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Hello Indie Game Lovers, Nerds and Nerdettes my name is Feniks and this is the Indie Game

News.

Today we look at Tycoon genre.

This videos are packed with informations so sit back, take your time and stay focused

for next few minutes You can find the links to all covered games in the description.

Feel free to pause at any time.

I cover other genres as well so give my channel a look afterwards.

As always we are going to start with updates of already existing games.

Works have began on Transport Fever's latest patch and it is currently available to test

in beta branch of the game.

The gameplay patch brings quite a few commonly requested features to the game.

We will see addition of waypoints for street vehicles, explicit line track/terminal selection

at stations, consistent people and cargo when modifying infrastructure, an upgrade to ships

so that they can carry more than one type of cargo, an unload only feature for vehicles,

and much more.

Developers also improved other elements of the game, such as tunnels that now actually

cut the terrain, or user interface details like that the bulldozer now asks if you are

sure when removing large structures.

We will see many additional improvements and bug fixes as well as new modding features

complete the patch.

Not many updates this month but let's move to recent release.

Rise of Industry formerly known as Project Automata released on Early access via their

own site.

Game has dropped the price by half after their failed kickstarter last year and is more accessible

to players as it stands right now.

You can also download free demo to test a game before you commit to buying it.

Rise of Industry takes inspiration from such games as Industry Giant, Transport tycoon,

Anno series and Factorio.

Your job will be to take the reins of a small company and grow it into an industrial and

financial empire

You will achieve that by gathering resources by building farms, mines, oil and gas wells

and many more.

Starting from the most basic materials you will have wide range of products to manufacture

and ship to towns.

You will need to ensure smooth transportation of both raw materials and finished products

at every stage of production chain.

Game will allow you to build roads, trucks, trains, ships, and even zeppelins, all while

building your industrial base (or bases) of operations.

Each mode of travel has it's own advantages and drawbacks, and it's up to you to sort

the logistic puzzle.

Developers intend to eventually move to steam early access.

New DLC for Darkest Dungeon - Crimson Court has been released on 20th of June.

Crimson Court is a parallel campaign experienced alongside the main Darkest Dungeon content

that will provide you with new challenges and variation at every difficulty level.

The narrative grounding sheds some light on the Ancestor's early days, and will be presented

in the same style of cut-scenes you've seen elsewhere in the game.

The DLC is designed to be played alongside an existing campaign, or as a brand new one--your

choice!

The events and features will unlock over the course of play.

From a notable features we will see: a new hero class, new dungeon region: The Courtyard,

full faction of new deadly foes, 5 new Bosses and 10 new buildings and many more.

The expansion received so far 78% positive review score out of nearly 400 reviews submitted.

Okay time for announcements from last month.

Tropico 6 was officially announced to come out next year.

We will see return of everyone's beloved El Presidente.

This time game expands in scope allowing players to connect to large archipelagos for the first

time in the series.

You will be able to manage multiple islands at the same time and adapt to various new

challenges.

You will be able to Send your agents on raids to foreign lands to steal world wonders and

monuments, to add them to your collection.

You will have ability to build bridges, construct tunnels and transport your citizens and tourists

in taxis, buses and aerial cable cars.

Tropico 6 also features a revised research system focusing on the political aspects of

being the world's greatest dictator.

Project Highrise announced it's 2nd expansion Miami Malls.

This time your job will be to create the shopping centre of your dreams.

With addition of 15 stores and restaurants, you'll be able to create shopping centers

that no longer need offices, apartments or hotels to draw in visitors.

We will see even larger crowds and addition of wonderful water features.

Similarly to previous expansion Miami Malls intends to capture unique atmosphere of this

always sunny paradise.

Airport CEO developers have released their 3rd and final gameplay video prior to upcoming

steam early access and game appears to look really polished for what we are used to in

Early Access realm.

Over 30 000 people have seen final gameplay video so I predict game becoming huge success

in its initial days after launch.

I am also pleased to report that developers started working on fixing some of minor bugs

spotted in the video and are almost done with completing application for steam direct.

