Once you've got useable materials ready, your factories take over to take one or more of these and put them together to form some sort of product from furniture to electronics to sunscreen. You'll then need to sell this to the public by placing shopping centers in the metropolitan areas of the map. Then, every month, the stores will sell as much as the city can support, giving you your hard earned money so that you can expand your commercial empire. Sure, it sounds simple enough, but you have to worry about some other things as well, the biggest of which is shipping. The materials and finished products don't magically transport themselves from building to building. Your infrastructure will have to consist of a bunch of warehouse dumps for your products to sit that are in a certain range of your factories and transportation. Transport comes in the form of trucks, trains, boats and planes depending on the decade your game is in. For trains and trucks you'll have to have a starting and ending point for the route along with tracks or roads to travel across. Planning all of these things out can be interesting and more than a little expensive, so you'll want to make sure you have enough money in the bank to get the whole thing rolling. You'll probably spend a considerably longer amount of time planning out your transport routes than actually playing around with your business. Planning is definitely the key to this game.

Making a small mistake can cost you the game early on. What's wrong with including an undo button? If there was an undo button, then I can't find it.

Industry giant 2 maps