Dev Log#3 Production02

After two round of playtest, many problems exposed to the dev team and need to be imporved. First of all, a lot of our testers found that the options for month 1 and 2 are not realistic and does not make sense. For example,  in month 02, the main character Beatrice want to buy a house, but the money she got is just enough to pay for the downpayment but her monthly income does not support she paying her mortgage. In the original version, one of our 'best' option is to ask her buy the house, cut all her daily lasure expenses and pay for the mortgage, and when the house price goes up again, sell the house for profit. We received a lot critic about this option since the customer Beatrice clearly mentioned that her dream is buying a house, so most of the players assume that selling it later does not considered to be a good ending.

The Dev team do think about it and agreed that we should match the advice from the bank to the customer's wish. So instead, we changed the option to 'Buying a smaller house that she can afford' and if many years later the house price goes up, she can sell it and exchange for a larger house, and if the house price does not go up, she still have her own house to live in. After the change, the team received a more positive feedback regarding Beatrice's option during our third playtest.

Another big issue we found during our playtest is that the newscast have very little influence towards player's decision making process, Which is not our intention. And part of the resaosn is that it is hard for players to remember everything in the newscast and there is not way to check the newscast content again in the last version of our game.

To fix this, our team added two button to help player review the news brief as well as their financial reports at any time of the game. During our most rescent playtest, we do found evidence that player will click on those buttons to check for previouse provided information when making decisions.

Overall our team did a good job during the last month and a great improvment can be found in our new version.