Changelog

You can access the in-game changelog by clicking the version number in the bottom right corner.

Below is a list of all releases of Hardware Tycoon along with changes in them, descending by date.

0.2.9

Released: 11th February 2021

The GHz & customization update

Added

• Simple customizable company logos
• A second, alternative, campaign and the ability to pick a campaign
• Gameplay settings adjustable when creating a new company: disabling bankruptcy, disabling competitors, enabling infinite money, switching campaigns
• Main menu with links to socials and an exclusive theme by Thes_Gunslingers
• Bankruptcy is accompanied by a news article and actually ends the game now
• Selectable technology processes
• 5 new PGA sockets, 13 more clock speeds (up to 2.7 GHz), 45nm technological process
• Sound effects for research end, the typing effect in reviews, and to signal the lack of funds
• New market CPUs (63 if you count the new campaign) & big changes to existing ones
• Competitors' CPU architectures and laid foundations for player-created ones
• Save-specific system date and time visible when loading from the main menu (generally redone saving)
• Typing-out effect for reviews
• Experimental custom theme colors, including a dark mode preset (only accessible through the console for now)
• Basic random CPU names to help choose a name when designing
• Transitions when loading or starting a new game
• A confirmation window when trying to load or overwrite a save
• CPU brands visible in the market
• Ability to easily view the number of remaining days for CPU designs (mouse over the name at the top)
• Brought back the ability to speed up time in the market window
• Higher resolution UI elements (most of them)
• Numeric '4' to pause the game (alongside space and '0')
• Using certain console commands will lower the high score multiplier
• Alternative Inlet 4000 review if it's the first CPU
• Game version visible in high scores
• A warning if you don't have enough money for the chosen marketing campaign
• The possibility to design CPUs with non-unique names
• More things referenceable from reviews for future use (no need to hardcode names)
• New console commands

Reworked

• Review window redesign
• Bank redesign
• Changed the role of technology processes in the game & tweaked their parameters
• The way high scores are counted (new difficulty multipliers, weighing changes and a profit metric)
• Annual tax works in a different way now - you pay a chunk of your balance at the end of each year if you have over $100k available
• Major balancing efforts again; changes to clock speeds, difficulty settings, packages, tech processes, research, and competitors
• Core max clock percentage only affects performance calculation now, you can still set full clock
• When a player's and a competitor's CPU get released on the same day, prioritize the player's one, and show the competitor's product afterward
• R&D budget slightly less effective & increased max R&D budget gain
• Adjustments to reviews' contents + fixed typos
• Time in the game progresses quicker now
• Unified rounding for all numbers
• Increased design time speed bonus for CPU levels
• Rewritten or retouched most CPU descriptions
• Slower popularity gain
• Changed loan 'repayment' to 'interest' in bank to avoid confusion
• Increased the rate at which maximum loan goes up
• Increased character limits for names
• Disabled RMB context menus in textboxes
• Finances textbox now sorts newest events first (instead of ascending by date)
• Removed the ability to use competitors' company names (again)
• Research doesn't get unselected after switching tabs in R&D anymore
• Sound volume backend, only controllable through the console for now
• Slight changes to market window layout
• Modified the notification at 1 year before the end of the game
• A ton of backend optimizations & streamlining
• Opening the console doesn't enable debug mode by default anymore
• Increased default music volume
• Textboxes' colors now reset after canceling CPU design window
• Changes to some console commands and a general clean up

Fixed

• Vertical alignment of most of the text objects in the game (blame Chromium on this one. If your browser uses a different engine, this might've unnecessarily put these texts lower than they should be)
• Improper fonts for some text objects
• Pie chart in the market window disappearing after loading a save
• Custom packages created using the Mod Tool being displayed incorrectly in R&D
• Things outside of the viewport would be rendered when playing on different aspect ratios
• Links not working on Linux
• Full screen switch gets set properly when opening options
• Many issues related to music
• News and notifications windows not hiding the menu button
• Hype display not appearing after loading a save while a CPU wasn't gaining hype
• The slider in marketing was adjustable while the window itself was still opening
• Rounding errors in displayed clock speeds under unusual circumstances
• Popularity doesn't go over 100% for a split second after a marketing campaign anymore
• Being able to change the filter in products window while looking at statistics of a product
• Mod-loading-related notifications displaying incorrectly
• Market slider's value not resetting after loading
• Other minor visual bugs

