Dr. Whoop's Dev blog

Game developer. Working on 'Tracks: The Train Set Game' available now on PC, Xbox and Switch.

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A new Tracks update is out with a bunch of quality of life improvements and optimisations

Loading is >5 times faster, new quicksave/autosave features, a new layout for the toybox and lots more. Full details here

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Focusing on the features that matter

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I've been focusing on improving the experience for players making ridiculously complex worlds, they really stress the "made during a gamejam" infrastructure I had.

Current version is on the bottom, new on top. Still lots of improvements planned but so far so good.

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Just released a free Tracks update with a bunch of nice new stuff.

Trams, train whistles, loads of decorations and more. Full details in the Steam announcement

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I don't suppose I have any Russian followers who could tell me how you feel about this font?

Is it easy to read? Matches the friendly feeling of Tracks?

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Trams are a little more fancy than the other train styles

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Bunch of new house models

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Bamboozled, there will be more trains than ever.

Trams count as trains right?

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Finally adding the bell that I (more or less) finished... 5 years ago

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hehe, smol

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The corners of your land look so nice and rounded! How is that done? Do you have extra mesh edges near the corner?

Thanks! Yeah nothing fancy, just smooth bevelled edges (quite a few) on all sides. It adds a good amount of triangles so I have lower quality LoD meshes at a distance until it is literally a sharp cube.

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Telephone poles!

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Whoops I didn’t post anything here for.. 16 months.

New Tracks stuff coming soon!

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I'm way late but the advent calendar event has now been hidden. Don't worry if you missed it, all 50+ decorations should now be unlocked for you regardless of whether or not you finished it. Thanks for all the really nice feedback on it, glad y'all enjoyed it so much!

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Imagine coding an advent calendar that only checks the /day/ part of the date, then releasing it on November 30th so everything is temporarily unlocked as if it is December 30th, that'd be so embarrassing.

On a completely unrelated note, the Advent Calendar update for Tracks is available now..

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Just a normal basketball game

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The new update is now available on Xbox One and Switch with a whole heap of new decorations and other improvements!