Hi everyone!
This is SONKA , developers of [Farm Tycoon](https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/farm-tycoon-switch/), 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)](https://www.reddit.com/r/PixelArt/comments/s1hvah/realtime_lighting_and_shadows_in_our_upcoming/).
**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!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF4kA1Fz2EA)
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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!