#town builder

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Croakwood launches in Early Access this winter - Gematsu

Town building simulation game Croakwood will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam this winter, developer Texel Raptor announced.

Here is an overview of the game, via Texel Raptor:

About

Croakwood is a creative, relaxed town building simulation game about frogs and nature! Design and create structures, plan and decorate towns, and explore an ancient forest to guide the growth of a charming community of tiny amphibians as they settle into their new life in the lush and wild woods. Nestled in the heart of Croakwood Forest is a community unlike any other! It’s your job to guide your froggy villagers in the right direction so their village thrives. Build all sorts of community structures, from houses to shops, implement production chains and other jobs, and sit back and watch as the villagers pitch in self-sufficiently to build their home in Croakwood Forest. The best part? Croakwood is perfect for those who want to unwind and have a chill town building experience, no time pressure or conflicts involved. The main goal is happiness: for both you and your froggy friends!

Key Features

Build the Perfect Frog Town – Design and customize homes inside and out with a flexible, piece-based building system.

A Village That Lives on Its Own – Watch frogs gather, craft, and transport resources as they go about their daily routines.

From Pond to Production – Set up production chains and other jobs. Guide your town’s economy as villagers collect and process materials by hand.

Happy Frogs, Thriving Town – Fulfill requests and meet your villagers’ needs to unlock new content and grow your community.

Expand Through the Forest – Unlock new areas, discover secrets, and grow your town deeper into the Croakwood.

Play at Your Own Pace – Optimize every detail or sit back and enjoy a cozy, low-pressure experience.

Watch a new trailer below.

Early Access Release Window Trailer

[shikagemaru]

HEAR ME OUT

Please forgive the free-form ramble, but I had an idea; and maybe if I had studied programming 20 years ago, I could've made it happen. But I didn't, so it's just a dream. Steal skyrim wholesale, and take the settlement builder from Fallout 4, and paste them together until you get a Town Builder type game.

What I'd do is remove all of the buildings from Skyrim and replace it all with wilderness and stone. Maybe some sort of remnant could be left behind if you wanted to get into the ninute details, but that's too granular for now. The feel is very much Minecraft meets Stardew Valley, but using the Bethesda bones, of course.

Fallout 4 forced you to place settlements only in given locations with certain setpieces you couldn't remove. But I say unlock that particular feature and allow anywhere to be buildable. The trees that are now in abundance can be chopped down, and stone that's absolutely everywhere in Skyrim are now resources to gather. There's already builder's drafting table items in Skyrim for the Homestead, so they can be repurposed as the standard Builder's Bench type item for crafting. There's also plenty of log pile items and even a sawmill. It shouldn't be too difficult to figure something out for mining equivalents. Build some NPCs with the character creator, and populate your town.

Then, some of that stuff comes in for assigning people to jobs like guarding the town, cutting wood, mining stone, hunting and fishing, farming, etc. Clear areas of obstacles and build fields or buildings. There's already tools in the system for food and bed requirements for your NPCs in Settlement Builder, so it's not far off from the kind of town building survival mechanics this project would call for. It could get there with a little fine tuning. Skyrim already has a little bit of farming and plant growing mechanics built in, so it's super close to being a functioning farming sim even with just the Homestead it already has.

So maybe you too can see how tantalizingly close this is, but for the want of a bit of proverbial programming duct tape.

[dinogir1]

Patron Game Log

This session didn't last very long as I'm quite tired and realised very quickly that I don't have the energy at the time to play.

I started by laying the foundation for a bunch of housing for the peasants on the south eastern farming island.

Then started the foundation on the housing for the peasants on the north western farming island. During the layout of the housing I realised I was just too tired right now for this game.

This is where I ended the session.

Next I plan to continue constructing new houses on the north western farming island.

[knightoflodis]

I am so excited for this game! Fist devblog for Croakwood by Parkitect developer TexelRaptor

Croakwood Devlog #1 | Texel Raptor

Also. @incubator-zero and @deepfriedanon

Apparently they had concept art for some moomin-like villagers and capybara-like villagers

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From Steam to Switch? Castaway Paradise!

From Steam to Switch? Castaway Paradise!

We have seen an influx of independently developed games to Nintendo’s hybrid console in 2018. And though the library of simulation games is improving, there still aren’t enough casual simulation games in the Switch.

In from Steam to Switch? I highlight a game weekly that would be a good one to port over. To play the casual simulation games whenever wherever you are. Of course, I have played none…

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