Dear oil entrepreneurs,
It's finally upon us: Turmoil Multiplayer has reached the playtesting phase! If all goes well, you'll all be able to play Turmoil campaigns online with friends and adversaries in the near future. But of course we want to make sure everything is in good order before we release this goodness onto our beloved players.
And we could use your help with this! Once the playtest build is live, a button will appear on the store page, which you can use to sign up as a tester for Turmoil Multiplayer. There will be a limited number of volunteer playtester spots available, and if you sign up via the button, you will receive an invite. If you decide to join the playtest, start playing and share your feedback via our questionnaire!
The major things we want to test are:
Setting up a new game
Customising your character and frame
Playing the Multiplayer campaign (of course)
Multiplayer Land Auction
Multiplayer Stock Auction
Recaps showing the outcome of the previous round and auctions
Watching replays from your adversaries' turns
The time it takes to complete a turn
And hopefully any final issues you may run into :)
Once we've been able to assess your feedback from the playtest, we will iron out the final kinks, do another quick round of playtesting if we need to, and hopefully share Turmoil Multiplayer with you soon! And remember: it will be a free add-on to the classic campaign, so it will be there for all Turmoil players to enjoy.
For now: thanks for your patience so far, and for helping out to make the game even better! We hope you will be invited to join the playtest soon!
In the meantime, if you want to know more about the design for Multiplayer, please check our in-depth blog posts here:
Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America. Get a taste of the rush and rivalry of the time as you earn your way to become a successful oil entrepreneur. As you make money digging up and selling oil, the town will grow along with you.
Lease land at the town auction and search for oil. Build a rig, create an efficient pipe network and bring up the oil to store it in silos. Sell the oil at the best times to maximize profits. Then buy essential upgrades in town to cope with rock, gas and ice. Acquire more town shares than your competitors in a bid to become the new mayor.
A campaign where you build your rags-to-riches oil baron career and beat your rivals.
Dozens of upgrades and new tools to improve your oil mining operations.
Meet the town’s characters in the saloon and make shady business deals.
Play single game mode to get one of literally millions of procedurally generated levels and earn as much as you can in one year.
Steam Achievements, Badges, Trading Cards and Cloud Saving.
Lease land at the town auction and search for oil using a dowser, mole or scanner.
Maximize your profits by using natural gas to boost the oil price.
Outbid your competitors at the stock auction.
MINIMAL SETUP
OS: Ubuntu 12.04 and up. or the latest version of SteamOSMemory: 2 GB RAMStorage: 150 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Other Linux distributions will probably also work.
Memory: 2 GB RAMStorage: 150 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Other Linux distributions will probably also work.
Storage: 150 MB available spaceAdditional Notes: Other Linux distributions will probably also work.