Gas Station Simulator News

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Gas Station Simulator comes with a large array of customization options for your gas station to allow you to truly personalize it. It all starts with giving it a name. That name carries over to all sorts of things beyond the gas station’s name shield such as advertisement. It also changes style according to how you modernize your gas station and what overall looks you choose.

The most important thing when it comes to customizing the looks of your gas station however is the color scheme. It’s applied to most elements, various furniture items and even appliances you put up and obviously all expansions and buildings. It also carries over to all styles you can choose for your gas station when you modernize it.

Those are the large ticket items, but the customization doesn’t stop there. There is a ton of smaller things you can use to add a more personal touch to your business such as posters, painting, lighting or the type of shelfs or stands you use. You can also pick between different styles for the overall interior decoration, not to mention the different choices for the outside areas around your gas station.
There is a lot to customize. You don’t have to, you can go with a preset template, but if your feel like it, know there is plenty to choose from. Doing so will give you slight bonuses over choosing the template approach and will also boost any advertising you do.

The idea behind the service center is to expand the gas station with a small service/garage building.
Since the gas station is basically in the middle of nowhere, customers who run into trouble with their car on their journey will find your gas station to be the only place for urgent repairs in the area. We are talking smaller fixes here, like a small garage would do in real life.

Another aspect of this addition to your gas station is the ability ot expand it by a towing service. While you won’t drive yourself and tow cars that broke down on the road, you’ll be able to hire someone to run this part of your business for you. It will generate additional revenue on its own, but also provide even more customers for repairs.

The service center will require you to keep an inventory of common spare parts in order to be able to make the repairs. This means that if you decide to go that route, you not only have to invest into the building and its equipment, but also keep a significant investment to maintain the spare parts inventory. The profits that the service center is able to generate can be substantial and allow you to finanse further expansion.

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We chose this short video snippet for this dev Log to bring attention to what we believe is an interesting aspect of Gas Station Simulator: the silly stuff.

Running your gas station at some point also involves hiring employees. In most cases, you get what you pay for, but there are exceptions here and there. You will have to check on your staff every now and then, as some might neglect their duties, others might try to steal from you and some might just do stupid things.
Like you walk in one day and see your employee stacking cups or cans on the counter or building dominos out of the boxes on the shelf.

We will implement many of these situations just to light things up a bit. It is also part of something more serious, namely our effort to differentiate employee beyond looks or stats. We want them to have distinct personalities like you would expect in real-life. This is something important to us as you won’t hire many employees and those few you decide on should feature distinct personalities.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1149620/Gas_Station_Simulator/

Welcome to DevLogs for Gas Station Simulator.
The idea behind posting DevLogs on a regular basis starting next week is to provide you with insights into the development of the game, new features we are working on or showcasing some interesting mechanics that we just finished implementing.

For you it’s also a great opportunity to comment on those things using the Discuss button below. We as a development team always valued feedback from the community and are known to take it seriously and incorporate it into the development process more often than not.


https://store.steampowered.com/app/1149620/Gas_Station_Simulator/

Welcome to DevLogs for Gas Station Simulator.
The idea behind posting DevLogs on a regular basis starting next week is to provide you with insights into the development of the game, new features we are working on or showcasing some interesting mechanics that we just finished implementing.

For you it’s also a great opportunity to comment on those things using the Discuss button below. We as a development team always valued feedback from the community and are known to take it seriously and incorporate it into the development process more often than not.