Art Stream

Once again, it’s time for an Art Stream! Come join us on Garrets Twitch channel on Wednesday (January 25th) at 1pm PST to chat while watching some new Parkitect art being created.

Devlog

Signs can be set to “no entry” per employee type now, so you can for example keep Entertainers from running around on your shop stock supply paths:

The blueprints browser received a list of categories to make finding what you want easier:

And deco objects can be filtered by theme:

Objects are also grouped by theme in the object list now instead of purely alphabetical so that for example all the castle walls are listed together instead of having to look for them all over the place.
This is also open for modding. Mods can add their objects to an existing theme or add entirely new themes.

Garret added the wall pieces that were missing in the spooky and brick sets:

And there are a bunch of new fun animated mechanical props:

Tim made banking tracks across the 180° mark work as you’d expect (it used to snap all the way around instead of going across 180°):

This also allows building a full 360° roll using just one segment which looks smoother than building it from two segments as before.

Surprise! Alpha 9 is here a week earlier than usual! The full change log is at the end of this post.

Holidays

The reason is that after working non-stop since early 2014 we’re taking a two week holiday break to recharge and think about other things than theme parks for a bit :)
We’ll be back in the second week of January 2017. Hope you all have nice holidays! :)

Devlog

Luuk added adjustable coaster lift speeds:

Tim added a bunch of scenario goals:

They can be set up in the scenario editor with customizable settings and rewards:

Experimental performance improvements

We’ve got some pretty big performance improvements coming up for multi-core systems when lots of objects are on screen. It especially helps when zooming all the way out in very detailed parks, but should also improve performance overall to a smaller degree. In our tests we’ve seen CPU load improvements of up to 35%.

Before turning them on for everyone we would like to do some more testing though! We have created a Steam beta branch for this. If you want to give it a try, right-click on Parkitect in your Steam library, then select Properties, go to the Betas tab and select “Experimental”.

Savegames are compatible between the regular and this experimental version, so you can give it a try without any risk. If you do please let us know your results!

Changelog

- added Mine Train Coaster
- added Turbine
- added Market Research
- added scenario goals
- added sorting attraction/shop list by various properties
- added adjustable chain lift speed
- employees only work on tasks outside their assigned zone if there’s nothing left to do in their zone
- less blurry shadows
- fixed Ferris Wheel being a sadness factory
- fixed all kinds of problems with wooden supports
- fixed problems with building tracked ride blueprints near park border
- fixed lag if loading a new savegame while the game is paused

It’s been a pretty exhausting week, but we got a good amount of stuff done :)
Here’s a new flat ride, the Turbine:

It might look like a fairly simple ride, but the physics behind the swinging gondolas took a while to get right.

And there’s a new tracked ride, the Mine Train Coaster:

The wooden supports that are also used on the Wooden Coaster were a bit messy and had some problems, so we’re cleaning them up a bit now that another ride uses them.