Welcome to your new virtual workplace, where man's dreams come true. Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator is out NOW! Spend entire evenings taking care of customers, accepting various jobs and customizing choppers while listening to roaring engines, inhaling the sweet scent of gas and oil and searching for that one screw you swear you saw somewhere just a few seconds ago.
And we already have a review! GameWatcher’s Aron Gerencser wrote, “Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator is polished and incredibly detailed, and manages to be enjoyable even for non-enthusiasts.” Thanks, we’re glad you liked it! (full review)
Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator is a project of passion coming straight from guys who love motorcycles, but their lives had taken a different path that led them into the game industry. Nothing is lost, however, for now we can share our affinity for motorbikes with you and many more by providing an authentic motorbike garage experience without leaving the comfort of home or buying expensive equipment. Hundreds of interchangeable parts are now at your disposal.
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We’ve provided you with the tools, now it's your turn to prove you’ve got the skills to pay the bills.
Grab onto your dreams and good luck!
The end of the road
Every end, as they say, is a new beginning! Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator goes live tomorrow. Our work here is done, but at the same time it's the beginning of a great virtual adventure for all fans of two-wheeled motors. The grand opening of your new fancy garage is just around the corner. Let’s get it on!
Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator is our precious child, a product of passion and dedication. We want to show you that maintaining mechanical beasts can be both challenging and fun. The game's sole purpose is to enable you realize the unfulfilled dream of full-time garage work, being constantly covered in oil and grease and racking your brain as to why so many screws remain, when the engine is assembled and running.
You will absolutely feel like you’re doing you dream job. There are hundreds of parts, realistic simulation and four randomly generated mission types. Start from simple tasks and build your way up to fame and becoming the most prominent mechanic in the city! It's gonna be one hell of a ride for sure!
We look forward to see you playing Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator tomorrow.
Happy mid-life crisis!
Screw at this location!
The time has come! We're nearly finished building our virtual motorbike garage for your pleasure and enjoyment. Starting this Wednesday, there will be no excuses to not pursue your unfulfilled dreams of oil stains, exhaust fumes and roaring engines. Get ready to irritate your wife to the brink of divorce, as Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator comes straight to your PC, allowing you to become a renowned grease monkey without even leaving your home.
Right now, as you're reading this, we're applying all the necessary fixes and tightening the last screws on the game. And for all wannabe mechanics from Germany – yes, the game is already fully localized! On the release day you will be able to communicate with your virtual customers in Polish, English and German.
Only two days til the grand opening! If you didn't do it already, please add Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator to your wishlist to stay up to date and take part in the opening ceremony. There will be donuts with grease filling!
Or... maybe not.
We fashion the passion
We said it before. Our team is highly passionate about motorbikes. However, they are even more passionate about the maintenance side of owning these monster machines. We truly believe that there are a lot of people who share our passion but their lifestyle doesn't allow for them to own a motorbike, they don't have enough money to buy one or, perhaps, their loved ones see motorcycles more like mechanical coffins than a hobby. Whatever the reason, Garage Motorbike Mechanic Simulator is here to help!
Bringing the joy of screwing around with the manliest vehicles in the whole damn world to folks who can't, by some cruel act of fate, play with them in the real world is our main drive, but not the only one. Indeed, as developers, we are also well aware of the attractive nature of simulation games. There are a whole lot of them lately... from airplanes, to cars, to – goats! Everybody remembers that last one, right? Anyway, we love them. They are super fun and we decided we would try our best to make one of the most interesting and realistic simulation games ever!
That's why we have spent hours studying the pure art of servicing, assembling and building motorcycles. Hours of research were carried out. We explored a real world garage and watched real world professionals do the magic of maintenence for the metal beasts to always be fully prepared and ready to conquer the concrete jungle!
Are you interested in starting your virtual garage? Are you patient enough to meddle with so many small parts that you've always got stragglers that didn't make it in the assembling of the mechanism? If so, please add Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator to your wishlist to stay up to date with all important announcements!
When you wheelie need money...
Running a company is no joke. At least not a good one. You need to micromanage the many various aspects of your business and doing the finances is especially challenging. Responsible administration is the key to success and even if you're more interested in screws, nozzles and oil stains, there's no way you can just ignore it. Unless you feel like you were born for a long, meaningful career as a circus clown, and must rebelliously pursue that dream to spite your father’s dream of a successful garage, you gotta put in the work.
