Hi everyone!

This is SONKA , developers of Farm Tycoon, a tycoon/manager game tailored specifically for Nintendo Switch. You might know us from developing Astro Bears, publishing The Way Remastered, porting Duke Nukem 3D and a couple of other projects. :) If you want, feel free to ask us about them, too!

As of our future, we're working hard on Astro Bears 2 (oh boy, that's going to be a whole different game!) and Holstin (pixel art survival horror set in 90s Poland).

Farm Tycoon is a Farm Manager 2018/21 game you might know from Steam, completely remade for consoles (with Switch as a primary platform, though we're working on PS and Xbox ports right now). All the graphics, inputs, interfaces and a lot of other unseen things were created to make the console experience as good and intuitive as possible without sacrificing the core of the game, a deep farm-themed manager.

A big part of Farm Tycoon is found in our (used for the first time in this game) 2XD Rendering technology. The game is actually "2D", but with per-pixel sorting, real-time shadows and rotatable camera. As far as we know, it's the most advanced use of pre-renders in gamedev right now. And - it's a little subjective, but I think it's the best looking game of the genre on the Switch, with stable performance.

People that will be responding to your questions:

• /u/rsankowski - SONKA CEO, Farm Tycoon producer
• /u/moniewski - SONKA COO, Farm Tycoon tech artist / head of 2XD Rendering
• /u/asylation - programmer at SONKA, main programmer of 2XD Rendering

A (sponsored!) thorough video overview of the game by SwitchPlanet: link to video!

Ok! Thank you all for asking questions or reading them! We're officially ending the AMA, but don't hesitate to ask any questions if you're reading this. :) Pozdro!