Automation Game Demo
Developer updates and trailers for the upcoming Car Industry Game 'Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game' Automation is a car company tycoon game in which. Automation is a car company tycoon game in which you design and build cars from. First public demo released April. Buy Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game.
18 February, 2015 - Daffyflyer Steam Early Access It's been a long time coming, and ever since we were Greenlit over a year ago we've been working on Automation to get it to a standard where we're happy to release it into the wilds of Steam Early Access. Now we finally have a date!
Automation is coming to Steam Early Access on the 12th of March. If you've bought it from our website you'll have the option to convert your existing key to a Steam key. Although we still will maintain a stand alone version for those of you who are technically (or ethically!) unable to use Steam. Dev Updates Here are the most recent Dev Update videos, don't forget to subscribe to our youtube channel to get the latest and most detailed updates on what we're working on. The Smoking Tire Trip We've also come up with what we think is a pretty cunning marketing plan for the Steam launch. Rather than waste our money on boring things like banner adverts, we'd rather pay for something that advertises Automation AND creates some cool car content.
What we did was bring Matt Farah and his crew from The Smoking Tire over to New Zealand for a road trip to make some films about the excellent cars and roads we have here. The proper films are still being edited, and won't be out for a month or so, but you can see a few photos and a one take review of my daily driver below. There is also a (fairly NSFW) shoutengine.com with us. Winner of Best Technical Innovation - Freeplay 2012 Over 5500 Preorders Sold About the Game Automation allows the player to become an armchair CEO - to build their own car company from the ground up.
Create and run anything from a boutique supercar manufacturer to a mass-market multinational mogul. With powerful tools like the Engine Designer, the player can create cars and their engines in mind-boggling detail. The grand campaign starts in the year 1946 and runs until 2020, with the main goal being to build a successful, renowned car company from scratch. All types of car manufacturers can be led to success if managed properly; building the right image over the years is key. The player’s tasks are to design engines and cars, to manage factories, production, Research and Development, as well as advertising campaigns. In game, time advances at the pace the player chooses and pauses automatically for events and occurrences.
Automation is comprised of three major game components - the Engine Designer, the Car Designer and the Company Manager. These components are naturally strung together by the game’s goals, made to be user-friendly and intuitive to use. A multitude of tutorial missions, videos, and descriptive texts help car novices become experts. Almost infinite options give the player all the creative freedom to create unique cars with vastly different engines. Development Work on Automation started in 2010 and reached beta stage for the Engine Designer in 2011. A playable, limited-content demo version of the Engine Designer made a debut release in April 2012, with extra-content releases as development progresses. At this point, the Car Designer component is nearing completion, although still has lot more content to come.
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The Company Manager has been extensively designed, and production work on it will start after the Steam Early Access release in approx. Mid March this year. Our goal is to create an in-depth creative experience for enthusiasts, for those who have some technical affinity and enjoy mastering complex and rewarding systems. Priorities are playability, fun, and a high degree of realism. Our philosophy is it‘s better to educate the gamer than to dumb down the game for the sake of mass-market appeal. Camshaft Software strives to be as open and transparent as possible with development, livestreaming our work regularly and interacting with our community.
Background Camshaft Software is a Melbourne-based, independent developer with a core team of 4 people: Caswal Parker - Lead Programmer Andrew Lamb - Lead Artist Robert Hoischen - Lead Beta Tester / QA Manager Jayelinda Suridge - Engine and Toolchain Programmer / Localisation Manager By means of preorder sales and crowdfunding, part of the team was able to go full-time in Q2 2012. Key Features:. Extremely Deep, Technical, Creative – Experience unheard-of creative freedom in a highly technical, realistic gameplay experience revolving around building a car company from scratch. Go ahead and build your dream-car company!. Dynamic World Markets – Master realistically modeled dynamic markets, distribution, and demand.
Try to cater to the needs of over 40 different target groups and their needs, or find your safe-haven niche in a cutthroat economic environment. Flexible Car Designer – Design the cars you would have in your garage. Choose from diverse chassis types and materials, engine placements and drivetrain setups, gearboxes, suspensions, brakes, tyres, and finish off you design with fully customisable body types, looks and styles. Highly Detailed Engine Designer – Delve into endless possibilities combining different 4-stroke petrol engine configurations, internals, head types, forced induction systems, fuel systems, headers and mufflers. All based on different 4-stroke petrol engine configurations: Inline 3, 4, 5, 6, V6, 8, 10, 12, 16, Flat 4, 6.
Dynamic Engine Sounds - Turn up the volume and blast out the awesome fully adaptive, unique engine sounds that directly reflect your design choices. Grand Campaign, Scenarios, Sandbox – Aim to dominate the world markets with your superior design skills in the grand campaign, play a quick scenario challenge, or just tinker away in sandbox mode to create the most insane engines ever. Complex, yet Easy to Learn – While the game is highly technical, it is made easy to learn by means of well-illustrated in-game tutorial videos, detailed descriptive texts, as well as a multitude of tutorial scenarios. Network Play – Play cooperatively with your friends or take your intuition for the perfect car design and challenge up to 7 human competitors in epic, multi-session network games.
Community – Join one of the most awesome and helpful communities out there, share stories about your exploits, talk to like-minded people, discuss your IRL car projects and engage in community challenges. System Requirements. OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, or newer. Processor: Dual Core Processor. Memory: 2 GB.