Let's say you really want to dedicate your life to running this business the very best you can. You take your first job and the motorbike is delivered to the garage. The issue is really insignificant – a few small parts need replacing and it's good as new! Since it's your first job, you need to invest some of your own money first.
There are two ways of obtaining the necessary parts in Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator. Firstly, you should check the prices at the authorized retailers. Ordering from them will assure you all the parts are top notch and have come straight from the production line. As you might guess, they're also expensive, but you are resourceful. There's another way of getting parts for the job - you can look for them at the Yebuy auction service. It’s possible someone wants to get rid of the parts you need for a lower price. As it turns out, Yebuy is also useful when you need to dispose of some of your leftover junk.
Of course sometimes everything goes wrong, even when you’ve done everything you could to maintain the cash flow of your business. You can always take a loan, you know? It may not be the ideal solution, however, ‘cause you’ll need to pay it back in installments and, ultimately, you’ll pay more than you borrowed.
But hey, there's a small clicker game on your smartphone which earns you small amounts of money for playing it. Free money! Every little bit counts, right?
If the financial aspects of running a company doesn't scare you, go ahead and add Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator to your wishlist to stay up to date with all news.
You may kiss your ride
What was your dream job when you were a kid? Did you want to visit new worlds as an astronaut? Maybe you wanted to save lives while wearing a white doctor's coat? Or maybe, just maybe, you were fascinated with all the mechanical parts, the scent of oil and the loud, powerful engine noises coming from beautiful two-wheeled beasts? We, in Dev4Play, certainly belong to this third group of dreamers, but our passion developed even more after we’d reached adulthood.
We love all kinds of motorbikes and motorcycles, though not many of us are capable of riding and maintaining those mechanical monsters. But the love is real and should be shared with all of you – the players. That's why we’d decided to build a complex and realistic motorbike mechanic simulator which allows you to take part in the joy of building and repairing the coolest bikes. Gather up all those tiny parts – at first you’ll have no idea where they’ve came from, but for sure the engine will be okay without them. Maybe.
Anyway, you're probably wondering just how deep our mechanic simulator's mechanics will be? We're aiming big, cause we have no other choice with having such passionate guys on board. The game will offer 4 types of randomly generated missions: small repairs (changing visible parts), thorough overhaul, building a motorbike from scratch following client guidelines and recycling motorcycles for parts. The game will start with only the simplest tasks available to the player. The more experience gained, the more complicated the missions that will be unlocked.
Do you remember those "extra" parts? You can always try to build a new motorcycle and ask professional collectors to estimate their value. Perhaps you could earn some nice cash constructing your own custom machines.
Sounds like fun, right? If you're as passionate about motorbikes as we are, please add Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator to your wishlist to be up to date with all important news!
Meet Dev4Play, a Polish Development Team With a Unique Structure
Written by Bartosz Stodolny for Fat Dog Games
Dev4Play has already released several games and they continue to work on new projects, including Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator. At first glance it’s just another small studio like many others. Except it’s not.
First of all, Dev4Play is not a group of friends working out of a garage with nothing more than passion. It is not a small corporation with rigid rules and tons of procedures either. They have a publisher with whom they have been collaborating for the past few months. The team itself is not that small, as it has about 30 people working on different projects. In addition, the fact that the studio collaborates with a publisher does not translate to losing independence.
Indie with a no-drama approach
I’m sitting at the studio’s HQ in Warsaw, talking with Paweł Byliński, one of the programmers who is currently working on a game with a self explanatory title, Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator. We are talking about the philosophy behind the studio. One can say that they are much more indie than other small developers. Work in Dev4Play is less a 9-5 job and more like being a part of a collective or commune. The developers work like they want, though Paweł tells me that they like their work so much they often spend 15 hours or more working.
However, if you’re looking for the typical drama so popular in the industry, you’ll be disappointed. It’s not a story about a group of people who left their corporate jobs to make video games; who had to mortgage their homes to spend money on equipment and a place to work; who crunched so much that their relatives and friends left them.
