“We always take suggestions and feedback from the community and try to satisfy our customers as best as we can.”īeamNG. How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“The price may go up as development reaches certain milestones.” Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access? “It is currently a sandbox vehicle simulator with a wide variety of vehicles and terrains, with lots of modding potential and some very basic gameplay.” What is the current state of the Early Access version? “We hope to make the full version into a fully-fledged open-world vehicle simulator, with a career mode involving various vehicular disciplines and event types, and other gameplay modes.” How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version? Even then, development will probably go on for years, as the potential of our engine is extremely vast.” “It is difficult to give an exact number, but probably at least 12 months before we could call the game 'beta' (feature-complete).

You truly are running a business.Īnd the campaign does take itself quite seriously, so if you're looking to challenge your brain, and your automotive design skills to create a car that isn't only good, but desirable, marketable, and profitable, you'll find hours of fun manipulating the numbers in the Light Campaign, which is constantly being updated and refreshed to reflect the real world (as much as a videogame can).“We want your support and feedback! We are a small team with big ambitions, and we want to share our work with you so we can continue development with your support and feedback in mind.”Īpproximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

It requires the player to update the trims every year, and predict what might be appealing before the car comes out. That being said, it still provides the player with a great sense of pride to make and manufacture their own trims, see the profits rise, and create a car with lasting desirability. In short: it's hard (I know because I've played it many times, and only broke even once). It is math-heavy, getting deeper into how well you market your car in the 5 different countries (with loosely mirror America, the UK, Germany, India, and Russia), as well as how much you sell your car for, and how desirable it'll be after 5 or 10 years. Fair warning, the campaign mode of Automation is not for the faint of heart.

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