Green With Energy has been updated with the following changes.

User Interface

• Fix bug where the active tool wasn’t properly highlighted (thank you for the feedback!)
  
• Add right-click to go back in certain tools (everything except Power Lines which already uses right-click)
  
• Add tooltips for top icons showing keybindings (shown below)

Happy engineering!
The Green With Energy Team

At the very beginning, we would like to thank each of you for your feedback, Steam opinions, and emails that you write to us - thank you for your commitment after launch, it is invaluable to us. 🤝

Full list of changes:

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• Fix a bug where level achievements would not unlock properly
  
• Fix a bug where stats would increment twice per simulation run
  
• Update localization files with new translations

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• Added game logo to splash screen
  
• Now shows current level in Steam friends list

As always please join our Discord if you have feedback, or leave a Steam review:
[discord.gg]Regards,
Green With Energy Team

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Have fun!
GWE Team

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[discord.gg]HAVE FUN!
Green With Energy Team

[discord.gg]See you very soon!
Green With Energy Team

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Green With Energy Team

Your task will be to find a balance between budget and efficiency by designing power grids in various biomes - the choice is yours!


[discord.gg]See you soon!
Green With Energy Team

Building video games is more than designing game rules and logic;. It’s critical to make the player feel connected to the experience, and feel their impact on the game world. UX designers have long called this “delight” and that’s the theme of today’s DevLog.

Traffic
One of the biggest pieces of feedback we’ve gotten is to add more life to the world. As well as a compelling puzzle, the player should become immersed into the world. This is where creating delight serves us well as developers, as each detail enhances the experience in an intangible way.

Every road tile is modelled as a set of waypoints, or “path segments” as they’re called internally.

We had some fun traffic bugs along the way:

When vehicles spawn, we use a well known computer science algorithm called a randomised depth first search to construct a list of waypoints for the vehicle to drive between. When combined with a queue and some vector maths, we have a fully functional pathfinding algorithm for vehicles.

User Interface
Another core piece of feedback is that the user interface is confusing. When building the game initially, we weren’t sure how it was going to evolve, so the UI was never really “designed” and simply put together as the need arises.

Going back to the drawing board, we brainstormed a new user interface at a London coworking space for a day. The new design was created from a first principles approach. At each stage of the game (design, iteration, simulation) we asked ourselves:

• "What does the user need (or want) to know at this stage?"
  
• "What actions are available?"
  
• "How can we minimise cognitive overload but still teach the player what we want them to know?”

Finally, we settled on this:

The clipboard details have been split up and tucked into the various top menus in what we're calling "the sandbar". Additionally the bottom and side menus have been combined into a single toolbox at the bottom.

Looking forward to your thoughts!

As always, please wishlist and follow if you’re interested in playing Green With Energy when it launches.

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Green With Energy will be hosting a public alpha playtest next week to get feedback on game mechanics and the first levels. To join, go to our store page and click the "Request Access" button.

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• About 1/10th of the final content, which includes the first tutorials, plus some larger levels
  
• No support for Puzzle Creator or Steam Workshop
  
• Integrated bug reporting and analytics collection, to learn how players are finding the game

Shortly after the playtest, we'll gather the collected data and use it to improve the game before release later this year. Please report bugs in the bottom right of the client. You can also join the #playtesting channel on our Discord server[discord.gg] to talk directly with the developers.

We hope you have fun trying this out!

- The Green With Energy Team