Cardboard Town News & Patch Notes

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Celebrating 100,000 Downloads with a New Update!

Rogue Ducksteam_community_announcements

492d ago

Hey Mayors, Thank you so much for 100,000 Downloads! We keep saying we are done updating the game and it's complete, but your love keeps making us come back and we have a new update on the way for you! Before we jump into that, we'd also like to announce Cardboard Town is joining Steam City Builders & Colony Sim Fest with our deepest discount! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/4f4f4c1441bd3bb57c2380dff386219085d6e164.png And talking about city builders, in case you missed them, just letting you know that we have a lot of them: Stellar Settlers - A Space Colony Builder Mini City: Mayhem - A hectic, cute town builder Hexaroma - Chill village builder Kingdom's Deck - An upcoming deck / castle builder {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/740193d0cf8a49868cba63099c5f8ba007520203.png You can get them as a bundle and save, don't forget to wait for the festival to start for a better discount!

Booster Pack Update is on the Way!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/1bdd9f1a71c07c262e288f1e077a0fb6febb5cb0.png Our next (and maybe really final this time?) update is called The Booster Pack Update. We are working on it to release as a free update on June 8th, 2025. Upon completing Star Quests in a run, you'll be able to choose a booster pack that - obviously - includes some random cards in a theme. Examples: Housing Pack: Get 3 random population buildings. Essentials Pack: Get 3 basic resource buildings. Luxury Pack: Get 2 buildings that cost $7 or more. This will give you some control on what type of cards you want to add to your hand while keeping the fun randomness of Cardboard Town. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/3f0b1bb49190c2d2dfe7f5aaa6f2979c0d8bbc44.png

Other Ways To Get Booster Packs in a Run:

We'll have some new action cards that generate booster packs. However, to combat deck bloat, those cards will need you to destroy some existing cards first! Remember that Discard and Destroy are different mechanics and destroying a card permanently removes that card from that run (but of course you find / obtain that same card again later on) Resealing: Destroy 3 Cards. Get a random booster pack. Unhinged Trading: Destroy all cards in your hand. Get 2 random booster packs.

A New Building:

We've talked about how you can't open booster backs freely with too many cars in hand, so we have a new building to help you get rid of a card to make some room. Memorial Park: Destroy a card to play, gain some Environment. We are also planning on a Booster Pack Factory building which needs a lot of resources but generate you a booster pack. That's mostly it for the June 8th Booster Pack Update, do you like it? Do you have ideas? Do you want anything else? Please do let us know and maybe we can make it happen!! Thanks for reading Mayors, see you on the festival!

v1.3.2 - New Cards Against Deck Bloat

Rogue Ducksteam_community_announcementsworkshop

634d ago

You thought days of update for Cardboard Town are over? Well, we thought so too. After we've parted ways with the game's artist and tired from developing the game from all these months, we wanted to focus on our newer titles. But as we had the chance to take a little break from Cardboard Town and studying the style of the game with our new team members, we've wanted to add some new stuff to make the game even better!! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/911d25d639fd95c9ae87e28377945d7586f8f29f.png

Cards Against Deck Bloat

To have a functioning city, you need many different cards. But many cards means you have less control over your deck. We've heard your feedback on this and thought it would be a good idea to fight this with even more cards. Jokes aside, our 2 new buildings (which are in the Starting Deck now) let you destroy some cards, so you can get rid of ones that you don't want in your deck. Asphalt Factory It's a cheap building that lets you have some pocket money in terms of Tax Dollars (this lets you go over your maximum money, so it helps fight the RNG with drawing expensive cards early) and with Turn to Gravel you can Destroy a Card to generate a one-time-use road. So while this building generates 2 cards, both of them are destroyed upon use and one of them even lets you destroy any card you don't want in your hand. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/f1007ade3311e6e280af2716419b66084a243d73.png Waste Management Facility This building (also in the Starting Deck) generates an Action card called Decompose, which you can use to destroy a card to gain some resources. Having two cheap buildings that let you destroy cards will let you get rid of cards that you don't want in your deck and hopefully combat the deck bloat issues! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/eff7c9f31d8db967d9a76a57b2d2631b4d91d011.png

99 Problems but a Resource ain't one

Now you can effectively remove a resource from a run! Stabilizing a resource will mean it will be locked in place, it will no longer trigger with effects and can not be reduced or increased. Don't want to care about your people's safety? Then don't! But of course this is a very powerful effect, so it's not easy to come by. You need to find the Resource Fusion Center first from one of your 'get a new card' events. Then, you need to place that building to get a random resource Stabilizer added to your deck. When you draw that stabilizer, if you don't like the resource it stabilizes, fret not! Just discard it to get a new one. While this is a neat new feature, as with all things new, it might cause bugs. So if you encounter one, please do let us know! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/ea96f0ead45b9ace82d5caf4fca28d2097e4e8d1.png

Two More Things...

