Pre-Alpha 8 is now available for download!

Grab it from the download link that you received back when you purchased the game.
Use the key resender if you lost your download link.

The full change log is at the end of this post.

Devlog

If you’ve used any Parkitect mods (such as the ones seen in the screenshot above) then you’ve probably used the great scenery sets by Kenney, so we’re very happy to say that Kenney is now supporting us with creating official scenery sets for the game :D

A lot of time this week was spent on figuring out standards to make sure that pieces from different sets and themes work together as good as possible and follow the same style. The first results are this generic set from Kenney that should work with about every theme:

And Garret made a set of spooky walls during the Art Stream this week:

And we finally added the Spiral Slide ride that Garret made during a Stream a while back:

Pre-Alpha 8 Changelog

- added Staff Room
- added Ghost Mansion Ride
- added Spiral Slide
- added generic and spooky walls
- added setting to flat rides for controlling how many rounds they go
- added “see through scenery” toggle
- added connecting to ride entrances/exits from the sides
- added color filters to graphics settings menu
- added TV deco objects
- added ride repair animation
- added log flume water flow animation
- added delivery crate stickers
- added fast object deletion: right-click an object, then drag the mouse around to only delete objects from the same category
- added recoloring multiple objects by click-dragging with the brush tool
- changed castle walls to be recolorable
- a bunch of game balance adjustments
- made path styles moddable
- fixed not being able to right-click-delete queues sometimes
- fixed custom colors of entrance tile not updating when recoloring queue
- fixed a case where guests stepped onto employee paths (possibly ride platforms too?)
- fixed Janitors not cleaning up if you dropped them on a pile of trash
- fixed bad path cursor positioning when right-click-deleting paths
- fixed delivery crates of removed shops staying around forever (get reused now if needed)
- fixed not being able to initiate angle slider drag by clicking anywhere on the circle
- fixed terraforming tools stopping to work when switching between tabs
- fixed guests occasionally leaving train before it’s fully inside station

Garret spent a lot of time this week on money balance. As usual with balance it’s nothing final, but you can actually build some profitable parks now. Feels better and is a good first step towards a working economy :)

There’s been a suggestion over on our subreddit recently to allow connecting paths to the ride entrance/exit from the sides instead of just from the front that gained a lot of support, and we were able to make it happen:

And we added a toggle for looking through scenery:

Scenery can’t be clicked in this mode, so this allows to access shops, rides, paths or whatever else was hidden behind scenery, and you won’t accidentally delete it.

Community Update

You might remember H-POPS as the guy who added the first custom flat ride to Parkitect a while ago. He’s been very busy since with creating a fantastic looking modding tool that allows bringing custom objects into the game without requiring any code. It also has some other helpful features like setting up collisions on objects, which has been tricky to do for mods so far.

And most of all it has really great tools for animating rides with just a couple of mouse clicks:

It’s making use of the games code for ride animations, so ride animations created with this are able to perfectly match the feeling of our own rides.
We also gave him some of our internal tools for integration into his modding tool.
This is not available yet, but it looks like it’s progressing nicely :)

Luuk Holleman from ParkitectNexus released a nice Billboards mod recently:

These billboards can show your own images, and it even stores them in the savegame, so you can easily share them with other users of this mod!

It’s been a very busy week for us!

Pre-Alpha 7a was released earlier this week with a couple of good fixes, so you should get that if you haven’t already. Pre-Alpha 7 introduced a few issues on some Mac and Linux systems, but we’ll have to wait for Unity to resolve those.

We added some decorative TV screens to the game that show a slide show of your park:

Delivery crates received stickers showing their contents:

There’s a new animation for the mechanic, so you can actually see him fixing the ride now instead of magically making it work again:

And most flat rides received a setting for adjusting how many rounds they go: