Urbek City Builder News

Last update of the year! There are many changes, in particular the scoring system and policies. Changes to v0.7.0

Remember that if you want to participate as an alpha tester, join the game's discord !

Policies

• You can now define policies, to shape your city's society as you wish, from utopias to dystopias.
  

Scoring

• If you manage to build certain constructions you will earn points, depending on happiness, population and time taken.
  
• The difficulty of the map changes depending on size, river choice, starting resources and so on.
  

Bugs

• Fixed a major bug that didn't calculate the production rate of resources correctly.
  
• Fixed bug when abandoning buildings, especially when clicking on them.
  
• A warning sign is now displayed when a building does not meet your needs (it was missing in the last version).
  
• Some builds used to show giant warning signs, fixed.
  
• In some situations the overbuild was not working.
  
• The resource lock is now correctly displayed when you have less resources.
  
• The "has:" section of builds now displays correctly when more than 3 variables are involved.
  
• Build links are now always clickable, previously some areas of the link were insensitive.
  
• When deleting a city, the menu is no longer warped
  
• Light buttons are now easily clickable, previously there were insensitive areas.
  

UI

• The origin of the constructions is now displayed: Upgrade from, for easier navigation
  
• Floating numbers on selection in strategic view now
  
• Red text colour more visible
  
• Tooltip of global variables is now shown to the left, so you can see the values better.
  
• All biomes have description now
  
• The information text of the constructs is now lighter.
  
• When there is nothing to display (only steppe, or desert, for example) a smaller menu is displayed.
  
• The colour for the hotkeys is now more legible
  
• Improved order in the "upgrades to:" list
  

New menu

• Now there is a new menu in the upper left corner
  

Tutorial
The following points are now added in the tutorial

• Mini map
  
• Layer view
  
• Policies
  
• Score
  

Biomes

• All other biomes will be blocked
  

Sounds

• All buttons now sound when clicked.
  

New constructions

• Neighbourhood council
  
• City Council
  

Hello to all city builders,

In a few months, Urbek City Builder: Prologue will be available for free, so you can see a sample of the game that is being developed with a lot of work and love.

The game is in a playable state, although there is a lot more content to be added for the final version of Urbek City Builder.

Add to wishlist
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1785820/Urbek_City_Builder_Prologue/

Choose the way of your city
Increase the well-being of your population with sports, faith, nightlife, green areas, etc.



Give your city its own personality!
You can build different types of neighbourhoods: nightlife, artists, industrial and so on. Maybe you prefer a city focused on art and culture? Or would you also like an area with a vibrant nightlife?



Experience the city!
There's a day and night cycle so you can see what your city looks like at night, and you can also get down and get a pedestrian's perspective.



Now, an amazing new UI



Join Urbek's discord to participate in the creation of the game, do you have ideas on how to improve something? All feedback is welcome.

I am very happy to announce that Urbek has a new graphical interface! There is still a lot of room for improvement and I look forward to your feedback to make the experience more and more enjoyable.

Also many new implementations like a minimap


Optimization
It takes less time to load and start a new game

UI
Completely reworked
City name is displayed
Small numbers indicate the number of ghost tiles when building
Total list of shortcuts now visible

New
Mini-map
Strategic overview (show layers with transparent constructions)
You can delete saved cities
Now there is a button to go back to the initial view
You can select a building and then press key O to build more of that building as an alternative to going into the build menu every time



New buildings
Commercial dock in archipelago
Factory in all biomes (Increases stored unskilled work capacity)



Fixes
Pressing alt Tab no longer changes the song.
All issue popups are not longer blocked by the day night cycle
"Proto Farms" name is displayed correctly: Fields, same for "proto Houses": Housing.
Stilt houses can no longer be overbuilt with alt, to avoid the exploit of turning sea into land.
coal mine could use a 5 tile radius indicator for where miners house will be built
The player in observer mode not longer moves sideways faster than forward.
The warning sign is displayed correctly
Fixed Goods Factory text
Wooden Stilt houses now need road
Fixed an issue when deleted the Main Square

Changes
Normal game speed is 1 second = 1 minutes in the game (instead of 2 minutes)

Studying
alt-overbuild does not work with multi tile structures
Perhaps there is an error in adding up the resources
Use ZX keys to zoom /inout

Join the group of testers and become part of our game! We are waiting for all of you!



I think the most important thing is that the game is built by listening to the players' feedback, so your opinion is very important. So thank you to everyone who wants to participate!

Do you have ideas for new constructions? Would you like to be part of this game?

Join Urbek's discord and ask for a key to participate as a tester or just request an acces to our playtest!

Have a good day and don’t forget to leave a comment!

Day/night Cycle

• It is in test phase, any feedback is welcome
  

Fixed bugs

• Hidden building ~statue~ is now still hidden when selecting "show all unlocked buildings".
  
• Tooltip is no longer behind the menus (now it is)
  
• You can now get the advanced multicourt
  
• Now you can get the coastal tourist district
  
• when saving, the text popup "there is only one save slot" does not appear any more
  

Mechanics

• Car parks are no longer converted into abandoned buildings. They are now replaced by other houses.
  
• Proto-warehouses produce the same as warehouses, so you don't have to wait for them to be built before you can build industries.
  
• The intelligence of the cars has been improved a bit.
  

Balance

• Houses demand less density in the archipelago biome, as it is more difficult to obtain large residential areas.
  

Graphics

• Zooming is now more fluid
  
• long city name now does not word wrap
  
• Exiting the game asks "save game?"
  
• There are now bushes and mushrooms in the forests.