We’re back to working on the campaign again, so you know what that means - not too much to show right now :)
We made some good progress on figuring out and implementing how scenarios are going to be unlocked this week.

Since this would be a very short devlog update otherwise, let’s talk some more about the campaign, and first of all who’s working on it.
We’re extremely lucky to have two very talented builders from the community working on scenarios for the campaign: Silvarret and Joshua Tjarks. You have probably seen some of their work already, and so you’ll know that they are great park designers and very passionate about theme park games :)
Our main goal for the campaign is to make every scenario feel different in some way - especially of course by giving scenarios unique settings, but also by varying the starting conditions and goals and having a nice difficulty progression.
These two have been busy for 6-8 months now and they came up with so many ideas that in the end the campaign grew a bit bigger than we originally expected…

As a sneak peak to give you an idea what to expect, here’s a quick look at one of the scenarios - Coaster Canyon by Silvarret:

As a slightly easier scenario this park has lots of flat space for building huge coasters, and there’s also some space at the top of the canyon as an interesting option!

Building on a blank canvas can be difficult, so most maps come with some small pre-built structures to set the mood and hopefully provide you with inspiration for your own additions! We can’t wait to see what you’ll come up with :)

Art Stream

Come join us on Garrets Twitch channel on Wednesday (April 25th) at 1pm PDT to chat while watching some new Parkitect art being created.

Devlog

The control hint box was redesigned. Hopefully more people will actually notice and read it now :D

Gabby made new pine trees:

The object pipette is being improved to start building at the same height and rotation as the object that’s being copied. It also shows the name of the hovered object and the deco window jumps to the category and position of whatever you’re copying.

Janitors and Mechanics received customization options for controlling which tasks they should work on:

This can be quite useful for example if you want to have a few janitors who should only clean paths without getting distracted by anything else.

As planned, we’re working more on the campaign now and so everything else that’s getting done is mostly polishing.
The path builder got some small improvements, the most important one being that it doesn’t move the “cursor” anymore if a path can’t be built for some reason (for example because of the location being blocked).

Previously it would continue moving no matter what, so in this example you’d continue building paths on the other site of the shop. That seemed like a useful behaviour in some situations but really wasn’t. It confused people and when they tried to “undo” their paths it confused them even more, because using the bulldozer button would not move the cursor back through the blocked location.

Transport system pipes automatically snap to the correct height now when hovering existing pipes (just like paths already did). These things can be a bit annoying to build and there are still a few things we should do to improve that, but this is a good first step.

The terraforming tool was notoriously destructive when terraforming near vertical cliffs with the smoothen feature enabled. It was improved to preserve vertical cliffs, which creates far less unpredictable huge terrain changes that are hard to clean up.

Water is one of the things where I can make a dozen tiny changes without ever being entirely satisfied, and so it has been changed once agan.

And finally, the flat ride lights have customizable colors now. An option to disable the lights has been added as well.