0.2.8.3

Released: 5th May 2020

Bug fixes & improved high scores

Added

• 2 new CPUs
• Company logos in news
• Ability to speed up the animations in high scores
• Feedback on how good your high score is

Reworked

• A new formula for competitors' CPUs (gives more control over units sold)
• Made easy less difficult and hard more difficult
• Tiny adjustments to the player's sale formula
• Changed the budget button in R&D from a cog to a dollar sign

Fixed

• The projected stats button was clickable even when the product info window was closed
• Music not playing after loading a save
• A notification about taxes would show up while the high score was being counted, leading to unexpected behavior
• You weren't able to load a mod made for an earlier version of the game
• Product info's price textbox's controls were visible when the product info window was closed
• You were able to open the pause menu without hiding the context menu

0.2.8.2

Released: 21st April 2020

Even more balancing & product info update

Added

• Product info window (press on the name of the CPU you're currently designing)
• 130nm to 65nm technological processes
• Descriptions for a couple of CPUs and 1 new IMM CPU
• Icons for dual-core research in R&D

Reworked

General rebalance:

• Unit costs for every component are much lower now
• Slightly increased maximum loan value
• Increased the amount of starting money
• Updated competitors' CPUs' sale formula
• Tweaked the stats of some competitors' CPUs
• Lowered experience and money requirements for research
• Competing companies use marketing later on
• You earn a little more for every unit sold
• Made it easier to achieve higher CPU scores
• Lowered minimum CPU price to $20

Other:

• Back-end optimizations, which hopefully will streamline the development process of the game and reduce memory usage
• Removed the strange blank sale window which always appeared after loading
• Rewrote some texts

Fixed

• Font scaling on higher resolutions
• Specific clock speeds showing incorrectly in reviews
• Changing clock unit changes the clock value properly now
• Set full screen if it's enabled on the save you are loading
• Empty changelog after loading in some cases
• Some insignificant typos
• Sale graph resets properly after loading now

0.2.8.1

Released: 13th August 2019

Balancing & high scores update

Added

• High scores - the game ends and counts your score in 2006
• Option to go full screen
• Milestones up to dual-core
• 7 new packages & clock speeds up to 60MHz
• New CPUs from competitors and their respective descriptions
• Back button in the menu to go to the creation screen and start a new game

Reworked

• Content of reviews - more feedback for the player
• Window backgrounds - less resource usage
• Made the game a little easier - all research is cheaper, reworked the sale formula, and hopefully improved balance
• Menu animations (should be smoother and not break)
• Sliders and graphs should look smoother too
• Buttons in bank

Fixed

• R&D window breaking under certain circumstances
• Another price exploit
• Unit prices of competitors' CPUs
• Changing the tab in R&D unselected research but only visually
• Milestones tooltips display properly now
• 'Yes' button appearing in notifications it shouldn't appear in
• You can't get a negative score anymore (sorry)
• Many lesser bugs I won't bother listing

0.2.8

Released: 4th December 2018

Content & mod support update

Added

• CPU Cores
• Mod support (.htmod - check out HT Mod Tool!) and mod management in options
• PGA type packages
• New DIP and PLCC packages, more CPU clock research
• Max clock speeds and supported cores for packages
• New competitors' CPUs
• Build quality affecting max clock speed
• Price affecting review score
• Industry milestones in Milestones
• News when competitors release their CPUs (can disable in options)
• A new graph in finances
• Max R&D budget increases by $300 every 10 years
• Lines in R&D so it doesn't look empty
• Ability to close the context menu that appears after clicking on currently selling CPU by clicking it again
• Price text box turning orange if the price is too low when setting build quality
• New console commands