Video Card: GeForce 8xxx Series or ATI Radeon HD 4xxx Series. DirectX®: 9.0c. Sound: Direct Sound Compatible /bJoin the Community and Download the Engine Designer Demo at - /b Follow us on Facebook - Check out more videos at - Read a review of an early public build.
In-Depth Engine Design Solid engine design is a big part of creating a successful car in Automation. The game gives you the opportunity to build your own engines from scratch; from the engine configuration, over the valvetrain design, to the fuel system and detailed turbocharging systems. Many design changes even affect the engine sound. Compromises and challenges abound, do you need the smallest and cheapest engine possible for a budget mini-car or a no-expense-spared twin-turbo beast for your next supercar? There are literally quadrillions of possible engines to design. (We counted.) Want to challenge your engine building skills? 50+ different engine scenarios put you in the shoes of an engineer to build motors for every possible application, while the Engine Design Multiplayer lets you test your skills against human opponents in a race against the clock.
Lots of video tutorials, part descriptions and an extensive manual help engineering novices learn how engines work and how they can apply these skills in-game. All these features are already available right now in the current release, with lots more engine types coming soon. Detailed Car Design Of course, engines need to be put into cars, which you do in the Car Designer.
Choose between various chassis and materials, drive train layouts, suspension types and more. A huge range of car bodies, styling tools and cosmetic design items let you create unique and interesting car designs through the decades. Test and tune your cars’ performance to optimize handling, aerodynamics, acceleration and comfort to squeeze the last bit out of your designs.
Lots of design options, parts and gadgets let you build anything from a cheap and nasty budget hatchback or van to a supercar or opulent luxury cruiser. Tailor your cars to a wide audience or pioneer niche markets. A small taste of the cosmetic side of Automation’s Car Designer is already available, and work is well underway on the full mechanical design and performance testing aspects. These new features will become available as they are completed in the coming months. Cut-throat Tycoon Gameplay The core experience of the game is the Grand Campaign. In this game mode, spanning from 1946 to 2020, you start your enterprise from scratch and try to become one of the most renowned car companies in the world.
Many roads can potentially lead to success: catering to the masses with small, affordable cars, being an exclusive supercar manufacturer, or focusing on big luxurious flagship cars for the few. Conquer niches with targeted marketing, or diversify while keeping an eye on brand awareness, brand reputation and prestige to build a loyal following.
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Compete in ever-shifting regional and global dynamic markets that come with various regulations, featuring many different market segments and buyer demographics. Set up and manage your factories, expand your production capabilities and improve your cars by investing into research and development to get an edge over your competition. High quality cars and good quality assurance might cost a fortune, but may pay for themselves in the long term.
Like in real life, in Automation car design and marketing is full of compromises. To build and maintain a core team of leading engineers helping you shine in different areas of expertise is just as much part of running a successful business as to properly manage your finances. Keep track of commodity and stock markets and invest your hard-earned cash. Multiplayer Campaign mode will be available, allowing you to cooperate or compete with other players. Early Access Automation is still heavily in development.
There is already many hours of interesting gameplay to be had out of Automation, but some major features are not complete. Large updates are usually released every few months. The current release contains the Car and Engine design aspects of Automation along with a simplified 'Lite Campaign' version of the Tycoon gameplay. Future updates over the next 12 months will focus on adding more detail to this side of the game, as well finishing our work porting Automation over to Unreal Engine 4, giving major improvements in graphical quality, performance, playability and UI Design.
Key Planned Features for the completed game. Extremely Deep, Technical, Creative – Experience unheard-of creative freedom in a highly technical, realistic gameplay experience revolving around building a car company from scratch. Go ahead and build your dream-car company!. Dynamic World Markets – Master realistically modeled dynamic markets, distribution, and demand. Try to cater to the needs of over 40 different target groups and their needs, or find your safe-haven niche in a cutthroat economic environment. Flexible Car Designer – Design the cars you would have in your garage.
Choose from diverse chassis types and materials, engine placements and drivetrain setups, gearboxes, suspensions, brakes, tyres, and finish off you design with fully customisable body types, looks and styles. Highly Detailed Engine Designer – Delve into endless possibilities combining different 4-stroke petrol engine configurations, internals, head types, forced induction systems, fuel systems, headers and mufflers. All based on different 4-stroke petrol engine configurations: Inline 3, 4, 5, 6, V6, 8, 10, 12, 16, Boxer 4, 6. Dynamic Engine Sounds - Turn up the volume and blast out the awesome fully adaptive, unique engine sounds that directly reflect your design choices.
Grand Campaign, Scenarios, Sandbox – Aim to dominate the world markets with your superior design skills in the grand campaign, play a quick scenario challenge, or just tinker away in sandbox mode to create the most insane engines ever. Complex, yet Easy to Learn – While the game is highly technical, it is made easy to learn by means of well-illustrated in-game tutorial videos, detailed descriptive texts, as well as a multitude of tutorial scenarios.
Network Play – Play cooperatively with your friends or take your intuition for the perfect car design and challenge up to 7 human competitors in epic, multi-session network games. Community – Join one of the most awesome and helpful communities out there, share stories about your exploits, talk to like-minded people, discuss your IRL car projects and engage in community challenges.