We remade the settings screen:

Apart from looking nicer there’s now a proper way to rebind keys and we’re adding a bunch of new hotkeys. This is also open to modding, so mods can make their controls configurable through this and register their own hotkeys.
The Graphics tab gained options for changing the resolution, which means we can finally disable Unitys default configuration launcher that opened before the game.

Guests now properly head for certain parts of the park even if they don’t own a map, but less frequently than if they have one.

Fences can be raised now (and there’s a new one), rocks received some coloring options, and we added some missing roof pieces:

(Couldn’t think of a proper building to showcase these, heh)

Flat rides can use the “spooky” platform fences that were only used by the Haunted House so far, or you can disable them entirely for easier theming:

We also changed the approach how we’re calculating the excitement rating of tracked rides since the old one didn’t work for dark rides like the Ghost Mansion Ride. We did a balancing pass that should result in some more diversified and fair excitement ratings, but as usual with balancing we’ll see how that works out once everyone gets to play with it.

Pre-Alpha 8 was released on Monday, so we took some time this week to watch people play to see what common problems they encountered and to find the areas that we need to improve most. The time right after a release is also great for fixing long-standing issues and improving old code, because if I break something now we’ve got a couple weeks left until the next release to notice it (on the contrary, doing bigger changes a couple days before release is always a bit scary).

We also worked on giving our website a makeover. Almost done! Won’t go online for a couple weeks though :)

We added a tilt-shift effect (blur near the top and bottom of the screen to make everything look more like a miniature):

It is disabled by default, but if you want to take some nice screenshots or record videos or even play with it there’s an option for it.

 And we added the Tourbillon ride:

It looks a bit like something out of a science fiction movie, but it is a real ride currently in development. The movement pattern in the game is randomized.

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