Code Tycoon

Bug Fixes The end screens have their buttons back. On bankruptcy, victory and at the end of the demo, New Game and Main Menu were laid out outside the visible area - the only way on was to quit the game. The closing text on the demo end screen wraps instead of running off the edge of the box.

New Features Train your own developer skills with money and time instead of skill points. Specializations are a studio profile now — how many run at once depends on your office, and switching is free. An experienced founder mentors: staff training finishes noticeably faster. The Expertise tab shows where the development speed of your current project comes from, source by source. Improvements Banked skill experience survives training — spending a point no longer wipes the bar. Expertise works: your whole studio gets faster and less bug-prone on similar projects, not just you. Architecture and testing have a real effect and earn their own experience. Project management raises your project capacity, and harder projects pay more skill points. Locked specializations list their requirements with progress, and market cards show your expertise bonus. Specializations work within their field, with prices that scale with how deep the unlock sits. Bugs get rare with experience but never vanish entirely, so testing keeps mattering. The skills tutorial now describes the game that actually exists.

New Features Start scenarios: New Game opens with a choice — the classic endless run, or a scenario that sets the era, starting capital, reputation and pre-unlocked languages and frameworks. Each card shows what you get before you commit. Scenario goals: company funds, team size, office tier or mastering a language, each with a bronze, silver and gold mark. Your overall medal is the weakest tier you hold, so no goal can be neglected. Deadline and result: reach the goals before the deadline. Bronze counts the moment you hit it, your medal can still climb, and a result screen sums up every goal. Afterwards the game continues as an endless run. Improvements Scenario starting capital now follows the difficulty and the era, so later scenarios begin with a budget that matches their decade instead of a 1980s purse. A scenario shows its own goals on the Goals screen — a start in 1999 or later could never complete the era milestones it was measured against. The chosen scenario and your medal are kept in the save file. Modding The Mod Editor builds full scenarios: description, position in the list, a goal with all three tiers, and a deadline year.

New Features Company takeovers: buy out a competitor straight from the Competitors panel, or accept a discounted offer in your inbox. Every deal shows a full cost breakdown, you can optionally take over their offices for the extra desks, and you absorb their reputation and some of their staff. Rolling training: set a single train-to-maximum plan per employee, team or founder. It keeps leveling a language to the cap, then moves on to the next language in your queue, so you no longer re-queue course after course. Smarter hiring: tell recruiters which role you need to bias the applicant pool, and pay to reroll the applicants when none of them fit. Sandbox mode: a new difficulty with no bankruptcy and no money pressure, so you can build freely. Marketing for your own products: hire Marketers — a new employee role with its own Junior → CMO career ladder — and run per-product campaigns. A monthly budget plus assigned marketers build a product's awareness, which drives sales; leave it unmarketed and the hype fades. Improvements Casual is now the default difficulty for new games (any difficulty is still selectable). New teams automatically take on matching projects by default, configu