Sep 16, 2019
Mini Metro - Robert
We’re thrilled to announce our new title: Mini Motorways! The team has been hard at work on this game since early 2018 and we’re so happy that we can share the news with you all after so many months.
The success of our debut title, Mini Metro, took us all by surprise. As you know, we have spent time since its inception supporting it by adding more content, bringing it to new platforms, and improving the core systems (a fancy way of saying “fixing bugs”). It’s also been a hard title to follow up. We have spent a lot of time deciding what to base our next game on, and we decided on something else that a lot of people use every day – road maps.
We did a lot of work on Mini Metro in 2018, such as adding Creative Mode, the interactive game guide, and new maps. In between these updates we set aside time for members of the team to prototype ideas for how an interactive road map would work. In some concepts the roads drew themselves automatically and you carved arterial routes through them, in others you painted roads across the city and they “sprouted” small streets. We experimented with systems such as modelling the waves of commuters throughout the day, intelligent spline editing, and threading together interchanges. In the end we kept coming back to one of the concepts, Tiny Tileways, that our programmers Tana and Tom had put together. It was a neat and minimal design, fun to watch and interact with, and had a lot of potential for expansion.
We want Mini Motorways to be as good as it can be by the time we launch on Steam, and instead of rushing the integration, we’re taking the time to do it right and deliver a great game first time to you all. This time around, there will be no Early Access period as it should be pretty rounded out by then. You can check out our Coming Soon page and if you like the look of it, please add Mini Motorways to your Wishlist!
The success of our debut title, Mini Metro, took us all by surprise. As you know, we have spent time since its inception supporting it by adding more content, bringing it to new platforms, and improving the core systems (a fancy way of saying “fixing bugs”). It’s also been a hard title to follow up. We have spent a lot of time deciding what to base our next game on, and we decided on something else that a lot of people use every day – road maps.
We did a lot of work on Mini Metro in 2018, such as adding Creative Mode, the interactive game guide, and new maps. In between these updates we set aside time for members of the team to prototype ideas for how an interactive road map would work. In some concepts the roads drew themselves automatically and you carved arterial routes through them, in others you painted roads across the city and they “sprouted” small streets. We experimented with systems such as modelling the waves of commuters throughout the day, intelligent spline editing, and threading together interchanges. In the end we kept coming back to one of the concepts, Tiny Tileways, that our programmers Tana and Tom had put together. It was a neat and minimal design, fun to watch and interact with, and had a lot of potential for expansion.
We want Mini Motorways to be as good as it can be by the time we launch on Steam, and instead of rushing the integration, we’re taking the time to do it right and deliver a great game first time to you all. This time around, there will be no Early Access period as it should be pretty rounded out by then. You can check out our Coming Soon page and if you like the look of it, please add Mini Motorways to your Wishlist!
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