Posted December 26, 2024 by HappyPixelGames
On October 3, 2023 my friend mentioned a free transport game called OpenTTD. At the time I had mostly dismissed his suggestion due to someone else telling me not to play it for various reasons. Flash forward a few weeks and I decided, this looks interesting and I should try it. It turns out the music was incredible, the gameplay was addicting, everything about it was extremely satisfying.
The same friend had told me he really liked open source software and sent me Godot, I actually had never heard of it as my only experience was tinkering with Unity and Unreal but to no avail or progress. After playing about 100 hours of OpenTTD I began making my own game.
When I began this project I actually had asked a lot of people for help and general coding advice. I had to realize what I was capable of doing as a beginner. I managed to reach my goals and limit myself, but it still took a long time. I struggled a lot with getting the paths to connect and had to go through many iterations of code to finally optimize it. I spent some hours before bed brainstorming movement scripts in my head and how I could optimize them better. The initial struggles were the toughest but I feel that is always how it goes, breaking through that barrier was the important thing.
Now that I have technically had this project in development for such a long time, fixed many gameplay issues and am still continuing to improve it, I have decided to make it a paid game.
I have decided that I will begin working straight towards implementing multiplayer. If I wait it will only get harder to do. I will be adding multiple save slots finally, and custom map generation settings.
A better vehicle order system. Achievements. The ability to change hotkey binds. SFX for vehicles. Vehicle movement / animation changes. Custom texture packs or different game themes. Alien Skateboarder. Helicopter. New desert map named Khaldoun that includes 10 new songs.