CTRL-Z CTRL-Z CTRL-Z !!! -- Software Inc. -- Ep 1

[@prototype102010]

I've been following and playing this game for YEARS and it's crazy to see how far it's come. I love that you can focus on game design and outsourcing the physical stuff, or do all the physical stuff, or both, or OS design. The depth is so cool. Also love how you can have customer support teams.

[@esbech]

29:59 Big Quill complaining about Tiny Quill leaving early and not at all acknowledging that Tiny Quill arrived early. Big Quill is just channelling my boss’ energy. :p

[@paulzagieboylo7315]

29:30 He switched jobs because you set Artist as a secondary job. So as soon as he had some design or programming work to do, he dropped the art stuff.

[@stormd]

I thought the same thing

[@Bobbias]

Yeah. Game assets was art, so he noped out of that task as soon as he had an opportunity.

[@bazmassey]

This idea of having a few runs to start off makes me feel slightly better about being terrible at the games i buy after seeing quill play them 😂

[@Pigeon0fDoom]

I really like games like civ, factorio, monster train. Whenever I buy a game, I expect to loose and that the fun starts later. Although learning is also part of the fun, never forget that.

[@raehandurlabhji2776]

I've messed up BG3 badly already now that I just bought it lol@@Pigeon0fDoom

[@larrylazer]

@@Pigeon0fDoomI’m kind of the same way. Like I love games like Advance Wars or Carcassonne even though I’m very bad at making tactical decisions. The main reason I find myself drawn to those kind of games is that I want to learn how to get better at tactics.

[@Bruhkake]

Watching you explain things and why there's letters and numbers or just numbers, and contacts waiting for the deadline... I'm new to the game and I just learned so much from you, thank you!!!!

[@SisjeOssetong]

Another tip: when you exit design and go to programming, you can do a review (you pay some money and get a score on all the aspects), and on the screen with the scores there is an 'iteration' button, click that and your design team takes another quick pass at designing, your programming progress gets a setback and you get a better quality product. You can do this multiple times too

[@nuclearlion]

I installed this game on the laptop that I take to work to occupy myself during downtime because I figured it would be merely an alright time-wasting game, but now I've been playing it at home for hours and hours.

[@rowlfgundam]

Thank you, Quill. I broke my foot yesterday and needed something to focus on. Your videos are just what the doctor prescribed.

[@zpacemag]

I bought this game 14 May 2015 and oh wow has it evolved A LOT since! I've played throughout its whole journey, what an experience!

[@JulieanGalak]

Suggestion for folks getting into this game: you can have up to 4 founders. Use all 4. Makes it much easier. You can spec one for development (not lead!) with high creativity, one for programming, one for art, and one for support (with a programming secondary). That'll give you a huge boost with rep-2 and rep-3 contracts, with no need to pay salary, and an even bigger boost when you are ready to develop your own software. Founder don't require salary, though they do get dividends. But since dividends are only a cut of profit, you can't go bankrupt via dividends.

[@TheOneTrueGriswel]

Thanks!

[@1_tmd]

no way Quill playing my favorite game! how cool, looking forward to this let's play.

[@TheOneTrueGriswel]

Great to see this. I've been thinking of getting back into Software Inc after a hiatus. Thank you!

[@scragar]

I think the reason the teams' "Max tasks" option misbehaves is because it's looking at actively being worked on, not just started but not finished. So if it's two and a task becomes blocked somehow(needs art and the programmers working on the task can't do art) it gets freed from the active jobs, meaning they might start another. If the original task becomes unblocked(iteration completes or similar) they'll go back to the original task leaving the new task they picked up with a tiny bit of work. I think it works like that to ensure employees are always working.

[@Maeyanie]

I did think it was odd in the first ep.1 how you started by hiring a programmer (kicking Quill out of his best skill), then a designer (kicking Quill out of his second best skill). Good to know you also thought that wasn't the best you could have done.

[@DHPuppy]

thats actually really interesting. I would love to see a behind the scenes on the making of a series, how many takes you do and editing styles. I think it would be cool to see the process

[@Fallub]

Great to see this series restart. I am excited.

[@padrescout]

Morning, Quill. I'm glad you put this game back on my radar. I bought it years ago - completely forgot about it. It has changed rather a lot from how I remember it, but I'm really having fun with it.

[@onetinymadman2633]

I was just going to look at the second episode when I had seen ep1. BOOM nothing there! Thanks for this :) this game is awesome!

