Art Stream

Next week is the last Wednesday of the month once again, and that means it’s time for another Art Stream! Join us on Garrets Twitch channel at 2pm PST to chat while watching some new Parkitect art being created.

Devlog

We’re all very busy currently, working on many different parts of the game at once and it feels like we’re getting lots of good stuff done. It’s exhausting, but that’s alright :)

We finally found a look for flowing water that we’re satisfied with:

The object deletion tool was improved to allow deleting stuff much faster, which is mostly useful for scenery. Simply hold and drag the mouse around after right-clicking an object to only delete objects of the same type/from the same category:

And we added the first park utility building, the Staff Room:

For now it’s simply a place for staff to take a break so they don’t have to hang out on benches with the park guests.

And another first: we added the first dark ride, the Ghost Mansion Ride!

It’s a slow ride with self-powered trains.

The cars can rotate into any direction as defined by the track designer:

Similar to brake segments the segment length influences the rotation speed, so you’ve got a bit of control over that. For example here’s a rotation on a short segment:

And the same rotation on a longer segment:

This ride is more limited in its build options compared to big coasters with their loops and whatnot, but having this rotation option makes it still interesting. Pretty happy with it overall :)

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:

Hey! It’s been a short month for us due to Pre-Alpha 6 being a week late, but here’s Pre-Alpha 7 anyways!
As usual, 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

Garret created a new Star Shape ride during the last art stream (which you can still watch here), and here it is done and in the game:

I’m really happy with how the animation turned out, especially with these physics-driven seat beams. I was also more careful with taking measurements for rotation speeds etc. from footage of real versions of this ride instead of eyeballing it (although my estimates weren’t too far off). I should go back and do the same for some older rides.

Pre-Alpha 7 Changelog:

- added Star Shape ride
- added deco builder categories
- added Ambient Occlusion (can be disabled in graphics settings)
- added some new deco objects, stone bench, new dirt path platforms
- added visualizations for the remaining person stat values
- added some more people outfits, hairstyles & hair color variation
- reduced people walking in circles on wide paths
- improved builder window loading times
- overall performance improvements
- fixed workmen dropping crates when loading savegame
- Linux: fixed decimal number input fields not working properly with a non-english locale
- Windows 10: fixed empty coaster/transport ride tabs when installing the game to C:/Program Files