Even though they sometimes spend their whole day at work, there’s nothing to prevent them from taking a brake to take care of something else. But this is not the most interesting thing about Dev4Play. It turns out that to become a team member you don’t even need to have any experience making games!
Let’s say you’ve always wanted to make games, but you lack the experience to do so. You’ve watched every YouTube tutorial, bought some books, even applied for an online course. But no matter how hard you try, there’s always something holding you back.
That’s where Dev4Play comes in. Senior members of the studio will teach you everything they know. What do they ask in return? Your commitment to one of the projects. If you’re good enough and have something interesting to share, you’ll get to become a permanent member of the team, work full time and even make your own game one day.
No experience required?
Okay, but does it really work? Doesn’t employing fresh people and teaching them from scratch cause delays and overall chaos within the company? And, more importantly, isn’t a team of qualified professionals more efficient?
“When you take on people with experience from previous projects, you never really know what they were actually doing, how they were working and how they’ll fit in. In our case, we become familiar with one another, we know what to expect and our team knows what to do,” Paweł explains.
That’s not to say Dev4Play will forever remain an incubator for beginners. Once enough people decide to stay and the team has its final form, the studio will switch over to working in larger groups focused on fewer, bigger projects, instead of doing many smaller ones.
Birth of the bikes
As impossible as it sounds, it actually works, as you can see in their latest production, Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator. It’s been in development for the past eighteen months, half of which is under the publisher. It’s a… well, it’s a game about being a motorbike mechanic.
In the game you own a garage and accept jobs to earn money and XP. You work on bikes - choppers to be exact, which means you get to work on heavily customized vehicles which you can mold to your liking.
When playing the alpha version, I never once thought that Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator could be the work of only two people. Surprise! Indeed it is, at least on a permanent basis; the rest of the team sometimes contributes, but are more focused on their own projects. What I saw, however, is the attention to detail - the motorcycles consist of over 260 parts, most of which can be freely changed to meet the expectations of in-game customers. And it’s not just about picking a red fender or a green one - each of the customizable parts has ten variants that the player can choose from.
Although there are a lot of simulators on Steam, we’ve not had the possibility of picking up motorcycles yet. Paweł saw the niche and went for it. It was an analytical decision rather than the result of being a passionate mechanic. This is a direct reflection on Dev4Play - they are stable, professional and calculated.
Steady as she goes
And just as there was no drama in establishing the studio, you won’t find it in its everyday functioning either. Sometimes someone will leave because it turns out that working in a group is not for them, but there’s nothing dramatic about it. “Sooner or later you will find something that will seem like an impassable barrier,” Paweł says. “So you either take advice from the more experienced colleagues and deal with it, or you leave and start doing something else.”
It’s the same with the criticism. Everyone in the studio knows that it’s impossible to please everybody, as much as they’re aware that people on the internet can sometimes be jerks. No one makes an issue out of someone writing a few bad words about either the game or the studio itself.
If someone posts constructive criticism, they try to fix or change the things that do not work. However, they try to remember that receiving negative reviews is a part of the job - a fact many developers forget when they start receiving negative reviews or any other form of backbiting, whether it’s fair or not.
MOTORBIKE GARAGE MECHANIC SIMULATOR: The Perfect Game for Chopper Enthusiasts
Have you ever tried to repair your motorcycle just to damage it even more? Have you ever rushed happily home to the garage to work on your bike just to realize that you don't have a bike - or a garage? Despair no more! Our first class Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator will let you tamper with expensive choppers without real-life consequences!
As a motorcycle fan, this is the virtual garage you’ve always wanted. A place where you can spend hours immersing yourself in assembling and repairing majestic choppers. To deepen that satisfaction, you can fill the garage with the music of your choice by creating a custom playlist.
Become a real specialist in two-wheeled monsters. Assemble motorcycles from the frame to the smallest screws. Choose the right parts and give the bike a beautiful silhouette and the result? Aah, a better selling price!
Profit is important because Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator is also about growing the business. Success depends on choosing cost-effective jobs, hunting for bargains in the marketplace for parts or deciding to take a loan at the right moment. Choose wisely.
Motorbike Garage Mechanic Simulator will be released in Q1 of 2018. Players can already add it to their Steam wishlist
