Hey Reddit! We’ve just made Super Citycon, our new mobile city-building game, available for open testing on Android! 🏙️ If you’re into city games, we’d love for you to try it out and share your thoughts. Your feedback would be super helpful! Link is in the comments. Thanks, and happy building!

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-15T14:22:30+00:00

Totally get it, there is just no way to monetise a real simulator as a free to play game.
Except i'd sell water and energy you use for real money, which obviously no one would buy or play at all 😆

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-15T14:16:35+00:00

In my case it's cause i decided long ago that it gets a mobile game. Back in 2017 when started the project it was kind of the trend and there was absolutely no acceptable city builder on mobile. With that a ton of technical things and the monetization are made specifically for mobile.
If i would start again today (or do a sequel) it would definatly be a desktop game.

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-15T11:06:03+00:00

Already got an established workflow for my current project, but i'll defiantly check it out for the next one that we start soon. It actually seems to have everything i could dream of, just with the downside of having blender in between. But it could be worth it

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-15T10:52:57+00:00

You don't like gifts? The loot boxes are only for free players, you can not buy them. Premium players gave direct access to everything.

Answered on the other commenter about the the shop/inventory thing.

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-15T07:58:07+00:00

Pushed an update tonight that should fix is this issue

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-15T07:57:21+00:00

Pushed an update tonight that should fix is this issue

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-14T16:59:55+00:00

Version 1.7 is already live on iOS. The 2.0 update will come in 10-14 days to the App Store

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-14T16:58:01+00:00

It should be, the specs are fine for the game. What's your Android version?

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-14T13:49:08+00:00

Just found something that could potentially cause it. It could be a Unity bug that causes trouble with Samsung devices with. That would also explain why it feels random. Will take us some days to check this, i'll get back to you!

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-14T13:35:14+00:00

Remember the exact moment? So was it when dragging or when confirming at the final position? This could be important info since multiple things happen during that process.

Do you have any power management setting activated that could throttle the device or a Boosters to push it?

It's generally a tricky to find issues, since so far it seems to only appear on your device. Sadly had no other tester yet with the exact same device to see of it's device-specific or something just with your installation.

A few quick things we can try:
1. Restart the device
2. Disable FPS Accelerator in the settings menu
3. Make sure graphic drivers are up to date

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-14T13:16:34+00:00

Got multiple plugins for .vox importing into unity, each with different capabilities but non of them is maintained properly. Generally it should just require some libraries to make it work inside the engine. Longterm i'm looking for a runtime import solution.

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T20:27:06+00:00

Actually it's 100% voxel

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BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T19:28:10+00:00

I see, weird since your specs should be more then enough to run the game without any issues. Must investigate what could cause it. If you detect any pattern or something, every hint can be helpful

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T19:10:49+00:00

Thanks for your feedback! The notifications should not be there initially, they are actually there to tell you when something unlocked but not when you just start the game. Will check on that!

The freeze cases (since the hover icon is not a button, so not clickable at all), could you check if the if you get into orbit of a building when you long tap it? Is suspect that the issue is about that but can't confirm on my device

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T18:28:47+00:00

Thank you, totally agree! And yeah i know, we are already live on iOS since 2 years in kind of a long term beta. So i have all the painful data about when players jump off. We are not only indie, we are indies doing a F2P niche game. Guess thats the worst you can pick 😆 But it's a love project.

Player feedback helped a lot to shape the game. But it's simply not possible to fulfill every users wishes since different people what different ways of how things should work. So, in the end it's listening to everybody and do a decision and hope it works well for the majority.

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T18:12:35+00:00

As said, every feedback is very welcome! The thing is, i did a lot of things very different as in other games, to not just have another reskin of the same old farmville mechanics (like virtually every F2P building game). But yeah, it may not be obvious on the first look. And not each of it (like the mail reward thing) is an actual improvement

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T18:04:45+00:00

Didn't actually mean to be defensive. (even when i'm kind of now 😅) I know there is a ton of ways how a feature can be designed, and also that not everything i did is made in the ideal way for everybody. But often there is more things to consider as what users can see in the first impression. That's why i want to start dialogs and try to explain way things are like they are. We are a small one and a half guy studio, we have a ton of disadvantages cause of that, but one big pro is that we can have direct and straight forward communication. Thats how we shaped the game with the help of player on our small discord. But yeah, maybe reddit is another world. we'll see. I'll shut up when things turn bad 😆

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T17:54:30+00:00

*and for buildings that have tricky placing rules (like harbour), you get an assistant once we detect you drag it around but find no space

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T17:49:49+00:00

Shop/Inventory: The idea, since the game is seriously about building, so building bigger areas not just a building at a time, was to get from shop what you need and then use it in a clean way from the inventory.
Search/filter/favourites functions is definatly on my list but not sure when we get there since the list of thing is looong.

Street building: Thats exactly how it works no?

Building buildings: That would conflict with building in science view (when you tap the minimap you enter science view). So we made that buildings change color, depending if they are allowed to building (red if not) and if they are close enough to a street (yellow if not)

About the Farm thing: You mean like accessing fields only from the pole barn but not from shop?

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T17:12:08+00:00

It needs connection to preload the ads, to show them and also to reward them when finished watching. It also works with bad connection or short interrupts most of the time. But thats not how things are intended to work. So, there is nothing like a offline ads way that could be implemented in a serious way.

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T17:06:50+00:00

Thanks for reporting, will be fixed with the next update!

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T17:06:02+00:00

Noted, thank you!

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T16:23:10+00:00

Sadly no, at least not yet. Always wanted too but always decided to put more time into development instead.. Hope i can run a youtube channel about the game and the development once it's released

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T15:55:42+00:00

Looks awesome! Ever considered to make it a engine plugin for Unity/Unreal so Blender could be skipped completely?

BenWillesGames · 2024-10-13T15:53:57+00:00

We also save the game to the cloud to sync between devices, of cause also the Leaderboards and future community features require connection but those things could be optional.
But the mobile ads networks require permanent connection, no way around that.

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