Perhaps he too has spent time clicking together Ikea train tracks. Islands & Trains is the work of Fabian Smith, whose Twitter bio says he's both a game developer and kindergarten teacher. I do hope Islands & Trains goes so far as to let me set up little track switches, though. I've also had enough fun clicking together Ikea train tracks with my son to know that I'll enjoy clicking together virtual tracks, and I don't need a Transport Tycoon economic simulation or a Cosmic Express puzzle to make that interesting. Whenever I felt my town was fully scaped in Townscaper, there was no reason to keep watching it. Islands & Trains looks like it offers simpler asset placement, by comparison.īut then, it's got trains. I enjoyed it partly because it provides a procedural partner to your construction work, which helps to turn your simple clicks into surprising and delightful architectural creations. I played a lot of Townscaper, whiling away the hours by tinkering with port towns of my own design. It's a zero-stress building sandbox about making something you find satisfying to look at. Like many of its inspirations, there's apparently no goal to Islands & Trains. I finally faced my fear and tried to build a significantly bigger level - thinking of all kinds of little stories that might happen in this world 🙃 #screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #gamedev #indiedev #WIP #game #madewithunity /FIpQncyrqQ- Fabi Smith To see this content please enable targeting cookies. You really have to watch this till the end to see the train moving ! It's finally placeable ingame 🥰 #screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #gamedev #indiedev #WIP #game /b65vF5F36M- Fabi Smith JTo see this content please enable targeting cookies.Īnd here's another with a bigger island. Here's a little island building timelapse. I think it's worth its own post anyway.īuilding a tiny little island with a tiny little (new) trainstation & some happy little (new birch) trees and bushes that Bob Ross would hopefully be proud of☺️ #screenshotsaturday #lowpoly #gamedev #indiedev #WIP #game #madewithunity /6O00WZciN6- Fabi Smith JTo see this content please enable targeting cookies. I spotted GIFs of the game going round Twitter last night, but Alice0 beat me to it, including Islands & Trains in Screenshot Saturady Mondays. Its name also does most of my job for me: this is a game about constructing islands, right? And then you build trains on them, yeah? It's "coming soon" and it looks delightful in GIFs the developer has been posting on Twitter. It's been a good few years for relaxing, sandbox building games, and Islands & Trains looks to fit right in.
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