[@digitaloracle3079]

Meetings ARE horrible. End of discussion :). The first several years of in-office work (before I transitioned to 100% remote work long before COVID), my main worry was nodding off if I wasn't actively engaged in the conversation. Problem is....most meetings involve 90% of discussion not pertaining to anything I would need to know or items I already knew. I can't count the number of times I'd be nudged by one of my co-workers, telling me I was starting to snore. Pretty sure I have undiagnosed narcolepsy. In contrast, working remotely allows me to always instead either be getting work done rather than spend half or more of my day idle in meetings.....or to watch movies/videos (like this) in between tasks. With some of the analytics I do, it's not uncommon for me to have to wait several minutes or more while waiting for calculations or renders and I can't use remaining hardware in the meantime, so why not fill that time :D

[@Dexi]

All I'm hearing is MOAR CONTENT! Excellent!

[@xDelta7x]

3:19 You probably already know and did it but just incase you haven't (Or anyone else who may never had noticed), that little blue box that says "Development" is a drop down menu where other points can be spent for other things that are very useful to have! 21:13 When you click the "Review" button you can send off your project to have a code review/thing/whatever and, if the results aren't satisfactory, or you just want to go back to the design phase you can click the "Iterate" button

[@NickCharles]

18:54 the clock used to be placeable multiple times to boost effectiveness up to 25%, but I believe it was patched out relatively recently. Now the only way to get to 25% effectiveness is with the TV that isn't available until 1995.

[@netkitten]

Can't fool me I saw the other episode 2. ;)

[@banana_cabana]

I definitely knew a Vietnamese-American kid back in elementary school whose last name was Nguyen and pronounced it like "wen" or "win"

[@rogergerhardt3388]

I love this kind of games and i had no idea this one existed! And it sounds just like what i always wanted!

[@MTGeomancer]

29:30 It's because you put art as a secondary job so he prioritized the design task.

[@margaretpetersen5027]

I am excited for this new run!

[@Innocentius69]

Glad to see it was just a fluke, I was worried the series was canceled!

[@ElderonAnalas]

Very nice to see a fun lets play of this game. I love it myself. Need to come back and try a vanilla playthrough like this myself. Tho, I do like to start with more than one founder, but I forget if they actually draw a salary or have needs or if the 4 person team you can start with all work like your original founder with only having energy to maintain.

[@seantasj]

In quill's defense he arrived half an hour early. Some companies allow you to do this and since he is the founder his company is one of them🤣🤣

[@EllitopiaGaming]

This confused me so much until I checked my history and you had unlisted the previous 2 episodes. Totally understand the mixup though, I've done a similar thing before myself

[@DarwinPlaysVideoGames]

Wait, what? That's cool.

[@Punkalflufen]

I was typing out tips about the calculator, wall clock and bookshelf when you placed them so that part has been deleted, I put a wall clock and a few paintings in my toilets and washrooms, I have no idea if that makes them pee and wash their hands better/faster but it can't hurt, I still haven't put a bookshelf in the toilet yet I am more worried they will spend hours on the toilet instead of just reading the back of the air freshener bottle like we did back in the dark ages. In my last game that I started after your first Ep 1, I started with a 2D editor and then did a Audio software like you said you found works well and was on my 3rd versions of each when I had enough money and a large enough team that I wanted to make a game, but none of the operating systems had 3D graphics and I had been hiring a heap of 3D programers and artist so I did the only thing I could do and made my own OS with 3D graphics, after proting the lates 2D editor and audio tool to my new OS I was racking in millions every month.

[@theopsops2]

bug penalty @34:06 was 218 x 69... Nice

[@amiblackcat6077]

i have the game since 2022 and its one of the best games in Eco-Simulation Games - i have over 500 H in the game :D

[@TENGILL]

Watched the first video, watched this one and now i am going for episode 2! :)

[@demonac]

How much does calling IT cost, vs buying an extra computer/desk? Because I'm wondering if it might be more efficient to wait till a computer breaks then call IT, IF you have a backup comp so you don't lose productivity?

[@xSplitGamingx]

Imagine this game but you own/run a restaurant or hotel

[@GraysonStealth]

Love this plz continue!!!

[@JonathanHarvell]

Wow.. This game has changed a LOT.

[@SisjeOssetong]

If you wanna start again (again), you cans tart with multiple founders :D really jumpstarts the slow early game. But for a 'first playthough', this is better

[@JasonDeAthenrye]

If anyone does this, they get 25% of the stock. If you full buy them out they leave the company. If you buy 24.9% they dont. Would recommend though. It makes the start well rounded even if you dont really need it.

[@saichand1991]

Keep them coming quill!😊

[@demonac]

Software_Inc_final2.mp4

[@Gadget449]

Thanks for the video! Game looks neat!

[@theclimbto1]

For another 960 a Month, in 1980... for ONE ROOM? Where is this House, the freaking Moon?

[@johncmcham]

Quill: Founder doesn't sleep eat take a piss etc. me: is the founder even alive?

[@WiseMack718]

Does allowing the employees to go through 5 design fases and complete the work improve their skills proportionally to the work performed or does lower skill gain?

[@goneriam]

You know I'm kinda surprised you haven't played this before.

