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New Seattle Scenario! Weeklong Sale!Aug 7, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsHey, Mayors! We've have a really cool update this week alongside a juicy 90% discount. If you've always wanted to visit the cloudiest and most supersonic city in the USA, now it's time to get your copy of BalanCity and try the new Seattle Scenario! Build the Space Needle and Columbia Center among other contemporary landmarks such as the Eagle statue and the 60s Monorail System. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/f6f18598337ea695e8dbb4de372fb7a755d1b08a.jpg If you lose, maybe you could start your own garage band and grunge about it!New Seattle Scenario! Weeklong Sale!Aug 7, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsHey, Mayors! We've have a really cool update this week alongside a juicy 90% discount. If you've always wanted to visit the cloudiest and most supersonic city in the USA, now it's time to get your copy of BalanCity and try the new Seattle Scenario! Build the Space Needle and Columbia Center among other contemporary landmarks such as the Eagle statue and the 60s Monorail System. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/f6f18598337ea695e8dbb4de372fb7a755d1b08a.jpg If you lose, maybe you could start your own garage band and grunge about it!New Scenario - Shanghai! (plus pigeons) - SUMMER SALE!Jun 22, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsHey there BalanCity fans and players! It's been a while since I the last update but here comes a very solicited scenario: Shanghai, China! http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/646b515bae80d1ce1aa83ff159d8f68b60f41211.jpg Lot's of supertall skyscrapers for you to build and try to balance in these uneven platforms! Also you must beware of building too many Coal Power Plants, as smog will obscure your view! Time to plan on green energy (sorry Don). http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/9a29b7a14a6fdb115546c33578f218ef588b27c1.gif In other news, a plague of pigeons seems to have arrived to BalanCity, so please ignore the pesky birds as you build. Last but not least, the game is 90% off this Steam Summer Sale! So it's your chance to get your BalanCity today (or get it as a gift for that special someone!).New Scenario - Shanghai! (plus pigeons) - SUMMER SALE!Jun 22, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsHey there BalanCity fans and players! It's been a while since I the last update but here comes a very solicited scenario: Shanghai, China! http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/646b515bae80d1ce1aa83ff159d8f68b60f41211.jpg Lot's of supertall skyscrapers for you to build and try to balance in these uneven platforms! Also you must beware of building too many Coal Power Plants, as smog will obscure your view! Time to plan on green energy (sorry Don). http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/9a29b7a14a6fdb115546c33578f218ef588b27c1.gif In other news, a plague of pigeons seems to have arrived to BalanCity, so please ignore the pesky birds as you build. Last but not least, the game is 90% off this Steam Summer Sale! So it's your chance to get your BalanCity today (or get it as a gift for that special someone!).OST available and 80% discount this week!Mar 27, 2017 - Community Announcementshttp://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/64783c7299b817cbd358f14fa9dfb610893dea74.jpg Dear fellow BalanCitians! You can get BalanCity OST by Ariel Contreras-Esquivel right here through Steam. This week you can also buy the game at a juicy discount of 80% off the base price starting from 3/27 to 4/2! It's your chance to start balancing cities if that's what you've always wanted! You can also get the OST and download all the tracks at the highest quality here: https://arielcontrerasesquivel.bandcamp.com/album/balancityOST available and 80% discount this week!Mar 27, 2017 - Community Announcementshttp://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/64783c7299b817cbd358f14fa9dfb610893dea74.jpg Dear fellow BalanCitians! You can get BalanCity OST by Ariel Contreras-Esquivel right here through Steam. This week you can also buy the game at a juicy discount of 80% off the base price starting from 3/27 to 4/2! It's your chance to start balancing cities if that's what you've always wanted! You can also get the OST and download all the tracks at the highest quality here: https://arielcontrerasesquivel.bandcamp.com/album/balancityResident Block UpdateDec 9, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsDear players, I have updated the resident block sprite so that it will show it's current population and quality of life level. If a block population is below 9, or if it's not powered or without jobs, smog stains will appear. If population is between 9 and 10, the block will show clean, as it always did. And if the population is over 10, nice little plants will appear on the balconies meaning that block can upgrade to a Mega Block. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/a8667326be227701fcd7f4e8ea90b8853daf6b58.png I also increased the trees effect, so that you won't need so many of them for blocks to rise over 10 residents. Finally, a quick fix on "Power to the people" mission, now you will not lose if a power plant falls off the screen. Hope you enjoy these changes! Have fun! Fernando ps. If you have a vote to spare for BalanCity at IndieDB's Top 100 Indies of 2016, please support the game at: www.indiedb.com/games/balancity Thanks!Resident Block UpdateDec 9, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsDear players, I have updated the resident block sprite so that it will show it's current population and quality of life level. If a block population is below 9, or if it's not powered or without jobs, smog stains will appear. If population is between 9 and 10, the block will show clean, as it always did. And if the population is over 10, nice little plants will appear on the balconies meaning that block can upgrade to a Mega Block. