Alpha 14 is now available for download! The full change log is at the end of this post.

As previously mentioned we’ll be on our theme park tour now. The devlog will return to its usual schedule around the June 10th weekend. See you then!

Devlog

Garret added some nice new objects that I’m sure some of you will be very happy about:

Tim added notifications for some global park problems. They are supposed to help new players.

Luuk extracted some more information from blueprint files to show them in the UI:

Changelog

- added Flying Coaster
- added glass walls, cacti, stone walls, fountain jet
- added wooden supports adapt to terrain changes
- added employee list to zone info window
- added sorting employees by zone
- added shops can get dirty
- added buttons for calling mechanics/janitors for unscheduled maintenance/cleaning
- added notifications for global problems of the park (tired guests, shops out of stock etc)
- added displaying some more information about a blueprints content
- added subtle texture to most things
- added recolorable ride entrance booths
- improved camera when building tracks
- improved balance of tracked ride costs
- improved performance when moving blueprint build preview over occupied locations
- improved finance overview
- enabled Steam Cloud support for all Steam users
- fixed Ghost Mansion Ride having wrong intensity ratings
- fixed wrong orientation of Calm River Ride boats on slopes
- fixed cases where rides derailed when building them from a blueprint
- fixed object pipette hotkey not working properly while deco window is minimized
- fixed garbage not being cleaned up after loading savegame
- fixed a very rare case where guests could randomly drown

Hey!

Our development schedule is slightly different than usual this month, which means there’ll be less interesting things to show on the devlog.

Garret, Luuk, Tim and I are going to meet each other at the end of the month, and, being a team working on a theme park game, it only makes sense to go and check out some parks on that occasion :)
We’ll be traveling around for a while to check out Europa Park (Germany), Phantasialand (Germany) and Efteling (Netherlands) for research (…and fun, alright). Exciting!

Since nobody will be around to patch things in case something gets horribly broken we’ll limit this months game update to smaller changes, polishing and fixes, and that pretty much already summarizes the majority of what we’ve done during the past week :)
There are also some bigger tasks being worked on in parallel that should go into the June game update, but more on that once the time has come.

Alpha 13 is now available for download! The full change log is at the end of this post.
Steam Cloud support is currently only available on the Experimental branch to make sure it’s all working as expected before we release it to everyone. If you want to give it a try, right-click Parkitect in the Steam library and select Properties -> Betas -> Experimental.

Devlog

There’s a new tool available in the scenario editor for marking objects as indestructible:

This can be useful for custom-built structures such as park entrance buildings, but can also be used for creating scenarios with some unique restrictions.

Changelog

- added Submarines ride
- added Calm River Ride
- added random events
- added Steam Cloud support (on Experimental branch)
- added brush tool for changing existing path types
- added guests stop and watch rides
- added bamboo path objects
- added terrain textures
- added closing shops
- added hold Alt to change terrain painting mode
- added hotkey for pipette tool (“P”)
- added countdown timer for fulfilling scenario goals
- added objects can be marked as indestructible in scenario editor
- improved behaviour of water when terraforming near it
- improved performance when hiding scenery some more
- improved path dragging to better work on uneven terrain
- improved behaviour when quicksaving a new park
- improved how scenario goal rewards work
- improved balance of flat ride costs and capacities
- fixed issue with Inverted Double Swing seats
- fixed a case where Transformer was in wrong animation position after loading savegame
- fixed grasses showing across tunnels through vertical terrain cliffs
- fixed vandalism visualization not being applied properly to some objects
- fixed walls sometimes getting misplaced when building next to sloped terrain
- fixed a rare case where the camera would freak out when switching into top-down view (“M”)
- fixed high wage costs when starting a new scenario
- fixed an error message when adjusting UI scale