The main menu screen (the one you get immediately after starting the game) was always meant to be temporary, and we’ve been working on its replacement this week. Initial work to figure out what it will be like started a year ago actually, but over the past few weeks a lot more time went into it and it’s really coming together now.

I also started working on the credits, so you can probably tell that we keep inching towards leaving Early Access. Still so much left to do though that there is no date in sight yet, but one step closer!

Beta 8 is now available for download! The full change log is at the end of this post.

Devlog

We got two new rides this month:

The Hyper Coaster is a high-capacity coaster capable of 60m+ drops. It can’t invert, so it’s all about speed and airtime!

The Plane Carousel is a nice calm ride that slowly spins around a central axis like a carousel, but guests have control over the up/down movement of the planes.

Changelog

- added Hyper Coaster
- added Plane Carousel
- added some new fences
- added deco score graph to market research
- added deco score scenario goal
- added inner glass roof corners
- added new sound effects
- added lowest transparency setting when hiding objects hides them completely
- changed research so you can research calm rides/thrill rides etc. instead of flat rides/coasters
- improved queue building to not remove path attachments when dragging in parallel to paths
- improved wooden supports
- improved decision making for when to enable underground view when placing ride blueprints
- made it easier to see which parts of an object are below/above ground when building
- some UI improvements
- lots of small game balance improvements, most notably:
 * improved popularity of calm rides
 * increased overall guest count again
 * changed guest spawn speed
 * changed advertisement effectiveness
 * reduced park advertisement cost
 * increased toilet capacity
 * guests get annoyed by trash less quickly
 * slightly reduced vandalism
 * adjusted research times
 * slightly increased guest money
 * adjusted how long guests stay at the park
 * guests leave earlier if they run out of money
 * adjusted flat ride intensity ratings
 * increased tracked ride maintenance costs
- fixed guests not using newly bought umbrellas
- fixed parts of concrete walls not being recolorable
- fixed camera not following guests when they are on rides
- fixed a case where Twister wouldn’t stop when it should
- fixed guests disappearing when deleting benches/rides
- fixed path builder switching into underground mode on sloped terrain
- fixed remove button in path builder sometimes not working as intended
- fixed a case where guests could immediately leave the park instead of staying for a while
- fixed a case where trash could get stuck on trash bins and never disappear
- fixed research unlock rewards for completing scenario goals sometimes not getting awarded
- fixed goal rewards being awarded a second time after completing all goals
- fixed an error when subscribing to mods
- fixed objects built below wooden supports being hard to click
- fixed a case where scenario editor UI would stop working
- fixed a case where guests could not despawn
- fixed guests naming the wrong intensity when complaining about no rides of a certain intensity being around
- (hopefully) fixed not being able to build track segments sometimes due to location being occupied

Art Stream

Come join us on Garrets Twitch channel on Wednesday (June 27th) at 1pm PDT to chat while watching some new Parkitect art being created.

Devlog

We are currently doing our first full playthrough of all campaign levels to see if they are beatable and fun and making the necessary changes to improve them. It’s going really well and we made good progress, so the first third of the campaign scenarios are pretty much finalized :)

We’re also improving all the tiny things we’re noticing that feel off during this playtest, so in the past week alone we made ~70 small balance changes and fixes. These will release with Beta 8 next week.

And since this is Devlog 200, here’s a sneak peek at another one of the campaign scenarios - this is Broadmoor Beach by Joshua:

Fitting coasters into this long and narrow strip of land along a beach can be very challenging. Most of the pre-built blueprints are probably not going to fit in there, so you’ll definitely have to come up with some custom coaster designs to beat this one!