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/a8667326be227701fcd7f4e8ea90b8853daf6b58.png I also increased the trees effect, so that you won't need so many of them for blocks to rise over 10 residents. Finally, a quick fix on "Power to the people" mission, now you will not lose if a power plant falls off the screen. Hope you enjoy these changes! Have fun! Fernando ps. If you have a vote to spare for BalanCity at IndieDB's Top 100 Indies of 2016, please support the game at: www.indiedb.com/games/balancity Thanks!Quick fix updateDec 8, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsHey! Just wanted you to know that the last update fixes a couple of bugs like: - Fixed Peppy from appearing randomly during the game after beating Nightmare Scenario. - Removed height limit after you complete scenarios so that you can build as high as you can. - Fixed planes not aligning properly with the airports. p.s. Couldn't fix Don being elected mayor :( Hope to have a Holiday update up soon! Keep sending bugs and feedback! regards FernandoQuick fix updateDec 8, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsHey! Just wanted you to know that the last update fixes a couple of bugs like: - Fixed Peppy from appearing randomly during the game after beating Nightmare Scenario. - Removed height limit after you complete scenarios so that you can build as high as you can. - Fixed planes not aligning properly with the airports. p.s. Couldn't fix Don being elected mayor :( Hope to have a Holiday update up soon! Keep sending bugs and feedback! regards FernandoBalanCity 40% off on Steam Autumn Sale!Nov 23, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsThis is your chance to get BalanCity at a juicy 40% discount! Get your BalanCity today and start your mayor career now!BalanCity 40% off on Steam Autumn Sale!Nov 23, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsThis is your chance to get BalanCity at a juicy 40% discount! Get your BalanCity today and start your mayor career now!Halloween Update!Oct 28, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsDear players, A new scenario has been added to the game! http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/01c601a4fdff77f449d155afb7d6ecd2da277cfa.png Nightmare Scenario To stay in line with this weekend's Halloween celebrations, a new Nightmare Scenario is available for you to try, if you are brave enough. In this scenario you will face your deepest fears (if you are afraid of clowns and/or pumpkins) and you will be able to build five new special spooky buildings such as a Haunted House, an Asylum and the Gates to Hell itself. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/8b799c1a5d49d182e5f23d383a3baa2313b55fa3.jpg If you dare to try and complete the Nightmare, a nice little Achievement is waiting for you when you wake up! Hope you have fun!Halloween Update!Oct 28, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsDear players, A new scenario has been added to the game! http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/01c601a4fdff77f449d155afb7d6ecd2da277cfa.png Nightmare Scenario To stay in line with this weekend's Halloween celebrations, a new Nightmare Scenario is available for you to try, if you are brave enough. In this scenario you will face your deepest fears (if you are afraid of clowns and/or pumpkins) and you will be able to build five new special spooky buildings such as a Haunted House, an Asylum and the Gates to Hell itself. http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/8b799c1a5d49d182e5f23d383a3baa2313b55fa3.jpg If you dare to try and complete the Nightmare, a nice little Achievement is waiting for you when you wake up! Hope you have fun!Mac Steam Support!Oct 12, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsIf you play BalanCity on a Mac, now you can get full Steam integration and try to get to the Top Ten or unlock achievements!Mac Steam Support!Oct 12, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsIf you play BalanCity on a Mac, now you can get full Steam integration and try to get to the Top Ten or unlock achievements!Finally, a city building game where utter failure is completely justifiedOct 10, 2016 - PC GamerI've messed up many cities in my term as mayor in any number of city building games, but I've finally found a game in which my dismal failures are completely justified. BalanCity, developed by Fernando Cordoba, finally gives me the perfect excuse for creating a horrible disaster and ruining the lives of my citizens. In BalanCity, your entire city sits on a giant teeter-totter, meaning that if you build too much one one side, the whole thing starts to tip, and you'll have to hurriedly add to the other side to quickly balance it out: Residences and offices can be dropped in as little cubes. Provided you've got enough power and mutual support residents need a place to work, and offices need workers the blocks combine into cubes, and the cubes combine into towers. Eventually, your BalanCity will have skyscrapers add elevators so people can reach the upper floors and the height of your city increases by building specialty items like monuments and landmarks. Not only is it tricky balancing everything, but you'll obviously need to stack new buildings on top of existing ones, and finding a spot for anything that's not perfectly square, like police stations, hospitals, and your mayor's mansion is difficult. In fact, once you've been building for a while, finding