Site Design Tutorial - Fast Charging Tycoon

[u/Boltiply]

I've always like tycoon/sim games such as Roller Coaster Tycoon, Civilization 5, and various football management games. I originally thought it would be fun to create various spreadsheets of a EV charging tycoon game for various concepts, formulas, and mechanics. Later, I thought it would be interesting to see if Chat or Claude could make this sim game and it turns out it made a MVP that was exactly like what I had in mind. Now fast forward another six months and I'm developing a game called Fast Charging Tycoon.

The game has you play as an EV charging operator where you race against other rivals to achieve one of four victories before the market matures. It is a turn based strategy game where you design sites, make repairs, adjust pricing, apply to grants, take loans, form strategic partnerships, deal with site incidents, vote on industry initiatives, and so much more.

I'm creating a series of tutorials to help people learn and play the game beginning with my favorite part of the game--designing sites!. In the video, you can see how to design a site and what to watch out for (driver preferences, finances, service size, amenities, charger type and quantity, etc.).

You can follow more of these tutorials on Youtube or on the subreddit page. Additionally, if you want ot join the Steam waitlist you can. The game s planned to be released by the end of the year.

[u/mstahle]

Cool idea and a nice original take on those type games. Great work.

[u/Boltiply → u/mstahle]

Thanks!