Version 1.4

Half a year ago Parkitect 1.0 has been released, which seems like a milestone worthy of a small update!

Todays free update adds the following:

Knight costume for Entertainer
A fitting costume for the medieval deco theme

Photo Spots
Encourage your guests with these new path objects to marvel at your scenery and take a photo of especially beautiful places

Boat Dark Ride
A pretty high-capacity gentle water ride where guests ride in boats through nicely themed scenery. The boats have no restraints so this ride is only capable of very small drops.

Flat ride modding support
Thanks to contributions by Michael P the Parkitect Asset Editor allows modders to create completely custom flat rides now, such as this Barrel Dance ride by p.marcell

In other news, due to Garret being located in Canada and me in Germany we’re forced to work remotely which is working fine, but I had grown a bit tired of working from home every day for the past five years of Parkitect development. So over the last few months I’ve been busy with setting up a proper small office and we’ve hired a second full-time programmer.
Thanks to your support Parkitect has done really well and is continuing to do so, which allowed us to do this. We’re all set up now to continue supporting Parkitect and new projects eventually and can’t wait to pick up work at the new place in about three weeks :)

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Version 1.3

Version 1.3 is available now! It mostly fixes some annoyances, for example the default window spawn positions have been improved to not be in the center of the screen anymore (i.e., the place you want to work on and most likely don’t want to have obstructed by windows…)

Since the game remembers where you dragged the windows to you will only really notice this on a fresh install. It has been annoying many new players though, so it’s good to have that improved.

We also overhauled the Build Challenge voting UI. The old UI always gave an advantage to entries that were submitted early. It showed the highest-rated entries first, so if you submitted a good entry very early it was likely to get to the top of the list and as a result receive even more votes and stay at the top, whereas entries that were submitted after a few days oftentimes got buried and received very few votes. This has gotten more extreme after the 1.0 launch since there are more players now.
The new voting UI looks like this:

  • it only highlights one entry at a time, giving you a better view of the build
  • voting or waiting for a few seconds switches to the next entry
  • the order of entries is somewhat randomized but entries with fewer votes have a higher chance of being shown first, so overall everyones submissions should receive roughly the same amount of visibility, even if you submit quite late
  • the actual ranking at any point can still be seen on the Workshop

It’s entirely possible that this will need some further tweaks of course, but let’s see how it goes :)

Changelog

- added new Build Challenge voting system
- added a highlight to the transport system connectors of the Deliveries Building/Depot/Trash Chute when in transport system build mode
- added lower camera sensitivity options
- some campaign balance adjustments
- updated Korean translation
- improved which shop gets researched if scenario starts without a food/drink shop
- improved default window spawn locations to obstruct the view less (for newly installed game)
- improved Korean font support
- fixed guests sometimes ignoring certain food/drink shops when hungry/thirsty
- fixed being able to delete things in the tutorial when you’re not supposed to
- fixed clicking notification for drowned guests moving the camera way off-screen
- fixed rides that were pretty much fully covered still stopping during thunderstorms
- fixed some sounds not playing while game is paused
- fixed a case where background music could play twice
- fixed being able to delete prebuilt scenery on land with support rights (e.g. road in Highway Hijinks scenario)
- fixed market research ride intensity preferences graph being quite inaccurate
- fixed being unable to delete/select particle effects after reloading a park
- fixed rides with a queue length of 1 tile being unpopular
- fixed “hold to win” countdown resetting when reloading savegame
- fixed mods not being loaded when creating a new scenario
- fixed bad starting loans in default sandbox scenarios

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Korean + Dutch, Soundtrack

Parkitect has an official Korean translation now, and the Dutch translation received a complete overhaul.

The game is by far the most popular in Germany, the US and Korea currently, so we hope the addition of a Korean translation and Korean font support will make the game more comfortable to play.
Parkitect also always had a large amount of players from the Netherlands since the beginning. The Dutch translation had become very incomplete over the years, so it was time for an update :)

We know there are still some very common languages missing, and of course we will continue adding support for more languages over the coming weeks and months.

Soundtrack

We had some requests to make the soundtrack available as separate download, so if you want to listen to the games music outside of the game you can do so now.
It is now available on Steam.

If you have backed our Kickstarter at the Soundtrack tier or bought the Soundtrack Edition directly from our website you can find the soundtrack as a separate download in your Humble library now. If you’re not using a Humble account and lost your download link please use the Resender to retrieve it.

Changelog (Version 1.2a)

- added Korean translation
- updated Dutch translation
- added stripe pattern to sources of bad decoration rating to make them easier to distinguish from undecorated areas
- small campaign adjustments
- made info pips (no resources, no path connection etc) click-through while building something
- improved ghost train visibility when a visualization view is enabled
- fixed a case where water could disappear in unexpected places when terraforming
- fixed very short rides being more exciting than they should be and 1-2 other small exploits
- fixed a memory leak

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Version 1.2

Hey look, it’s another update in time for the weekend/holidays!
The full changelog is at the end of this post. The highlights are:

Track segments automatically snap to each other if the height difference is reasonably small:

This makes reconnecting track ends easier after editing a ride, and should resolve the troubles new players had with getting track heights to match when being misaligned by 1/8 height unit.

Existing guest/ride/shop info windows automatically get closed when clicking a different guest/ride/shop (unless you pin them):

This should reduce windows cluttering up the view.

Added the park ratings to a tab in the Park Info window:

The park ratings are quite important but could previously only be found by hovering on the ratings bar in the main menu, which is slightly hidden. This will give people a second way to discover them, and there are also some additional tooltips explaining the ratings a bit.

The research menu button received an animation to reflect the current research state:

The fill state of the vial tells you the research progress without having to open the research window, and it looks nice I guess.

And there’s a little something for the winter season :)

See you all next year!

Changelog

- added automatically snapping track ends to each other if they are close enough
- added three new ride music options: Street Organ, Winter Funderland, Barollerquoster
- added research and goals to the default sandbox parks (you can still disable them if you want)
- added research menu button reflects the current research progress
- added hats for the winter season
- added park rating tab to Park Info window
- added attractions visited + products bought stats to guest info windows
- added tooltips explaining guest stats/park ratings a bit
- added option for bigger UI scale
- added support for GOG Galaxy Achievements
- opening a guest/ride/shop info window automatically closes all other unpinned guest/ride/shop info windows now
- made sure ESC key can still be used for cancelling actions, even if a different alternate key has been defined in the control settings
- improved loan payment UI to be less confusing
- improved pipette tool for picking an attraction to advertise to also work on queue paths
- updated graphics settings to offer FPS rates depending on refresh rates supported by screen
- updated French/Russian/Simplified Chinese/German translations
- fixed Trash Chute sometimes not connecting to paths
- fixed a case where queue sign could appear in an odd orientation
- fixed a case where scenario descriptions on campaign map could be cut off
- fixed a case where guests could float through the air when using an Elevator
- fixed a case where guest thoughts would not show up in ride/shop/park thought overview lists
- fixed Spiral Slide not working anymore when picking up a sliding guest
- fixed Fruit Juice being less popular than intended

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