Free City development thread

[JaroodaGames]

Hi guys!
I started working on a huge project. As you could guess this game will be similar to SimCity but different too.
Like Pixelcraft and Minecraft. It's based on SimCity but it will go on a way that I imagine for it.
This is my first Strategy game that uses a grid map system so the code isn't perfect. The game appears with the usual paint graphics by me.

Current features as of BETA 1.0:
Italic means it's added, but not yet released

• Road system(detects if there is an other road close to it and connects to it)
• Basic economy (Buildings cost money, you can collect taxes.)
• Building menu
• Main menu
• Various buildings
• Ingame music
• 100x100 map
• Canvas-based GUI
• Saving!
• Loading!
• City names
• Avenues
• Terrain generation
• Isometric graphics - click here for a preview

Upcoming features:

• Possibly more background music (Not yet confirmed)
• New GUI
• Tons of bugs
• Streams (Smaller rivers)
• Tons of bugs
• Tons of bugs

Things we need:

• Ideas(Ideas are always welcomed)

Version ALPHA 1.2 Changelog:

Controls:
Mouse: Left Click: Build Right Click:Destroy
Arrows: Move map.
Known bugs:
Italic means it's fixed, but not yet released

• Taxes window is immovable.
• The brightness slider is broken.
• When clicking Exit, only the menu will fade to black.
• The sliders do not stick to their respective bars.

Screenshots:

Download:
GameJolt
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We hope you like it. Please give feedback!

[Hblade]

niice nice I think X and Y should be moved to the blue area

[JaroodaGames]

niice nice

I think X and Y should be moved to the blue area

Done, the download link is up.
-Jolteon

[Hblade]

alright cool

[JaroodaGames]

http://youtu.be/qfkFNSopUXQ
ALPHA 1.1 preview video.

[tzoli]

Hi guys! I didn't write so much news here newly.
The next version will include lakes(with the original GEuser tiles(+some edits))
The lakes can interact with rivers at any side including the corners.

The development is going slow because I'm having three exams soon but after that I will have more time to improve FreeCity.

(And why I didn't log in to the JaroodaGames account? Simply I was just lazy xD )

[JaroodaGames]

Hi guys!
New version is out
Alpha 1.1.0 Changelog:
-Lake generation
-Save system
-Language editor overhaul
-Bugfixes
Known issues:
-Save window is immovable
Notable bugfixes:
-Docks can now be placed next to each other

Executable download at GameJolt: http://gamejolt.com/games/strategy-sim/free-city/15201/
Source download :https://www.dropbox.com/s/4i23czavxbsa05m/Free%20City.rar

Additional language packs:
HU-Hungarian(Magyar):https://www.dropbox.com/s/6grd4r6a3205nt9/hu.lang
NO-Norwegian: Currently not updated

[JaroodaGames]

There is now a wiki up at http://jaroodagames.x10host.com/FreeCit ... /Main_Page

[JaroodaGames]

ALPHA 1.2 released!
Changelog:

• Saving and loading!
• City names
• 500+ plays on GameJolt!

Known bugs:

• None, please report any and all bugs at http://jaroodagames.x10host.com/Bugs

Source code unavailable.

[JaroodaGames]

so i think you should find the co-help to build this project carefully

We are four people, actually, and three of us are game developers.

[Lacotemale]

Hey the loading/saving does indeed work but I didn't know if it was saved when I clicked save.

Can some visual feedback be done for the user?

Also I think when you click a different menu that only that one should be shown and hide the others. Otherwise this can happen:

[tzoli]

I know that it should but somehow I didn't manage to do it. I will do it in the next release.

[JaroodaGames]

[MrJolteon]

Also I think when you click a different menu that only that one should be shown and hide the others. Otherwise this can happen:

I will fix this in Alpha 1.3.
Also, in the future, report ANY and ALL bugs to http://jaroodagames.x10host.com/Bugs/thebuggenie/ - Provided they aren't already reported.

[Lacotemale]

Watched the video, looking good guys!