Finally, we have another fun building for you; R&D Facility. This building creastes a Tax Dollar and a Random Action Card for all you excitement seekers out there! Also we have a new action card that can be found during runs called Fruits of Science, which gives you one of each resource. Nice! With more deck control cards in the starting deck and our new mechanics, we hope you'll enjoy the new version of Cardboard Town!

New City Builder Game Coming Up!

We also have a new city building game in the works! It's less card focused and more shape focused, a cute little game where you can stack buildings on top of each other. If you want to check it out, do it so here: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/246d20a5318720ffda96cc9fa009d6947c4ece3c.png https://store.steampowered.com/app/2517440/Mini_City_Mayhem/ Mini City Mayhem on Steam You can let us know in Discord if you have any feedback. Have fun, Mayors!

Steam Next Fest Strategy Game Demos by Rogue Duck!

Troypcsteam_community_announcementsworkshop

652d ago

During the Steam Next Fest, we have 4 free game demos up for you to try out. If you played a game published by Rogue Duck Interactive before, you probably love replayable strategy games! Let me start introducing our games, during the Next Fest, download the demos you are interested and become part of the development by giving us your valueable feedback.

New Next Fest Strategy Demos

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2517440/Mini_City_Mayhem/ A city builder where you race against time to build your city! Become the mayor of a tiny town, plop down tiny building blocks to build a working city to progress. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3179860/Pairs__Perils/ A memory-game roguelike and dungeon crawler. Match cards to attack enemies, avoid traps, shop for relics and consumables. Sharpen your mind as you journey through the depths of the dungeon in search of The Dealer. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3056580/HEXAROMA_Village_Builder/ Build your charming medieval hexagon village in this city-builder. Strategize the best hexagon island placements. Place the building pieces strategically, and grow your village and your tiny island. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3204250/Lost_But_Found/ A combination of a job simulator & hidden object game. In a top-down table, you are an officer who oversees the lost items in an airport. Organize those items and distribute them to people who lost their belongings. That's all we have for this Next Fest, we hope you found something you like. In that case, wishlist the games to stay in the loop!

Other Strategy Demos

Additionally, we have other demos, that's not participating in this edition of the Next Fest yet, but soon. Check them out too. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2449450/Clonizer/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2655590/Kingdoms_Deck/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2945950/Dice_n_Goblins/ Have a strategy-filled Next Fest event, everyone! Follow us on our social media so you don't miss free strategy goodies!

v1.3 - Tourism Update!

Troypcsteam_community_announcements

815d ago

Hello Mayors, Our team was hard at work and so our biggest and final content update is finally here! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/0107cc5f5c4cec29e6069434b18005dac809d766.png We have; - New Resource (Tourism) - Custom Game Mode - New Buildings - New Festivals - New Disasters - Balance Changes - Initial Deck Management Improvements - Star Quest Changes - Translation Improvement - A New Ending!

How does Tourism work?

It is our third Bonus Resource after Industry and Education and it usually increases via expensive buildings like Casinos and decreases whenever a disaster happens. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/f941c627a16824369fd45287350a5df29acba2a1.png Tourism is mostly about Money management (sell your resources to go above your maximum Money or play action cards that leverage long term effects) and Safety management as you need to keep disasters away to keep your City tour-able!

Office Buildings for Bonus Resources

To improve your chances of managing an extra resource that you've unlocked, now you get an Office Building for that specific resource. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/c12b7fce5240c2fd7480802ffdad9e5797b39ce1.png This building creates a random, resource related card, giving you more options than your initial unlocks. Make sure to place them and get your new cards!

Custom Mode is Here

Choose your own parameters and play on your own rules! You can change base rules of the game such as; Red Alert Count, Map Size, Starting Money, Trouble-Meter length... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/6b61271b0a94e776b0db4372ddb069567f3fde63.png You won't be gaining Votes on this mode for Meta-Progression (of course) but you can create your own challenges for fun!

