Ahoy! Announcing a new game in the Final Profit world, called Oil Town. The Steam page is live so scoop it into your wishlist!
And please watch the trailer! I put so much work into it, and I'm really proud of the new music.
You may recognise the name from the later acts in Final Profit, the story in Oil Town is going to be rich in tasty lore and relevance for the overall plot going forward. The gameplay is significantly different, but it can still be considered a number-go-up type of game. And we'll be seeing many familiar faces.
I intend to release it in Early Access at some point, I would rather do this sooner than later but there are -business- considerations to... consider. It's generally recommended for a developer to wait until you have a sufficient pile of wishlists before making a game available, else it won't make it onto Steam's New and Trending at launch, and that is such a crazy snowball effect that it hurts your game forever if you miss it, which unfortunately was the case for Final Profit. It launched with only 2000 wishlists and didn't land on that chart. The number recommended is around 7000 (which may even be a bit of a lowball). So because of that I am going to try and build that pile before launching into Early Access. I would appreciate if all you Final Profit fans help in this regard by spreading the word, the sooner we reach that number, the sooner I can launch.
In the meantime, so I can still get some feedback during development I have made a development build available to my Patreon supporters. This is experimental and I will only continue on that path if it's seeing decent use and providing helpful feedback (so far it has been quite helpful). Patreon supporters can also submit names for the customisable workers in Oil Town, just like they can for the Patron customer in Final Profit.
You may notice on either the Final Profit or Oil Town Steam pages a new link to the Brent Arnold collection. This is the beginning of a central place to find my games. I hope to bring Rebertha over here in the future as well, though I want to polish it up a bit first.
I've also been busy sprucing up the Official Website, adding a World page where you can see how the various games in the setting relate to each other. And adding a main page for Oil Town.
There's also a new Oil Town channel on the Final Profit Discord for discussing the game. And a new development log channel there too so I can separate my Oil Town live development log from the Final Profit one.
So yeah, update complete. Please wishlist Oil Town!
Thanks for playing! And for all the continued support! Appreciate you all!