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Made of Steam

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omid 2016-08-30 02:18

Really cool 10/10 would play again

avalanche-games 2016-08-30 04:31

Very well polished game! Great graphics but the stations/resource areas could be highlighted to make them stand out from the rest of the map.

dalep 2016-08-30 04:46

Impressive scope and polish for 72 hours of work. I found the cursive font difficult to read and it was hard for me to distinguish the state of the red/green/grayed out buttons, but other than those usability issues the UI and color palette were beautiful and captured the historical feeling very well.

kapezit 2016-08-30 06:15

Really nice graphics and the music sets the tone of the game. Amazing work! I do have to agree with DaleP in regards to the cursive font. A more legible font would make the experience more enjoyable.

leondryaso 2016-08-30 11:02

I really like the art style, music and the concept itself. Only the font is kinda unreadable.

dudss 2016-08-30 13:17

Love the idea. Not many games are set in an industrial revolution era.

jackyjjc 2016-08-30 14:08

The game looks and sounds great. Love the graphs, atmosphere and the music. I love the industry era and the game feels very historical. However, I find the game a bit unbalanced. Initially I struggled a lot because I could buy licences but I couldn't send things to my capital to sell it. Later i realized I have to borrow money to research and build the railways. In other strategy games I played, taking loan usually is not a necessary thing unless you are trying to expand very fast in the early game but this game makes it a requirement due to the lack to money to start. You can't do anything without railway tech and a railway built. After restarting a few times the game just give up and give me gold and silver next to my starting city which was a nice touch to help the player :) I guess some tuning would make the game a lot easier to get into! Also I found that the research tab cannot be closed in the WebGL version with 16:9 resolution because the close button is invisible for some reason. I had to download the game to play it at the end.

capitals 2016-08-30 14:27

Right, I don't know what happened. Looks great, I really would like to play this. However on the web link the research window can't be exited on 1280x720. When I switched resolutions the x button still wouldn't show.

nervous-composers 2016-08-30 14:35

I love the aesthetic! It also feels very polished, and was overall a very enjoyable game.

sftrabbit 2016-08-30 15:00

Not sure how to get past the "You can move the camera" screen. No keys seem to do anything and I can't see any way to close it.

adsilcott 2016-08-30 15:22

I can't get past the instruction screen either. Playing the WebGL build and it seems like some of the screen is cut off?

xakkar 2016-08-30 15:28

Cool game!!!

jadernak 2016-08-30 16:15

The font selection was a little unfortunate but there is something about these simulators which always captivates me for a long time. Great game! Would love an expensive option to automatically send to capital.

rfgpfeiffer 2016-08-30 16:53

The Keybinding help window does not fit into my browser. Can't click OK there.

nanimono 2016-08-31 01:14

nice game. i can't play it, but nice game.
new fonts is a big improvent, but you need to think about adaptive UI for differenet resolution.

btw you have paid asset in your sources.

2016-08-31 08:35

Of all the games we streamed last night on Twitch, this is the one I had to get back to afterwards to play some more. It took a while to realise I could borrow money, that could have been in the tutorial pop ups. Speaking of which, it felt like a lot of reading to do at once, progressive pop ups (as you click on a city, the research panel, etc) would have been nicer imo.
After a short while, I wished for 'send all' and 'sell all' buttons because I'm lazy that way, but overall really enjoyed your game. Great job :)

holgk 2016-08-31 11:13

Thank you nanimono. I disabled the link to my repo and looking for a way to get make them not public. For anyone who is wandering what this assets were:
- TextMeshPro a tool for displaying fonts in a higher quality
- Script Inpector 3 a Script Editor for Unity
- Unity Standard Assets (it's free)
- CurveLineRender a tool fore displaying lines with rounded edges