Launch date!

Hey! Take a look at this:

That’s right, the 1.0 version of Parkitect will release on November 29th.
Most notably, it will add the Campaign Mode to the game!
The campaign spans 26 scenarios with unique and varied settings and is played on a world map with branching paths that gets gradually revealed and comes to live as you progress.

All of the campaign parks have been designed by Silvarret and Joshua Tjarks, so you can be sure they are very nicely decorated.

Launch price

As announced previously we will increase the price with the release of this update. Our final price will be $29.99 / €24.99 and should come into effect across all stores around November 28th.

Since this has been asked before: of course the 1.0 update will be free for you if you already own the game or buy it at the current price. You won’t have to pay extra for it.

Future

So what will the 1.0 release mean for the future of Parkitect?
During December and early January we expect to be 100% busy with talking to press and players, the inevitable hotfixes and taking a bit of time off over the holidays.

Beyond that we will of course continue to support the game with patches and updates - there’s some more features and content for both creative players and management players that we’re excited to start working on as free updates! However, these updates will happen whenever we have something ready to show instead of on the fixed weekly devlog/monthly game update schedule that we’ve used for the past ~4 years.

Thank you!

Finally, a HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped us to get this far! This game wouldn’t exist without all of the Kickstarter supporters, and it would have been a much smaller game without all of the Early Access supporters.

And of course thanks to everyone who has worked on this game over the years - there have been so many people: obviously Garret, for taking on the risk of working on such a big game with me; Tim and Luuk, who have contributed enormously to the community surrounding this game and did an amazing job with working on the game itself; Gabby, who was always there to help with absolutely anything we needed help for; Gordon for bringing his unique music style to the game that makes building coasters so much more fun; Em, Rachel and Maris for creating thousands of sound effects for all the different things in the game and figuring out how to make them sound good; Fabrice for designing new scenery pieces when we ran out of ideas; Silvarret and Joshua for designing probably the absolutely nicest campaign parks; Marlon, M. Joshua, Michael and Trudy for the trailers and promo art; and of course all of the game testers and community moderators over on reddit and Discord!

Thanks <3

Devlog Update 219

Garret added some new flags that should fit nicely into most parks, and we updated the old flags with a bit of animation too:

And the terrain generator is getting a small update. You’ll be able to select which types of trees exactly it should plant:

It will also give trees some slight color variations.

Devlog Update 218 + Beta 12

Beta 12 is now available for download! The full change log is at the end of this post.

Devlog

During this months Art Stream, Garret added a set of new generic building pieces and deco items that should fit into most parks. Here’s a preview of some of the new pieces:

Changelog

Beta 12:
- big audio overhaul
 * added stereo sound
 * added crowd sounds
 * added music volume slider to ride settings
 * fixed a bunch of audio pops and sounds not playing
- added new path styles
- added custom colors to some normal paths
- added new building pieces (spires, dormers, windows, door, clocks, stepped walls)
- added lights to Power Surge, Top Scan, Plane Carousel, Gyro Drop Tower, Star Shape
- added new ride music song (Coffee Pirates)
- added up helix to Go-Karts
- reduced RAM use
- improved performance in parks with many tracked rides
- improved TV images
- fixed guests disappearing when closing tracked ride
- fixed not being able to replace queue handrails on stairs
- fixed some path attachments missing in blueprints (only for new blueprints)
- fixed some fences not adapting to sloped paths when built from blueprints (only for new blueprints)
- fixed a case where huge parks would not receive as many guests as they should

Devlog Update 217

Art Stream

Come join us on Garrets Twitch channel on Wednesday (October 24th) at 1pm PDT to chat while watching some new Parkitect art being created

Devlog

The more recent flat rides received their lights and light animations finally:

And we decided to also update the remaining old path styles, so every type of path has custom colors now.