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We've started preorders to support development! Go to Project: Automation - The Car Company Tycoon Game | RocketHub if you wish to preorder. Not only to you get the warm fuzzy feeling of supporting us to get Automation done better and faster, you also save $10 off the final price and get access to extra content when the demo comes out (When we release the demo it will be limited to Inline 4 hatchbacks, but those of you who've preordered will get access to everything as we finish it) Please spread the word about this to anyone you know who might like it, if this does well Automation could be done a lot quicker and to a higher standard

Video of building a car start to finish. And to answer some questions, no mac version, and we don't have any 8s or 6s yet, but the final version will. We shall see how complex forced induction gets, but it'll be about as complex as the rest of the engine design process

[quote name=ClutchBurndout-' timestamp='1308628291' post='5875702] looks very well done but seems like more of a modding game? car tycoon to me implys a form of micromanagement with cars, like a car sale company or something just watched the engine vid, thats awesome, id even like a program that was just that by itself if the figures are accurate Yeah, its about running a car company - but you've gotta design the cars before you can sell them

[quote name=ClutchBurndout-' timestamp='1308622434' post='5875556] video no workies Eh... try the link

Splinky new videos!

We have been working away on the game, and here is the a picture that shows the myriad of options available to you within the Engine Designer Demo. The demo only pertains to the Inline 4 engine configuration, the full game of course will cover a wide range of configurations. The game will also cover various forced induction, but this will not be covered in first release of the demo. We know how much people love their turbos and you will get them!

*bump* More splinky things have been posted if anyone cares

Pretty much the rule with detail from a design standpoint is "As much detail as is still fun" So far engine design is fairly realistic, but with some simplified stuff, as an example you pretty much just have a "Mild to Wild" duration slider for cams, plus a slider for cam lift (which is basically a power to valve train reliability tradeoff) Reliability is affected by things like how highly stressed the engine is compared to how strong it is and that sort of thing, and indeed long stroke motors will be more highly stressed when turning the same revs Suspension design will most likely be a bit simpler as its just not as fun as engines, basically choosing a suspension design, then some springs and dampers for it, perhaps with some suspension tuning sliders. We pretty much aim to cover every aspect of the car industry that will interest people, watch the website for updates as we work things out P.S: Join the forums and post suggestions there damn you all!

Yeah, we actually had a play with "Street Legal" to get some ideas. It was an interesting concept but felt really unfinished, we hope to get things a bunch more polished than that. Should be fun building engines in this if we do it right, but it will be but one aspect of the game, there will be all the manufacturing and sales side plus of course designing the rest of the car Feel free to come bug us with questions and ideas in the forum, we like it

Yeah, there will be a demo at some point, it will most likely take form of just the engine designer to play with at first, then a more fully featured one later. Being able to drive the cars might be possible in the far future, but its a pretty big job to do it realisticly (which we would want to) Keep an eye on the website if you want to see the latest on it

Hey, long time lurker (im from MX5cartalk) but never posted here Just wanted to get you guys to have a look at the little game project im working on. Its pretty much a game where you run a car company, but unlike other game ive seen its got a fair bit of detail for the car nuts, designing your own engines and things like that. Its not even close to done (perhaps a year away?) but if you guys want to come have a look at it and spam me with ideas and comments etc on the forums that'd be sweet. www.automationgame.com is the website. Mods: Hope this isn't considered advertising, im not trying to sell anything, though if the project goes well it might get sold eventually, if im out of line feel free to bin this thread