Posted December 06, 2020 by Polycorne Games
#game update
Hello Mayor,
First of all, we’re sending you a million thanks for checking out our progress so far, you lovely player of Silicon City! We’re getting closer and closer to a release version of the game and are very proud to show you the new version we made.
Yes my lord ! We’re from the french Alps, and there’s one true thing: we love cheese. We wanted a way to identify our updates and promote local specialties at the same time. The team started to think about it… and voila ! Our next update will be named after our favourite cheeses, alphabetically ordered.
This first one is named Abondance. It’s is a famous cheese produced in Haute-Savoie near to our location (big up !).
Find more information about this outrageously delicious cheese at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abondance_cheese
Now this cultural and delicious moment is over, back to business !
We spent a lot of energy and passion to create a new story mode. Follow an adventure as a mayor apprentice and learn the basics of the game step by step. Meet unexpected people along your journey and make new friends and foes. Politics is definitively not an easy path.
You can see below the story mode screen. This is now the entry point which displays the progress of your adventure as an apprentice mayor. The very first level available have been designed to teach you the basic mechanics of the game. The characters you will meet are full of good intentions… Help them to succeed their missions.
The previous concept of blueprints is gone, now you can play with the sandbox mode and have access to ALL the building in Silicon city, without the total freeedom to build anything. Unlock that game mode by achieving all the missions in the story mode!
YES. These scripted games of Silicon City you will play, means we developped in house a way to programmatically interact between the player and the game. That’s called a MOD. If you know about modding, you might be interested that you’ll be soon able to create yours, just as we did.
We still need more time to completely release this “make your own saga” feature, but we are close. You can see below an example of the tool we develop to create scenario graphically. We hope we will be able to offer this tool to the community.
We’ve working hard on color and light improvement. What we’ve done for this first step:
Hey, you’re a mayor looking for more power? We got you. We brought you a new wind turbine model that produces twice the energy of the small ones. You’ll have acces to it proving that you ambrace green energy. We let you find out how unlock this new model.
Your dream of building a coastal city is now a reality. Use the new pam tree available in the Island and Desert biomes.
We unlocked the 256×256 city size. You can trust us when we say that it will takes A LOT of time to completely fill in the area. Be careful though because it is still under beta and takes a lot of computer resources. Use it at your own risk :)
Thanks to our community’s feedback, we were able to fix a lot of bugs and implement some improvements.