Inching toward Beta!

Greetings everyone! 

We are thrilled to announce our largest update for Project Stocks yet, which introduces multiplayer support that will launch on Steam in the coming weeks. Check out our Steam page 

While multiplayer has been a major focus, we've also made improvements to the core single-player experience. The artwork has been completely revamped with a much more polished look and feel. Numerous bugs and issues have also been addressed - we aim to provide the smoothest experience possible.

Overall, approximately 215 code commits were made in this latest update. About half related to multiplayer implementation, while the other half focused on enhancing the existing single-player mode.

Looking ahead, we will continue polishing and optimizing the game as we prepare for the Steam launch. After release, we plan to explore potential new features like adding CEO characters, limiting total shares, and letting players with major stakes vote on company direction. We also aim to improve mod support to give the community more customization options. 

One area we plan to revisit in the future is the news event system. Currently, events are randomly chosen, which has produced some "interesting" results. However, we think certain events should logically follow or relate to previous ones, so the random chooser is going to get thrown out.

We are also considering open-sourcing Project Stocks after its Steam release. As an indie studio that has benefited enormously from open-source software, we want to give back to the community. Our current plan is to fully open-source the game under a GPL license, without any "open core" limitations.

 We may open source the project sooner if we meet our initial sales targets on Steam, but we'll see!