Harswell Steel

My past self, receiving a copy of Transport Tycoon for his 14th birthday, would have his mind blown if he could see the kind of insanely-complex super-stations that are possible in (the open-source successor to) the game 30 years on.

Of course, this kind of thing – multiple simultaneously shared in-and-out routes on a bidirectional station – wasn’t (sensibly) possible before the introduction of path-based signalling in OpenTTD 0.7.0. And modern path-based signals in the game are even smarter.

But still, 14-year-old me had a dream. And nowadays that dream is real.

0 comments

    Reply here

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    Reply on your own site

    Reply elsewhere

    You can reply to this post on Mastodon (@blog@danq.me).

    Reply by email

    I'd love to hear what you think. Send an email to b25023@danq.me; be sure to let me know if you're happy for your comment to appear on the Web!