Greetings Capitalists. 2024 is now here and so is a new update for CAPITALISM The action board game for one player. Today you get five new minigames, a couple of extra features and I've even fixed some bugs for you. Let's have a look at what's new:

Money King

In this arcade game, inspired by the greats, you have to reach the top of the tower and avoid barrels along the way. The main challenge is that the slopes are slippery so you will slide down them just like the barrels. Plus you must jump on the head of the greedy capitalist at the top in order to reach the platform with the prize.

Balancing Act

Also using the new construction site theme, this minigame is all about the new unicycle powerup. The movement physics are completely different here and realistic to an actual unicycle, meaning that absolute precision is required to navigate this platforming challenge.

Putting out Fires

Featuring another new item, I really am spoiling you lot today. This minigame includes the brand new water pistol, which must be used to put out the fire and reveal a prize. But watch out for the more deadly fire balls that fill the screen, the water pistol is no match for these.

Spinning Stones

A riff on the existing Stepping Stones minigame but with a revised layout and spinning asteroids that you must jump between.

Orbit

Making use of the previously introduced High Jump powerup, in this minigame you must fall dangerously low to grab a prize from around the orbiting asteroid. Survival is then a case of using the powerup to boost back to safety before you are crushed by the rock.

So what else is new?

You can now delete cards by right clicking on them from your deck, which is a handy time-saving alternative over dragging them to the bin. If you're using a controller it's also possible to bring up the right click prompt by pressing LB when hovering over a card. Plus you get the following bug fixes:

• Fixed some issues with minigame sound effects playing when the game was paused
• Fixed a couple of issues with the Prize Drop icon
• Fixed some issues switching between fullscreen and windowed mode
• Fixed an issue where the mouse would display twice on Mac if using the new fullscreen 'Game Mode'
• Minor text and geometry changes
• Fixed an issue with the character creator fill button not working properly with a controller
• Engine upgrade

One more thing...

This is advanced notice that I'm going to be removing the demo for CAPITALISM The action board game from Steam in a few weeks. Once I've done this, the demo will not be playable even if it's in your Seam library. So if you'd like to 'try before you buy', I'd recommend doing this sooner rather than later. The reason why I'm removing the demo is twofold: 1) I actually thought I'd done this already. It's been active for over a year longer than I intended. 2) The demo was made for Steam Next Fest and therefore it was a pre-release build of the game. Not only has the game now been released, but it's since received several content updates and patches and as such the demo isn't an up-to-date showcase of the game in its current state.

[ 2024-01-14 20:59:50 CET ] [ Original post ]