You had the nightmare again. The disaster happens and the power goes out then in a matter of days the entire city has turned into an angry hungry mob.
But this time it was different as you realised that with renewable energy everywhere the lights would stay on and civilisation would prevail over a collapse into anarchy.
And your destiny is to be the Solar Energy Tycoon who will thrust back the darkness and anarchy with the unconventional weapons of solar panels, wind turbines and wave generators!
But where to start...
Mouse controls.
WASD to move camera. Mouse Wheel zoom in out (buggy in webgl version)
Hints and tips
1. Hire Crew - Minimum Crew 1 of each staff + Car + Van 2. Buy panels 100+ 3. Select a field or building and choose the build solar icon. 4. Repeat 2,3,4 as necessary to build up your power base.
OK You need fitters and electricians to set up the panels, vans to deliver the planes and cars for the electricians and managers.
More fitters and electricians speed up the build times. Managers and admin staff reduce the the build times.
Additional Note: I did not get a lot of time to playtest so let me know if anyone figures out how to win the game.
I had no problems with the webplayer (also using Firefox). Man this game looks great and I love tycoon games, but extra help text would be really useful. I think I created a bunch of solar panels? I wasn't sure how the "jobs" work or what sliding the green bars did, and I just bought one of everything.
Anyway, I'm curious where this is going so I'm saving your mix tape link for later :)
Hey, sadly I could not find out how to do any thing, I bought some stuff and tried to build solar panels, at the right jobs came in to view, but nothing seemed to happen. It's a shame because probably there is some interesting stuff in a tycoon game. Visuals are very good tho.
This game looks like it's really good but I'm sad to say I really can't figure it out. I installed solar panels on ~half the houses and then ran out of money. How do you earn money?
The game looks great and I love these types of games, but some sort of tutorial is sorely needed because currently it is just confusing.
I'm terribly at Solar Tycooning, every business I run can only afford a bunch of solar panels and then makes virtually no money :) Great concept, will be interested to see what you make of it.
This looks like a game I could easily enjoy but a strategy game of this kind needs some pretty solid tutorials to explain the game. I click around and almost nothing is responsive - I can get info on a plot of land, but I can't do anything more than this
How do I build something? How do I get money? Can I do something with the houses? Do I need staff?
Very complex game for the time-frame of a LD compo. However, like other said, a small text tutorial to get people started would help. I'm currently stuck without being able to build more solar panels (I've bought enough of them) and the game don't tell me what I'm missing to build more. Electricians? Fitters? Cars? Vans?
Really cool concept. Pretty buggy and unclear what to do. Would like to see more of this game! Also no OS builds? the WebGL build broke for me, webplayer worked in Firefox though, also got the null pointer exception
The game lacks some financial overview. By experimentation I figured out that only staff requires continuous funds, so the only way I could get income was by installing some things and then firing everybody :) It's very unfinished, yet promising! Also amazing you managed all this in 48h.
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Anyway, I'm curious where this is going so I'm saving your mix tape link for later :)
Some of the buttons didn't seem to work, I couldn't seem to get it to a point where I'm generating income. Not sure if incomplete or not functioning?
The game looks great and I love these types of games, but some sort of tutorial is sorely needed because currently it is just confusing.
How do I build something? How do I get money? Can I do something with the houses? Do I need staff?
More fitters and electricians speed up the build times.
Managers and admin staff reduce the the build times.
It's a pity that it doesn't have any audio.
And the Fire button seems not work, when I click it: sometimes no response, sometimes increase the employees.