More Deck Control

We've heard that you want more control over your Starting Deck. Now, through Days 4-5-6-7, you'll be able to "choose 1 of 3 cards" from Water - Electricty - Safety - Environment resources, in that order. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/e9ef2d69faeb7ec2af4f362fa9cc50e2172e6361.png We've also added an Action Card to the initial deck that destroys other cards, so you can get rid of even more cards that you no longer use. With these additions, now in Cardobard Town; - You get to choose 7 Cards in the first 7 Days of the game - Have access to consistent Card removal - Modify your deck further via in-game events While we know it's not a complete deck-builder feature; Cardboard Town is not primarly a deck-builder but rather a city-building game with cards. So we hope this will satisfy your deck-building feeling needs a little!

Star Quest Reworks

Since now we have three different Bonus Resources, it's time to pick a card! Instead of giving you a random Resource Quest Card, at the end of 3-Star Quest you get to choose the card yourself. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/c6b6df9959f6206a8d30d4d7c52a152528a8d854.png Also; - We've removed "have N resources above X" quests from the 4-Star Quest pool. These still exist in lower Stars, but the fourth tier was really taxing so we've swapped it with "Reach 400 Population" - 5-Star Quest Population Requirement 600 -> 500 to let you help finish the game faster.

Balance Changes

It's not a real patch if we didn't make the game a little easier. Ah, you should've seen the earlier days when no one was able to finish the game... But as we grow more popular, we have to adjust to non-genre people as well and keep challenging aspects in our Game Modes. - Founders Festival now gives an additional Festival at the end of it, instead of a Disaster. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/a614be1cd95297a8697c03fe9e0bb4e0c1cdc19e.png - All Disasters in the game now last shorter. - Starting Deck reduced by 2 Cards (-1 House, -1 Clinic) As our team members are sailing away to new adventures and we feel we've improved the game to a stable and satisfying version, we're not planning any major content updates in the future. Thank you so much for supporting Cardboard Town for over a year and we hope you've liked all the updates and content we've added to the game over this this period, from new cards to features such as the Leader-board. Good luck and have fun discovering the new cards!

v1.2.5 - New Card is Here & Bug Fixes

ozsoy.dorasteam_community_announcements

880d ago

Hello there, we're with you with a small but important update!

New card: Wish Upon A Star

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/aea8f9b5de84f0f77f98b0be391e1d33d9ce72a7.png This card enables you to reroll your Star Quest. Sometimes players were unhappy with the quests they received and "didn't want to go that way" and in extreme cases; game could get stuck (E.g; Quest wants you to play 5 Cards in a day but you've got the Going Slow upgrade, limiting your daily cards to 3) With the Wish Upon A Star card, you can either immediately reroll the first quest that you get or hold on to it strategically.

New Disaster: Communist Strike

Who doesn't love a new disaster, right? R-right? Anyway, a new disaster is probably better then an old disaster. As Sana have said recently; "Gimme that New New!" so we're giving you the New New. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/aeb13c677de5936e7e6275df5c6acbcb0535ea39.png So what does the disaster do? Communist Strike: At the start of your day; Discard your most expensive card, draw a new card, lose 1 Money. It's not very annoying as it has a very high chance to discard a card that you couldn't play yet anyway, but it is annoying as it hurts your long-term plans and costs you money. So we believe it's a balanced disaster for early game.

Fixed Bugs:

- Industrial Furnace was generating the wrong card - Minor bug behind the Red Alert system - An Upgrade was causing the Mega-Project cards to be destroyed - Minor bug in an interaction between an upgrade and a disaster - Fixed a visual bug related to "Going Slow" upgrade.

Big, Big Update on the way!

"Hey, this update is so small, booo!" you might be saying, please don't :( Because we are working on a really cool update. We don't want to spoil anything yet, but it includes; - New resource! - New End-game - New buildings - New cards - Custom Mode - and more.

Check out our New games!

Some of our team members are working on new titles. If you like Cardboard Town, you might like these too! So we'd be glad if you check out Stellar Settlers and even more glad if you wish-list it! It's being designed by Cardboard Town's Co-Producer, Burak Tokak. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2628570/Stellar_Settlers_Space_Base_Builder/ You can also check out Rogue Duck Interactive on Steam , the new video game company of Cardboard Town's co-producer & game designer, Dora Özsoy. -- Thanks for reading and happy mayoring!

v1.2.0 - Sandbox Mode & Other Mode Updates

Troypcsteam_community_announcements

956d ago

Okay, okay, we've heard you! Sandbox mode is here! You don't want to worry about red alerts, resources, or even just READING THE CARDS and that's... okay i guess. Go ahead and build whatever you want!

