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WHAT IS AUTOMATION?

Automation is a car company tycoon game in which you design and build cars from scratch.

It is you who designs everything from the very core that is the engine, over the chassis, to the suspension and the car's looks.

Several games have tried this before... but were able to merely scratch the surface.

Go ahead, build your dream-car company, or simply aim to dominate the world markets with your superior design skills!

Eröffnung des Deutschen YouTube Kanals – AutomationGameDE
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Wir haben uns dazu entschlossen den deutschen Automation Fans eine Extrawurst zu bieten – ein YouTube Kanal mit Videos in Deutscher Sprache. Dieser wird von Killrob und Pyrlix gemanaged und befindet sich noch im Aufbau. Für den Anfang werden wir jeden Tag ca. ein neues Video veröffentlichen, bis zum ersten exklusiven Video, das zum ersten Mal ein V8 Szenario in Aktion zeigt (am Sonntag). Wir wünschen uns natürlich viele Besucher und Abonnenten – also gebt allen möglicherweise interessierten Leuten Bescheid!

Schöne Grüsse :)
Killrob & Pyrlix

 

Launch of the German YouTube Channel – AutomationGameDE

The German Automation YouTube channel has opened its gates. You find it here. We are currently adding content to it, and on Sunday the first exclusive video will show one of the brand new V8 scenarios that are currently in the making.

Cheers!
/Killrob

Q&A Answers video
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Here are the QA Answers!

We now have a shiny new EOS600D to shoot this kind of stuff and plan to do some behind the scenes development films about stuff. Anything in paticluar people want to see? Give us ideas of what we should show you guys! :)

Estimated Content Release Schedule
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  • For those of you who are wondering what new goodies are on the way, here is a bit of an overview.

    Bear in mind that the times are very broad estimations, and as we work on them the release dates will get more accurate

    Estimated Content Release Schedule

  • V8s – For Preorders Users – Approx 1 – 1.5 months away
  • Turbos, Superchargers – For Preorder Users – 3 – 5 Months away
  • Overhaul of Engine Designer – For Everyone – 3 – 5 Months away
  • Inline 6 – For Preorder Users- Late this year
  • Car Designer Demo – For Everyone – Approx Christmas Time

Also, are you following our Facebook page? If you’re keen to get little updates on what we’re up to, when we’re livestreaming etc. It’s well worth your time. Just hit the Facebook icon in the top right of the page

Upcoming Q&A and some News
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Watch the video, or read the summary below:

In the next few weeks we are going to do a Q&A session, so ask us a whole load of questions, either email them in to contact@camshaftsoftware.com or Post them here on the forums.

Also good news! Thanks to everyone’s support, and pre-ordering Automation we can now afford to work full time on automation! Thanks everyone, else please tell your friends so we can continue to afford to buy lunch things things.

Launcher B31
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The Launcher has been updated, here are the fixes/changes:

  • Launcher only closes itself for updates to the Launcher itself. The launcher can repetitively download updates to Automation without closing.
  • Launcher does not crash if you are not connected to the internet
  • Launcher will warn if it detects that your graphics device does not support Pixel Shader 3.0 (You can ignore this warning and try to play Automation anyway)
  • Launcher will warn if it detects that your graphics device does not support a high enough resolution (1280×720 is the minimum)
  • Launcher downloads all patches and keeps them in My Documents\Automation\Installers
  • If Automation already has an installer/updater downloaded for the version it is attempting to update to. It will ask if you want to use the existing installer, or download the installer again.

Discuss Here or Post Here if the new launcher is giving you issues

Automation Crashes/Exceptions on Launch
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Quite a few people are getting various crashes/exceptions on launch, as well as odd installer/download issues.

I apologize if I have not gotten back to you, I have been a bit unwell and havn’t been able to keep ontop of things.

One issue that has come up, is people trying to play Automation on older computers/laptops that do not have a graphics device that supports Pixel Shader 3.0. Please take a look at this forum post that covers our estimated minimum specifications required for Automation (people have got automation working with lower spec computers).

I am working on an updated version of the Launcher that does a quick systems check, to make sure you have a graphics device good enough to support Automation, and that you have enough disk space to download the installer. It should be out in the next few days, until then please hang tight.

The one problem with PC’s, is they have almost infinite variety, even the biggest names in the business can’t guarantee there games will work flawlessly for everyone. I hope you can understand our situation, and that we are trying out best.

Discuss here

Website downtime
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We apologize for the outages, I hope you are not as angry as me. We realise these outages effect your ability to play Automation, we will look at improving the launcher shortly.

We are hosted with dreamhost.com, you can imagine what my opinion of them is now? Not very high (is the polite way to put it, ask Andrew/Daffy about what I was actually saying.)

The very first downtime was our fault, the VPS was not configured with enough RAM (Solved in a couple of minutes, no real worries). The other outages have been mysql server issue, and 2 DDoS attacks on one of their data centres. Why one of the largest hosting providers in the world cannot deal with DDoS attacks quickly and promptly is beyond me.

We were previously with justhost, super cheap, super cheery. Therefore it was a bit slow, had some downtime issues and wasn’t going to cope well with the public launch. So with the new website design, we changed providers to someone who looked more reliable, had heard good things about and costs more, but that is because you should be getting better service.

So with both of these outages happening on critical days, the first day of the game being available, and then the day we get posted to Autoblog (woohoo!), dreamhost has outages, and has lost my patronage. We will be moving provider at some point in the future, and we will try to mitigate the disruption as much as possible.

 Discuss Here

 

 

Automation is Launched
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So after 2 years of hard work, no social life, overwork causing health issues (my shoulder seized up at one point, Andrew had his own issues), Automation Engine Designer demo is out!

Automation is now available to download if you have pre ordered. We were a little late, but it is out!

Chrome will flag the download as malicious but is isn’t. This is a common issue if you google “Chrome appears malicous false positives”

There are a few video tutorial glitches, and we missed a couple of part descriptions, so we will release a new update tomorrow.

Discuss Here

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