely transformed. UI, graphics, hints, animations, everything is better ! For example, if it used to take just a good game to be sustainable, you have now a whole lot of buttons and parameters to be able to market your game.



We are making great strides for the game's development, and we will already be able to release the game anytime soon ! If you want to contribute with suggestions for new features, feel free to pass by our official Discord ! For those wishing to do a bit more to help, talk about City Game Studio on social medias !

That's all for this month !

Binogure

Wondering when City Game Studio is going to be released? Well it is settled for February 2019.
Indeed, we are currently working on the beta phase, it should be ready anytime soon. So join our Discord to get a chance to grab a steam key and to enjoy City Game Studio!



The real chunk of September has been the steam integration. We had to work on our own library to integrate Godot Engine with the Steam SDK. This fresh new library enables achievements, statistics, leaderboards and the workshop. We wanted to use an already existing library, however none of already existing ones was working, it costs us 2 extra weeks of work to create this library. We’ve open sourced it under the MIT license and it is available for free on Github.



Not only that, based on your feedback, we have improved the user interface and the user experience a lot! Also since City Game Studio is cross platform we worked on improving performances and stability on windows and GNU/Linux.



During the last playtest session, players asked us where they can buy the game. Many of them are thinking that the game is ready enough to be available on steam now. Thank you for that feedback, it means a lot for us. You can help us releasing City Game Studio early by helping translating the game.

Much love from all of us at Binogure Studio! (づ￣ ³￣)づ

Nimue

This summer, we conducted our first playtest for City Game Studio, thanks to the collaboration of the GamePlay Space, Montreal. We have had the opportunity to test the features already completed, mainly the early stages of the game. We were able to pin point what could be perfected and to confirm what can be considered done, but also to put to the test the concept of our game to a broad audience. And we were not disappointed! We met a heartwarming and motivating enthusiasm. Thank you to all the attendees!





Among the adjustments we made, the development progress animation have been corrected to be more entertaining in-between the different setting phases. The recruitment panel can now be sorted by skills or by salary. We also reworked completely the notification system : instead of pop-ups that would break the player’s experience when too frequent, we now have those spiffy little boxes flowing on top of the window.



On another topic, Binogure Studio is slowly becoming a topic of conversation. We hosted last week our very first interview! We met Mickaël from “Le Lien Multimedia” to talk about were the idea of City Game Studio came from, our development process, where we are heading toward and so many other things!



Thank you all for your support! You can follow us on Twitter to be updated of coming events, and if you have any question, feel free to pass by the Discord channel.



All the best,
Nimue

Hi everyone!



In over a month, we've made some real progress on City Game Studio's development. The tutorial is nearly done, so is the notation system, and we are advancing graphic polish here and there.

Next step is to implement cool music and sounds, and the whole marketing part. In other words, so far so good ! Everything should be ready for the closed beta in October.



In the mean time, we are participating to all kinds of events for preliminaries tests. If you pass by Montreal in the next few weeks, don't forget to check our Facebook page to know where and when to be to get a chance to try out City Game Studio.



Last but not least, we've open a dedicated Discord server ! Feel free to join us if you want to talk about our latest announcements, to share on other video games or just to check our impressive pizza meme collection. And bring on your friends, the more the merrier.

JOIN THE FUN

Thank you all for your support and for helping us grow our visibility !

Just like you we cannot wait for the release of City Game Studio. Nonetheless, releasing City Game Studio too early would imply cutting out features and rushing tests. We want City Game Studio to be a rich game with an infinite lifetime. We want to optimize City Game Studio, to improve your game experience and we want you to love playing City Game Studio.

City Game Studio started as side project, one standing man making all of the development, assets, marketing, website... It was fun, but then you guys went crazy and over a thousand players started to follow the game development, asking for features and news. With that hype, we decided to give Binogure Studio a better structure, and it takes time.


We don't want to deliver a non-finished game, so we'd better provide a closed beta than releasing an early access game. Mainly because a closed beta offers you a more complete game, bugs included ;-) Each line of code, each asset have been made with the right amount of love. We want City Game Studio to be an outstanding game!


We work, and we work hard to be able to release City Game Studio on time. Starting next week, we will be two fulltime employees at Binogure Studio. However, as we live without subsidies, we regularly accept subcontracts. This impacts the game development, still, it pays the bills. An alternative would be to raise funds with a crowdfunding campaign, and we would like hearing your thoughts on this. Feel free to express yourself in the comments.




Back to February 2018, we had to step back, having a big picture of what we were doing then. It's hard to be objective and to keep a critical mind working alone on a project. Working and releasing Sneak In, a free puzzle game for android mobile phone, helped us solving this issue. Even though this decision has slowed down the development of City Game Studio for a while, it allowed us to put our finger on our weak points and to improve ourselves. Now we are excited to work on City Game Studio again!We also have submitted Sneak In to a contest offered by Lotto Quebec as part of Quebec's independent video games, and we are proud to announce that Binogure Studio has been invited to the Montreal's Comiccon which will take place from July 6th to 8th, 2018.


Thank you for being so many to follow City Game Studio, we are looking forward to sharing the fruit of our labour with you.

Greetings folk,

Happy new year 2018 fellow followers !

We hope you enjoyed you holidays as much as we did !
Indeed, we are busy working on games and we started our first closed alpha test. Meaning few people have been selected to alpha test the game.

A more open alpha test would happen in few weeks. And for the occasion we have updated our website (feedbacks are very welcome).

As you can see, on the website you can subscribe to our newsletter. So if you want to be the very first to know about our next alpha test, SUBSCRIBE !

Follow us on twitter

Greetings folk,

Happy new year 2018 fellow followers !

We hope you enjoyed you holidays as much as we did !
Indeed, we are busy working on games and we started our first closed alpha test. Meaning few people have been selected to alpha test the game.

A more open alpha test would happen in few weeks. And for the occasion we have updated our website (feedbacks are very welcome).

As you can see, on the website you can subscribe to our newsletter. So if you want to be the very first to know about our next alpha test, SUBSCRIBE !

Follow us on twitter