So I was planning this update mainly to fix some long standing bugs and issues, but I thought I might as well implement the mechanics for Hotels too! Also, you can now choose to use High Resolution Textures (twice the standard resolution). Hope you enjoy them!

See at the bottom of this post how to participate in the beta test.

Patch Notes

1.2.0

• Added: New Business: Hotels! (Motels really). Create a Hotel Lobby as a reception for your guests and Hotel Rooms for them to sleep at. Hotel guests will spend more time and money at your Mall. Hire Cashiers as receptionists and make sure you have a Maintenance Center nearby with Janitors to clean the rooms and change the bed sheets when your guests are gone. A garbage pick-up zone nearby will help things run smoothly too.

• Added: New objects: Hotel Bed, Hotel Shower Stall and Hotel Room Door.
  

• Added: High Resolution Textures. Recommended for players with a QHD (1440p), UHD (2160p) or above monitor. You can switch to High resolution textures in the Video Options.
  

• Changed: Builders now prioritize building doors over everything else to reduce to probability of having inaccessible work orders.
  

• Added: A warning icon and tooltip over inaccessible work orders.
  

• Changed: Builders can now come to work on foot if the main entrance is disconnected from your road network to prevent a potential soft lock in such a case.
  

• Changed: Autosaves are now cycling through 5 different save names to help recover from mistakes/bugs. You now always will have an autosave from five in-game days ago.
  

• Changed: Improved memory management.
  

• Fixed: Glitchy building wall shadows.

You can opt-in for the unstable build this way:

• In your steam library, right-click on the game and select properties

• Select the 'BETAS' tab and select 'unstable - Test branch'

• You don't have to enter an access code, click close.

Make sure Steam downloads an update and the version says 1.2.0 on the main menu.

Here is a post-release update with extended modding limits, a much needed independent handling of floor tiles build orders, improvements to ultrawide mode and a bunch of bug fixes.

Scroll down for a Workshop showcase to make good use of the new modding limits!

Patch Notes

1.1.0

• Changed: Products/objects mods are now limited by texture space. On the manage mods menu the texture space is estimated and might not be completely accurate. Mods that could not be loaded will show up as a warning sprite in-game.
  
• Changed: You can now have up to 640 modded products instead of 128 (you will most likely be limited by texture space before reaching that number though).
  
• Changed: You can now have up to 108 modded floor tiles instead of 20.
  
• Changed: Orders to build floor tiles are now handled separately from foundations/objects orders so that build orders do not cancel each other.
  
• Added: You can now display the names of characters if they were generated from Twitch chat or modified, or display all names, from the Twitch tab of the options menu. You can also press N in-game to cycle through modes.
  
• Fixed: A possible corruption of fine dining restaurants.
  
• Fixed: Minimum size storages not getting deliveries.
  
• Fixed: Blocky UI in ultrawide modes.
  
• Fixed: Flickering zone panels in ultrawide modes.
  
• Fixed: Various scaling issues in ultrawide modes.
  
• Fixed: A possible crash when using fullscreen on high refresh rate monitors.
  
• Fixed: Customer status referencing random zones when going to non-retail businesses.

1.1.1

• Fixed: Scaling issues with the new floor tiles rendering (glitchy gaps and seams).
  
• Fixed: Glitches on various women haircuts.

1.1.2

• Changed: Masks are now only displayed on some characters during the outbreak event.
  
• Fixed: Using the letter N when renaming things would cycle through the names display options.

If you have bugs to report, please post in the appropriate Discussions: http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/521150/discussions/1/


Now seems like a great time to showcase some of the most prolific mod makers on the workshop and help you guys make good use of the extended modding limits!

Click the name of each creator to access all their mods for Another Brick in The Mall.

wooby6797[psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com] made 5 hilarious restaurant skins to bring some variety to your mall's catering businesses.
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1901023548&searchtext=
JaY[psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com] has a bunch of fun products and this amazing objects pack with a ton of stuff:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2261404874&searchtext=
BigAl56[psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com] has a ton of new floor tiles to make your Mall look unique and some new products too!
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1998858236
brittpinkie[psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com] has a lot of new products, including toys, accessories, home appliances, groceries and more!
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1989116245&searchtext=
Kayla Silverfox[psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com] also has a ton of new specialty products:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1996154253&searchtext=
Kosii[psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com] made a bunch of clever mods to hack-in some decorative features:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2091829008&searchtext=
Finally, our own official objects pack adds a bunch of new objects such as new counters, statues, a claw machine and more:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1817022232&searchtext=
And of course the all-time favorite Mall Architect mod!
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1545725998&searchtext=


Obviously we couldn't list everyone, so head over to the Workshop[psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com] for more products, objects, floor tiles, scenarios and over 1000 maps!


