Trainyard (v1.1 Out now) $0.99 Sale

[Mag]

Will this game get gamecenter any time soon?

[ElectricGrandpa]

Originally Posted by spidey

Awesome game. Finished Trainyard express, now getting the full game. ANd you've created the levels yourself? If yes, you're quite brilliant. Making a puzzle concept is one thing, where trainyard excels, but creating levels with the understanding of how difficult every level is, is a gift. Kudos!

And btw, I don't know if you have been following the best logo thread, trainyard is quite a favourite amongst people here.

Yep I made all the levels myself! Trying to figure out the approximate difficulty of each one is the hardest part I didn't know there was a best logo thread, I'll have to look it up!

[Haruhi]

Originally Posted by ElectricGrandpa

I didn't know there was a best logo thread, I'll have to look it up!

It's right here: http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=73069&

[spidey]

Originally Posted by ElectricGrandpa

Yep I made all the levels myself! Trying to figure out the approximate difficulty of each one is the hardest part I didn't know there was a best logo thread, I'll have to look it up!

It is a mighty good logo. Though I must say I like the trainyard express logo more Like the "Express" slipstream in it.

!! 100th post !!

[keyser_soze]

Originally Posted by badpioneer

I checked solutions for the first time after completing Barrel Roll and was surprised to see it was only track count listed.

My journey was only 25 steps. Anyone else have a shorter?

15, and I'm sure I can get it shorter too. For some reason I can't submit tracks unless I'm on wifi. I'll upload it tonight.

Edit: uploaded as http://trainyard.ca/85h6

[alidemedi]

Hi. I have been playing trainyard and express for some time (not finished yet), submitted some solutions too. Great game, thanks a lot for this game. It really deserves more than 1 dollar.

Now I try to submit a "longest running solution". But as you know it is going to take a few days for very long solutions (like 5M steps) to run completely on the phone. Are you going to do something for this issue? Example: the web page can check if the solution works, by making it run much faster on the server. Actually, if it just solves the given path instead of running it, it should not take more than a few seconds to find if the solution is valid and the number of steps.

Or, can I send my solution to you if you have another ways to do this?

[ElectricGrandpa]

Originally Posted by alidemedi

Hi. I have been playing trainyard and express for some time (not finished yet), submitted some solutions too. Great game, thanks a lot for this game. It really deserves more than 1 dollar.

Now I try to submit a "longest running solution". But as you know it is going to take a few days for very long solutions (like 5M steps) to run completely on the phone. Are you going to do something for this issue? Example: the web page can check if the solution works, by making it run much faster on the server. Actually, if it just solves the given path instead of running it, it should not take more than a few seconds to find if the solution is valid and the number of steps.

Or, can I send my solution to you if you have another ways to do this?

Unfortunately there isn't much I can do about this right now. I don't have a program that runs the solutions on the server, however if your press "t" on your keyboard when the solution is playing in the web player, it'll go 100 times faster.

In the next update (hopefully coming before Christmas), I'm going to put in a turbo mode in the game where you can simulate the puzzles up to 100x faster than normal, so that'll make things quicker. Obviously not instantaneous, but fast enough for most people's uses.

-Matt

[spidey]

I just checked the trainyard site... And i must say i loved the "longest solution" section.

Heck, it gave me an idea of a whole new puzzle mode in the game. Make a really, long, winding, and most importantly OVER-LAPPING route. Objective in this mode should be to figure out which track should be on top to begin with. It gets spectacularly complicated in some of the longest solutions.

[ElectricGrandpa]

Originally Posted by spidey

I just checked the trainyard site... And i must say i loved the "longest solution" section.

Heck, it gave me an idea of a whole new puzzle mode in the game. Make a really, long, winding, and most importantly OVER-LAPPING route. Objective in this mode should be to figure out which track should be on top to begin with. It gets spectacularly complicated in some of the longest solutions.

Hah that'd be interesting

In the next update (hopefully before Christmas), I'm including a little secret feature where if you double tap the status area in the bottom left while the trains are running, it goes into "warp mode" where it runs 100x faster than normal... Should make it so creating ultra long (million+ journey) solutions shouldn't take nearly as long.

[2manyapps]

I noticed a new Trainyard Strategy app yesterday. I didn't bother to download it as I've already finished it on my own . This doesn't sound like it's from the original developer, but the icon similarity is uncanny! Does it really belong in the App Store?