Airport CEO is a 2D tycoon and management game in development for PC and Mac where you

take seat as the CEO of your own airport.

You will build the airport's infrastructure with everything from runways and taxiways,

gates and hangars to constructing terminals with check-in, security, restaurants and shopping.

You will manage the business perspective of the airport by hiring employees, managers

and executives, making deals with airline companies and making sure that ends meet by

keeping an eye on budget and resources.

Watch this space because I have a feeling we will definitely be coming back to the game

over next couple of months.

We have now announcement for for Startup Company Early Access on Steam.

Game is set to release on 12of of August this year.

Startup Company is a business simulation sandbox game.

You play as the CEO of a newly formed software company.

With an empty bank account you are forced to complete client contracts, but as soon

as you get enough money you will be able to start competing against the largest tech giants,

building your very own products and services.

Startup Company includes:

* Build Mode: Design your very own office.

* Contract Work: Win contracts by competing on price and service.

* Crafting System: Merge components to create modules.

Use modules to create products.

* Products: Build outstanding products by adding features, managing servers and running

marketing campaigns.

Developers kindly granted me access to Beta version of a game and you should expect First

Impression video coming out this month so please do come back to check it out.

Okay guys that is it in this month Indie Game News.

If you know of any other games that should be featured in next month updates or you released

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News Brief June 30, 2017 - Duration: 10:23.

DAVID GREENE, HOST: And, Steve, did a presidential tweet just bring unity to Washington, D.C.?

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Well, not on health care, not on taxes, not on any item of substance.

But surveys show that even many of President Trump supporters dislike his Twitter outbursts,

and the latest drew bipartisan criticism from lawmakers.

The president, as you may have heard, referred to a pair of MSNBC hosts as low-IQ, crazy,

psycho, and then claimed one of them, quote, "had been bleeding badly from a face-lift."

Why?

Well, the president was angry that they had criticized him on a show that he claimed not

to be watching.

White House spokesman Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended the remark.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS: Look, everybody wants to make this an attack on a woman and equality

- what about the constant attacks that he receives or the rest of us?

GREENE: All right, NPR political editor Domenico Montanaro is in the studio.

Domenico, the White House defending this there, but a lot of Republicans not defending this.

They really pounced on the president.

Are they losing patience with their own president?

DOMENICO MONTANARO, BYLINE: Well, morning, David.

And, you know, what you heard there from Sarah Huckabee Sanders was a tactic called whataboutism.

It's a - something long used by Soviet Russia and your...

GREENE: That's an official term from Soviet days?

MONTANARO: Yeah.

INSKEEP: Oh, totally.

Yeah.

MONTANARO: This is.

We have written about it on npr.org.

You can read about it.

INSKEEP: What about the other people?

GREENE: Exactly.

INSKEEP: The other nasty people?

MONTANARO: I know - well, look, it's employed, like I said, by - long used by Soviet Russia

and your friendly neighborhood teenager, as some of us former English teachers (laughter)

are familiar with.

You know, when you're unpopular as a president, it's hard for a president to have a lot of

leverage with even his own party.

But he's a complicated problem for these Republicans - for Republican elected officials, in particular.

You know, I mean, this is somebody who is widely unpopular with independents and Democrats

but yet beloved by the Republican voter base.

GREENE: You say complicated problem.

But, I mean, the president has said worse.

I mean, we remember the "Access Hollywood" tape in the weeks right before the election...

MONTANARO: Yeah.

GREENE: ...Didn't cause political damage for him.

So is there any incentive for him to hold back?

MONTANARO: Well, look, I - our latest NBC - our latest NPR-Marist poll has shown that

he was slipping pretty badly with independents.

And that can be a big, big problem with President Trump.

He won independents in the 2016 election by four points.

When independents have then soured on him, that can be a big issue for him going forward.

GREENE: Well, speaking of big issues, there was that issue - health care - that we were

talking a lot about this week.

The Republican leadership in the Senate, they delayed the vote to give more time to work

something out.

Where are things?

Anything new?

Any sort of feel for the timeline of when there could be a vote?

