Hi there!

I've just uploaded the full release version 1.0.
First of all: thanks to all supporters during the Early Access. Your input really helped me to improve and extend the game in a cool way.

Since the end of March a lot of new features had been added. Here is a (not complete) list:

- NEW: New languages...French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian & Chinese
- NEW: Lots of more football stats about your season
- NEW: When placing a building you now see overlapping areas for same type.
- NEW: Villa is now buildable by event and brings a gold player with longer career.
- NEW: Grid layout when build mode is active.
- NEW: New job concept introduced, added productivity to buildings.
- NEW: New funding concept.
- NEW: A college with scouting possibility can now be built.
- NEW: Price for building will be refund if it is deleted during the build process.
- NEW: New difficulties (previous difficulty was close to hard)
- NEW: New achievments
- NEW: Added animations for some buildings
- NEW: Job buildings are not highlighted when new apartments are about to be placed.
- NEW: New tutorial and task system.
- NEW: Burning apartments now have a possibility they don't burn down.
- NEW: New fundings and scrollable UI in Club house popup.
- NEW: Performance improvements
- NEW: Bus station now contain lanes. Bus stops can be placed in the city to reduce traffic.
- NEW: Football ground condition can get worse and needs to be repaired.
- NEW: Club house now contains jerseys.
- NEW: New income by jersey sales in the fan shop.
- NEW: New sound effects added
- NEW: New getting players mechanism (see new description for apartment in Tech-Tree)
- NEW: New Music! 4 new tracks including a new main theme.
- NEW: New save games will have the play time saved as well.
- NEW: OpenGL is now supported (previously DirectX).
- NEW: Shaders redone and improved.
- NEW: New shader & much better visibility in heatmap view.
- NEW: New text formatting engine.

- NEW: Game can now be continued from the start screen.
- NEW: Map can now also be moved with the arrow keys.
- NEW: There now is a figure to see apartment class numbers.
- NEW: New icons for apartment classes.
- NEW: TechTree removed and moved description to tool tip in building menu and popups.
- NEW: All team information now visible in Game screen.
- NEW: Children only join the club if at least one football pitch exists.
- NEW: League competition starts with first football pitch.
- NEW: Apartments always burn down when they caught fire (burning rate itself got decreased)
- NEW: Apartment can get renovated for a lower price than building it again
- NEW: Surrounded apartments can catch fire from long burning apartments.
- NEW: Name of currently placed object is now shown above building tab.
- NEW: Screen for credits has been added.
- NEW: Links to Discord and YouTube channel added to start screen.
- NEW: "Not enough jobs" tooltip in building popup shows what kind of jobs are needed.
- NEW: City name is now the default name for the save file.
- NEW: Textbox is focused when entering SaveGame screen.
- NEW: Game now has full hotkey support (see help popup).
- NEW: Game should now also run on Mac and Linux (will be available soon).
- NEW: New heatmap figures (Satisfaction, Trend and Gold/Silver/Bronze players).
- NEW: Buildings now show their road tiles while being placed.
- NEW: Apartments in radius will get focused when new building is about to be placed.
- NEW: Added engine extensions (e.g. TransitionControl for some key figures like money and revenue)

There have been a lot of fixes and updates as well but I don't want this announcement be too long.
I hope you will keep on playing the game, report issues and give me feedback how to improve the game even more.

Get in touch with me if you find any issues. Enjoy playing!

Cheers,
Christian

Hi there!

I've just uploaded the version 0.6.

PATCH NOTES - VERSION 0.6

• NEW: More football stats about your season have been added.
  
• NEW: When placing a building you now see overlapping areas for same type.
  
• UPDATE: Performance tuning.
  
• UPDATE: Some balancing values have been adapted.
  
• UPDATE: Translations updated
  

Hey Road to your City supporters,

as you might have noticed there was a time without game updates lately. There are three reasons why there haven't been more updates for the game and I would like to make it transparent to you in this Steam announcement.

Reason 1:
As you might know I've been working on the game for such a long time and the fact Road to your City was my first game also included that there have been so much new experience like putting the game on Steam, pushing the game in Early Access, doing some marketing, creating Youtube videos and stuff like that. I wanted to fix the main issues on the game and thats what I did. But then I needed some time to clear my mind and to start playing games on my own since I haven't had any time during the development on Road to your City.

Reason 2:
I hardly get any feedback any more - neither bugs nor feature requests. Thats where reason three connects.

Reason 3:
The game was a success for me, since most of the time I had a full-time job and I was never dependent on earning a specific amount of money to proceed the development and so on. Of course I thought about working on the game full-time but I totally knew that Road to your City is more a niche game and it will be quite impossible that it might become the next Stardew Valley ;) But actually I did not care since I wanted to make that kind of game. But everything has an end and Road to your City is almost done because its fully playable. The sales were good but the progress shows me that there is not a huge interest in the game any more. Thats totally fine and I don't claim that, but I'm sure you understand that it doesn't make sense to work on a game no one is interested in any more. I really appreciate all kind of support from the community I got over the years - that was really cool :)

But here is the thing: since I would love to add more features to the game I offer you to send me feature requests which will not fully break the game or might take months to make and I will see if I'm able to add them to the game. After that Road to your City will finally come out as full release since the game itself - as already mentioned - is fully playable and bug free.

