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Oil City
Game Overview
Step into the shoes of an entrepreneur working under Ignacy Łukasiewicz, the pioneer behind the world’s first modern oil well in Bóbrka, 1853. Starting with a single well, your mission is to expand his business, navigating through historical challenges that will test your strategic skills and business acumen.
Explore the rise and fall of the Polish oil industry, where every decision has lasting consequences. Balance your resources, manage your workforce, and tackle natural and man-made obstacles as you attempt to create an empire amidst a rapidly changing environment.
Design pillars:
--historical
-- fast-paced
-- thought-provoking
-- strategic
Features:
- Discover the history of the Polish oil industry from gameplay-relevant events
- Manage the satisfaction of your workers or fail as a businessman
- Dynamic obstructing environment that grows around the player's buildings
Mechanics:
- Building & Expansion: Construct and manage essential buildings like Oil Wells, Refineries, Lumberjack Huts, and Geologist Huts.
- Worker Satisfaction: Maintain high morale among your workers to avoid costly failures.
- Market Management: Sell kerosene, making strategic decisions during annual sales opportunities at the train station.
- Environmental Challenges: Clear forests and buildings while dealing with the self-building town that grows with your progress.
- Product Flow Management: Design a system of pipes to manage your product flow and increase production.
- Increasing Difficulty: Prepare for a more challenging game as oil prices decrease and environmental obstacles become tougher.
Developers:
Biana Rybchynska - Art Direction, 2D Artist, Animator, Game Design
Carlos Garza - Programmer, QA, Game Design, Narrative Lead
Mateo Jacolow - Sound Design Lead, Music Lead, Game Design
Nathan Gooneratne - Programmer, Game Design, Pipe specialist
Oskar Rojek - Programmer, Game Design, Polish Localization
Piotr Nowicki - Programmer, Game Design
Piotr Trześniowski - Lead Programmer, Game Design, Technical Artist
Remy Routh - Programmer, Game Design, Sound Engineer
Taisa Kazakevich - Co-Art Direction, 2D Artist, Animator, Game Design
Roman Badiere - Programmer, Game Design
Mentors:
Daniel Shek - Techland
Frank Radecki - Bloober Team
Katsiaryna Harelik - Zakazane
Lukasz Szybaldin - Hyperstage
Anastasia Yurinok - Moon Active
Adam Mirkowski - 11 bit studios
Adriana Bielak - 11 bit studios
Aleksander Kauch - 11 bit studios
Original Oil City Creators:
Bartosz Stochel
Michał Błaszczyk
Supervisors:
Benjamin Hanussek - Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology
Christopher Barney - Northeastern University
Playtesters:
Cleo Trumbull, Małgorzata Wiewióra, Aaron Cai, Anastasiya Mashkina, Evgeniia\Glushkova, Janset Ece Koç, Laurel Parsons, Lily Kravchenko, Oleksandr Smirnov, Oskar Kalbarczyk, Berkay Güney, Irina Ryabova, Kevin McGrath, Kevin Rodriguez, Lily Jawadiwar, Luca Sandoval, Marek Kisieliński, Mykola Ihnatenko, Yan Rybchynskyi, Ben Jaccaci, Igor Sienkiewicz, Isaac Polite, Ivan Havrylenko, Jeremi Surzyn, Karol Kozioł, Logan Chandler, Maria Niczyporuk, Rafael Moroz, Zuzia Schabowska
References:
Updated | 22 days ago |
Status | Released |
Platforms | HTML5 |
Authors | Romulus162, remyrouth, mateojac1029, themrja, Skyloh, Wahares, Taya444, Ralos04, Ryukare, Byanka22 |
Genre | Strategy, Educational, Puzzle, Simulation |
Made with | Unity |
Average session | A few minutes |
Languages | English, Polish |
Inputs | Mouse |
Accessibility | Subtitles, Interactive tutorial, One button |
Links | YouTube |
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Install instructions
dowload the zip, extract, run the executable.