Software Inc Alpha 4.2

About This Game
Construct and design buildings for optimal working conditions. Hire people to design and release software, so you can defeat the simulated competition and take over their businesses. Manage and educate your employees to make sure they are skilled and satisfied with their job.

Software Inc. combines tycoon gameplay with multi-story building mechanics, employee management and a simulated market. It is inspired by games like Game Dev Tycoon, Prison Architect, The Sims and Theme Hospital.

Key Features

-Build, furnish and maintain office buildings up to ten stories + basement, on an enormous Land
-Hire employees to design, develop, support, research and market software in teams
-Build roads and parking to ease commuting for your employees
-Tend to your employees' needs, demands, skills and specializations, while making sure each team has compatible personalities
-Customize your own employee avatar
-Create your own software products and franchises
-Compete in a simulated or event-driven market by selling your products, taking on contract work or trading stocks
-Hire staff to repair your furniture and computers, and clean your office
-Mod what kind of software you can develop, what kind of companies will be simulated, game scenarios, missions, personalities and random name generators
-Delegate important tasks to your team leaders, such as managing development cycles and human resources
-Set up your own servers for products, source control and running your own online store


Changelog:

Days per month
You can now choose up to 8 days per month and old save files that worked in the last update should still work properly in this update. Note that you can't change this during a game, you have to decide how long you want a month to be when you start a new game. Please post in the forums if you find that something is unbalanced when playing anything other than 1 day per month.

Employees getting stuck
The pathfinding system has been fixed. So employees will no longer get stuck for no reason, so if your employees are still getting stuck, you probably forgot to add a door or an elevator somewhere.

Corrupted save files
A lot of bugs have been fixed in the load mechanism, so if you have some corrupted save files, they probably work now.

Localization
Fixed some errors in the localization files, e.g. delay and alpha being switched. For translators: Each update will add a new tag to the bottom of the UI.xml file with the name of the alpha version in which new translations have been introduced. So you can just copy these xml tags to the bottom of the XML files you have now and everything should be accounted for.



System Requirements
Minimum:
OS: Windows 7
Processor: 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: 512 MB dedicated video RAM, Shader Model 3.0
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Hard Drive: 500 MB available space