MONTANARO: Well, it's never a pretty process.

And they'd, you know, like to be closer to a revised bill possibly by the end of the

day today.

You know, to get a vote by next week, they need a new Congressional Budget Office score.

That is, according to the Senate rules.

The CBO gave a new score yesterday on long-term Medicaid impact.

And it wasn't very good.

It showed a bleaker picture.

So they're still aiming to try to have something next week.

But there are a few things on the table.

INSKEEP: Which is a reminder that however uncomfortable lawmakers may be with the president's

Twitter account, they're still with him on some major issues of substance and pleased

if he will sign a piece of legislation like the health care bill, assuming that Republicans

can ever agree on what they think that ought to be.

GREENE: Yeah.

All right, NPR's Domenico Montanaro.

Thanks as always.

Have a good weekend.

MONTANARO: All right, thank you.

GREENE: So in Hong Kong, they are celebrating an anniversary tomorrow.

Actually, many people are not celebrating, I guess we should say.

INSKEEP: It is the 20th anniversary of Great Britain's handover of Hong Kong to Chinese

rule.

China pledged in 1997, 20 years ago, that it would preserve Hong Kong's democratic systems

for at least half a century.

It's what's known as the one country, two systems promise.

GREENE: Well, two decades on, has China kept that promise?

Let's talk to NPR's Rob Schmitz, who is in Hong Kong.

And, Rob, what's the atmosphere there like?

ROB SCHMITZ, BYLINE: Well, it's pretty - it's very busy.

You know, Chinese President Xi Jinping is on his first visit here since he became president

five years ago.

So he's been making stops throughout the city yesterday and today.

He'll take in a massive fireworks display tonight to mark the anniversary.

There is sure to be a lot of red fireworks, the official color of communism.

And he will inaugurate the city's new chief executive, Carrie Lam, tomorrow.

And wherever he goes this weekend, there will be protests not too far away.

Several protests are scheduled starting tonight and going through tomorrow evening from all

sorts of groups.

And media is here from all over Asia as well to cover it all.

So it should be a pretty interesting day or two.

GREENE: The fact that we're going to see protests, does that mean that there are a lot of people

in Hong Kong who are just not comfortable with Chinese rule and don't feel like China's

kept that promise to keep that democratic system in place?

SCHMITZ: It depends on who you talk to, David.

You know, many Hong Kongers don't believe China has kept its promise.

When President Xi arrived yesterday, he thanked the city government for, in his words, making

the one country, two systems policy a success.

And he praised them for curbing Hong Kong independence.

And that was a reference to the protests three years ago that shut down Hong Kong's financial

district.

And these were protests that were spurred by China's backing down from one of the promises

it made in '97 to allow city residents to directly elect the city's chief executive.

So there are many here who don't think China has done enough.

Earlier this week, I spoke to local residents about Xi Jinping's visit.

Here's what one man - his name is Yensur Qin (ph) - said about that.

YENSUR QIN: (Through interpreter) It's all a big show, a big waste of money.

They say he'll visit local families, but he doesn't want to know what's really happening

to Hong Kong people.

I'm a local.

Come talk to me.

I see how this city has changed.

Things are getting worse.

GREENE: Big show, waste of money?

That's extraordinary.

SCHMITZ: Yeah.

Yeah.

And I think, you know, I've heard a lot of that this week when I talked to folks.

And, you know, I think it goes beyond just Hong Kong, too.

You know, I spoke with Anson Chan this week.

She was a chief secretary who supervised the handover for the Hong Kong government back

in 1997.

And she told me China's basically cheated Hong Kong.

And any - and any country or business that deals with China should take a look at what's

happening in Hong Kong because according to her, that's how China will treat them when

they're signing business deals or international treaties.

And that's why she thinks what's happening here in Hong Kong is relevant to everyone

because of China's global influence.

GREENE: Maybe some broader lessons that we're seeing sort of play out here.

SCHMITZ: Right, exactly.

GREENE: NPR's Rob Schmitz is in Hong Kong ahead of this controversial anniversary.

Rob, thanks a lot.

We appreciate it.