Reworked

• Milestones - completely new window
• Removed slider in R&D and replaced it with WASD/Arrow keys movement or dragging
• Tweaks to existing competitors' CPUs
• Tweaks to CPU rating - harder to get a perfect score
• Tweaks to research - balanced required CPU exp, unlock dates and made them more expensive
• Can't scroll past research and packages in R&D and package select, both windows scaling with the number of elements
• Balanced benefits from tech research
• CPU profits and R&D budget showing every week instead of daily in finances to avoid flood
• Research won't progress if you don't have enough money
• Increased the maximum price for CPUs to 1000
• Nerfed high hype
• Build quality slider doesn't go back to 75% every time you open CPU Design
• Updated Moore's Jazz track from Thes_Gunslingers
• Renamed 'History' to 'Products'

Fixed

• Random crashes related to autosaving (probably)
• 13th month showing up in finances
• Popularity going over 100 after a marketing campaign
• Removed the ability to change time speed in package select
• Textboxes overlapping the news window
• Done button in marketing was greyed out when it shouldn't be
• Context menu not closing when opening finances
• CPU Sale context menu staying open after CPU goes off the market
• Finances not updating after opening
• ESC would close the menu while loading from creation

0.2.7

Released: 28th July 2018

Research & Development update

Added

• CPU Package selector
• 3 new competitor CPUs from Element
• Each CPU in the Market has its own assigned color
• Collapsible sale UI window
• Ability to cancel CPU design
• Thes_Gunslingers' musical masterpiece
• Link to a guide on startup
• Simple easter eggs
• Debug mode
• Dev console with basic commands
• Ability to set clock speeds with 2 decimal points (ex. 7.44 MHz)
• Marketing expenses now count to CPU's profit
• Ability to select and unselect all checkboxes in Marketing by clicking on "Ads" or "Region"
• Custom sliders in options, CPU design and Marketing
• Remaining 4 PLCC packages' icons
• Marketing generating popularity
• Higher CPU levels decreasing design time
• A little randomness to review score
• Custom .exe icon
• Confirmation dialog when deleting save data
• Ability to open/close the menu with ESC
• Number rounding in Bank

Reworked

• Research from scratch - replaced it with R&D with a daily budget; related changes:
  • Now you have to research 'CPU Development' before being able to design a CPU
  • Changed some researches & added 1 µm process research
  • Removed 'through-hole' package
  • DIP14 and 200kHz clock speed unlock by default after researching 'CPU Development'
  • Added R&D budget which drains money only when researching; higher budget = faster research progress
• Reworked sale graph
• Redone hype calculation & hype now increases gradually
• 'X' buttons in each window instead of cancel buttons
• Small New Hardware window redesign (you don't have to click 'next' each time)
• 1 MHz now equals 1000 instead of 1024 kHz
• Packages & clocks rebalance
• Balanced out build quality (doesn't affect design time among others)
• Add brand button turning into a checkmark after clicked
• Autosaving every 3rd month instead of every month
• Tweaked sale formula (again again again)
• Smoothened out UI progress bars
• Small Change Price window redesign + added % change between the current and new price
• Removed GPU tab in history
• Now you know which CPU generates revenue in Finances ("CPU Sale" -> CPU's name)
• Various optimizations to reduce CPU usage & changed a lot of stuff behind the scenes
• Changed lowest clock speed from 200 to 100kHz
• Changed the default CPU level from 1 to 0
• Renamed 'sockets' to 'packages'

Fixed

• History not being displayed correctly on later pages
• Hype from next marketing campaigns not adding up properly
• Hype UI bar animation
• Being able to create a brand without a name
• Being able to open 2 windows at once in some cases
• Being able to change time speed in some windows
• Opening Bank or Market wouldn't pause the game
• Being able to name your company the same as a competing company
• History buttons not highlighting properly sometimes

0.2.6

Released: 5th May 2018

Big redesign update

Added

• Ability to check your previous CPUs' components
• CPU brands
• Music - 9 tracks & music volume setting in options
• Live market share (market updates daily)
• Ability to set the highest clock speed possible by clicking the text that shows it
• Clock speed changes when you change its unit (ex. 1024 to 1 when you change to MHz)
• Ability to disable tax notification
• Ability to unpause (go back to previous speed) after clicking pause while the game is paused
• Placeholder window icon and .exe name in the desktop release
• Price text when changing pricing becoming orange when the selected price is too low to bring profit