Want to create mods of your own?
Check out our Modding Guide[psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com], it has everything you need to know to get started.


Have fun building, everyone!

The original soundtrack for Another Brick in The Mall by David Gonzalez is now available on Steam!

https://psteamproxy.yuanyoumao.com/app/1379440/Another_Brick_in_The_Mall_Soundtrack/

A great opportunity to enjoy the soundtrack outside the game and support an amazing musician!

The soundtrack will be available on other popular platforms in the near future.

First things first: a huge THANK YOU to all our early adopters, especially if you submitted feedback, suggestions and bug reports, your support and help have been invaluable and we couldn't have made it without you!

Another big shootout to the modders: Head over to the workshop to enjoy their gigantic malls, fun new products, restaurant skins and more!

It's easy to forget which features were added during early access if you've been here from the start, and also easy to assume it's been that way forever if you're a new player. But it's been a long road and many staple features didn't exist at launch: objects rotation (veterans out there remember!) , offices, shoplifting or the shift planning tool, just to name a few!

Here is a timeline with some of the major features and content added during early access; a lot of them were due to your feedback and suggestions:
Now, what about Another Brick in The Mall's future? Well, we're not done yet!

Although our focus will shift towards a new project from now on, this won't be the last update to Another Brick in The Mall, so your suggestions, big and small, are still much appreciated.

Post 1.0 updates will focus on expanding modding capabilities and removing limitations in an effort to help keep the game fresh long after we're done, with new content from the community.

Official new content is not out of the question but less likely.

Although we fixed thousands of them with your help, some obscure bugs might still persist so your reports are still much needed, and your quality of life suggestions still much appreciated.

If you have bugs to report, please post in the appropriate Discussions for optimal support: http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/521150/discussions/1/

Here are the patch notes for version 1.0.4 (mostly bug fixes and restaurants, bars and coffee shops can finally open 24/7):

Patch Notes

1.0.0

• Changed: Balanced price and demand for some products.
  
• Changed: Updated the Abandoned Mall scenario to accommodate recent changes.
  
• Changed: The demand menu now shows the potential profit range per tier for retail products.
  
• Fixed: The Assign Products tool now works on whole objects instead of only the object's anchor.
  
• Fixed: Removing an object placed on outdoor floor tiles would turn the cell to foundations.
  
• Fixed: When ordering to build floor tiles, tiles of that type are correctly ignored and not rebuilt/billed.
  
• Fixed: When unlocking road entrances in succession the cost is now correctly based on unlocked entrances instead of connected entrances.
  
• Fixed: Transferred guards now keep their assigned patrol.
  
• Fixed: A few typos.
  
• Added: A 'special thanks' section to the credits.
  
• Changed: Updated translations with the latest Localizor data.

1.0.1

• Fixed: An issue where traffic jam at the main road entrance could degenerate and never recover.
  
• Fixed: Ampersand (&) is now ignored when renaming things to avoid text glitches.
  
• Fixed: A possible corruption of self-checkouts.
  
• Fixed: A possible memory corruption when removing shelves while they are being used.
  
• Fixed: A possible corruption of various machines (arcade, vending, etc...).
  
• Changed: Updated translations with the latest Localizor data.

1.0.2

• Changed: You can now open fine dining restaurants, bars and coffee shops 24/7.
  
• Changed: Patrons at bars and coffee shops now leave when waiting for a reorder and their satisfaction reaches 0.
  
• Fixed: Various instances where waiters could become corrupted.

1.0.3

• Changed: When letting go of the opening duration slider of a zone, the zone will now properly close if applicable.
  
• Fixed: Building foundations adjacent to outdoor tiles would not generate automatic walls.
  
• Fixed: The minimum/base salary being reset when loading a game.
  
• Fixed: Misaligned list box items on ultrawide screens.

1.0.4

• Fixed: People getting stuck waiting for a bus nowhere near a bus stop.
  
• Changed: Updated translations with the latest Localizor data.

One last thing: there might be a few new players on the Discussion boards in the coming weeks, asking about mechanics or strategies. Remember, not everyone has been playing the game for 3 years or watched Let's plays before playing: please be nice, and if you can, helpful :)

And now let's get to building!

The time has finally come: Another Brick in The Mall version 1.0 will release on Thursday, April 30th!

Although our focus will shift towards a new project after release, this won't be the last update to Another Brick in The Mall, so your suggestions, big and small, are still much appreciated.

