The earliest game resembled Transport Tycoon but with roller coasters, and its graphic artist Simon Foster created a more flexible and photorealistic system so the coasters would look the part. Much of the initial design process was freeform and inspired by a few obvious predecessors: Will Wright, Peter Molyneux, Sid Meier. But most of all, Sawyer had to prioritise performance. New features meant a greater burden on the slow, guinea pig PC, and while some of them could be lanced from the code, others had to stay.
The premise of the game is to complete a series of preset scenarios by successfully building and maintaining amusement parks through business ownership as a theme park entrepreneur. Players can choose from dozens of roller coaster types and can also build log flumes, carousels, bumper cars, haunted houses, go-karts, Ferris wheels, and swinging ships, among other rides.
The player also has the option of building their own roller coaster designs as well as other rides by laying out individual track pieces, choosing the direction, height, and steepness, and adding such elements as zero-g rolls, corkscrews, vertical loops, and even on-ride photos, using a tile-based construction system.
Some scenarios are based on real parks. For example, 'Katie's Dreamland' (Katie's World in the US Version) is based on Lightwater Valley, complete with that park's signature The Ultimate roller coaster (The Storm).
Scottish game designer Chris Sawyer released Transport Tycoon in 1994, and spent time to consider what to do for a sequel. Some of the revenue he earned from Transport Tycoon he used towards travelling in Europe and the United States, which included visits to theme parks with roller coasters.[1] Though Sawyer said he had hated roller coasters before,[2] he became fond of them through these trips, and since has become a roller coaster enthusiast and had ridden on at least 700 coasters.[1] From these trips, Sawyer decided to follow Transport Tycoon with a roller coaster-based simulation, giving him a partial excuse to continue visiting theme parks to "research" roller coaster rides.[3][2] The game was to be called White Knuckle for the majority of the game's development. However, to follow the tradition of the Tycoon titles, the game was renamed accordingly.[4]
GameSpot's Alan Dunkin called it "another fun management simulation from the mind of Chris Sawyer." His praises included the custom naming of everything in the park and position-accurate, real-life sound effects. However, he disliked the limited speed of the game, reasoning that "when you're trying to manage your newest amusement park, time is ticking by, perhaps faster than you'd like." He also criticized the limited amount of scenarios and the player not being able to make their own.[16] IGN's Jason Bates also called it a fun game. He wrote that making custom rides could take a very long time and be very frustrating at first, and players would have to pay too much cash to tasks such as changing land levels, re-positioning trees and build walkways, while they design their rollercoaster. However, once players mastered doing so, "You'll get a lot of pride out of designing some crazy, twisting corkscrew that winds in and out of lakes and hot dog stands, painting it bright neon pink and orange, and giving it a name like the Vominator. And then when the kids start lining up for those $5 tickets, you'll be ready to start saving up for your next ridiculous extravaganza."[18] Game Revolution's Ben Silverman highlighted the game's graphical style: "The nature of the game just doesn't call for fancy graphics, and thankfully things run smoothly. The detail level is very cool, from the green-faced nauseous guest to the marquee scrolling the name of the ride at the entrance." He also praised the endless amount of possibilities in designing rollercoaster rides, as well as the huge amount of specific detail, such as the location of a food stall, the player should and can focus on of their park, with the only slight criticisms being the "sloppy" interface.[15]
Increase park rating:
Set your research to just roller coasters until you receive a steel or inverted steel coaster. Build a lot of power launched mode roller coasters( such as the Shuttle Loop). This should increase your park rating and guest numbers.
I'm attempting a mission in which I have to increase a park's value to a certain amount. I've tried building over a half-dozen expensive roller coasters, added lots of food stores, have over 1000 guests, have a park rating that consistently stays over 850, and have made sure that the majority of the rides I've built are very popular. In addition, I've paid off my loan in full and have more than doubled my profit per month from the beginning of the mission. But my park's value is increasing far too slowly for me to reach my quota in time and sometimes even decreases between months!
Different types of ride have different 'inherent' valuations for those excitement/intensity/nausea ratings. For example, Monorails award $7 of per-user 'value' for each point of 'Excitement' rating, but only $0.60 for each point of 'Intensity', and -$1.00 for each point of 'Nausea'. By comparison, an Inverted Hairpin Coaster (a much more intense ride) awards $5 per point of 'Excitement', $3 per point of 'Intensity', and $3 per point of 'Nausea'. These modifier values are mostly pretty intuitive; stereotypically-intense rides like roller coasters will typically offer bigger valuations overall, and will typically give much higher rewards for points of intensity and nausea, than do more stereotypically-sedate rides.
So if you have money to burn and want to increase your park value quickly, you could just build a bunch of (different!) rides off in corners of your park, test them long enough to get their ratings, and then turn them off again and have them bump up your park value based upon their expected number of guests (intense-type roller coasters will work best for this, since they have the most "expected" guests). That feels a little silly and exploitative, and you'd probably do better financially by letting folks actually go on the rides. But it might be fun to play with sometime, to see whether you could make a highly-valued park where the guests aren't actually allowed on the rides.
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I used to play a ton of Roller Coaster Tycoon when I was a kid. I loved thegame but I was never very good at making the roller coasters. They always felttoo spread out, or too unnatural looking. As a ten year old I idly wonderedabout writing a computer program that was really good at playing the game. Whatsort of parks would it make? How would a computer approach the freedomsinherent in an empty park? What would we learn about the game engine from doingso?
Finally a few months ago, I had the tools and the free time available to workon this, and I made some progress toward writing a program that would generatecool looking roller coasters. Let's examine the parts of this program in turn.
Once you decode the ride data, it follows a format. Byte 0 stores the ridetype - 00000010 is a suspended steel roller coaster, for example. Some bytesindicate the presence of flags - the 17th bit tells you whether the coaster canhave a vertical loop. And so on, and so on.
There are a lot of track pieces in the game, and I needed to get a lot ofdata about each of them to be able to make assertions about generated rollercoasters. As an example, if the track is currently banked left, which piecesare even possible to construct next?
With a genetic algorithm you are going to be generating a lot of rollercoasters. I wanted a quick way to see whether those roller coasters weregetting better or not by plotting them. So I used Go's image packageto draw roller coasters. To start I didn't try for an isometric view, althoughthat would be fun to draw. Instead I just plotted height change in one imageand x/y changes in another image. Running this against existing rollercoasters also revealed some flaws in my track data.
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