Urbek City Builder News

Hello everybody, I am the developer of Urbek and I am very happy to show you the game,



Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.



Join the community on discord: https://discord.com/invite/HyJSDDn
Take part as betatester, give ideas, etc.

See you in the stream!

Hello everybody, I am the developer of Urbek and I am very happy to show you the game, I will answer your questions as well.



Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.



Join the community on discord: https://discord.com/invite/HyJSDDn
Take part as betatester, give ideas, etc.

See you in the stream!

[h3]Dynamics[/h3]

• Roads now need to be connected :wink:
  
• Natural resources are no longer consumed while capacity is at maximum.
  

[h3]Bugs[/h3]

• The wells now have an area of influence drawn on them
  
• The desertic farm now need water after it is built, in last version you could delete the well after
  
• Now the area left after clearing stone deposits allways reads as wasteland, not grass.
  
• Fixed issue where the influence of some variables (like education) was miscalculated.
  
• Fixed problem with wrongly drawn areas (half-squares).
  
• Villas now downgrades when requirements are no longer satisfied.
  
• In the desert the last row of the river is now fertile (before it was desert).
  
• Solved the problem of exaggerated influence of parks.
  
• Sea is now drawn differently, so that the map always has sea at the edge when coast is chosen.
  

[h3]Balance[/h3]

• (heavy) Coal plants produce twice as much energy.
  
• Desert farms and wells no longer need roads so close.
  

[h3]Graphics[/h3]

• Ambient occlusion in walkthrough mode
  
• New icon
  

Thanks again to the alphatesters, many gameplay improves today!

[h3]Bugs[/h3]

• No bouncing back and forth between the two types of view when holding the control key.
  
• Football fields count correctly the number of green areas (1, not 4)
  
• Fixed asymmetry issue: 2x2 buildings are now considered all of them, not just the bottom corner.
  
• Fixed resource input problem when loading the game.
  
• In the desert biome, the stone now depletes correctly.
  

[h3]Gameplay[/h3]

• Hotkeys to build and change speed
  
• Trees are automatically removed when building roads
  
• When a building meets the requirements but has no space to appear, the size it needs, e.g. villas, is displayed.
  

[h3]UI[/h3]

• The area of influence of buildings same as the one being built is displayed.
  
• When hovering over resources, a tooltip shows an overview of total production per building.
  
• There are now tooltips for the building category buttons.
  
• The area of the coal plants is shown
  

[h3]Tutorial[/h3]

• Now shows the correct amount of green areas needed to unlock the nice park (30, not 20)
  
• Made it explicit that house upgrades are automatic, not manual.
  

[h3]Misc[/h3]

• Slowed walking by default in walk mode.
  

Thanks againt to the alphatesters, I don't know how you manage to find so many bugs and things to improve!

[h3]Bugs[/h3]

• Villagers do not levitate on bridges
  
• Silos can no longer be built next to modern silos
  
• Lumbrjack cabins can no longer be built next to lumberjack houses
  
• Houses no longer go beyond map edges
  
• Fixed right-clicking on the build menu causing the tooltip remains
  
• P key works correctly to delete/activate the UI.
  
• Fixed issue where you could advance the time in the menu that is activated by pressing ESCAPE.
  
• No longer shows unlocked builds when loading a game.
  
• Playing with initial resources meant that no progress could be made after the silo, due to lack of work.
  
• When leaving a game and starting a new one (without closing the game), the options left by default kept the values of the previous game.
  

[h3]Controls[/h3]

• Middle button moves the camera slower than before
  

[h3]Graphics[/h3]

• Grain silo now shows two areas (to know where warehouses should go to improve to modern silo)
  
• Wood resource message no longer go beyond the screen
  
• The infoboxes of the buildings stay longer before disappearing
  
• The map is no longer in a space, but on a piece of soil, and the soil is on a plane.
  

[h3]Misc[/h3]

• Trees are automatically removed when building roads
  
• Slight changes to the tutorial.
  
• Correction of 8 texts, now well written in english