RollerCoaster Tycoon: A Timeless Design ~ Design Doc 

never knew that. He is one of the greatest developers we had.

Well the reason he made the game in the first place is because he is a roller-coaster aficionado, he has already ride on almost all coasters around the world

Wow that is cool! I did not know that.

@ i dont think he develops anymore

that’s heart. That’s love.

Haha, ive been there.

I'm still there with RCT3 and Planet Coaster. :}

I just played it for like 4 hours without really realizing hahaha

Haha, I didn't do this as much with RCT but did it a lot on Transport Tycoon!

With civilization, one moment you are starting with a cup of coffee and cereals, the next moment your alarm clock is going off.

I know this is a year old comment, but absolutely true. RCT2 looks very much like the same game, just with more content and some UI tweaks, but it is absolutely a more robust and better functioning game. The original was phenomenal. The sequel was a refinement on every level to make it that much more beyond.

Yeah. Chris had to completely rewrite the engine when he ported it to mobile in the form of RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic.

Yeah, that's why it runs fucking amazing. Never skips a beat even if you play on a single core Pentium! No game comes close to the performance of rct 1 & 2

Ran amazing even on a 350mhz pentium II

@@AshBashVids i was running rct 1 on a 75mhz and later a 133mhz pentium. With the second cpu i realizied that the simulation actally was running to slow on the first. You could abuse this with artifical cpu clock speed reduction to save ingame time, while building a bigger coaster.

Good lord why the fuck would anybody do that Edit: good point, no wonder it runs so flawlessly

Durbikins just add a turn or two to the shuttle loop, really boosts the fun rating

You mean the V8 Money Engine? Just charge $7.50 per ride and put 2 of them in sync

And in RCT3, the Powered Launch Coaster can be a stupidly small oval and be praised to high heaven. It's even more hilarious if you cheat off the max launch speed and max circuits. I named it 'Billy'. Ten 'Billy's should be enough for an entire park.

only 2? really? beginner...

When I was younger, I was position the top end at the lake. Then named the guest after my dad & uncle. Watching them crashed into the lake was..... [insert evil laughter]

was about to comment the same thing

Ah, SUCH a nostalgia trip. Every time I install RCT3 on a new computer, I have to copy all of the music files onto the computer to listen to it on repeat.

I'm pretty sure some youtubers that focus on video games music could do a video on that too. Like, me and my brother spend quite some time playing and making our own probably not efficient park in the sandbox, and wow does that music never get old. Just, the way the music comes and goes, Idk, it felt right. Just hearing it in this video made me want to go back to it.

Summer Air...

summer air, the song, is one of the few songs that can get me completely mesmerized and relaxed, I absolutely love it

Tuh tuh Torah!

He said that it was too much like a sandbox in the video

I played the campaign once in the beta stage and felt bored and limited. So I went back to the sandbox. Also the game doesn't lend itself to creating realistic parks as that would work against the objectibe by wasting a lot of time and money.

It's no surprise Parkitect doesn't seem fleshed out yet, it's still in Beta! The game has made some good progress, though.

ieatatsonic yes, I have never played Planet Coaster, however it seems to be orientated much more towards the creative elements as opposed to park management which the first rct1 mixed so well.

Planet Coaster is definitely more of a sandbox. It's not a true RCT successor but it's an amazing theme park builder.

I put 35 of those things in a single park, not a SINGLE complaint. 10/10 would rip-off guests again.

The shuttle loop you mean?

Omg du hier XD

Gotta make sure you put at least 8 of them side by side, synchronized...and also add more at different angles, interlinking.

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You ever heared about OpenRCT2? It brings back the good games on modern Systems with new Features. And it can combine RCT1 and 2 Scenarios!

what is doing a epic fantasy battle character here?

I'm guessing cuz It's a mod and isn't official. Might be better fit for it's own video about how mods improve games.

I agree with both points. 20 more years? Thanks to OpenRCT2 it'll go 20 MORE!

+MysteryCJgamer, It's not a mod. A mod is as the name suggest, a modification to the original game. OpenRCT2 is not that, it merely uses the audio, text strings and graphics from RCT2 for copyright reasons. It is completely its own thing other than that, running on brand new code that replicates the original game.

@@Dan-TechAndMusic So it's just a one-to-one remake, right? Hardly worth mentioning except maybe as a way of acknowledging that it's an option for people who, for one reason or another, can't just play RCT2.

@@stevethepocket Have you even used OpenRCT2? Here is a quick rundown of some of the new features: TL;DR: It's a LOT. Try it out. -Plugin System -Tile Inspector that allows you to make ride pieces invisible, copy-and-paste pieces, and rotate objects -In-game cheat system, allowing you to make any ride use any vehicle, switch the ride type to anything, switch the operating mode to anything, infinitely fast chain hills, boost platforms, and brakes, chain hills on any track piece 255 million dollars instantly, disable vandalism, maker all guests happy, make all guests ignore intensities, etc. -Full multiplayer, with modifiable player roles and abilities, allowing both full anarchy sandbox servers with cheats and people banning eachother at will, and spectator servers where you just watch the admin build, and everything in-between, with very low lag and easy and free servers that require no external tools and can be advertised publicly with the press of a button. -Allows changing of scenario options in-game, like turning on "no money", changing enabled ride and scenery types, and easily filtering out mods -Full compatability with Android and all Windows versions after Vista, plus MacOS and Linux -Custom themes and coloration of menu buttons -Custom opening sequences -Full RCT1 support, and you can mix and match features from RCT1 with features from RCT2 -Requires RCT2. It's not just some remake with retextured assets so cheap people can get it for free, it's a full expansion upon the original RCT games. If you ARE too cheap to buy it, you can just get RCT2 demo and it will remove the timer for you -OpenGL rendering -Hardware rendering that allows special effects like a day/night cycle and lighting from vehicles, entrances, rides, path lights, and other objects -Full custom panda-themed scenery set that comes with OpenRCT2 -With all this new content, it still keeps all the original content and features from both games -All of OpenRCT2, besides the original game that's required, is free. You don't have to pay money for any of the features I have just mentioned, especially if you use the demo version -Bonus gimmicks like being able to pop balloons and quack ducks in the title sequences -And much, much more. I recommend you just try it out. Considering these are only just the new features I could remember off the top of my head, it's a pretty good sign as to how much they added. And before you ask, no, I don't have anything better do.

