- Democracy 4 is now in Early Access! - 7 October 2020
Yes its true! after all these years, Democracy has finally returned to steam! Democracy 4 is now in Early Access, and your people are eagerly awaiting (or dreading!) your leadership! So far the game supports English-language only on PC (but more languages are coming soon), and we have the following coutrnies in need of governing: The USA! The UK! France! Germany! Canada! Democracy 4 already has steam achievements and steam workshop support, and a full modding guide is available. If you have ever found yourself getting angry in online debates about what the government should do, now is your chance to prove conclusively that you could do a better job. Its actually way harder than it sounds, especially if you think you will be able to stick to your principles AND win re-election over multiple terms... What will people think when you legalize LSD? when you double alcohol tax? when you give…
- Democracy 4 is just ONE WEEK away from Early Access - 29 September 2020
Exciting times! Not only does today mark the first Presidential election debate in the US, its just a week away from the launch into early access of our political strategy game Democracy 4. If you want to try your hand at implementing Universal Basic Income, or maybe you want to ban teaching evolution in schools, perhaps build a border wall, or legalize heroin, or go crazy with the money printer with some helicopter money or quantitative easing... these are all options available to you in Democracy 4. Currently the game features the USA, UK, Germany and France, and we expect to add Canada before Early Access starts, with a list of other countries coming after that as we continue to work on the game in response to player feedback. Here is the official trailer: https://youtu.be/kuJGiYC4cyg I also just added a new steam guide that explains how people can create mods for the game, which we…
- Democracy 4 is coming soon. Add to your wishlist :D - 3 September 2020
Great news fellow citizens! The latest installment in the geeky-but-popular political strategy game 'Democracy' series is coming to steam very soon, in a US election year no less. Just imagine how calm and peaceful our forums will be :D Its been 7, yes SEVEN years since the release of Democracy 3, and global politics has changed a lot. Democracy 4 takes the series into the modern age with new features like coalition governments, media reports, Quantitative Easing & Helicopter money, Fake news and Social Media. Here is the trailer: https://youtu.be/kuJGiYC4cyg Democracy 4 will be released soon on steam, so please check out the store page and add it to your wishlist to keep up to date with developments. We will be coming to early access, so will have plenty of opportunity to get feedback from players on how to best balance the game, and what cool new policies to add. Before you start typi…
- Coming soon: Design Variety Expansion pack for Production Line 🚗🚗🚗 - 15 October 2019
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F32939922%2Fee93ec8950cf0c1bae3a9fdb67c5606b6b250e1c.png Hi there! We are releasing our second expansion to Production Line: Car Factory simulation on the 23rd October! This expansion is a cosmetic-only change to double (yes DOUBLE) the variety of car design styles in the game! You can now pick from 2 different looks for every car design in the base game (Sedan,SUV,Sports,Compact,Offroad,Pickup & Small van). Mini trailer showing the new designs: https://youtu.be/LkRcorWhNcc Here is the store page so you can add the DLC to your wishlist :D https://store.steampowered.com/app/1174730/Production_Line__Design_Variety_Pack/ Plus if you have not checked out the game for a while, please do as we have released a whole bunch of updates over the last few months that massively improve the playability, performance and stability of the g…
- Windows build updated to version 1.34 with text & crash fixes. - 12 March 2018
Hi, we have finally updated the windows build of the game to include an assorted bunch of fixes, optimizations and improvements related to the Unicode translation of the game which we undertook to allow support for Chinese and Russian languages. As far as we know, this should fix all issues regarding startup crashes or missing / corrupted text. We are now working on implementing those same fixes into the linux and OSX builds of the game. Sorry this has taken so long, Unicode is hell... For anyone who still prefers the build before we changed the text engine, there is a 'classic' beta still on steam, with no passwords. Just right click the games name or icon in steam, select properties, then the betas tab, then the drop down box for the betas.