Introducing Sandbox Mode

Build your dream Town made out of Cardboard in this mode without any hassle! For a short while, we've made Sandbox Mode available for everybody to test it out. In this mode; you'll be able to draw any road or building card you want and use it without any money or resource requirement! In the original version it will be unlocked on Mayor Level 16, which does not take long to reach to, especially in standard modes. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/1c77c7d2bf127429f9e58923085c0e3179e62124.png Sandbox mode screenshots already started to come in! If you give it a try, share your screenshots with us on Twitter @strateragames

Unlocking New Modes - System Change

In the previous version, this is how the modes were unlocked: - Mayor Level: 2 Modes - Rocket Ending: 3 Modes - Drill Ending: 3 Modes We've noticed it's too much for casual players, so we've moved most of the "ending" modes to the Mayor Level meta progression instead.

Level 4: Blessed Town Unlocked
Level 13: Towntanic Unlocked
Level 16: Sandox Mode Unlocked
Level 20: Cursed Unlocked (as before)
Level 29: Rural Town Unlocked
Level 41: Democratic Town Unlocked
Level 51: Utopia Unlocked (as before)
When you finish the game with Rocket Ending: Quick Decisions Unlocked
When you finish the game with Drill Ending: Expanding Town Unlocked

Lowering the Vote Count for Max Level

It used to require 23,500 Votes to reach Mayor Level 60, we're reducing this to 20,000. Please let us know how do you feel about meta progression speed and feel so we can adjust it better!

Other Updates & Changelog

Synchronized card data across platforms.
Implemented save feature in sandbox mode.
Unlocked sandbox mode for testing purposes.
Modified end-game scenarios for diverse gameplay.
Major UI enhancements for improved user experience.
Introduced sandbox mode for creative play.
Fixed main menu navigation issues.
Implemented new deck rules for balanced gameplay.
Improved gamepad navigation in card library.
Enhanced performance and stability of Sandbox asset.
Added gamepad support in sandbox mode (work in progress).
General game improvements and optimizations.
Resolved duplicate quest card issue.
Updated booster pack illustrations for a fresh look.

v1.1.0 - Goodbye Troubles, Hello Crisis Cards & POV Mode!

ozsoy.dorasteam_community_announcements

987d ago

Hello everyone! You said more control, less RNG, we listened! Let's start by celebrating the update with a 40% Discount starting November 14th 10 AM PST until the end of the Steam Autumn Sale! We have a few headlines today so let's get right into the case:

Goodbye, Troubles!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/93dde2aede05a3a15fac28426cbc40cdafde1c63.gif We know how much you hate the troubles (those small disturbances that happen on 3rd turn of the Trouble-Meter) and annoyance it brings. Troubles were here to; - Provide challenge to players - Make sure resetting / reducing the Trouble-Meter had to be done with care - Add a fun randomness to the game However, they had too much emphasis for being such a small disturbance. E.g; You had to look out when you were building a Police Station just to avoid a -1 hit to your Envirorment score, which doesn't feel very nice. Or you'd get a notification every couple of turns, which could be annoying / distracting. Things like that. But we've kept the mechanic despite all that because of the reasons above, until we've decided that it's just not worth it anymore. But we still want to keep some positive parts of it, so it's time to say;

Hello, Crisis Cards

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/c049db853274bb70e47fb997887ad4170e2ce06e.png Crisis Cards always have negative sides; but they usually also have positive parts too and it's up to you to whether to play them or just ignore them! For example, the trouble "Yet Another Oil Leak" would make you lose -1 Environment randomly. The card "Yet Another Oil Leak" still makes you lose -1 Environment but; - You decide when that happens - You get a Coin in return. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/8c09f1f43fc3f55891159845151778ced3f0e8ae.png Crisis Cards can not be destroyed, but they can be discarded. So you can choose to deal with them later, but if you ignore them for too long, they will bloat your deck. Currently, crisis cards come at every 100th Population but we may change that number, or change to mechanic's trigger point later, according to balance. As always, we're open to ideas and feedback!

PoV Mode

No one asked for this, but it's here! You can now press ALT key to switch to miniature-view and experience your city first hand! It will also trigger itself after 5 minutes of inactivity, like your lil' screen saver.

