Automation allows the player to become an armchair CEO - to build their own car company from the ground up. Create and run anything from a boutique supercar manufacturer to a mass-market multinational mogul.

With powerful tools like the Engine Designer, the player can create cars and their engines in mind-boggling detail.

The grand campaign starts in the year 1946 and runs until 2020, with the main goal being to build a successful, renowned car company from scratch. All types of car manufacturers can be led to success if managed properly; building the right image over the years is key.

The player’s tasks are to design engines and cars, to manage factories, production, R&D, as well as advertising campaigns. In game, time advances at the pace the player chooses and pauses automatically for events and occurrences.

Automation is comprised of three major game components - the Engine Designer, the Car Designer and the Company Manager.

These components are naturally strung together by the game’s goals, made to be user-friendly and intuitive to use.

A multitude of tutorial missions, videos, and descriptive texts help car novices become experts.

Almost infinite options give the player all the creative freedom to create unique cars with vastly different engines.

Play the demo and preorder now at Automationgame.com 

Please Upvote our Greenlight 

Want to know what the Engine Designer is all about? See below for a "Let's Play" from Conedodger240


 

Image RSS Feed Latest Screens
Testing out some new vents and fixtures. Car Paint Shader Tweaking Car Paint Shader Tweaking
Blog RSS Feed Report abuse Latest News: Some Let's Play Videos and starting on the Car Designer

0 comments by Daffyflyer on Apr 1st, 2013

Turbos Released

As of the 20th Turbos are out in the wild, and people seem to be having loads of fun building insanely boosted motors. Our appologies for the data centre outage that caused a few issues on release day, we seem to have bad luck with the timing of power outages!

Let's Play Videos

Conedodger240 has released some excellent Let's Play Videos of Automation, which are worth a watch if you like that sort of thing, or if you've not played Automation yet.

Car Designer Work Started

As of last night we've started work on the Car Designer, there are still one or two little bug fixes on the way for Turbos, but we've started doing design work on how to refine and improve the gameplay and layout of the car designer, as well as pondering further on the best way to animate suspension and ensure it fits on all the chassis configurations.  

Pictures and videos to come when we have something to show of, but it'll be mostly experimenting and design work for a while.

Media RSS Feed Latest Video
Post comment Comments  (50 - 60 of 101)
MaestroGamer
MaestroGamer Feb 10 2012, 8:30am says:

Will a Core i3 run this game ?

+1 vote     reply to comment
Daffyflyer
Daffyflyer Feb 12 2012, 7:58am replied:

Would need to know more about it - Graphics card is most important

+2 votes     reply to comment
Rostov-na-Don
Rostov-na-Don Jan 21 2012, 3:39pm says:

How're you guys doing :) ?

+3 votes     reply to comment
Daffyflyer
Daffyflyer Jan 23 2012, 4:06pm replied:

Workin' away :)

+3 votes     reply to comment
BigA
BigA Nov 10 2011, 5:21am says:

Are you going to incorpate Diesels at all? I have noticed that diesels are not in vehicle sim games.

+3 votes     reply to comment
Daffyflyer
Daffyflyer Nov 30 2011, 2:47am replied:

I'm not sure if they'll make it into the first release, but the will be in the game at some point

+5 votes     reply to comment
WhiteFox21
WhiteFox21 Oct 8 2011, 8:58am says:

If this isn't porn for car enthusiasts, It's vary close.:)

+6 votes     reply to comment
nukeu
nukeu Sep 27 2011, 8:27pm says:

Any chance of a beta release to the public ;) (wink)

+4 votes     reply to comment
Daffyflyer
Daffyflyer Oct 4 2011, 7:20am replied:

Nope, but there will hopefully be a public demo soon :)

+6 votes     reply to comment
Daffyflyer
Daffyflyer Oct 19 2011, 5:42pm replied:

As part of the mod tools, you should be able to add whatever you like :)

+2 votes     reply to comment
Post a Comment
click to sign in

You are not logged in, your comment will be anonymous unless you join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) which we encourage all contributors to do.

2000 characters limit; HTML formatting and smileys are not supported - text only

Icon
Automation: The Car Company Tycoon Game
Platform
Windows
Developer & Publisher
Camshaft Software
Engine
Custom Built
Contact
Send Message
Official Page
Automationgame.com
Release Date
TBD
Game Watch
Track this game
Share
Style
Genre
Realistic Sim
Theme
Realism
Players
Single & Multiplayer
Project
Indie
Twitter

Latest tweets from

It can take up to a few hours for tweets to begin appearing.

Statistics
Rank
687 of 12,391
Last Update
1 week ago
Watchers
206 members
News
26