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 

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


 

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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.

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MaestroGamer
MaestroGamer Aug 4 2011, 7:23am says:

oh btw do we have the rights to make the driving wheel LEFT or RIGHT ?

and can you make cars like nascar and stuff ?

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Daffyflyer
Daffyflyer Aug 5 2011, 8:44pm replied:

Not sure on that yet to be perfectly honest! You can't see any interiors (too much work for us for now) but it still is important with regards to where you can sell it so probably yes

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MaestroGamer
MaestroGamer Aug 4 2011, 7:20am says:

after i saw the car designer .. got 1 word .. CAN'TWAITFORTHIS:D .. nuff said :P ..

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jimmyf1
jimmyf1 Jul 23 2011, 3:22pm says:

waiting for updates :D

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Daffyflyer
Daffyflyer Jul 28 2011, 10:23am replied:

Hope you like wheels and tyres then ;)

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jimmyf1
jimmyf1 Jul 28 2011, 10:50am replied:

i most certainly do :D great job

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AgentOrange96
AgentOrange96 Jun 21 2011, 12:46pm says:

If you haven't already thought of it, a test track to drive your cars would be pretty fun!

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Daffyflyer
Daffyflyer Jun 24 2011, 1:06am replied:

Yes, but we would want to do it with a proper realistic physics engine, as a full on driving simulator.

If we sell alot of copies, we might be able to afford to do it as an expansion

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nukeu
nukeu Jun 21 2011, 1:17am says:

damn this game is thriving keep up the good work !

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Adam0795
Adam0795 Jun 20 2011, 1:09pm says:

Designing cars and selling them? What a great idea! Especially since the car designer looks so cool :D

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