Other Stuff

Controller Support: Cardboard town now has full controller support for Xbox & Steam Deck controllers. (Dualshock is supported but the interface is still in progress for it) This feature still experimental, please share your experiences and ideas in Steam Discussion Forum. Cloud Save: Now we have cross-platform Steam Cloud Save support, which means, your game save will not be lost even if you remove the local game data, or if you want to keep playing your level on another device. Linux & Steam OS Support: Cardboard Town now is ported and works stably on Linux and Steam OS devices natively. Notarized MacOS support (Silicon): Cardboard Town binary on MacOS now works more efficiently and the game binary is notarized via AppStore. On-going work for Mobile: We keep on working on porting our game for iOS and Android. We will have more information in the coming releases.

1.1 Announcement Trailer

You don't like reading? We got you, here is our 1.1 Trailer video;

v1.0.8 - Quality of Life & Balance Update

Troypcsteam_community_announcementsworkshop

1047d ago

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Steam Trading Cards & More

Cardboard Town is now eligible for Trading cards! Keep playing the game to drop Trading Cards! Collect them all to get badges, emojis and profile backgrounds. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/0b18ad071dfd892e997c2bcddb8b0c85a804ded8.png

Gameplay Updates

Fire-Fighting card was available since the first build, fire itself however... Was problematic and never available in the main version. Well, no more; it's time to burn down the city!! 🔥🔥 Try to take care of the fire early on or it might spread. It doesn't destroy buildings; but each active fire has a chance to burn down your resources. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/21400cb02981c3a87ace2f6cce5699eae7d959b4.gif

QoL Updates

Now when you hit all Red-Alerts; instead of an instant game-over; you get a final warning and lose the game only if you end the game with all Red-Alerts lit. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/1f6955e756e06b080909dbb2d23d196b1054ed10.gif When you hover a card, it shows the building tile size, so you can pick which building to place with all the information at your disposal. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/2a7d9497d0c7a4cfa779c45fcde3846a9d8ef2b4.gif We saw that sometimes players try to drag and drop the cards on the board (like Hearthstone) we wanted to allow this behavior, now you can drag and drop a building card on the board and it gets built! Same goes for action cards, you can just drag and drop them to play! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/69d5e9d0f85eee266b16ea5792931b7f8758bc7e.gif Sometimes, for any reason, a card might not be playable. Normally; an alert sound plays and if there's a disaster preventing the card from being played, the disaster shakes. However when there's no disaster and you just don't have the money: not enough visual feedback occurs. So now when you try to play a card that you are not able to play: it shakes! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/ab5d39d9a66843469cc1dc3562d5e291078a1ca3.gif It was unclear when the map size would increase, now we have a counter next to the vote box for the remaining tiles until the board gets enlarged. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/2917a992bc026447c43f0439b91565b9f3067d66.gif We noticed players usually ignore the Star Quests and disasters, to fix that, we also added a star quest progress animation, and for disasters; a noticeable animation. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/7cc93433a7d410d3d2457f47c9b1821997e2cab2.gif {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/dc4b7f7099138778f16a3d77a0d2d0ebea8bb163.gif

Bug Fixes

Fixed problems with some of the building sound effects.
Fixed an issue causing the troubles to trigger twice when you progress back and forward on the trouble meter.
Level up bar is now faster, depending on the amount of votes you gained in that term.
Your current run will not be wiped anymore when you update the game.
Fixed the lingering bonuses for buildings demolished by Earthquake or Fire.
Mouse controls are more stable, and on trackpads, map won't shake on building placement.

Balance Updates

Almost all Red Cards now have +1 Day limit on their count-downs.

Cardboard Town 1.0 is here!

ozsoy.dorasteam_community_announcements

1075d ago

Cardboard Town 1.0 is finally here! Game Modes, Mega-Projects, New systems and more! We'll update the game and also launch a 30% Release discount starting August 18th - 20:00 UTC+3 Time Let's look at our new features before talking about the upcoming updates: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/61bc0a10c5f3dd7cc2bf95ee4603acbfe36332e8.gif

Mega Project Buildings

You can finally win the game! There are currently two different "Final Buildings" that we call Mega Projects; complete the Star Quests in a run, obtain the Mega Project cards, build it and win the game! Mega Projects are linked to Bonus Resources; Education or Industry. Final building will depend on which resource you've unlocked. If you have both, then you'll obtain a random Mega Project for the end-game. As we add more Bonus Resources in the future, you'll have more Mega Projects and more end-game conditions! And don't worry, you can continue your run and gain your Votes after building the Mega Project! But wait, what are the... {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/2127eec82ee2db28697b981731b2eaba476e173d.gif

