electrobillion: Next century's electric phenomenon!

It's the year 2100, the world is recovering from a catastrophic climate change event, and the situation is slowly normalising. It's now your job to re-establish the power infrastructure of this remote settlement.

Build the power grid, set up electricity production facilities, wire it all together, get paid, and expand the city's economy.

Features

A simulation of the power infrastructure designed to be educational and realistic at the same time.

A city that automatically grows as you feed it more power.

A variety of challenges to keep the city growing and the grid humming.

Upcoming: A constant battle against the forces of nature and your own pollution.

Upcoming: A grand simulation of the economic factors hindering your path to profits: Government policies, fluctuating market prices for fuel and resources, chaotic weather events.

Guide

Step 1: Produce electricity

As you first start the game, the city will spontaneously sprout some roads and decorate it with Houses.

1. Open the Build (B) menu and pick your Headquarters and place it somewhere nice and central.

After you place your headquarters, select the Substation and move it around. You'll see that it will send out conduits when it's placed.

2. Find a nice place that's not too expensive (check the Land and Construction costs in the preview), but with good conduit coverage, and place down your first Substation.

Now, let's get some Batteries and a Solar Panel to bootstrap the grid. You can see that all the houses are now gray, they will glow as you feed them with power.

3. Not far from your substation, place down two batteries and a solar panel. If you placed your substation right at the heart of the city, the land might be a bit expensive, but you should have enough money.

If all went well, the houses should be sparkling like a bunch of fireflies!

Step 2: Expand the network

The next substation you place has vital importance (you can undo your placement with the Deconstruct tool)!

Substations only connect when they are aligned horizontally or vertically with one another, when they are connected, you will see the transmission lines wiring them together.

4. Pick an area to expand to, and put down your next substation so that it connects with the first one.

Tip! You may also put your first substation away from the city where land is cheaper. Expanding the infrastructure into a Commercial Zone is not the smartest choice. Your involvement inside the city boundaries should be limited to transmission, with the production and storage resting outside.

Step 3: Grow the city

The city will grow as you place substations at its perimeter. You can roughly guide the city's growth this way. Try to steer it into open space for maximum growth potential. Complete the missions for higher and higher populations, embrace the electro-chaotic waves of supply and demand!

Hotkeys

Select/Build: Left-click
Zoom In/Out: + and −
Camera: W A S D or Shift + Mouse drag or Hold right-click
Delete: 0
Pipette Select: Q
Tab: Switch to Select and back

Inbox: V
Build: B or choose 1-9

Speed: Shift + 1 to 3
Pause: Spacebar

Show/Hide Particles: P
Show/Hide Grid: G
Show/Hide City Zoning: Z

FAQ

Q: I'm losing money!
A: It costs money to produce electricity. In this version, so as long as you are not severely overproducing, you should be at least breaking even.

Q: My substations are not getting electricity!
A: Substations must be either directly connected via transmission lines, or indirectly routed by Pylons to be unified. Otherwise, electricity you produce in one area will not be transmitted via conduits.

Q: I finished all the missions, what now?
A: Wishlist the game on Steam and drop a comment below!

Q: I can't find my question here!?
A: Ask in the Discord server or the comments below, and I'll get right back to you.