room for anything new at all can be a challenge, such as when I had to pile up a police station, fire department, and mayor's mansion on top of each other. Or, when I attempted to find the absolute perfect little spot to build my train station: Sorry, commuters! As if that weren't enough of a challenge, there are also monsters, aliens, fires, crimes, and even meteor strikes to throw your city into wobbly chaos. One city of mine was struck by a meteor and promptly collapsed. Another time, flying saucers invaded and started abducting all the trees I'd planted to help solve my pollution problems. I've seen my citizens being mugged and have had to quickly build a police station, typically on top of some other building, to arrest the robbers. When fires break out such as when a the police station topples onto a power plant and explodes fire copters need to be dispatched. Provided you can find a spot for it. It's just a huge hectic nightmare of things constantly going wrong, but as mayor I feel like I can always deflect the blame. "Yes, citizens, I'm aware that several skyscrapers slid into the ocean this morning, and that some of your homes are now in a different part of the city, and are upside-down, and are on fire, but what did you expect to happen when you moved onto a giant see-saw? This is as much your fault as it is mine." It's almost a relief when something attacks the city to distract everyone from my poor building and planning skills. When a Godzilla-like monster arrived in the wobbly-ass version of San Francisco I was building, I had to quickly add a bunch of military rocket launchers to take him down. While I think it's cool that my environmentally friendly solar plant was outfitted with a ...New Advisors! - October UpdateOct 10, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsOctober Update - New Advisors, a couple of shortcuts and fixes Hey! It's been a while since the last update but today you will see a couple of new things in the game. Choose your advisor Now you will be able to pick your favorite advisor to assist while you build our city! http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/44bb19a9f0858f9d6ce4f4b4989fe91d5e518158.png Apart from SUP, now you can play with Don, Peppy and Heelaree. Each one has his own power up for your city, Don makes the military more effective, Heelaree makes emergency helicopters faster and Peppy, he just wants to play with you and make unhappy feelings go away. Scroll and Zoom with the keyboard Now you can pan your city view using the directional keys in your keyboard, as well as , and . to zoom in and out. Autosave Now the game autosaves Free Build and Scenarios every 10 seconds. Everytime you leave your city, it will be saved so that you can continue building it some other time or if the game crashes. Beware that you cannot leave the game without saving, so it is kind of permadeath of your city if you lost. There have been numerous bug fixes and balance tweaks to the game. Please report any bugs you may encounter. Have fun! FernandoNew Advisors! - October UpdateOct 10, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsOctober Update - New Advisors, a couple of shortcuts and fixes Hey! It's been a while since the last update but today you will see a couple of new things in the game. Choose your advisor Now you will be able to pick your favorite advisor to assist while you build our city! http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/25673821/44bb19a9f0858f9d6ce4f4b4989fe91d5e518158.png Apart from SUP, now you can play with Don, Peppy and Heelaree. Each one has his own power up for your city, Don makes the military more effective, Heelaree makes emergency helicopters faster and Peppy, he just wants to play with you and make unhappy feelings go away. Scroll and Zoom with the keyboard Now you can pan your city view using the directional keys in your keyboard, as well as , and . to zoom in and out. Autosave Now the game autosaves Free Build and Scenarios every 10 seconds. Everytime you leave your city, it will be saved so that you can continue building it some other time or if the game crashes. Beware that you cannot leave the game without saving, so it is kind of permadeath of your city if you lost. There have been numerous bug fixes and balance tweaks to the game. Please report any bugs you may encounter. Have fun! Fernando9-25 More and more Bug Fixes!Sep 25, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsHey! After some reviews and comments by players I made a couple of fixes and changes to the game mechanics. Some of the changes in the game are: - Block merging now is more tolerant. It is easier to make mega blocks now. - Emergency helicopters now do not need to go back to their headquarters. In a future update I will add the option to build several stations, but now you can place your helis wherever you want and they won't return back home leaving far away from a disaster zone. - When you unlock a Special Building, you are not forced anymore to place it. Now you can continue building whatever you were building and choose when you want to build the Special Building in order to raise your height limit. - Mission "Towered Blocks" is the most difficult one and was moved to the last spot in the list. Also, the inspector is now available as well as trees and terraces that will make that mission a lot easier (some players might find that their progress is messed up, as the last mission will be unlocked and the second and third not, just play mission "Power to the People" again in order to unlock the "Rich & Poor" mission). I'm glad to read more feedback from players to make BalanCity a better and more enjoyable game! yours truly, Fernando Cordoba
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