Simple Trains
Simple Trains Early Access Release!
We are excited to announce the early access release of Simple Trains!
As we're in Early Access, your feedback is incredibly important to us. We'd be grateful if you could share your thoughts and ideas as you play (either using the feedback form in-game or the Steam forum).
If you're interested in learning more, we've put together a guide https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3270926190 with some basics and helpful tips.
Simple Trains Live Steam #2
Simple Trains Live Steam #1
Demo Deactivation & Tasks Ahead
- More Upgrades. I want this to be an upgrade heavy game. I want to make choosing the right upgrades and thinking about upgrade synergies a big part of this game.
- Get more personality into DotPeople. Right now they are mostly static props teleporting around. I want them to have some personality. I'm currently playing around with the idea of creating a movement flow system which will enable DotPeople to smoothly fill in gaps in waiting lines and make them pair up and walk up to their designated station upon spawn. In short: I want them to seem more like people in the way they move/behave.
- I'm also thinking about adding in rush-hours with heavy load. These rush-hours might occur periodically (like in real life) and are probably followed by a short period of light load to give the player time to recover.
In order to really get back into dev-mode 100% I decided to deactivate the demo for the time being. I hope I will be able to reactive the demo in a couple of months and present you with a much more advanced/improved version of Simple Trains.
Second Simple Trains Livestream!
First Simple Trains Livestream!
Balancing Update
I just uploaded a new demo build. Here are the biggest changes:
- Balanced station spawn mechanic for better experience
- Balanced income per passenger delivered for better experience
I really want to add a switcheroo station upgrade (switch any two stations). This is very high on my TODO list and hopefully will get added before the Steam Next Fest starts.
Edit: I added the station switcheroo upgrade in!
Added Tutorial
I just uploaded a new demo build. Here are the biggest changes:
- Added Tutorial
- Balanced station spawn mechanic for better experience
- Balanced income per passenger delivered for better experience
I really want to add a switcheroo station upgrade (switch any two stations). This is very high on my TODO list and hopefully will get added before the Steam Next Fest starts.
Updated Demo Build
- Fixed the leaderboard Range. Due to a bug, the leaderboard only showed the Top 5, when what I really intended to do was to show entries around the players rank. I fixed this and it now works as intended.
- Show the players leaderboard entry bold and in a different color.
- Improve leaderboard loading times.
- Fixed small bug where a default tooltip was visible for 1 frame only on startup.
Demo Released!
Simple Trains is still very much a work in progress. There are a lot of things I want to add and features I want to experiment with. But the current build is solid. Solid enough to throw it out there. Hope you'll enjoy it.