OMG Take my money now!! I still love and adore Railroad Tycoon 1, its the original and the BEST imo, 2 and 3 improved on the graphics but killed the gameplay. (What..can't buy shares in another company to take it over? bah!!) I'm going to buy this day 1, its what my ipad 2 was bought for Please release it and please let Railroad Tycoon 1 have been your main inspiration.
The level of detail in the terrain and the models, the texture details, draw distance and shader effects like lighting model, reflection etc are tuned especially for each supported iOS device and selected automatically at startup - so you WILL see differences in image quality. And there is no question that the iPhone5 is the current king of the hill. Regarding your specific question, for the iPhone5 - I copied all the iPad3 settings and added the baseline shadow settings from the Mac version (Mac version has better shadows) - and it seemed to be able to cope with that. These settings are not final - just a quick test I had to do 5 min after getting my hands on an iPhone5 device. That being said, the iPad3 is still my preferred device - because games like this are just BETTER on a large display
Actually - this picture sums up my inspiration better than anything else: I guess my motivation was not to make Railroad Tycoon with better graphics - others can do that better than me (sad, but true)... I wanted to make a railroad game that was NOT available on the market - a game that was inspired by my childhood memories playing with model trains and all the fantastic adventures I had as a kid - exploring and building new worlds, building amazing railroads, speed records, competitions, robbers, indians, the history, and my admiration for the great machines... So, rather than saying Railroad Tycoon 1 has been my main inspiration - I would rather say it has been equal parts Sid Meier's Railroads, Civilization, Age of Empires I and II, Settlers, Sid Meier's Pirates! and the fantastic board game series Ticket to Ride. Fans of these games will all find elements in Age of Trains they will recognize... sorry...
I completely agree. Sadly I don't think this game is going to be as much of an economic sim as the original RT, but still looks promising. I'd pay $10 for a real RT clone. It has such simple graphics requirements that you'd think someone would have created an iOS clone by now; but nothing!!
I have fond memories of packing the 8088 out to the back porch and relaxing and playing RT1 for most of the day, basking in the glow of it's CGA graphics and doing our best not to cringe at the PC Speaker sound. On that slow of a PC it really was a relaxing game as the trains took so long to get from city to city...
Oh yeah ... I remember it was long ago as I wrote that this is only vaporware ... and now, years later ...
