Cardboard Town News

Hello! We're excited to launch Cardboard Town Early Access on the 12th of April.
Friendly reminder: Follow our Twitter or join our Discord to stay on the loop!

• Added people & cars to make the city feel more alive and designed the Main Building.

• Added the Mayor Button: Draw a Card for 4$ to increase the amount of strategic choices.

• Implemented the Meta Progression system where you unlock more stuff as you level up.

• Added Education as a Quest-Resource & Education buildings (more resources to follow after launch!)

• Introuced the Aura System.

We've also upgraded the game's content with:
- More Objective Buildings
- More Upgrades
- More Festivals
- More Disasters

• Update the game based on your feedback on a regular basis.
  
• Implement more meta progression levels, resources, buildings and more options for everything else; such as Festivals and Disasters.
  
• Implement the End-Game scenario (we have none at the moment)
  
• We'll increase Settings options and work towards adding accessebility options.
  

We plan to stay on early access for 2 to 4 months but we can not make any promises as the game's vision for "full version" might change based on your feedback.

Thank you for reading and for all your support during Cardboard Town's development!

We hope you'll enjoy Cardboard Town Early Access on 12th of April!

Upon many requests, we're introducing the adjacency system to Cardboard Town. Basically, people want to live near parks and don't want to leave near factories.



Certain buildings will have 1 Tile aura that affects population buildings built on those tiles.

There's Green, Red and Teal auras:

• Green Aura: Buildings that produce Environment give +%25 Population bonus.
  
• Red Aura: Buildings that reduce Environment causes a -%25 Population penalty.
  
• Teal Aura: Building a population building near a building that produces Safety causes the Trouble-Meter to reduce by 1.
  

Auras stack and interact with each other. For example:

• 2 Parks built near provides double bonus on their crossing square
  
• Red and Green auras (Negative and Positive Environement) cancel each other out
  
• Teal Aura can stack with both auras, not effecting the other
  

These auras are only visible when you are in building mode; so don't worry about your cities aesthetics!

We realise this will make the game harder to play but we believe it adds good amount of tactical depth for you to master Cardboard Town!

Also, while %25 Population bonus is a good amount (which might change during testing btw) you can still play the game succeed without paying much attention to it. So it won't bug our casual players too much, we hope.

A City built with the new system, notice that trees are inside the city to maximize population bonus.

We are currently running the tests with our beta testers and not sure if we'll implement this feature to the demo version yet.

We are planning to explain the mechanic further and let you know about our toughts behing it, so make sure you follow our Twitter and YouTube Channelif you are interested!

What do you think about the adjacency system, would you like to see the system included in Cardboard Town's full version?

Please share your toughts so we can make this system as enjoyable as we can for you.

Hello everyone!

First of all; thank you all so much for your interest in our demo and all the feedback!

We've heard your suggestions and are already working on some of them for the full version.
We're aiming to release the full game sometime in April, make sure you wishlist the game and follow us on Twitter to stay in the loop.

Now, let's talk about upcoming features:

[h2]People in the city [/h2]
What's the point of building a city if no one's going to live in it, right?
But who lives in a Cardboard Town?
That's easy: smol, boardgame people!



As your city grows more people will walk (or hop) around the city. We're also increasing the road size to make space for cars! Traffic will not be a part of the management part of game because it sucks and we don't want that. People and cars will be purely for flavor.

[h2]The mighty "are you sure" button:[/h2]
You know what else sucks? Playing a card in an instant, when you didn't mean to do so.
So we're adding a "Play" button as confirmation for all Action Cards.

No more discarding your whole hand by mistake.

[h2]We need more roads![/h2]
Is what you've said during the demo. While we believe placing roads tactically and some luck factor is an important part of the game, we want to increase your options to obtain more roads.

So we are adding; Road generating mayor button, more action cards and more upgrades that makes you have more roads!

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ICYMI: Mayor Button is the (currently red, but actually green) button in the left corner of the screen that makes you draw a card for 4$. You can swap it with different abilities via upgrades.

We've made a poll for the color of the mayor on twitter last week:



[h2]20 New upgrades and more syngergies[/h2]

You think you've seen what this game has to offer? You're wrong!
We are adding some exciting upgrades for the full version of Cardboard Town and some crazy syngeriges!



[h2]Working on Meta Progression[/h2]
At the end of each run, you will gain points according to your building count, objective buildings completed and population. With those points; your Mayor Level will increase and you'll gain benefits.

With higher mayor level, you'll be able to build bigger cities.

Here's our current draft for meta progression, please let us know what you think about the level up system!

Note: this list is work in progress and could change!

[h2]Risky cards:[/h2]
Finally, we're adding some risky upgrades and action cards for daring players which will be available in the full version.



Oh by the way, our other game; Verlet Ascend is being released this week! Make sure to check it out!



That's it from us for today.
We'll share another post for specific release date and final upcoming features of our game.
Thank you for reading and please let us know what you think ːsteamhappyː

As we are at the last days of Steam Next Fest, we are streaming the demo gameplay for one final time. Enjoy as we are very close for the next version of the demo with UI improvements and new mechanics!

If you are interested; play the demo here and don't forget to wishlist it so you won't miss it when the full version comes out!

A city building and card game genre mash-up: Cardboard Town free demo is now available!
Let's talk a little bit about the game while we work on the full version.