Needless to say the game would be very different without the feedback, suggestions and help you guys provided during early access, and we still could use your help in this 'final stretch':

This latest cycle is focused on making sure the build is stable and as bug-free as possible and you can help by testing it on the unstable branch, and report any bug, typo, minor annoyance you can find:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/521150/discussions/0/4300317773574066862/

You can also help finish and improve the translation of the game to your language on Localizor:
[www.localizor.com]https://www.localizor.com/game/18/translations

More info on Another Brick in The Mall's future coming on release day, along with a new trailer!

Hope to see you here and then to celebrate!

Patch Notes

0.32.0

• Added: Standard mode now offers 3 difficulty settings: Normal, Challenge and Expert.
  
• Added: You can now filter products by categories on the Assign Product tool.
  
• Changed: Balanced price and demand for some products, mainly to make specialty stores more viable and nerf some overperforming products.
  
• Changed: Objectives' rewards now scale with difficulty.
  
• Added: Warnings on the manage mods menu if mods exceed the maximum supported number (products and floor tiles).
  
• Added: Warnings on the manage mods menu if mods alter gameplay and would prevent some achievements from being granted.
  
• Changed: Changing floor tiles now costs $5 instead of $50.
  
• Changed: Characters are now less reluctant of crossing roads.
  
• Fixed: Stock clerks endlessly running around stores without restocking anything.
  
• Fixed: A rounding error when deducting foundations building costs.
  
• Added: Polish translation.
  
• Changed: Updated translations with the latest Localizor data.

0.32.1

• Added: 4 new achievements.
  
• Added: New event: Viral outbreak. Some employees stay at home sick and customers stock up on supplies. Unlike other events, this pops at the last moment on the timeline and can't happen more than once a year.
  
• Added: Art for the difficulty modes.
  
• Added: Jingles when objectives and research projects are completed.
  
• Changed: You can now order builders to prioritize any area.
  
• Fixed: Some text going out of bounds.
  
• Added: Simplified Chinese translation.
  
• Changed: Updated translations with the latest Localizor data.

0.32.2

• Added: Final master of the original soundtrack from David Gonzalez.
  
• Added: A detailed breakdown of daily income and expenses is now accessible from the finance menu.
  
• Fixed: Incorrect maintenance cost displayed for individual businesses when the maintenance sandbox setting was not default.
  
• Changed: Some tweaks to the Viral outbreak event.
  
• Changed: Updated translations with the latest Localizor data.

0.32.3

• Added: Enabled Steam cloud (Syncs saves, achievements, mod config and workshop items).
  
• Added: Final 'final' master of the original soundtrack.
  
• Added: New achievements are now active on Steam.
  
• Changed: Improved customers' parking AI.
  
• Changed: Removed misleading 'Requires access' in list of zone requirements.
  
• Fixed: A bug where staff who were parking when loading a game would permanently be considered as stuck in traffic.
  
• Fixed: Deliveries stopping if the customer parking was considered full.
  
• Fixed: A rare text glitch in the 'Word of mouth' notification.
  
• Changed: Updated translations with the latest Localizor data.

You can help improve the translation in your language: check the game's Localizor page https://www.localizor.com/game/18/translations

If you have bugs to report, please post in the appropriate Discussions: http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/521150/discussions/1/

If you are experiencing crashes, please follow the instructions and post in this thread: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/521150/discussions/1/282992646970591669/

Patch Notes

0.31.0

• Changed: Rewrote the customer algorithm to have a more accurate estimation of distances and travel time. This change puts a much greater emphasis on the efficiency of your mall's layout.
  
• Added: Marketing campaigns can now target a specific product or business.
  
• Added: You can now filter between local and workshop saves on the load game menu.
  
• Changed: Products on the assign products tool are now sorted alphabetically.
  
• Fixed: 'Manage staff' not highlighting the correct employee.
  
• Changed: Updated translations with the latest Localizor data.

0.31.1

• Added: Minimum salary raises. Congress will periodically attempt to pass a law to raise the minimum salary: you can either let the law pass or lobby lawmakers to vote against the raise. If you choose to lobby against the law, the next vote will happen sooner and the cost of lobbying will increase significantly.
  
• Added: Sandbox settings for minimum salary raises.
  
• Added: The last 2 tracks of music by David Gonzalez.
  
• Fixed: A text formatting problem with the $ character.
  
• Changed: Updated translations with the latest Localizor data.

0.31.2

• Changed: Minimum salary raises are now in the context of a workers' union instead of congress.
  
• Added: A notification when your workers unionize (currently when you reach $10,000 daily profit for the first time).
  