Reworked

• Redone the history window
• Redesigned CPU design window
• Tweaked the sale formula
• Redone competing CPUs' sale formula, making it more fair and balanced
• Much faster popularity gain
• Optimized saving (the game should save faster and saves take up less space)
• Lots of backend streamlining
• Improved feedback on why you can't design a CPU (money turning red when you can't afford it etc.)
• Changed CPU sale chart from line to bar, should spaz out less
• Made design and research in top UI larger and easier to read
• Rewrote the changelog
• Minor adjustments to the 1MHz CPU event
• Autosave turned on by default
• Removed the ability to have multiple CPUs with the same name
• Changed 'Delete save data' to 'Delete all save data' in options
• CPU sale fading (should be prettier and smoother)
• Changed review conditions (reviews should make a bit more sense and provide more feedback)
• Changed CPU 'development' to 'design'
• Changed changelog close icon

Fixed

• Crashes on the desktop version (mostly...)
• Review score going over 100
• Default socket and core not being selected after opening CPU design
• Market share being displayed incorrectly sometimes
• Menu button sometimes not re-appearing after closing some windows
• Things related to starting a new game by loading from a 'No Data' slot
• Removed the possibility to bring up the CPU sale context menu when other windows are open
• Messy number rounding in CPU sale
• Flashing CPU sale window when overwriting currently selling CPU with a new one
• Various stuff with the context menu (highlighting, selecting 2 at once, going outside the window)
• Review score animation
• Typo in review (DPI socket instead of DIP)
• Changelog animation slowing down when spamming the 'X' button

0.2.5

Released: 3rd January 2018

Bigger feature & UI update

Added

• CPU market and 11 competing CPUs
• Milestones (achievements); 4 for now
• Ability to research and develop in parallel
• 2 new marketing campaign types (TV and Internet)
• Total annual expenses and income in finances
• Count up effect to the total score in reviews

Reworked

• Develop & research UI (radial progress bars)
• Replaced cheaper & shorter CPU development research with technological processes

Fixed

• Many minor bug fixes (weird number rounding among others)

0.2.4

Released: 24th November 2017

Important fix & small feature update

Added

• Ability to change CPU's pricing while it's selling
• Back button when loading from creation window
• After closing popup menu, the previous time speed will be automatically applied
• Animations to the small popup menu after clicking currently selling CPU's name
• Rounding of big numbers in marketing and research
• Author and version number in creation window

Reworked

• Many boring tweaks, optimizations and changes to game functions and stuff

Fixed

• Marketing checkboxes not unchecking when canceling & money exploit connected to it
• Losing all research after loading
• 3MHz clock research never being available to research

0.2.3

Released: 15th November 2017

Simple feature & important fix update

Added

• Ability to load from company creation screen
• Notification warning user when the price is too low
• New images for CPUs
• Option to round big numbers (not all, but most of them)
• 5 new sockets & tweaked existing ones

Reworked

• Small options window redesign, switches can now be clicked on (instead of only the switch ball)
• Tweaked research times and costs

Fixed

• Bug when loading where money and date wouldn't update
• Various other small tweaks and fixes

0.2.2

Released: 9th August 2017

Quick fix & feature update

Added

• Ability to take CPU from market
• Price textbox turns orange when the price is too low to make a profit
• Possibility to start a new game (load from a - No Data - slot)

Fixed

• Various small things

0.2.1

Released: 1st August 2017

Quick tweak & balance update

Added

• Finance tab (click the money display)

Reworked

• Major CPU sale algorithm changes
• Redone CPU parts' stats
• Small marketing tweaks
• Visual updates (better animations, custom checkboxes, etc.)
• Tiny changes in reviews

Fixed

• Various not really important stuff

0.2

Released: 19th July 2017

First desktop release

Added

• Animations
• In-game changelog
• Yearly tax
• Marketing
• More CPU research & features
• News & Notifications
• Popularity decreasing over time

Reworked

• Major CPU research tweaks
• Small visual tweaks
• Tweaked sales & review scores
• Code tweaks and rewrites

Fixed

• Autosaving
• Fonts (Lato webfont)

0.1

Released: 18th August 2016

Initial Release

• CPU design/development
• CPU sale
• CPU research
• Bank
• History