Most impressive is a coaster that twirls around a huge tree in the middle of a park, a product of careful track placement and the game's pre-production environmental deformation tools. There are wonderfully complex roller coasters that slide effortlessly through the sides of hills and across other rides, and parks with a slick pirate theme made up of carefully placed wooden barrels and caged skeletons. 'We still have jobs to do,' he told them.ĭeadlines or not, how better to show a game works than a group of people who can't stop playing it? At the very least, there was plenty to show on press day. Some of them had been at it for days, obsessively chipping away at their creations using tools like environmental deformation and coaster editing that wouldn't even be in the alpha. Rather than work on squashing bugs in the game's complex path-finding system, or making sure that the tiny details on flat (pre-made) rides were correct, they were making roller coasters and theme parks. A few weeks before the launch of the Planet Coaster closed alpha-a perk for those who bought the 'Early Bird Edition' of the game-Frontier Developments' Jonny Watts is scolding his team.

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