Planet Coaster getting shown off in new dev diary video
UK studio Frontier Developments has decided to ground themselves from the world of Elite Dangerous and have been working on a new title called Planet Coaster. The new rollercoaster and general theme park simulator will be released on PC later this year, although a specific date hasn't been revealed yet.The 5 minutes dev diary video shows a few Frontier developers discussing what they believe makes Planet Coaster stand out. Everything from the track-building tools to the terrain editor were showed off, as well as getting into the game's sharing functionality a bit. Users can publish their parks and such online for other people to play with and check out.
UK studio Frontier Developments has decided to ground themselves from the world of Elite Dangerous and have been working on a new title called Planet Coaster. The new rollercoaster and general theme park simulator will be released on PC later this year, although a specific date hasn’t been revealed yet.
The 5 minutes dev diary video shows a few Frontier developers discussing what they believe makes Planet Coaster stand out. Everything from the track-building tools to the terrain editor were showed off, as well as getting into the game’s sharing functionality a bit. Users can publish their parks and such online for other people to play with and check out.
Frontier, surprisingly, has a history of theme park simulators. They actually developed RollerCoaster Tycoon 3, along with some Thrillville titles. A new RollerCoaster Tycoon title from Atari is also launching this year, so the comparison between the two seems all but inevitable.