CD Market - Music Label Sim news & patch notes

Update notes:

• Feat: Change band name! You can change the artist name but you will have to make your marketing team work on a rebranding campaign or lose recognition % on your artist.

You can also do this freely on sandbox but on main game to give it a sense of realism, I implemented it like this.

• Redesign: Demo session has been redesigned to be easier to use

• Feat: supporting tour indicator in artist summary

• Bug: fixed a 1950s bug where on the first release you couldn't make a promo single

• Bug: Capped nominations for players as there could be multiple in one category

• Balancing: collab earnings, festival earnings 50s/60s values adjusted to their real value of that time

• Style: added an indicator to mail bar so it's more clear that it can be open

• Bug: with automated releases and manual releases cap

Update notes:

• Feat: You can now optionally add custom portraits photos for artists members (instead of game avatars)

• Bug: With custom templates and starting artists

• Balancing: Stress changes, increased stress reduction effect on Chill mode, compounding stress effect reduced, supporting artist (tours) now gets some stress too

• Chore: Refactor the image sizes, added some compression to them as they were causing trouble to saves and taking lots of space. You can also see how much they weight above saves

• Feat: Legend of how much it costs to auto-inform in Scouting screen

Update notes:

• Bug: Fixed writers and producers cost scaling for early eras (1950s,60s).

Update notes:

- Tutorial/Help: New tab for "Game Basics", now "Help", instead of being in in-game menu

- Tutorial/Help: Added more info on PR Events and how they work

- Bug: promo single bug on multi-album contract (hopefully last one ːsteamfacepalmː)

Update notes: - Feat: Change Merch price by pressing on Manage button

- Bug: Festival of "Electronic" genre as an example, showed before it was available

- Bug: promo single on multi-albums contracts fixed

Update notes: - Bug: Promo single logic fixes and added them to help

- Bug: Fixed UI scaling issue with artists cards

- QoL: Sort by profit and release date in releases screen

- Style: New release screen -> distribution step -> now displays regions recognition more clearly

Update notes:

• Help shortcut added to each screen at the top! Easier access to relevant pieces from game basics

• Fix: game was not closing on Steam after browser was opened (to search for images as an example)

• QoL: Region Filter in Scouting screen

• QoL: Market sizes added to Market Research screen too

• Fix: Duplicated artist in global charts

• QoL: Tour enhancements, you can now press the bars instead of "+" and "-"

• Style: Added more contrast to "accountants needed" text

• Translation: Fixed a wrong translation reported by an user

Update notes:

• IMPORTANT: Linux users please disable proton and run the game native with Linux. Should work fine now!

• Feat: Setting to disable Rival label offers from Sandbox

• Bug: Fixed Promo single message being shown always

• QoL: added an "edit name" button next to Style name in template

• Bug: wavy borders still being shown in some alert popups (with disable wavy setting active)

• Bug: Genre award given too easily fixed

• Bug: Fixed template tour enhancements input field

CD Market is available now for Windows, Mac and Linux!

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CD Market releases on Friday, with a 25% launch discount for the first 14 days!

Release times

🇺🇸 United States • 7:00 AM - West Coast • 9:00 AM - Central • 10:00 AM - East Coast 🇧🇷 Brazil - 11:00 AM (Brasília and São Paulo) 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 3:00 PM 🇪🇺 Central Europe - 4:00 PM 🇨🇳 China - 10:00 PM

🇦🇺 Australia - 12:00 AM Saturday (Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane)

Launch prices

🇺🇸 United States: $14.99 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: £10.12 🇪🇺 Europe: €10.69 🇧🇷 Brazil: R$37.87 🇨🇳 China: ¥54 🇨🇦 Canada: C$16.87 🇦🇺 Australia: A$20.21

Regional prices:

• Latin America: $3.29 • South Asia: $3.19 • Middle East and North Africa: $3.59

The game will be available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. See you on Friday!

CD Market started on mobile back in October 2024, and since then I’ve kept building on it with updates and fixes with huge support from the community.

Now it’s making the jump to desktop.

The Steam version includes new features, improved graphics, a new soundtrack, Steam achievements, Steam workshop and the whole adaptation for desktop displays.

CD Market launches on Steam on July 17th. For PC, Mac and Linux.

Thanks for following the game. If you haven’t already, wishlisting helps a lot.

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