Alpha 18 is now available for download! The full change log is at the end of this post.

Devlog

Over the past week I’ve tweaked a lot how guests decide on which ride to go, and as a result you should be seeing way more guests queueing for a bigger variety of rides. As a result it‘s probably way too easy now to make a ton of money, so I’ll keep an eye on that during October.

Experimental branch

We’ve got a new experimental version available on Steam. If some of you could help testing it that’d be very appreciated :)
You can opt into it by right-clicking Parkitect in your library list and selecting Properties -> Betas -> Experimental.

This experimental version is identical to the normal Alpha 18 but uses an updated version of Unity (the game engine we’re using) and we’d like to make sure it’s working properly before releasing it for everyone.

Changelog

- added new slope options for coaster tracks
- added science fiction building pieces and props
- added build challenges
- improvements for connecting track pieces with different banking angles
- tweaked how guests decide which rides to use
- tweaked how guests decide when to leave the park
- adjusted flat ride balance
- fixed track banking transitions not being as smooth as they’re supposed to in some situations
- fixed an error that could break the advertising UI
- fixed water tool not working as expected on vertical cliffs

Concept Art Stream

That’s right, concept art! Fabrice will be doing a Stream where he’ll draw designs for new props. If you want to help him come up with ideas or just watch and chat, join us Monday 18th at 9am PDT on Twitch.

Devlog

Garret and Fabrice have been working on building pieces for the science fiction theme. This was the concept:

And here are the finished pieces:

If you’ve been playing Parkitect for a while you might remember the ParkitectNexus build challenges, where we challenged you to build a ride within certain restrictions and the best entries got included as blueprints into the game. We’re bringing that back, but this time as a proper feature using the Steam Workshop!

Starting with Alpha 18 we’ll have a section on the starting screen where you can browse and vote on submissions for the currently running challenge.

If you want to submit your own entry that’s really easy too: simply hit the “Participate” button and a special Challenge park opens with a designated building area.

Once you’re done, hit “Submit” and your entry gets included in the voting.

I’ve been working on transition pieces from one slope angle to another for the majority of last week:

This has been one of the most requested features for a long time, so I’m glad to have made some progress with it. I still need to do a lot more testing since there are so many combinations of pieces, so there’s still some risk of finding some broken cases. So far it seems to be working fine.