- Windows build updated to version 1.34 with text & crash fixes. - 12 March 2018
Hi, we have finally updated the windows build of the game to include an assorted bunch of fixes, optimizations and improvements related to the Unicode translation of the game which we undertook to allow support for Chinese and Russian languages. As far as we know, this should fix all issues regarding startup crashes or missing / corrupted text. We are now working on implementing those same fixes into the linux and OSX builds of the game. Sorry this has taken so long, Unicode is hell... For anyone who still prefers the build before we changed the text engine, there is a 'classic' beta still on steam, with no passwords. Just right click the games name or icon in steam, select properties, then the betas tab, then the drop down box for the betas.
- Windows patch today, to solve startup crashes and text issues - 6 January 2018
Hi, we know some users have problems with the game not starting, and others (often with low spec laptops) cannot see text. We just uploaded a patch to the windows version today which should fix these issues. As usual, please let us know (with as much detail about the problem and your setup) if the issues are not fixed. Thankyou for your patience, its really hard for us to track down stuff like this because we cannot reproduce it on any of our machines.
- Windows patch today, to solve startup crashes and text issues - 6 January 2018
Hi, we know some users have problems with the game not starting, and others (often with low spec laptops) cannot see text. We just uploaded a patch to the windows version today which should fix these issues. As usual, please let us know (with as much detail about the problem and your setup) if the issues are not fixed. Thankyou for your patience, its really hard for us to track down stuff like this because we cannot reproduce it on any of our machines.
- Updated today, hopefully all text/font/language issues now fixed (windows) - 9 December 2017
Hi, as I'm sure some of you know already, we recently released an update to the game to support Unicode text, allowing us to support some new languages such as Russian and Chinese. As a result of the new code, some players experienced problems with text rendering and fonts, making the game unplayable. We are deeply sorry for this. We set up the original (pre-Unicode) build under a beta called 'classic' which you can still access, but obviously this was no help to those of you who bought the game in the new languages such as Russian, Portuguese or Chinese. We have now (we are 95% sure) fixed this issue for everyone and uploaded a new build today which should work on all PCs, all languages. if you have in the past switched to the 'classic' beta, you might want to leave that now and re-join the main build of the game. Hue apologies to everyone who was inconvenienced by this. This has been…
- Updated today, hopefully all text/font/language issues now fixed (windows) - 9 December 2017
Hi, as I'm sure some of you know already, we recently released an update to the game to support Unicode text, allowing us to support some new languages such as Russian and Chinese. As a result of the new code, some players experienced problems with text rendering and fonts, making the game unplayable. We are deeply sorry for this. We set up the original (pre-Unicode) build under a beta called 'classic' which you can still access, but obviously this was no help to those of you who bought the game in the new languages such as Russian, Portuguese or Chinese. We have now (we are 95% sure) fixed this issue for everyone and uploaded a new build today which should work on all PCs, all languages. if you have in the past switched to the 'classic' beta, you might want to leave that now and re-join the main build of the game. Hue apologies to everyone who was inconvenienced by this. This has been…
- Updated to new unicode build 1.3 (Windows) - 14 November 2017
Hi everyone! We just updated the windows build of the game so that its now the new unicode build, which means it supports a lot more languages. The new language list is... English German Spanish French Italian Polish Portuguese Russian Chinese Soon we will have the Linux & OSX versions translated over, at which point we will simplify everything into one build, and you wont have to care what language steam is set to. Please note we do not *yet* have French translations for the DLC, but everything else is in every language! MAKE SURE you have the language pack for windows installed for the language you want to use, as the system uses the system fonts, and if they are not installed you wont see anything!
- Updated to new unicode build 1.3 (Windows) - 14 November 2017
Hi everyone! We just updated the windows build of the game so that its now the new unicode build, which means it supports a lot more languages. The new language list is... English German Spanish French Italian Polish Portuguese Russian Chinese Soon we will have the Linux & OSX versions translated over, at which point we will simplify everything into one build, and you wont have to care what language steam is set to. Please note we do not *yet* have French translations for the DLC, but everything else is in every language! MAKE SURE you have the language pack for windows installed for the language you want to use, as the system uses the system fonts, and if they are not installed you wont see anything!