• Added: Notifications 30, 20, 10, 5 and 1 day(s) before a vote.
  
• Added: You can now see the job applicants' desired salary on the hire menu.

0.31.3

• Changed: Lowered the union triggering profit threshold to $5,000.
  
• Changed: The first vote now happens 20 days after unionization instead of 10.
  
• Fixed: The research menu scrollbar sometimes not working properly.
  
• Changed: Updated translations with the latest Localizor data.
  
• Added: Early (incomplete) Ukrainian and Portuguese (Brazilian) translations.

You can help translate the latest text on https://www.localizor.io/game/18/translations

If you have bugs to report, please post in the appropriate Discussions: http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/521150/discussions/1/

If you are experiencing crashes, please follow the instructions and post in this thread: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/521150/discussions/1/282992646970591669/

This update might be a bit underwhelming if you are playing the game in English, but it is a necessary step towards full release and it made sense to implement it early rather than having to resolve the implied technical issues (and there were a few) at the last minute.
Now that this is 'out of the way', regular content updates will resume soon!

Official translations will be handled on https://www.localizor.io/game/18/translations

[www.localizor.io]The Localizor tool lets you submit suggestions for new and existing game text, and vote for the best suggestions.
Doing so earns you coins that you can redeem in the coin shop which features a bunch of great Steam games.

Workshop translations are still supported but you are strongly encouraged to submit any new language or updates to existing languages to Localizor.

Finally, if your language is not yet available on Localizor (and you are willing to contribute) please let me know in the comments.

Patch Notes

0.30.0

• Added: Official language support for the following:.
  
  • German
    
  • Spanish
    
  • Russian
    
  • Japanese
    
  • Korean
    
  • Turkish

If you have bugs to report, please post in the appropriate Discussions: http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/521150/discussions/1/

If you are experiencing crashes, please follow the instructions and post in this thread: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/521150/discussions/1/282992646970591669/

Patch Notes

0.29.0

• Added: Information overlays. In SELECT mode, hover to the right side of the screen to enable overlays. Current available overlays are:
  
  • Road traffic
    
  • Pedestrian traffic
    
  • Parking usage
    
  • Squalor
    
  • Profit
• Changed: Some minor graphical tweaks to the UI to make it less 'flat'.
  
• Changed: Drivers now prefer surface parking over underground within a certain distance.
  
• Fixed: Wall shading when building walls over areas without foundations but surrounded by foundations.

0.29.1

• Added: You can now customize and rename characters (click on their portrait on the character panel).
  
• Added: A menu to mass transfer all staff from one business to another (Manage > Staff > Transfer all staff).
  
• Added: You can now ban one job candidate per day. They won't show up as a job candidate ever again.
  
• Changed: You can now disable cosmetic mods in-game.
  
• Changed: The squalor overlay now displays the area of efficiency of your maintenance centers.
  
• Changed: Litter now properly contributes to the squalor overlay.
  
• Changed: Removed the Bus driver strike event as it was excessively punitive.
  
• Changed: The 'Link storage' button now always blinks when there is no storage linked (previously only blinked during the tutorial).
  
• Changed: Twitch integration now works differently to better accommodate chats with thousands of users.
  
• Changed: Customers now do a head wobble whenever they're finishing checkout.
  
• Changed: The gaps in the top-right UI no longer register as map interaction.
  
• Fixed: The thief 'bubble' sometimes not showing up.
  
• Fixed: The outdoors sound (birds and crickets) playing excessively.
  
• Fixed: Fine dining patrons losing their legs while going to their table.
  
• Fixed: Faulty UI text priorities.
  
• Fixed: Various minor graphical glitches.

0.29.2

• Added: 2 new music tracks by David Gonzalez.
  
• Changed: When loading/starting a new game, the music will start at a random track (unless the tutorial is active).
  
• Fixed: Some passengers never being picked up in a specific bus stop configuration.
  
• Fixed: Faulty movie projector highlight on very large theaters.
  
• Fixed: The squalor overlay omitting dirty cells when under a maintenance center's efficiency area.
  
• Fixed: Some typos in english and french languages.
  
• Fixed: Minor graphical glitches.

Special shoutout to wooby6797 who's been making amazing fast food restaurant skins!
Get them on the workshop:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1901441105
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1891054164
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1896782515
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1901023548

Translators can check the strings.xml changelog in this post:
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/workshop/discussions/18446744073709551615/3175526477752200394/?appid=521150

If you have bugs to report, please post in the appropriate Discussions: http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/521150/discussions/1/

If you are experiencing crashes, please follow the instructions and post in this thread: https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/app/521150/discussions/1/282992646970591669/