RCT 3 PC Open Source Theme Park Game Becoming a Reality

RocketGib

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I don't know if many of you have been to the Atari forums lately, but there has been lots of commotion going on in regards to the development of a community-based open-source theme park game.

Well, Ken Allen helped kick things off by sponsoring one... If you want more information you have to e-mail me or hunt me down in the chats via PM... This project needs the support, but I can't really speak about it in many places due to the recent string of controversy lately.

Any idea what I'm talking about? :p

EDIT: Well it's discontinued now... oh well. :(
 
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Nuclear Fish

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^ Open source is a project thingy which is open to the public. Basically a game created by the community. So anyone can contribute. I think...
 

sebar

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WalkingSnake said:
I wouldn't consider it a reality until at least some part of it has actually been started, outside of just speculating. ;)
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I believe he used the word becoming as in the work is in progress. What will be very interesting indeed is that both Thrillville and CM will both become competitors eventually. I actually think this great for the marketplace and if so on my pc, I will look forward to enjoying and writing about both. In essence it means we get many future Braben Shots online :D
 

rcthardcore

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has great possibilities!

An open-source project? Sounds interesting to me. This indeed has numerous possibilities! I'm definitely interested in it! I'm currently in the process of building my Quad-SLI system so I am definitely gonna keep watch on this.
 

sebar

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Yeah I'll probably have to build a brand new speedy machine to play all this stuff, but in the end it should all be fun. I am wondering though if Braben's new Thrillville will work with my older RCT3 parks, and custom scenery too. It will be very interesting to see what Ol' David comes up with. Perhaps he could drop a hint here.
 

Michael Brookes

Game Director
Thrillville works in a different way to RCT3 so I would think that unlikely, plus there are other non-technical considerations that could make such a feature problematic.

Michael
 

David Braben

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Frontier
bctrainers said:
Just will have and wait and see what is to come of the community project. ;)
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Indeed. They are very hard things to get off the ground, I would imagine, and in danger of descending into a who-owns-what fight if anything does begin to come together, especially if they end up as principally the work of one or two dedicated individuals, as I suspect it will.
 

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Thanks Michael for the reply. I suppose this gives me a reason to rebuild these parks in Thrillville PC and also other coaster games. Lots to do :D Sorry to hear that though. But I suppose your new product will have many greater enhancements that we originally requested in the RCT3 community, perhaps even a Building Generator too? Oh well, I look forward to seeing what all of you come up with and I know you will of course surprise the rest of us too. David, a few hints maybe a Braben Shot or two would be great gossip materials. Perhaps a flat ride we have never seen before....you know, the get em chatting routines. Anyhow a few sneak peaks at Thrillville PC would be very cool indeed. By the way what will the minimum specs be for the future product will my old athalon 1.4 tb still cut it?
 

Michael Brookes

Game Director
You also need to remember that Thrillville is a completly different game to RCT3, you interact with your park on a different level. In many ways it's a theme park game with features that wouldn't necessarily work in RCT3. The RCT series has a history and it's fans have certain expectations, to have made radical changes would have been problematic. Thrillville allows us to explore a theme park from a different, more personal angle.

Michael
 

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Well thanks Michael. It will be interesting to see how it differ's from RCT3. I always thought had RCT3 continued, it had unlimitless potential. It is unfortunate that it appears a dead product at this point. That means Thrillville PC and CM will probably be the big guys on the block, and from what you mentioned it seems you guys are doing something very different. Again very surprising and I expect it will be lots of fun too. I look forward to the 2007 thru 2008 season as being the year of the coaster theme park games. Exciting times indeed await all of us.
 

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I don't see this is going to eevr work anytime soon......there are a group of people trying to make a TTDX like open source game and in 2 years all they have done is dicuss the features on a forum; it takes one person to start a project. We'll see Rct 4/5/6 before any open source is playable.
 

X06

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Yeh, i also think that 2005.

It will be a while before the open source coastergame will be fully up and running, and loads of work and coordination will have to go into it. By the time its done we may see the state of the art RCT4 :)

Whats TTDX tho?
 

2005

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Transport tycoon (deluxe) by Chris Sawyer.

RCT 1 and 2 uses a modified version of the same game engine. It's a classic game, take a look at these fan forums:

www.tt-forums.net

(Note: I have no connection with these forums, I'm not even a member there. It's a fan site, not for profit.).


TTDX (transport Tycoon Deluxe) is the original game by Chris Sawyer
Locomotion is a modern spiritual sequel by CS, but deeply flawed
TTD(X) 'Patch' is a modified version of the CS original
Open TTD is a working, independant open source clone of TTDX (note it uses the same graphics)
Transport Empire is the long delayed modern open source TTDX-like game
 
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sebar

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appears that...

Ken and Coaster Madness have faded away! Oh well, how unfortunate, cause the many different offerings would have been good for the marketplace. For the short term I predict we will get TVPC, TVPC and evn more TVPC plus at that time, lots of B.S. better known as Braben Shots. But I do think that somewhere out there lurks
more community ideas. Did Ken Allen really start a trend here...uh, I'm affraid so :cool:
 

X06

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I some how gather that some 1 likes and TVPC, seems to appear in all your posts :p :)

Any way, Ken is currently away bt it will all be starting again very soon.
 

sebar

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Well actually I do like David and respect him to a point. The way Ken left the community has much to be desired. I don't feel as though I want to continue supporting the endeavors for CM after how abruptly everything was halted, so in some senses I have decided to put his endeavors a step ahead of Atari's, got the picture? That's why others have picked up the ball elsewhere ;) and to be honest, I rather throw my support behind their endeavors just as I am hoping David does pursue TVPC, because this community and many of my friends here have been exceptionately loyal and for Ken to shut down everything like this after what Atari had done to them, is just something there is no excuse for. Yeah maybe he has problems, but don't shut everything down and cut the community off by the knees. Show enough respect to those who rally to your cause to at least let them carry on. I haven't seen Frontier do this, and in fact I highly commend them for the recent patches and especially Michael Brookes for all his hard dedication to the community. Its at least far more than I can say for someone who shuts their forums down expecting people to be waiting with baited breath at the front doors, when they are opened again. Yeah that's bound to gain some flames from folks who are as much Ken fans as I had been, but he never replied to my enquiry and that says a lot.


As far as Braben Shots go, its more a fun thing than anything else. Michael Brookes also posted screenies so we have Brookes Shots as well. Any way you look at it, there's nothing wrong with much ;)
 
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