Update 51

We added a mode that visualizes guests happiness:

It helps with spotting unhappy guests so you can check what complaints they might have. Or maybe you want to pick just the happy guests to get some praise for the amazing park you built ;)

It also helps us with debugging and balancing, actually, since we can more easily see ourselves now how guests react.
And it looks pretty cool.

And of course we added the Suspended Coaster that Garret modeled during his art stream this week:

Watching it swing around the corners is quite fun!

The above screenshot also demonstrates that tracks and some other things received a slightly more metallic look.

If you missed this months live streams we now got the time lapse videos for you! Here’s the Teacups:

And the Suspended Coaster:

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Update 50

Art Stream

Hey, there’s a second art stream happening this month! As usual: on Wednesday, Garret creates some nice new Parkitect art live on his Twitch channel. We’re starting one hour earlier this time though - 12pm to 2pm.

Devlog

This week, we worked on hedges and fences.

You build them similarly to paths using click & drag:

They automatically snap to the closest tile edge.

At first we tried implementing them tile-based, like we did with the park fences, so there’d be one model for a flat fence, and one model for a sloped fence, and it’d place the correct one and rotate it depending on the terrain elevation. However, with hedges it quickly became clear that this wasn’t the best approach, since they need to follow the terrain shape pretty closely to look good, and we would have needed to create and manage quite a bunch of different tiles.

So in the end what we did instead is to have just one single flat hedge/fence model and warp that to match the terrain shape.

We got a nice selection of hedges/fences now, and adding more is pretty simple.

(The hedges are custom-colored by the way, just like the trees)

We also added these topiaries. They can be build off-grid, but sometimes you want to build them on-grid, for example when placing one precisely next to a hedge. We made it so you can hold a button to snap them to a grid:

You can build some nice gardens now :)

And we improved last weeks zone visualization to more clearly show the boundaries:

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Update 49

The plan for this month is to focus on putting more content into the game, ideally making use of the features that we already have.

Here’s the Teacups ride from this weeks livestream (timelapse coming soon):

And we started working on different terrain types!

(We finally fixed that gap in the path between the ride platform and entrance/exit :D)

No transitions between different types of terrain yet, but we’ve got a rough idea how it might work.

Also started working on a zoning tool:

You can utilize it as a sort of planning tool, apart from that it doesn’t have much use yet.

Garret also made a set of new scenery objects that are not in the game yet. Hopefully they will be soon!

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Update 48

Art Stream

Garret is going to stream some art again! Come join us Wednesday from 1pm-3pm PST on his Twitch channel to chat while watching some new art being created.

Devlog

A good amount of time this week has been spent on calculating a bunch of statistical numbers for tracked rides. They’ll be used for determining how much guests enjoyed your ride. The balancing is still entirely off and it’ll most likely take lots of tweaking over a long amount of time to get it right, but it’s a start.

Gordon delivered the first set of sound effects for flat rides this week! Each ride got at least 3 unique sounds, so Gordon won’t run out of work soon and getting them into the game takes some time as well, but there are finally some motors, pneumatics and metallic clicks and creaks to hear.

And we’ve added a Topple Tower ride:

It’s pretty big and slightly weird, but also quite interesting :)

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