depends what you like, I prefer spending long and slow amounts of time on planet coaster because everything is so beautiful when time is put into it, and realistic = beautiful

Planet Coaster is just too overwhelming. There's too much to do. I keep sitting down to start something, take hours building just my entrance building, decide it's crap when i'm done with it and scrap the whole thing. It's hard to get a quick park going like you would've in RCT and the management UI is kinda flawed.

Planet Coaster is a game for people with a creative mindset who enjoy finely tuning details over many hours to create a grand whole. It requires you to work, and you have to enjoy working - or at least be able to power through it to get to the satisfying result - to enjoy the game. OpenRCT is more casual.

I've tried to play planet coaster, I've got about 19 hours on it, but I don't seem to have progressed enough and it seems to be too vast for me, as you have to be creative to get the best out of it. I enjoyed RCT more, I enjoy the graphics more.

Planet Coaster doesn't have to be complicated. It has tons of stuff that you can throw around and design quite an amazing park without a lot of custom work. It's just that so many people are designing mega parks so detailed it can simply overwhelm people in to just giving up. RCT3 was similar in a way, but it also worked a bit easier since everything was grid based, you couldn't get crazy. That is until the modders got involved and then it got crazy. But you could do amazing things with a stock RCT3 without a lot of difficulty. Planet coaster just allows so much freedom that it can be hard to focus and allows for unlimited creativity that's it can overwhelm the player quickly. Have to train yourself to focus and develop patience. Don't force your builds. Work on your entrance for awhile until your creative juices are depleted and then switch gears to a ride skin. Mix it up so your brain doesn't overload.

This is one of those games, apparently. Heck, I'm thinking about picking RCT2 back up after having a poor experience with Planet Coaster. 23 minutes and I was done, and not even half of that was actual in-game time.

Yeah i joined the Discord from marcel Vos and wow over 500 People O.o

I could get behind that. Sounds interesting and would be a nostalgia hit in the childhood.

Age of Empires II still has an enormous player base online. Still new DLCs with new civilizations, balance patches, and campaigns being released!

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. Reticulating splines is a programming joke.

I am joking around, and I know it is, but Sim City 2000 back in the day had the line of 'reticulating splines' when altering your city, so I was just applying that bit to here.

Poor Scott...

Oh man, I can totally hear the audio clip of that woman saying "reticulating splines." Ah, childhood.

TheNN yup haha they still used that for the sims and I think the sims 3 loading screens

lmao good catch

I love this sort of in depth design video too. Even if it's just to see someone present their opinion on something in a well thought out manner. They're great.

Do it!

The entire management sim genre is underappreciated right now, not just RCT, sadly. Most sim games (ignoring the parody/meme ones) these days are stuff like Euro Truck Simulator, or farm simulator - Nitty gritty simulations of jobs romanticized in some circles.

go to GOG.com there are a number of DRM free options to choose from, mine cost me like 7$USD

GOG.com, DRM free, and inexpensive

Chloe Stephen dude get rct classic it's a mobile version and it's a mix of rct and rct 2

Zodayn I know right? And with CSO, the graphics aged a bit better.

Oh yeah, that's a great classic! I guess it was also a great combination of many parts. Btw - there's this game called "Two Point Hospital" that's in the making. Looks like a promising successor.

Still playing RCT Monopoly? ;)

Hardly underrated, RCT games are highly praised by almost everyone.

Sam Harris I meant it in more mainstream terms, but you’re right that most gaming people know of them.

You could say it was..... (drum roll) One hell of a ride. (ba dum tis 🥁)

If you stil want to play RCT there is a oficial remake called roler coaster tycoon world

Haha, yeah I had the same problem. I wanted to play RCT3 on the same PC I played RCT1 + 2 on, but that didn't really work out.

the gamer Rollercoaster Tycoon World is HORRIBLE. Instead of RCTW, how about trying Planet Coaster or Parkitect?

I still play RCT 1 and 2 and sometimes 3 along with Simcity 4 because Planet Coaster and Cities: Skylines are too much for my PC

I love RCT 1 so much... I'm not a fan of any of the other RCT games, or even Planet Coaster. I like the simplicity and focus that the original has. Get this many guests and this park rating by this date. Simple.

NeonFish710 while the minigames and being able to ride/play competitive ridea like golf and karts are decent, as well as the addition of whoa! tracks, the spots where you can build coasters, the space you're provided, and the uneditable terrain severely limits the creative part of the game. Plus the editor's basically the same

Revi M Fadli oh, yeah it's far from great. It's just nostalgic

NeonFish710 yup, and the factors i mentioned (whoa trackpieces and playing playable rides) deserve at least a mention

You can get lost in Planet Coaster for days just tinkering with little things.