Star Quests

Do you have a 3 Star City or a 5 Star one? Depends on your performance on quests! You'll get your first Star Quests after Day 10. Hover your mouse over the stars to learn about your next Star Quest. Some will get done as you progress naturally, some will need extra attention and specific actions. With the Star Quests we aim to:

Provide a path for new or confused players
Provide bonus challenges and rewards
Set a prerequisite for the Mega Project cards

If you have any ideas for a Star Quest, send it our way via Twitter or Discord! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/e51e88f32666e053eb4a1862e62a7fb900d1426b.png

Game Modes

They're finally here!! After you finish the game, you get to enjoy different modes of Cardboard Town. They're very new and experimental but some examples; - A mode where you start with a small map and try to fill it to increase your area. - A mode where you have a lot of resources and enjoy building your city at your own pace! - A mode where you get more disasters, only for expert mayors who are looking for a challenge! We are open to ideas and suggestions for more modes to come, make sure to let us know what you think! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/801a9b3fa47093224fc139176597e8fc3847945f.gif

Expanding Board

Need more land? Whenever your board is almost full, your board will automatically increase by 1 tile. Plan accordingly and ejoy creating huge cities! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/01773443c89a3c1b96ba47eaa584e6cc853d3aad.gif

New Tutorial System

Our previous tutorial system was a little underwhelming, so we've added GIFs and increased the amount of tutorial windows, so you can learn everything you need to become a great mayor! Already know everything you need to become a great mayor? Sure about that? You can close the tutorials in the Settings screen! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/307b1b56546f66961fe44011987ed3ba48a09df4.gif

New Buildings and Cards

We don't want to spoil the surprise. Part of the fun in Cardboard Town is exploring all the different buildings, upgrades, action cards and powerful combinations! For the 1.0 Update; Alongside Mega Project cards, we've added:

5 New Action Cards
4 New Buildings
2 New Quest Buildings
3 New Upgrades
3 New Festivals
4 New Disasters

Future of Cardboard Town

1.0 doesn't mean the end of updates. It means we've reached the "complete experience" we've envisioned but of course we have more ideas and things we want to do, features we want to add. Some of the "we want to do these" updates: - New resource & buildings - Controller Support - Support for different platforms - New end-game mega projects & more!

QoL Updates & Upcoming Features

ozsoy.dorasteam_community_announcements

1188d ago

Hello everyone! We've updated the game with some frequently requested features. Here's what's up with today's update:

You can now view your deck and discard pile

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Disaster Phasing

Some disasters are just annoying while some of them straight out destroys your town if you are unable to handle them. And in early game; sometimes you just can't as a fresh mayor. So we've implemented "minimum levels" for disasters. Meaning: Game-ending disasters like Earthquake and Pipe Leak will now occur after City Level 4. Interested in details? Here's the full list! (Subject to balance)

Minimum Level / Disaster
4 Disease
1 Organized Crime
4 Job Crisis
1 Drought
5 Uncontrolled Migration
1 Luxury Embargo
1 Short Circuit
1 Ran Out Of Asphalt
3 Costly Maintenance
3 Inflation
1 Utterly Ruined Plans
4 Trouble Magnet
4 Pipe Leak
4 Thunder Craze
4 Useless Congress
1 Bureaucratic Disturbance
1 Bureaucratic Failure
4 Earthquake
1 Cursed
3 People's Will

Reward Scrolling

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/6539b6338e87c3db1698ed30fbc7ad2517bdee37.gif You've just completed your run and gained huge amount of levels, because you're awesome! But wait, because you are TOO awesome, rewards just won't fit into your screen... Well, we've fixed that! Enjoy your rewards. Note: We know a lot of players want to know what they've unlocked so far (like, all of it) or what will be unlocked later. We're working on a UI to show that information to you in a later date.

Loading Screen

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/b75a8af56278cf352c088252d70e326b984399e4.png As the game got more chonky, loading is no loner instantenous. So we've added a cute little loading screen so you won't be required to look at the empty table for a couple of seconds.

Starting Hand balance

We've removed "Change of Plans" from the initial hand pool and added one more "House" instead. This will prevent most of the early game population issues and newbie players won't doom themselves by playing the Plan B card too early.

Upcoming: New Cards!!

