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!
Automation will be up for pre-order again soon
Latest Engine Designer Developments
Mon, 01/23/2012 - 22:02 | 
zeussy A new video showing off the latest developments within the Engine Designer:
Changed Live Chat Servers
Mon, 01/16/2012 - 10:11 | zeussy For those who use the Live Chat, please give it a refresh (CTRL+F5). We have changed chat servers to irc.afternet.org
The old server as many of you have noticed, suffered from a lot of netsplits and other issues.
Happy New Year
Tue, 01/03/2012 - 15:13 | zeussy Happy new year everyone, thanks for all your kinda support and contributions over the past year.
Firstly, the Contact Us form has been broken for about a month, I have only just realised this and should be fixed now. If anybody has tried to contact us, there are also email addresses available as well on the contact us page. I apologise that this happened, and that it got missed.
The RocketHub funding has all finished, but unfortunately the money is currently being held by an intermediate bank used to transfer the money from RocketHub in the US to ourselves here in Australia. The guys at RocketHub have been fantastic and very helpful in this matter, fast to respond to emails and getting this issue moving, but it has been frustrating slow in getting resolved with Christmas and New Years holidays. Hopefully we will finally get the money in the next couple of weeks.
Andrew is on and off being ill, it is an ongoing issue that may take a while to sort out. Nothing life threatening, just leaves him tired and lethargic.
We have been giving the Engine Designer some much needed love and attention. Trying to make it more user friendly, giving tips on how much torque bottom end components can take, or how well a muffler muffles. We also have a new set of engine sounds from Sonory, and can blend sounds between a very highly tuned 'race spec' engine to a very tame humble hatchback sound. We will release a video of this soon.
We should be back to more frequent updates again. So watch this space!
Our Backups
Sun, 10/16/2011 - 13:43 | zeussy A recent story has being going around that the indie developers working on Project Zomboid had there flat broken into, and their 2 laptops stolen. A Reddit post talking about it can be found here. Seeing as many people have been generous enough to preorder, I thought I would make a post detailing what we have in the line of backups, so this should never happen.
From the very beginning of Automation, both Daffy and I lived apart. Myself in Melbourne and Daffy in Canberra. This required setting up a form of version control (we use Subversion). I initially ran the server on a spare computer within my apartment, and both Daffy generally just maintained a copy of the art files, rather than the whole repository. (Being an the artist, this makes sense), but this did not give us the backup security we wanted. So we moved to an externally hosted subversion service.
According to the SVN logs, we transferred to the externally hosted service on the 29th of October 2010. So even if an Asteroid hits Melbourne, Automation will still exist assuming we are in our hollowed out mountain lair.
New Car Shaders, Door Handles and Wing Mirrors
Mon, 10/10/2011 - 20:08 | zeussy Here is a video showing off our new Car shaders, door handles and wing mirrors. Enjoy: