Players are encouraged to make the most of the map's limited space, creating dense beaver metropolises with towering super structures, complex, multi-level levees, and dams large enough to stave off the game's increasingly severe droughts. Timberborn's vertical architecture has since become a staple of strategy in the game. RELATED: 10 Addicting City Building Games With Unique Themes, For Fans Of Sim City Biegalski also promised that Mechanistry had "a few things up our sleeves to show off even more." Biegalski mentioned that the current build supports a near infinite stack of flats, with the only real rate limiters being how long it takes beavers to traverse their wooden metropolis, though it sounds like elevators may be coming in the game's future, which would enable impressive edifices like lumberpunk skyscrapers. Now, the team is taking vertical level design to new heights. People really enjoyed having verticality in the alpha, so we kept expanding on that." "What’s interesting is that the vertical architecture we have at the moment is not something we were planning for right from the start, but a byproduct of feedback.
And Mechanistry fans their brand ambassadors' passions with frequent discussions devoted to specific topics (dubbed "Beaver Brainstorms,") as well as contests for fan art and building the most impressive cities. Eager Beavers receive special opportunities and sneak peaks that establish them as genuine insiders. Perhaps even more importantly is the special status afforded to super fans and having an active role in shaping the game's development fosters a sense of ownership throughout the community. It also positions Mechanistry as a developer who listens to their audience from the start, as Timberborn will be the studio's debut title.
The ability to interact with devs in real time, providing feedback and receiving a response from an actual human, rather than submitting opinions via email or anonymized form fields, is a vital tool for building a game's community. We even have a special group of people we call Eager Beavers, who are a little more active on our Discord, and act as ambassadors for the game."ĭiscord is not only a convenient way to chat while playing Among Us. We are a seven-person team, and somebody is always on, so fans can reach out directly to the developer and talk to them live.
"People definitely prefer interacting with us through Discord.
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