- World of Tanks, Democracy, and Verdun return for War Child's Armistice 2017 - 10 November 2017
War Child's Armistice, a program that debuted last year to encourage "peaceful gameplay in support of children affected by conflict," has launched a new effort for the 2017 holiday season that includes sales, special events, and unique DLC on games including World of Tanks, Verdun, This War of Mine, and Styx: Shards of Darkness.  "We are thrilled to be working with some amazing studios for a second year and are really excited to be uniting new developers across mobile and console in what has now become an annual fundraiser for War Child UK," gaming development manager Wayne Emanuel said. "Together, we want to give players access to new content in their favorite games and for them to join us in raising vital funds and awareness of some of the challenges faced by the world’s most disadvantaged children."  This year's Armistice campaign will see the return of the…
- Developer revenue donated to charity - 6 November 2017
Hi all. As we did last year, we are commemorating remembrance day (veterans day in the US) and donating 100% of the developer revenue from this game to War Child for the next week. Democracy 3 is currently 20% off during the sale, and all our revenue goes to help children who have been affected by war. You read more about the work this charity does here: https://www.warchildarmistice.org/
- Developer revenue donated to charity - 6 November 2017
Hi all. As we did last year, we are commemorating remembrance day (veterans day in the US) and donating 100% of the developer revenue from this game to War Child for the next week. Democracy 3 is currently 20% off during the sale, and all our revenue goes to help children who have been affected by war. You read more about the work this charity does here: https://www.warchildarmistice.org/
- Democracy 3 Unicode update (beta branch) - 18 September 2017
This is cross-posted from our website dev blog at: http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2017/09/18/the-democracy-3-unicode-post-oh-yes/ Right then…here goes… A while ago, we decided that what we really needed to do was translate our biggest selling game (Democracy 3) into Chinese and Russian, and also probably some other languages too. This probably sounds easy but its not, because Chinese and Russian and other fancy languages use non-ASCII characters, so we had to translate the games engine to use unicode instead of ASCII. In theory this is easy, in practice not, especially because there are a LOT of Chinese characters, and you cant just whack em all in a phat bitmap like you do with western characters. This means a lot of assing-around which was all done by jeff from stargazy studios (of Democracy 3 Africa fame) who is my able assistant in such matters. Anyway, the ups and downs of this p…
- Democracy 3 Unicode update (beta branch) - 18 September 2017
This is cross-posted from our website dev blog at: http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2017/09/18/the-democracy-3-unicode-post-oh-yes/ Right then…here goes… A while ago, we decided that what we really needed to do was translate our biggest selling game (Democracy 3) into Chinese and Russian, and also probably some other languages too. This probably sounds easy but its not, because Chinese and Russian and other fancy languages use non-ASCII characters, so we had to translate the games engine to use unicode instead of ASCII. In theory this is easy, in practice not, especially because there are a LOT of Chinese characters, and you cant just whack em all in a phat bitmap like you do with western characters. This means a lot of assing-around which was all done by jeff from stargazy studios (of Democracy 3 Africa fame) who is my able assistant in such matters. Anyway, the ups and downs of this p…
- Daily Deal - Democracy 3, 75% Off - 6 June 2017
Today's Deal: Save 75% on Democracy 3 !* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Thursday at 10AM Pacific Time
- Donating developers revenue to War Child - 21 November 2016
Watch this video: https://youtu.be/GZnBgWd_R2g Starting Today, and running for twelve days, Positech is donating all its steam revenue from the Democracy 3 franchise to a charity called war child. Thats the full price of each game, minus steams cut. Hopefully we will raise about $20k. As gamers, we spend a lot of time (me included) shooting guns in virtual wars. Lets spare some time to consider the impact of real; life wars that are happening right now on children around the world.
- Donating developers revenue to War Child - 21 November 2016
Watch this video: https://youtu.be/GZnBgWd_R2g Starting Today, and running for twelve days, Positech is donating all its steam revenue from the Democracy 3 franchise to a charity called war child. Thats the full price of each game, minus steams cut. Hopefully we will raise about $20k. As gamers, we spend a lot of time (me included) shooting guns in virtual wars. Lets spare some time to consider the impact of real; life wars that are happening right now on children around the world.