After this QoL changes, we want to focus on adding more content. We'll be working on Inudstry cards. Industry will be an additional, objective resource just like Education. Our plans include;

5 Industry Buildings
10 Industry Action Cards
4 Industry Upgrades
2 Industry Festivals
1 New Basic Action Card: Destroy an existing building
1 New Basic Festival
5 New Meta-Progression Levels

We'll need some time to work on these features and will let you know when we make progress! Thanks for playing Cardboard Town and all your support! You can track our progress, give us feedback, or jump into conversation via our linktree.

First Week Update

ozsoy.dorasteam_community_announcementspatchnotes

1200d ago

Hello and thank you all for a wonderful Early Access launch! 🥰 Excited to see many of you already hit the 50 Level maximum Meta-Progression Levels. We'll keep adding more levels with more content and buildings in the future. Friendly reminder: Follow our Twitter or join our Discord to stay on the loop! We've updated the game 3 times since launch, according to your feedback. All of these updates are live.

🎉 What we've done until now:

Nerfed some of the troubles (3 mark disturbances) to make the early game more chill.
Fixed the game-crash instead of game-over bug
Fixed 口 errors in JP, KR and ZH (note that translation for these languages are still work in progress)
Fixed the "destroy all card in your hand and then crash your game" bug.
Added "Score" tooltip to Ballot-box (detailed / translated tooltip will be available in the near future)
Added a green border to cards you can play so you can spot them easier!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/f072c5b74e6718a278ad3e2add73681b259103cb.jpg It's subtle, but hope it helps!

👨‍💻 What are we working on:

Make the Objective (Red) cards less random: We'll make you choose an objective out of a pool, just like in upgrades or festivals.
Try to make sure new players won't get stuck on Level 2 because they discarded Population buildings. (Remove "Plan B" from starting hand or add more pop buildings?)

⚠️ Known Issues:

Please note that about %5 of translation is still work in progress
Some Mac devices not registering clicks correctly
Language select UI covering the mouse
Meta-Progression Rewards not translated
Building auras persist after an earthquake
Performance issues on older or fanless Mac devices.

You can track our progress, give us feedback, or jump into conversation via our linktree. Do you think there's an important thing we've missed? Please let us know in comments. We try to read everything you write in discussions, comments, Discord and Twitter. Thank you again for a great launch and we'll keep improving the game according to your suggestions. After fixing small issues and QoL stuff, we'll work on adding more cards and buildings to the game. Too early for spoilers though :) See you in Cardboard Town!

New: Adjacency System!

ozsoy.dorasteam_community_announcements

1232d ago

Upon many requests, we're introducing the adjacency system to Cardboard Town. Basically, people want to live near parks and don't want to leave near factories. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/cc20024342ad7ee8d72d54d2af9a132c7773fa78.png Certain buildings will have 1 Tile aura that affects population buildings built on those tiles. There's Green, Red and Teal auras:

Green Aura: Buildings that produce Environment give +%25 Population bonus.
Red Aura: Buildings that reduce Environment causes a -%25 Population penalty.
Teal Aura: Building a population building near a building that produces Safety causes the Trouble-Meter to reduce by 1.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/b1719ab3e39e5dbde9022f7db35aa526c5d4e2e5.png Auras stack and interact with each other. For example:

2 Parks built near provides double bonus on their crossing square
Red and Green auras (Negative and Positive Environement) cancel each other out
Teal Aura can stack with both auras, not effecting the other

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/68d1bfa588e2026a00d042b165cde208a2ebf49e.png These auras are only visible when you are in building mode; so don't worry about your cities aesthetics! We realise this will make the game harder to play but we believe it adds good amount of tactical depth for you to master Cardboard Town! Also, while %25 Population bonus is a good amount (which might change during testing btw) you can still play the game succeed without paying much attention to it. So it won't bug our casual players too much, we hope. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/7557673fb0148e02c1beda2c12073b790c843d43.png A City built with the new system, notice that trees are inside the city to maximize population bonus. We are currently running the tests with our beta testers and not sure if we'll implement this feature to the demo version yet. We are planning to explain the mechanic further and let you know about our toughts behing it, so make sure you follow our Twitter and YouTube Channelif you are interested! What do you think about the adjacency system, would you like to see the system included in Cardboard Town's full version? Please share your toughts so we can make this system as enjoyable as we can for you.

