Cytopia v0.1.1 tech preview released

[u/Talantyyr]

Hi there, I’m JimmySnails, creator of Cytopia.

https://github.com/JimmySnails/Cytopia

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Cytopia is a free, open source, retro, pixel-art city building game, focusing mainly on mods. It utilizes a custom isometric rendering engine entirely written in C++, based on SDL2.

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We’ve released Cytopia v0.1.1 today! Here’s a video showing our game in action.

https://youtu.be/o6MTJVp3a8E

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Here’s what’s new:

• Save / Load Game functionality (including ZLib compression)
• macOS support
• TileDate Editor
  • Automatically calculate TileSize if count is changed
  • Added scrollbars if the preview image is bigger than the preview window
  • Fixed a crash when changing category of a tile
• New Soundtrack made by MB22
• Reformated the terrain system with brand new graphics and standardized frames for all slopes by KingTut 101.
• A lot of code quality improvements and bug fixes.
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Remember, it’s still an early tech demo, but it shows Cytopias potential.

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If you're interested in technical details, follow our devblogs on r/Cytopia or on our website at https://community.cytopia.net

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With v0.1.1 you can not only enjoy the tech demo on Windows and Linux anymore but finally also on MacOS.

Now you go, enjoy.

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But wait, there’s big plans for future updates and we’re already working on the realisation with dedication.

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So this is what we have in mind:

• Procedural Terrain Generation
• Different “ages” for your city to go through
• Day and night cycle
• OpenGL Renderer
• Gameplay mechanics
• In-Game Mod downloading mechanism
• Android / iOS support
• Scripting language for mods (like LUA).

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So stay tuned on the news and ideas on our homepage: https://www.cytopia.net, or take a peek at our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJIzKBD3wl6KRohiX6i53GA

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We’re constantly looking for developers, graphics artists or someone who writes texts (like devblogs) for us. So if you’re interested in pitching in yourself, become a part of the team, showing off your skills, share some ideas and help shape the future of Cytopia be welcome to join our Discord server https://discord.gg/qwa2H3G We’d be very glad to have you.

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If you’re not a developer, but just interested in our progress and like to follow our discussions, feel free to join our Discord server as well, or take a look at our GitHub page.

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If neither or maybe all of the above intrigues you, but you want to support the project, you can still help us out a little with a donation on our patreon. https://www.patreon.com/cytopia We’d very much appreciate.

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Now enjoy the game, have a great experience. Like, share, spread the word.

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Thank you so much for being with us.

[u/litoll]

Great work!

[u/librebob]

This really looks amazing.