SCHMITZ: Thanks, David.

JAY-Z: (Rapping) Kill Jay-Z.

They'll never love you.

You'll never be enough.

GREENE: That, that right there is your first listen to Jay-Z's first album out in nearly

four years.

INSKEEP: Kill Jay-Z, the first line there, wow.

Well, there's a backstory.

To really understand, go back a year when Jay-Z's wife Beyonce released her album "Lemonade,"

an album that sparked a lot of speculation because on it, she seemed to be alluding to

an affair between Jay-Z and another woman.

Now, a year later, Jay-Z appears to be apologizing.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "4:44")

JAY-Z: (Rapping) I apologize, often womanize.

Took for my child to be born to see through a woman's eyes.

Took for these natural twins to believe in miracles.

Took me too long for this song.

I don't deserve you.

I harass you out in Paris.

GREENE: NPR Music's hip-hop writer Rodney Carmichael is here.

Rodney, I thought Jay-Z and Beyonce were famous for keeping their relationship 100 percent

private.

What - so what's going on here?

RODNEY CARMICHAEL, BYLINE: Well, you know, that's in interviews, I think.

I think that Beyonce and Jay-Z have always liked to celebrate their relationship.

You had "03 Bonnie And Clyde."

This was long before they got married.

And they were - you know, they were all about the power couple that they were becoming.

And it's just, you know, in interviews, they don't like to talk about it.

But they've always talked through their music, which is what artists are supposed to do.

GREENE: Interesting.

So a real distinction between people opening up and talking in interviews and actually

just putting feelings into song.

CARMICHAEL: Exactly, and he puts a lot of feeling into this album.

GREENE: There's a lot of feeling in this album.

CARMICHAEL: Yeah.

GREENE: I mean, is there some kind of shift here in Jay-Z's career?

CARMICHAEL: I think so.

I mean, I think it's a shift that people have been hoping would come eventually.

And it's not that he hasn't attempted to.

You know, Jay-Z is a guy - he's been on top of the game for years.

And, you know, hip-hop is a genre that's moving into this new age of whether or not it can

age gracefully.

And Jay-Z is doing that with this album.

GREENE: He's aging gracefully, you're saying?

CARMICHAEL: He's aging gracefully.

But he's taking on challenging topics.

There aren't any club bangers.

There aren't any party jams on this album.

It's all deep, complex...

GREENE: Yeah.

CARMICHAEL: ...Vulnerable material.

GREENE: It's serious stuff.

I want to play a little bit more which speaks to that.

This is a bit from the song "The Story Of O.J."

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE STORY OF O.J.")

JAY-Z: (Rapping) O.J. like, I'm not black, I'm O.J.

OK.

House [expletive], don't [expletive] with me.

I'm a field [expletive] with shined cutlery.

Gold-plated quarters where the butlers be.

I'm-a play the corners where the hustlers be.

GREENE: This is - this is not a club song.

This is taking on social issues, racism.

CARMICHAEL: It's definitely taking on those issues.

And it's interesting to hear Jay-Z doing it.

Not that he has never taken on these issues before, but he's also been criticized for

being at his position, you know, in terms of wealth, career, status and not being more

vocal during this time.

INSKEEP: It's notable - the style, too.

It sounds like he's just talking.

CARMICHAEL: Yeah, it's a very, you know, casual delivery in terms of how he's talking on this

album.

It's really great.

It's very introspective.

It's his best work in years.

I would put it up there with his best albums.

GREENE: Wow, all right.

That's saying a lot.

Well, we'll all be listening this weekend.

CARMICHAEL: Yeah.

GREENE: Jay-Z's first album in four years.

Chatting with NPR Music's hip-hop writer, Rodney Carmichael.

Thanks a lot, Rodney.

CARMICHAEL: Thank you all.

JAY-Z: (Rapping) You did what with who?

What good is a menage a trois when you have a soulmate?

You risked that for Blue?

If I wasn't a superhero in your face, my heart breaks for the day I had to explain my mistakes.

And the mask goes away.

And Santa Claus is fake.

And you go online and see...