So let me know in the comments, on my Discord server or write me a message at contact@yheekygames.com.
Really looking forward to your messages!

Cheers,
Christian

Hi there!

I've just uploaded the version 0.5.5.



Here are the new patch notes.

- NEW: New languages Portuguese and Russian are now available.
- NEW: Villa is now buildable by event and brings a gold player with longer career.
- NEW: Grid layout when build mode is active.
- FIX: "O" key toggles tall building visibility and make small buildings like traffic lights clickable.
- FIX: Shutting down banks instantly updates coverage.
- FIX: Credits can only be taken if not all banks are shut down.
- FIX: "Last game" in start screen should now be the correct save game.
- UPDATE: Costs for scouted players in college has been adapted.
- UPDATE: Translations issues with chinese translation improved.

Get in touch with me if you find any issues. Enjoy playing!

Cheers,
Christian

Hi there!

I've just uploaded the version 0.5.4.



Here are the new patch notes.

- NEW: Game has been translated into Chinese
- NEW: A college with scouting possibility can now be built.
- NEW: Price for building will be refund if it is deleted during the build process.
- NEW: Game can now be continued from the start screen.
- FIX: Player calculation improved. Long-term it should be easier to get gold players.
- FIX: Game does not crash anymore if a bus line is deleted at the bus station.
- FIX: Bus stops will also get deleted if a bus station is removed.
- FIX: Money is now set correctly when starting a new game for different difficulties.
- UPDATE: Translation issue should not crash the game any more.

Get in touch with me if you find any issues. Enjoy playing! :soccer:

Cheers,
Christian

Hi there!

I've just uploaded the version 0.5.3.



Here are the new patch notes.

- NEW: New difficulties Easy, Medium and Hard (previous difficulty was close to hard)
- NEW: Map can now also be moved with the arrow keys.
- FIX: Fire engines got lost sometimes and fire station kept engine in transit.
- FIX: Mini map and other graphics sometimes disappeared or were drawn white.
- UPDATE: Burning apartments can burn down now.
- UPDATE: Sound position did not work correctly for single vehicles (e.g. fire engine).

Cheers,
Christian

Hi there,

I've just uploaded the next patch. The current version is now 0.5.2.
Just for your information: I will only post bigger updates here on Steam. I will update the game regularly but I don't write new posts for minor version updates (e.g. for 0.5.2.1 or 0.5.2.2).
To be always up to date about minor patches you can have a look at the patch notes in-game or in the text file "AlphaNotes.txt".



Here are the new patch notes.

- NEW: Two new achievements (3500 people and record champion).
- NEW: Spanish translation added.
- NEW: There now is a figure to see apartment class numbers.
- NEW: New icons for apartment classes.
- FIX: Promoted players in club house now works correctly.
- FIX: Bank bug wasn't solved completely but should be now.
- FIX: Building radius highlighting improved.
- FIX: Game could not be loaded if it had been saved on a match day.
- FIX: Game crashed when player clicked on a bank building.
- FIX: Smaller bug fixes.
- UPDATE: Changed heat map colors for players due to bad visibility.

If you've suggestions for future features, the best way would be joining the Discord server and write it in the suitable channel. As you might imaging it's quite hard to keep an overview of all different channels so the highest visibility can be reached on the Discord. Thanks for understanding.

Cheers,
Christian

Hi there,

I've made the next patch. Again there have been some minor troubles with loading/saving the game on Linux and Mac platform.
But this time I've also added a new feature which has been requested quite often. If you place an apartment the job buildings in range will now be focused. So it's much easier to see where to place an apartment to be in the radius of the most important job buildings.



Here is the patch note overview:

- NEW: Job buildings are not highlighted when new apartments are about to be placed.
- FIX: Solved another small loading bug for French localization
- FIX: Save game with club house and not taking part in league competition failed to load.
- UPDATE: Increased font size for help popup and removed unassigned description for key "T".

As always. Keep reporting any kind of issue when you find one. I'll have a look at it as soon as I can.

Cheers,
Christian

Me again.

Sorry for another update today, but I've found a game breaking bug for the French localization. That should now be fixed.
New version is 0.5.1.8.

Cheers,
Christian

Hey there,

I've just updated the game to version 0.5.1.7.



Players with a French localization had a problem with loading/saving a game. That issue has been fixed in this version so you should be ready to continue playing :)

Here are the whole patch notes:
- NEW: Better logging functionality to find open problems.
- FIX: Game crashed and file could not be loaded any more (localization problem).
- FIX: Bank credit bug solved. Credit had not to be paid back in some cases.
- FIX: Removed radius from some building which had no influence.
- FIX: Children where not moving out in case of a fire.
- FIX: Talent leaving reason optimized and more transparent.
- FIX: Hardware cursor option is now saved
- FIX: Fire engine siren now turns off when fire has been extinguished

Just keep reporting when there are any issues. I'll keep track of them.
Enjoy playing!

