# Game Dev Tycoon v1.6 Released: New Pirate Mode, New Game Content and Better UI - Product: Game Dev Tycoon (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/game-dev-tycoon) - Vendor: Greenheart Games 💚 - Date: 2018-03-08 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/239820/view/2890704230764716585 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/game-dev-tycoon/releases/2018-03-08-v1.6-released-new-pirate-mode-new-game-content-an What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Add Pirate Mode, an ultra-hard game mode where you must invent DRM and sell company shares to survive - **added** — Add 15 new topics to enable more game combinations - **added** — Add Ninvento Swap console to the platform list - **added** — Add new modern PC image for late-game - **added** — Add new message sidebar where messages can appear without interrupting gameplay - **added** — Add Messages settings tab to control which messages auto-popup and which appear in sidebar - **added** — Add character randomization when starting a new company - **added** — Add kinetic drag scrolling behavior to UI panels and scrollable elements - **changed** — Redesign review screen with new star animations - **changed** — Redesign topic and genre picker with new icons for all topics and genres - **changed** — Add icons to context menu - **changed** — Make Settings, Achievements and Highscore panels draggable - **changed** — Expand the default character randomization to all new game starts - **fixed** — Fix women in tech event to properly alter the gender balance of job applicants - **changed** — Add more famous women game developers to the game - **added** — Allow mods to add custom icons to topics via iconUrl specification - **added** — Allow mods to add custom settings UI to the settings panel via GDT.addSettingsTab() - **added** — Allow mods to spawn messages in the new sidebar - **added** — Include Greensock GSAP animation library for modders to use We've been quietly working on our second game ([Tavern Keeper](https://tavernkeeper.com)) in the past years but to celebrate the mobile release of Game Dev Tycoon (it came out on (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/game-dev-tycoon/id1162580001?ls=1&mt=8) and [Google Play](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.greenheartgames.gdt)), we've decided to take a break from designing taverns and worked to bring a FREE content update to our amazing Game Dev Tycoon community. Here are the goodies: ##### Pirate Mode Try your luck surviving the harsh realities of piracy in this new ultra-hard game mode in which you have to invent DRM and sell company shares to survive. You can find the pirate mode under the advanced options when starting a new game. We've also added two new achievements: ##### New Review Screen Inspired by the mobile UI, we've revamped the review screen with now 100% more star-power. Disclaimer: Sudden rushes of anger from receiving a bad score from All Games is unchanged but the feeling of elation from receiving amazing scores is increased by several measurable units of excitement! ##### New side bar messages Messages and events can now appear in a new sidebar instead of opening automatically and interrupting gameplay. Messages can stack. You can click on them to read the message (or right-click to dismiss them). They will gently pulse and disappear if you ignore them too long. We've tuned the default settings to be ideal for first-time players but experienced players can control which type of messages should auto-popup and which should appear in the sidebar in the new "Messages" settings tab: ##### New Topics, Icons & Drag to Scroll We felt that the un-modded game lacked a few core topics that prevented players from re-making their favorite game in Game Dev Tycoon. This release adds 15 new topics to the game to enable more game combinations and, while we were at it, we completely redesigned the topic picker with shiny new icons. Adding topic icons made the topic list a bit bigger, so we took this as an opportunity to add kinetic scrolling to lots of scrollable elements in the game. If you want to quickly browse the topic list now just click, drag, and flick it! ##### 👩🏽‍💻 Women in Tech 🏆 We were made aware of a pretty sad bug where the 'women in tech' event in the game did not alter the gender balance of job applicants. We have now fixed this and also added a lot more famous women game developers to the game. In related news, the default character when starting a new game is now randomized and there is a random character button for you to press too. ##### Swap and late-game PC Turns out that Ninvento can't stop innovating! We have added the Ninvento Swap to the platform list, including a corresponding news story telling you all about bitter cartridges. We have also added a new late-game PC image to the game. ##### Modders 🛠 Existing mods should continue to function as they have before but we have added a few new features which modders can make use of: - Mods can now add an (optional) icon to their topics by specifying an iconUrl ((https://github.com/greenheartgames/gdt-modAPI/wiki/Adding-Topics)). - Mods can now add their own settings UI to the game's settings-panel via a call to `GDT.addSettingsTab(title, content);` ((https://github.com/greenheartgames/gdt-modAPI/wiki/GDT)). - Mods can spawn messages in the new sidebar. ((https://github.com/greenheartgames/gdt-modAPI/wiki/Notification)). - The game now ships the [Greensock GSAP](https://greensock.com/gsap) animation library which modders can use to its full potential ((https://github.com/greenheartgames/gdt-modAPI/wiki/GSAP-animations)). ##### Thanks for playing! 💚 Hope you all enjoy this free update. We will now head back into fantasy land and focus on our second game. We hope we can talk more about it soon. If you haven't done so yet, *please* sign up to our newsletter on [tavernkeeper.com](https://tavernkeeper.com). ## _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/239820/view/2890704230764716585]_