Welcome to our newest post of our ‘In the Pipeline’ series. This is our way of letting you know what we are working on, what we are thinking about and what we know we want to do:
In the Pipeline will contain all the items that are literally and figuratively in the pipeline. This will (but does not have to) include crashes to fix, bugs to splat, player suggestions to incorporate and improvements to make that we feel are necessary for the next update.
After the three consecutive updates we are now working on a new feature that takes some extra time: Expert Mode. For Expert Mode we are cranking up the difficulty and adding new opponents with specific bonuses. So apart from gameplay coding and testing we will also create new art for the characters.
We’re adding new SFX which should improve your experience as well. Besides that, but not in time for the next update, are the Mayor’s Tips. Every Area will have 5 tips that can be obtained from the Mayor. At a price of course.
We are aiming to have the update live at the end of next week:
Expert Mode.
New characters.
New Audio/SFX
Tweaks, crashes and bugs.
Mayor’s Tips.
Mac (and probably Linux).
Steam Leaderboards.
Steam Trading cards.
Steam Achievements.
Steam Cloud Saves.
Infinite mode.
Custom single player games.
Early Access Update #20 - Three in a row!
Hi all,
Yay! We have another update for you. This makes it three in a row. The last time we were on a weekly schedule like that we just launched the game and it looked something like this:
A LOT has changed!
For instance: we have a lot more players now. That’s great. It means more feedback, more new ideas and a healthy community. It also means more bugs and crashes as more different systems and players play Turmoil. So we’re spending more time on fixing stuff that wasn’t perfect yet.
That’s not to say we haven’t added anything new this week. There is new art for buildings that are under construction. And the Land Auction now has Pins to represent the NPC’s on the map when bidding. For the most part though we’ve cleaned up the UI and made other small improvements. Enjoy!
The next update will probably be in 2 weeks, adding Expert Mode. Here are the specifics for Update #20:
New
Land Auction – When bidding, players are represented by a Pin with a flag on the map.
Buildings – Under Construction buildings in town are much better now.
AI – The NPC’s have been improved substantially. They now also spend
Diamonds. Their Upgrades, in part, determine what they can get out of a plot of land. And they will earn some more money every year.
UI
Portraits no longer disappear when playing on different resolutions. (thanks Smoooi,marino1310,Gelswolf,Exxia Lenneluc)
Animations inside Town have been tweaked.
Improved end of game ranking screen.
Improved upgrade notifications.
Crash
Fixed a Crash when clicking on Jill’s talk window at the end of the game. (thanks Tabi)
Bugs
Scanning should no longer leave unmoveable triangles in the ground.
Removed double mouse-over on Finance window.
Connecting Rigs and sharing Rig-upgrades now happens properly on connection. Not on preview.
Fixed an issue where the Oil kept flowing in Pause.
Early Access Update #19 - Don't blink
Hi all,
We are following up last week’s update with another one! We felt that there were some annoying bugs that needed fixing, before we continue on an update with more new features. So Update #19 is not big, but it’s quick; exactly one week after #18.
The biggest change that you will see is a completely new background for Town. The old one was getting a bit stale, and the new one brightens the place up quite a bit! We also fixed the wagons 'blinking' near Rigs.
For more info about Turmoil and contact with us: we’ve been streaming the game on Twitch for 2 months now at http://www.twitch/gamiousdev. We’ve also created some useful videos for Gas, Pipes and Oil Flow. YouTube
Here are the specifics for Update #19:
New
Background – A completely new background in Town.
UI - The Upgrade windows for the players have had an exstensive update.
UI
Clean up Extra Time window.
Added Help button to the Land Auction and the Stock Auction in their respective windows.
Added Help button in Single Game screen.
Added Fred’s texts for the Thermal upgrades. (thanks udbking)
Added a tooltip for buying extra time with a Diamond.
Tweaks
The amount of Stocks the Mayor has to sell is now 99 (instead of 100) preventing a 50-50 tie.
Bugs
Fixed the Fast Forward button that would drop the Oil price when boosting with Gas. (thanks x3ar,Smoooi)
Fixed an issue where the Pause function would not stop Oil from moving and spilling.
Fixed an issue where Oil kept moving through pipes during a pipe upgrade.
Fixed some of the Wagons ‘blinking’ around Rigs.
Fixed an issue with the calendar when a Dowser was on screen.
Fixed the issue of the Silo preview being larger than the Silo itself.
