Rail Director by PerfectSquare
A puzzle game about directing trains to the correct stations.
Instructions - Get all trains to a matching station to complete the level - Click the arrow to change switch directions - Press "Start" to try your solution and "Reset" to reset the trains - Coloured switches only apply to matching trains. Click them to change the colour
| Link | https://github.com/jennstubley/LD59-Source |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/59/rail-director |
Ratings
| Overall | 115th | 3.579⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 72th | 3.658⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 200th | 3.079⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 89th | 4⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 180th | 3.316⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 165th | 3.139⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 229th | 2.917⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 6🗳️ | 7🗨️ |
I liked the sound effects (the “chuh-chuh-chuh” ones) and the collisions 🙂
Also really nice that the game runs directly in the browser on the page!
Last year I played a game called Train Valley 2 that was going for a similar routing idea, but the signalling was in real-time, not in advance. I would argue your approach places it firmly in puzzle game territory, while the other is a bit more chaotic (might be fun to check out anyways for some inspiration).
Well done!
I had difficulties to understand how signs worked sometimes, but it's a really good take on the theme, good job! :clap:
This may just be me, but I think this would be great with some extremely complicated levels. I can imagine the difficultly spiking exponentially the more trains and crossovers the tracks have.