[@bazzajk]

When hiring employees you can exclude 4 traits

[@SorwestChannel]

Hah, CTRL-DEL takes another sacrifice 🤣🤣

[@LodewijkVrije]

im just now starting the playlist. but i hope one day you will do a modded play trough of this game. some amazing mods on the workshop, not only things like furniture so you can build the office of your dreams, but new hardware development too, and even console and handheld development. running server farms. for online distribution. its awesome. on one modded playtrough i made millions of dollars by basically becoming steam. only made a hand full of games which got me initial capital. but then i invested everything in online game distribution servers, which in about 10 years time, all the major game devs in the game used my server to sell their non physical copies of software products. its such a cool game.

[@MrCumberlander1]

He left work early because he got to work early.

[@netking767]

@quil18 i blame you for my addiction to this game. I haven't been this addicted to a game since football manager 2017!!!

[@benmcadams1365]

love the content

[@cp37373]

I guess I better watch these before they go down again

[@gsgrzegorz98]

15:00 "Here in my garage... "

[@MooneysRebellion15]

Might have been mentioned, but you don't get credit for partial iterations in design phase. You either do the full iteration, or you don't. No partial credit 25:01.

[@skying2379]

Dude you just made the baby of Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg

[@blairwilliam8791]

Im trying to follow along here and copy things to learn the game. Why does he have modern desks and my game doesn't? I started the same year, same difficulty, same garage and such but I just have the basic 1 square table but he has like 4 desk options to start

[@Vony256]

I was just struggling with the same, i was even checking my version, quil must be using a furniture mod.

[@fishergabe]

i like how quill can now only count to 6 on one hand.... shame sir, shame...

[@xtreampb6309]

I Love the cat

[@stoicshield]

30:15 he left early because he arrived early as well.

[@akifjaved1790]

You're just so great

[@advkow]

I'm curious...you seem to know when they have all the bugs, is it because no more letters/numbers spawn over the team working on it?

[@BOchamp01]

Yes :) Although with your own products later in the game, you can bug fix for months and will always find something (even if you fix 500 bugs before you release it), so it’s better to release it when you think it’s good enough, then fix any remaining bugs with updates.

[@tortex1]

@@BOchamp01 The more complex the product, the more bugs. When Quill checked the bigger project there were 200+ bugs unresolved, incurring a penalty. And when you make your own project you tend to make it big enough to get around 600 bugs. Having an SCM server helps keep it lower during development.

[@yorkieandthechihuahua]

So THAT"S why the video I was watching disappeared half way through...

[@ozymandiousrex7155]

Algorithmic engagement!

[@peronohaynada]

I find the latest build a bit harder compared to others. I've played in hard mode and find them easier than the current medium. Looks like the developer balanced it a bit 😅

[@Caudata_]

This game has been really addictive for me, but it crashes my pc a lot... probably about every hour or two. SAD

[@Caudata_]

following up, I've since determined this is probably due to a gpu hardware fault, not the game.

[@crit-c4637]

218 bugs 😵

[@DaxRaider]

why u leave points unspend at character creation ?

[@FoxDren]

The only points left unspent was 2 in programming which he couldn't spend as he took the big brained perk which gives unlimited points in your main specialisation which is programming by default.

[@gahlster]

btw, 25k in 1980 is like 100k today.

[@Snow_925]

Oh no there a glitch in the matrix lol

[@natheniel]

CAT!

[@jamesberkheimer]

So is the year just a flavor thing in this game? Seems like a lot of stuff doesn't really follow what year they'd be available in.

[@parduke]

comments for the comment gods

[@Caleb8278]

[@AFAndersen]

And around here they don't prounce it "n-guy-jen" or "n-gwen". They say "nnjen"

[@scrooge-mcduck]

Ooof… Look and learn Bethesda.

[@BenjaminKlahn]

Repost?

[@jefffairchild1854]

This game is way too complex. I did like the game startup company though

[@RasakBlood]

comment

[@MrOneWolfe]

There was no computer around in 1980 that looked anything like that :P

[@Ash_18037]

You're not very smart are you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET

[@Tbcw42]

Don't know what kind of cheap hands you invested in, I can count to 31 on one hand. :) Edit -> 218 bugs on that mediocre program, who do you think you are, Bethesda? :)

[@poilboiler]

I last played this 2017 and it's so very different. Way back then you wanted to make an art or sound program at the start. After a few decades you'd run out of new stuff to research so you were left with only making games while using your all features OS, all features sound, all features graphics etc softwares.

[@Bobbias]

Quill, I think maybe you need a better system than "rename the right file to xyz_final_i_really_mean_it_this_time.mp4"...

[@poilboiler]

Is it normal/common to have a bathroom attached to the garage???

[@MTGeomancer]

Not at all, isn't normal or common to rent out your home's garage to a startup either. Usually "the founder" uses their own garage, or possibly parents.