Colony flags

Every colony flies a flag beside its first solar array. The game ships with five; the rest come from you.

Get flags made by other players

• Open the game's Steam Workshop page and hit Subscribe on any flag you like.
• In the game, open the menu (☰), go to Settings, and pick it from the flag selector. Steam downloads subscriptions automatically.

Make your own

A flag is a folder containing a 24x16 pixel PNG named flag.png, plus an optional flag.json with a display name:

my-flag/
  flag.png          24x16 pixels; transparency is fine
  flag.json         optional: {"name": "Dawn Banner", "description": "First light."}

Drop that folder into the game's local flags directory:

%APPDATA%\Godot\app_userdata\Taskbar Colony\flags\my-flag\

Restart the game (or reopen Settings) and your flag appears in the selector, marked as local. The flag waves in game, drawn in four vertical slices, so keep the important detail near the middle and expect the edges to ripple.

Publish to the Workshop

With Steam running, publish your flag folder from a command prompt (the game installs under your Steam library's steamapps\common\Taskbar Colony):

TaskbarColony.exe -- --publish-flag "C:\path\to\my-flag"

The item is created on your Steam account and opens as private; flip it to public on its Workshop page when you are happy with it. Updating works the same way: run the command again from the same folder.

House rules

• Only publish art you have the rights to.
• Flags must follow the Steam community guidelines; 24x16 pixels is plenty of room to be clever, and not enough to hide anything worth removing. Flags that break the rules get removed.

Questions

[email protected] or the game's Steam discussions.