Get To Work

Halving the Build Size and Bug Fixes Hello everyone! We\'ve been quiet working on our next big project, but had the time to make some big updates behind the hood of the game.  The Black-Screen BugFirst, we fixed a bug that was causing some players screens to go black when you hit \"reset to defaults\". We apologize for taking so long with this one - it was a bit of a doozy to find.  From 5GB to 2.5GBAs the team was working on an Xbox patch, we ran into some file size limits causing us to fail our Xbox submission. In order to get Get To Work\'s new patch onto Xbox, the team had to really dig deep and find some smart ways to reduce file sizes, and look for new optimizations - And as luck would have it, those optimizations have carried over to our steam build.  Instead of 5GB, the build should now be in and around 2.7GB! (Not exactly half, but 54.32% of the original size felt less sexy of a number).  Optimization 1: AddressablesGet To Work is built in the Unity game engine, and as with any engine, there are a lot of optimizations and tools at your disposal - the trick is knowing when and how to use them to maximize performance. Unity\'s Addressable system uses asynchronous loading to support loading from any location with any collection of dependencies. By packing asset bundles more efficiently, Addressables provides a simple way to make your game more dynamic. [unity\'s documentation]  If you don\'t care about the nitty gritty- if assets such as textures, models, and audio are organized thoughtfully, Addressables helps the engine avoid unnecessary duplication, which greatly reduces the final build size, and improves memory usage by loading and unloading content on demand.

Tower AdjustmentsWe\'ve made some minor adjustments to the tower (mostly fixing geometry where players were getting soft locked). The tower remains mostly the same, and most players shouldn\'t notice the changes. Speedrun timerThe Speedrun Community has requested we add a timer for the Doinkler Special, and as such, we\'ve added a timer that is based on height! Quality settingsWe\'ve added 3 quality settings (Low, Medium, High). These give very minor improvements to performance, but for those struggling to get good framerates in the main game, this should help a bit! Other Changes:Fixed a bug where the attempt counter would reset when opening level select multiple times.Removed \"The Doinkler Special Competition\" button in the title screen

Patch 1.0.4 Hello everyone!We\'re back with some updates to the game Audio Changes- Increased the baseline volume of ambient sounds in the game- Added better ambient sounds throughout the game Level Changes- Tweaking the power of the jump pads in \"applying for jobs\"- Adjusted some lights that were too bright in the warehouse section- Removed a duplicate slingshot in middle management- Adding some additional recovery in the Department Head Section, as well as when you become VP- Added new textures and fixed some lighting issues for the second ending - Closing seams in the geometry across all levels- Cleaning up some blurry textures German- Get to Work has now been translated into German