Cheers,
Christian

Hey there,

I've just updated the game to version 0.5.1.5.



The good news for all Mac and Linux users - the game should not crash any more when saving/loading a game. There was a problem with an external library and I had to write the code by my own. Thats why the update took a bit longer than it should have taken - sorry for the delay.

Here are the other patch notes:

• NEW: ESC key tabs into the game again
  
• FIX: Saving/Loading problem on Linux/Mac solved
  
• FIX: Bus lines can not be deleted correctly (no crash any more)
  
• FIX: Tutorial can now be continued with trackpad only
  
• FIX: "Delete" button in loading screen will now be translated
  
• FIX: Football ground showed productivity accidentally
  
• UPDATE: Translations updated
  
• UPDATE: New library for saving/loading added (removed old library)
  
• UPDATE: Increase the zooming value a bit for better visibility
  
  

Hey everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that Road to your City has just been released!



Thanks to all supporters, followers and all people who did get in touch with me concerning the game.

The game is in Early Access so I'm very open for the features/suggestions! The current version is 0.5.1.4. The patch notes can be seen ingame and in the AlphaNotes.txt file in your game folder. If you haven't heard about the game yet, you can also check out the demo on itch.io before buying it. I also plan to add a demo here on Steam at a later stage.

Check out the social media links below to follow the development and for always being up to date.

Discord
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram

Enjoy playing!

Hi there!

after launching the Kickstarter campaign - which unfortunately does not look that good - I've uploaded the next devlog video with a huge amount of features. Since there are only a few tasks on my to do list there might be the chance of an earlier release which is mentioned in the devlog.



If you are interested in the whole series, you can also have a look at the playlist.

If you are not already part of my Discord channel and you want to be up to date regarding the development I would love to welcome you over there!

Feel free to leave me some feedback - have a great week!

Hi there,

yesterday on Friday February 1 7pm CET the Kickstarter Campaign of Road to your City went online. So far the campaign stands at 8% after a bit more than 24 hours. Thats not the worst start but there is still a long way to go.



You can find all the information over there. If you're really interested in supporting the project or even getting your copy of the game or even the alpha you should have a look at the rewards. Until February 3 7pm CET there are two Early Bird options for a game copy and alpha access so don't waste any time and get your reward over there. I would really appreciate it!

Cheers,
Christian

A new version 0.4.6 is now available for all having an alpha key or want to play the demo. Since I forgot to post the update for version 0.4.5 those updates are also included.



Version 0.4.6

• NEW: Apartments always burn down when they caught fire (burning rate itself got decreased)
  
• NEW: Apartment can get renovated for a lower price than building it again
  
• NEW: Surrounded apartments can catch fire from long burning apartments.
  
• FIX: Lowered the price for hospital, police station and fire station.
  
• FIX: Objects behind an upgraded football pitch could not be clicked any more.
  
• FIX: Stadium icon in Tech tree is not enabled if the stadium has been unlocked.
  

• NEW: New getting players mechanism (see new description for apartment in Tech-Tree)
  
• FIX: Worked on satisfaction calculation and increased speed
  
• FIX: Worked on satisfaction calculation and increased speed
  
• FIX: Changed building prices and raised income for people a tiny bit
  
• FIX: Prevent showing "No team for first team assigned" message on loading a game
  
• FIX: Corrupt save file when first building has burnt
  
• FIX: Burning apartments kept their last trend
  
• FIX: Remove events for disappearing vehicles
  
• FIX: Overwork id system for map objects which could lead to corrupt save file
  
• FIX: Playing time for save game was displayed in wrong format
  
• FIX: No football pitch has to be assigned for first team to play on any more
  
• FIX: Demolishing tiles at the border made the game crash
  
• UPDATE: First time promotions brings bonus money for the player
  
• UPDATE: Increase satisfaction effect for cinema, disco and casino
  
• UPDATE: Police station flags are also b/w in HeatMap mode (were colored before)
  
• UPDATE: "Provide jobs" hint appeared endless which is now fixed
  
• UPDATE: Hint added that resolutions higher than 1920 x 1080 are not supported so far
  
• UPDATE: Translations added and changed
  
• UPDATE: Weather effects now adapt to screen when resolution has been changed.
  

If you want to try out the current state of the game you can download and play a demo version on itch.io. Click here.
I'll always update the alpha and demo version simultaneously.

If you have any positive, negative or feedback concerning bugs, don't hesitate to contact me by my linked social media channels. Enjoy!

The store page is now finally online!
It's pretty exciting that Road to your City is coming closer to release but if you've followed the development in the past years it's just time for it.
As you can see there are only screenshots available right now but this will change soon. On Monday, January 14, 2019 (7pm CET) the trailer will be revealed on YheekyGames YouTube channel and will instantly be added over here as well. Be excited!

Follow YheekyGames on social media to be always up the date!