Already being thought about by the devs 
Surely Live for Speed would be the game to approach⌠3 developer team, using fictional vehicles (bar 3). Just putting it out there 
Really though I came here to ask about the campaign. Is it planned to be played from a menu or do we get a world much like car tycoon that is played in real time?
Cheers
Iâm already thinking of the 60âs coupe you designed with a 4/6 cil boxer in the back or a v12 in front that wil be GREAT 
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Iâm also curious about this. Especially considering multiplayer. Turn based? (Like: Detroit) Or Real Time? (Car Tycoon Style.) Or something entirely new?
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Iâm also curious about this. Especially considering multiplayer. Turn based? (Like: Detroit) Or Real Time? (Car Tycoon Style.) Or something entirely new?[/quote]
I want Turbo !! hehe
Hows it coming along ??
Have you watched our latest video?
Does the full version will appear inline 2 and flat 2 engines?
I have a plan to build Fiat 500/126(FSM Niki) or panda 30 and citroen 2cv or visa. 
I am building any engine I can from a Car Folio site I wont link the page because Kubby would skin me alive and then proceed to eat me but I am building what I can 
Killrob Edit: Nothing wrong with that website, we use it for engine data in testing too. Also: Why is this here?
hi all. Any updates on the release date? Looking forward to this game bought it a while ago, canât wait. Thanks
Iâve had the game for over two months now and Iâm getting bored⌠Iâve made exactly four of each type of engine, each with and without a turbo. And one engine with so much power the power gauge says negative five horsepower at 8k RPM. What I currently want the most right now is V6s and the ability to choose the amount of turbos. Mainly V6s though. I tried making some engines after real ones but they were all V6s so I had to substitute I6s.
Yep, sadly game development takes time 
as a preorder customer do we get any dlc at launch or after launch
When will we get new updates?
Is this Project of the game going to take Years? Iâm afraid i will not have time to play it next year.
Car designer demo will hopefully be around the end of the year, weâll see. The whole game is still multiple years off at this rate.
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Donât do this 
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The fact is unless we become widely successful, we wonât be able to keep developing forever more without bringing in more money. Even at the tiny little company stage weâre at right now it still costs us many thousands of dollars a month to exist. Weâre not talking anything super pricey, maybe something like a sub $10 expansion with Diesels, Rotaries and a few other new engine types or something. Which for the months and months of work itâd take us I think is a reasonable thing to do.
As a game developer myself, my suggestion would be to put the whole business aspect of the game on the backburner, temporarily, and instead toss in a drag strip with simplified controls â meaning just a throttle and gear shifter (not unlike what you have going on in engine testing) and let people race their creations.
Because honestly, the business part of the game sounds like a major, major development timesink (that you havenât even really started? I think?) and my fear is that it could quickly get out of control, and potentially make you go belly up, when the gameplay benefits from such a mode are questionable, at best.
I mean, youâve got a pretty sweet editor right now, but will there even be a reason to make cars âprettyâ if youâre just career competing vs AI? I donât know, but my feeling is that it will get old much quicker than decent drag racing multiplayer.
And no, donât tell me youâll need Forza style physics code with years of development to make a decent drag mode. You know thatâs simply not true.
[quote=ânetnutâ]As a game developer myself, my suggestion would be to put the whole business aspect of the game on the backburner, temporarily, and instead toss in a drag strip with simplified controls â meaning just a throttle and gear shifter (not unlike what you have going on in engine testing) and let people race their creations.
Because honestly, the business part of the game sounds like a major, major development timesink (that you havenât even really started? I think?) and my fear is that it could quickly get out of control, and potentially make you go belly up, when the gameplay benefits from such a mode are questionable, at best.
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I think you misunderstand the genre of game weâre making here, the gameplay benefits arenât questionable, theyâre they entire point of the game. The whole reason weâre making this game is to fill the niche of a good car company sim, a niche that many people have wished would be filled since âCar Tycoonâ and âDetroitâ didnât do a very good job of it.
We have designs and prototypes around how the business side of the game will work, and of the 3 major elements of the game (Car Design, Engine Design and Business) it seems to be the most straight forward from a development point of view (though quite complex in terms of design, balancing, gameplay etc.)
You say that the career mode sounds like it would get old much faster than drag racing multiplayer, which makes me think that maybe youâre not really a fan of the car company running side of things, which is fine, everyone has different tastes, but our core fanbase is really into that, the reason many of them want to play Automation is to live out their dreams of running their own car company.
I donât mean to rant, itâs just weâve got a very clear idea of our plans going forwards, a clear idea of what kind of market and what kind of game weâre going for, and what seems so far to be an entirely sustainable business plan, so best I can see this would just divert us from our core goals and finishing the game that weâve promised to our customers.
Thereâs no misundertanding on my part, I donât think. But maybe I didnât translate my point very well, so Iâll elaborate.
If I understand your situation right, it is as follows:
- Money is pretty tight. Understandable.
- You have a car building editor that is relatively close to completion.
and - Youâll still need to develop a âgameâ to wrap around that nice editor of yours.
Now if all those points are true, then consider this:
- While Iâm sure you have business niche fans, and probably plenty of them, I also do have a feeling that (at the risk of maybe sounding a bit arrogant) your fanbase right now is mostly just into cars in general, and engines, and tuning. I mean after all, youâve got an engine building demo up right now on the front page, not business stuff.
- People that are into cars, engines, and mechanical tuning, are probably also into the competitive aspect of what tuning is all about, or going faster than the other guy. Aka racing their creations.
Now, keeping those two points in mind, letâs look at your situation again. You need money, yes, and you need buzz. For that, you ideally need to finish a wrapper game around your great editor, ASAP. Get it from being a cute little single player tech demo, to being something that people want all their friends to buy.
With me so far? Okay, I know that developing a simple drag strip racing mode with either simplified controls (throttle+gearshifter only with no steering) OR even no controls whatsoever, takes probably what⌠maybe 1/10th the effort of creating a fully fledged business simulation game? If that? After all youâd basically just be punching your dyno results into a few more variables, and visualizing it in a track view.
So my thought is basically that if you went that route, then you would find yourself better fueled to take on the rest of your game, the business side, which frankly sounds like a massive challenge for such a small team. So no, itâs not because I just want a drag game and not a business simulation. I mean hell, I even loved Capitalism 2, and I donât think it can get any more business simmy than that.
Anyway, I just wanted to communicate this out to you. It doesnât mean Iâm going to whine and moan about it. I mean, youâve had my support already either way.