Upcoming Features for Cardboard Town

ozsoy.dorasteam_community_announcements

1249d ago

Hello everyone! First of all; thank you all so much for your interest in our demo and all the feedback! We've heard your suggestions and are already working on some of them for the full version. We're aiming to release the full game sometime in April, make sure you wishlist the game and follow us on Twitter to stay in the loop. Now, let's talk about upcoming features:

People in the city

What's the point of building a city if no one's going to live in it, right? But who lives in a Cardboard Town? That's easy: smol, boardgame people! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/eb2fb35054bef9600ce87b3905e520e2171903c0.png As your city grows more people will walk (or hop) around the city. We're also increasing the road size to make space for cars! Traffic will not be a part of the management part of game because it sucks and we don't want that. People and cars will be purely for flavor.

The mighty "are you sure" button:

You know what else sucks? Playing a card in an instant, when you didn't mean to do so. So we're adding a "Play" button as confirmation for all Action Cards. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/95bf73c6b40e913f4b30773216f558dc6382dda2.png No more discarding your whole hand by mistake.

We need more roads!

Is what you've said during the demo. While we believe placing roads tactically and some luck factor is an important part of the game, we want to increase your options to obtain more roads. So we are adding; Road generating mayor button, more action cards and more upgrades that makes you have more roads! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/6d08733e5920dddab1dc4f1dd83987cc45f41fe6.png Cheap Asphalt's icon is not ready, Stratera Games logo is a placeholder. ICYMI: Mayor Button is the (currently red, but actually green) button in the left corner of the screen that makes you draw a card for 4$. You can swap it with different abilities via upgrades. We've made a poll for the color of the mayor on twitter last week: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/21682daa3045fb4299fd8f7df24b6219c0ef48ca.png

20 New upgrades and more syngergies

You think you've seen what this game has to offer? You're wrong! We are adding some exciting upgrades for the full version of Cardboard Town and some crazy syngeriges! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/b18fcb3e9e19301023057d26e60a089e5fde8e68.png

Working on Meta Progression

At the end of each run, you will gain points according to your building count, objective buildings completed and population. With those points; your Mayor Level will increase and you'll gain benefits. With higher mayor level, you'll be able to build bigger cities. Here's our current draft for meta progression, please let us know what you think about the level up system! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/9e260be499f7f56c50b61270f684270ce31ff07c.png Note: this list is work in progress and could change!

Risky cards:

Finally, we're adding some risky upgrades and action cards for daring players which will be available in the full version. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/50f5197c5fcb1f0d82086baa1652ba625f20dddf.png Oh by the way, our other game; Verlet Ascend is being released this week! Make sure to check it out! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/43157712/bc0eef6d56bf4351c00be8a8a7e33271e6f6b859.jpg That's it from us for today. We'll share another post for specific release date and final upcoming features of our game. Thank you for reading and please let us know what you think ːsteamhappyː

Cardboard Town news & patch notes

What to expect

Cardboard Town news & patch notes

What to expect

🌟 Our Dedication to the Experience

🗳️ How to Vote

❤️ Your Support Means Everything

Booster Packs

New Cards

Booster Pack Update is on the Way!

Other Ways To Get Booster Packs in a Run:

A New Building:

Cards Against Deck Bloat

99 Problems but a Resource ain't one

Two More Things...

New City Builder Game Coming Up!

New Next Fest Strategy Demos

Other Strategy Demos

How does Tourism work?

Office Buildings for Bonus Resources

Custom Mode is Here

More Deck Control

Star Quest Reworks

Balance Changes

Leaderboards

Custom Mode (Beta)

New card: Wish Upon A Star

New Disaster: Communist Strike

Fixed Bugs:

Big, Big Update on the way!

Check out our New games!

Introducing Sandbox Mode

Unlocking New Modes - System Change

Lowering the Vote Count for Max Level

Other Updates & Changelog

Goodbye, Troubles!

Hello, Crisis Cards

PoV Mode

Other Stuff

1.1 Announcement Trailer

Steam Trading Cards & More

Gameplay Updates

QoL Updates

Bug Fixes

Balance Updates

Mega Project Buildings

Star Quests

Game Modes

Expanding Board

New Tutorial System

New Buildings and Cards

Future of Cardboard Town

Welcome to the Industry Update!

TL;DR:

You can now view your deck and discard pile

Disaster Phasing

Reward Scrolling

Loading Screen

Starting Hand balance

Upcoming: New Cards!!

🎉 What we've done until now:

👨‍💻 What are we working on:

⚠️ Known Issues:

What we've done since the first demo:

Our plans after Early Access:

People in the city

The mighty "are you sure" button:

We need more roads!

20 New upgrades and more syngergies

Working on Meta Progression

Risky cards:

Steam news for Cardboard Town