Depot Games: Villages and Cities

Current Version: 0.12.3.0

Project Status: Early Development

Links: Web Site, Dev blog and more

Category: Strategy

Developers: tobing

Number of Players: 1

Ports: Windows

Source Code: Not Available

Author's Description: This game will become a city builder in the tradition of the old Impressions Games City Builder Series: Caesar III, Pharaoh, Zeus, Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom. Check the website for news, I'm writing sort of blog about my progress, or visit the forum at http://www.villages-and-cities.de/smf.

Downloads

Name	Comments	Size	Date
villages-and-cities-0.11.0.18-setup.exe	Villages and Cities Windows installer.	5,125,198	12/09/2013 3:16 PM
villages-and-cities-0.11.1.22-setup.exe	Villages and Cities Windows installer.	5,607,033	04/26/2014 2:35 PM
villages-and-cities-0.12.3.0-setup.exe	Villages and Cities Windows installer. Install VC++ 2013 runtime!	5,973,827	01/18/2015 2:56 AM
villages-and-cities-0.9.5.10-setup.exe	Make sure you have MS VC++ 2010 runtime installed!	2,570,547	10/30/2011 12:43 PM

What's New:

0.12.3.0
Completed graphics for houses now. UNDO build feature, and more minor stuff.

0.12.2.0
Additional advisor menu, including ratings hints and the balance sheet.

0.12.1.0
Lots of balancing changes, requires new start of a map

0.11.1.22
Fixed the clipping display bug

0.11.1.20
Some small improvements

0.11.1.19
Performance improved for huge cities.

0.11.1.18
More important bugfixes.

0.11.1.16
More important bugfixes.

0.11.1.15
More important bugfixes.

0.11.1.14
Important bugfix.

0.11.1.12
Another overview map, improved coloring, more text.

0.11.1.10
Nice drawn lower level houses.

0.11.1.8
Numbers in reports corrected, new graphics.

0.11.1.6
More balancing adjustments. The big luxury market only sends one market lady now, that is sufficient anyway. Luxury warehouses can now also store gold. There's a new type of warehouse for metal ore and such, but that's not yet needed by anyone.

Milk production is a bit slower now, so you may need some more cow runs.

Tax income is increased.

Some buildings are marked as deprecated, because they will be removed in a future version, but not before 0.12. So they can be loaded from a save game, but they cannot be built any longer.

0.11.1.4
Bugfix that may cause invalid save games, minor improvements.

0.11.1.2
New map to play on.

0.11.1.0
Balancing changes.

0.11.0.18
Improved reporting of goods production and consumption.

0.11.0.16
Improved overview maps. Bugfix for a race condition between autosave and lastsave, which leaded to truncated autosaves and possibly invalid lastsave.

0.11.0.14
Overview maps for most of the aspects of the game.

0.11.0.12
Adjustments for taxes, fix for market demand determination, fix for warehouses crambling into ruins and not being deleted quickly.

0.11.0.10
Improved goods distribution between warehouses all over the map.

0.11.0.8
Some adjustments and clarification, small fixes.

0.11.0.6
Improved pathfinding for storage walkers, some new tutorial messages.

0.11.0.4
Even more graphics, housing goes to level 19 now. Many more changes to improve game play.

0.11.0.2
Even more graphics, housing goes to level 19 now. Many more changes to improve game play.

0.11.0.0
Even more graphics, housing goes to level 19 now. Many more changes to improve game play.

0.10.1.2
more graphics, internal cleanup

0.10.1.0
more graphics, loading screen, change resolution in options screen

0.10.0.7
more improved graphics, minor fixes and small rebalancing

0.10.0.6
another bugfix related to corrupted saves that can't be loaded

0.10.0.5
another bugfix related to corrupted saves that can't be loaded

0.10.0.4
one more bugfix and all walkers use new path finder

0.10.0.3
more balancing tweaks, roaming sheep added

0.10.0.2
another fix in the path finder, and a complete overhaul of housing requirements.

0.10.0.1
mini fix for houses, no more assert.

0.10.0.0
builders, many small improvements, more goods.

0.9.6.0
builders, many small improvements, more goods.

0.9.5.10
small fixes, updated graphics, added large map

0.9.5.9
Bugfix: don't build buildings on top of each other.

0.9.5.8
Compress saves, some nicer buildings.

0.9.5.7
Bugfix affecting balancing, much better now. Minimap blinks where severe Problems are.

0.9.5.6
Screenshots work again using Printscreen key, or F4.

0.9.5.5
Add mini map, use VC++ 2010 (means: new runtimes needed). Re-balancing of goods walkers, minor performance improvements.

0.9.5.4
Performance fix, should be much better now if there are many walkers around.

0.9.5.3
Additional overview with numbers of all kinds of buildings and walkers.

0.9.5.2
More bugfixes.

0.9.5.1
One bug fix, one improvement: show some things on the map transparently to make the tile completely visible where the mouse points to.

0.9.5.0
Switch to use Allegro 5 (5.1 to be precise).

0.9.0.0
Now you build cities on maps with resources. Buildings can't be placed everywhere, depending on resources...

0.8.1.0
Added some interactivity: right klick on a building opens a dialog with infos or options, depending on the building and its state.

0.8.0.1
One bugfix for an internal assertion, which caused the game to crash. Another change for the data model.

0.8.0
Storage yards are now fully functional. So 'real' building is possible. Lots of minor changes, improved handling, and extended data model.

0.7.3.1
Added storage yards and distribution, no walkers between storages yet. Many smaller improvements and changes.

0.7.3.0
Added storage yards and distribution, no walkers between storages yet. Many smaller improvements and changes.

0.7.2.1
More bug fixes, pathing and prod walkers. Should be reasonably stable now.

0.7.2.0
Some bug fixes, changed and extended base data model. This means there's more to build and more to care about...

0.7.0.1
Goods are produced and consumes, so this is finally a first playable version of Villages and Cities.

0.5.0
Service walkers are now functional, including path finding and target reservation.

Installer language will be set for the game, too.

0.4.2
Implemented handling of savegames, including delete. More options, and automatic numbering of screenshots and quicksave files.

0.4.1
An important correction regarding the difficulty setting - although not recommended, it's now possible to load and continue with an easy or hard game. The higher version number should have been there somewhat earlier to reflect the amount of difference to the former version 0.3.2.

0.3.3
Added save and load, a message system to keep the player up to date about anything going on in the game, and the second important feature of this game: assignment of workers to workplaces, constrained by certain conditions.

0.3.1
Lots of improvements, more graphics and options. Map attractivity is already functional, next game subsystems are to follow very soon.

0.2.4
A few improvements like custom mouse pointers and more. See the website for details.

0.2.2
Latest version for download and try out. See also the blog entry on my site. I've added a screenshot from this version. Note that most graphics are placeholders and hopefully will be replaced in future versions.

While build menus are implemented, they are not yet complete and drawing the buildings is not finished, so buildings may overlap in undesired ways.

0.0.2
Latest version for download and try out. See also the blog entry on my site. I've added a screenshot from my current wip version. Note that most graphics are placeholders and hopefully will be replaced in future versions.