Age of Trains (by Amazing Games)

[Monolith]

Glad this project is still alive! Keep us updated!

[Mene]

OMG Take my money now!!

I still love and adore Railroad Tycoon 1, its the original and the BEST imo, 2 and 3 improved on the graphics but killed the gameplay. (What..can't buy shares in another company to take it over? bah!!)

I'm going to buy this day 1, its what my ipad 2 was bought for

Please release it and please let Railroad Tycoon 1 have been your main inspiration.

[Mhunt190]

Originally Posted by ChezDoodles

Well, it was close, but I never gave up hope. This project has definitely faced some serious setbacks. It was close to get a release autumn 2010, before the main developer was injured and hospitalized for a very loooong time and then some... In the meantime a lot of changes took place, not just with the devices on the market, but also distribution models and most everything else. So the project has been refreshed and updated to reflect those changes. For those of you who participated in the beta back in summer 2010, you will find that the "new" Age of Trains has A LOT more content, a LOT of new game mechanics and is basically a TOTAL refresh in pretty much all departments. Hope you will enjoy it ... Soon I want to bring some of you back in the loop and get some feedback on some of those new game mechanics.

I will not promise any fixed release date at this point - there are still quite a lot of updates, polish and fixed to implement ... but we're getting closer to release and the project is definitely not dead.

In the meantime I just wanted share what you should expect to see on a device like the iPhone 5 - with all the extra memory and all the extra power I think it is getting close to rival the looks of the Mac version.

Will the iPad 3rd gen have all the effects like the iPhone 5 has.

[ChezDoodles]

Originally Posted by Mhunt190

Will the iPad 3rd gen have all the effects like the iPhone 5 has.

The level of detail in the terrain and the models, the texture details, draw distance and shader effects like lighting model, reflection etc are tuned especially for each supported iOS device and selected automatically at startup - so you WILL see differences in image quality. And there is no question that the iPhone5 is the current king of the hill. Regarding your specific question, for the iPhone5 - I copied all the iPad3 settings and added the baseline shadow settings from the Mac version (Mac version has better shadows) - and it seemed to be able to cope with that. These settings are not final - just a quick test I had to do 5 min after getting my hands on an iPhone5 device.

That being said, the iPad3 is still my preferred device - because games like this are just BETTER on a large display

[ChezDoodles]

Originally Posted by Mene

Please release it and please let Railroad Tycoon 1 have been your main inspiration.

Actually - this picture sums up my inspiration better than anything else:

I guess my motivation was not to make Railroad Tycoon with better graphics - others can do that better than me (sad, but true)...

I wanted to make a railroad game that was NOT available on the market - a game that was inspired by my childhood memories playing with model trains and all the fantastic adventures I had as a kid - exploring and building new worlds, building amazing railroads, speed records, competitions, robbers, indians, the history, and my admiration for the great machines...

So, rather than saying Railroad Tycoon 1 has been my main inspiration - I would rather say it has been equal parts Sid Meier's Railroads, Civilization, Age of Empires I and II, Settlers, Sid Meier's Pirates! and the fantastic board game series Ticket to Ride. Fans of these games will all find elements in Age of Trains they will recognize...

sorry...

[Monolith]

Originally Posted by Mene

OMG Take my money now!!

I still love and adore Railroad Tycoon 1, its the original and the BEST imo, 2 and 3 improved on the graphics but killed the gameplay. (What..can't buy shares in another company to take it over? bah!!)

I'm going to buy this day 1, its what my ipad 2 was bought for

Please release it and please let Railroad Tycoon 1 have been your main inspiration.

I completely agree. Sadly I don't think this game is going to be as much of an economic sim as the original RT, but still looks promising.

I'd pay $10 for a real RT clone. It has such simple graphics requirements that you'd think someone would have created an iOS clone by now; but nothing!!

[Mene]

Originally Posted by Monolith

I completely agree. Sadly I don't think this game is going to be as much of an economic sim as the original RT, but still looks promising.

I'd pay $10 for a real RT clone. It has such simple graphics requirements that you'd think someone would have created an iOS clone by now; but nothing!!

Yeah, I'm amazed theres been no RT1 clone, I'd pay a LOT for one.

[drelbs]

Originally Posted by Mene

Yeah, I'm amazed theres been no RT1 clone, I'd pay a LOT for one.

I have fond memories of packing the 8088 out to the back porch and relaxing and playing RT1 for most of the day, basking in the glow of it's CGA graphics and doing our best not to cringe at the PC Speaker sound.

On that slow of a PC it really was a relaxing game as the trains took so long to get from city to city...