Neongarten

Definitely not the visual effects I was going for! Thanks for the bug report. Could you let me know your OS and graphics card?

My guess - you've got a controller plugged in. There's a bug where if you have one plugged in, the game is assuming you'll be using that. I should have a bug fix out in a week, give or take a couple of days.

Fixed in the latest update! There were some weird windowed / fullscreen logic to work through, but the latest version accepts Alt+Enter and F11.

There is some small weirdness to note - the game starts off in windowed mode, but if your monitor resolution is 1920 x 1080, then the game will look like it's in full screen mode. It's really windowed, but the title bar is drawn outside the monitor. Working through the weirdness this week.

Thanks for the feedback - that's how the game gets better!

Thanks for the feedback! Difficulty is a difficult thing to tune, as it turns out. Even more so because it's hard to see your own game with fresh eyes.
My (privacy-friendly) analytics system is telling me that there are about 40 games won to 650 games lost.  Maybe that's a little low? On the other hand, many of those lost games would have been people playing for the first time. Tricky.

At any rate, you've convinced me to add a "Creative" mode to the Steam version! No rent, no deadlines, just building!

Hey, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I've got a bunch of improvements planned for the Steam release. I'll be consulting with a UI artist to improve the basic theme already present and to make the effects of buildings more legible. (I've been playing a ton of Cobalt Core lately, and I think I can take some lessons from their icon language on the cards. Also, go play Cobalt Core.)

I do want to show some indication of affected buildings when you place a new building. I have code in place to do this, but I couldn't figure out a way to make it look good (with the art style's lighting). That's another place where I plan to hire someone for guidance.

As for "adjacent" vs "neighboring", they are the same thing. I thought that the most recent update changed all the "adjacent" text to "neighboring", but I very well could have missed some. The one-screen tutorial page on the title page has a pictorial representation of the different effect patterns, but it's not necessarily an obvious thing to look at.

Hacker shacks can definitely pay off! They aren't the only way to skip the progression. In fact, I'm trying to build in multiple "game-breaking" combos of buildings.

My current record is a Corp building making 11k in one night! I had to nerf the Security Forces in the most recent update because they were just too powerful. A certain amount of "too powerful" is encouraged, but that building made it too easy. The new update reduces their area of effect, which should play a little better.

That's a good idea. I'll add in a one-screen tutorial in next week's update :)

Thanks for the kind words! I've got some cool ideas for ways to improve the UI and make the onboarding process smoother.

You mentioned coming across a couple of bugs - do you remember what these were? Sometimes, even a description of a bug is enough to fix it. I know of a few, but want to make sure I note any ones I haven't found yet.