Gordon bought a morin khuur a few months ago and has been practising it since, and now he’s finished his first song with it:

It’s a bit unusual, but we’ll find a good use for it :)

Tim keeps working on scenario features and has added a time constraint for goal completion:

With this setting, all goals need to be kept complete for the given amount of time before the scenario is won. If any of the goal conditions isn’t met anymore the timer resets.

And we’ve added another water ride, the Calm River Ride. It’s a low-intensity ride where boats float along a water channel and you can see on the right hand side here:

Alpha 12 is now available for download! The full change log is at the end of this post.
There have been some bigger changes under the hood, so please let us know if you encounter any problems.
Note that support for DirectX 9 has been dropped with this update so if you have any trouble running Alpha 12 please make sure your graphics drivers are up to date / check for DirectX updates through Windows Update first.

Devlog

We’ve added the Inverted Double Swing ride from this weeks Art Stream. It’s a pretty interesting looking ride with a fairly small footprint, and it turned out quite nice:

When possible we try to use recordings of real ride sounds, so the audio team went to a nearby Go-karts track this week for a recording (and racing) session.
Look forward to hearing the results of that in the future :)

Changelog

- added Inverted Double Swing
- added Robot entertainer
- added Steam stats
- added zoom to cursor
- changed raising terrain/rides/buildings to 0.5 units from 1 (for new parks/scenarios)
- improved terrain texturing
- improved overall performance in busy parks
- improved performance when hiding scenery
- continued UI overhaul
- terrain generator improvements
- balance adjustments
- fixed performance issues when selecting large amounts of terrain
- fixed error message when switching into underground mode when it’s raining while there’s water on screen
- fixed staff could sometimes take a long time to return to their assigned zone
- fixed setting car rotation for Ghost Mansion Ride/Inverted Dark Ride not working
- fixed a case where trains would not have the correct colors
- fixed goals sometimes already being completed in custom scenarios
- fixed not being able to click through hidden attractions
- fixed a case where track was properly aligned but still didn’t connect
- fixed hydraulic launch section sometimes stopping trains abruptly, resulting in wrong ride stats
- fixed hydraulic launch section launching train while block isn’t clear

Art Stream

March went past way too fast, but on the positive side that means it’s time for another Art Stream!
Come join us on Garrets Twitch channel on Wednesday (March 29th) at 1pm PST to chat while watching some new Parkitect art being created.

Devlog

This week has mostly been maintenance, fixing bugs and making sure all the terrain changes don’t break the existing terraforming tools/terrain generator/old parks.
One change worth mentioning is a performance improvement for off-screen guests. In some especially crowded parks we’ve seen CPU usage reductions of up to 50% with that :)

Garret added something cool though: a new Robot entertainer :)