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Matt Giuca131 days ago

Nice idea, I only player single player but it was fun taking turns with the CPU. It was fun once it got going fast and not too difficult.

I wish that I could place pieces more ahead of time; it seemed to only work when the train was very close. And sometimes a piece didn't place at all which was frustrating. Also I kept getting confused about whose turn it was; I believe the little levers on the side indicate that but they're too hard to notice. Something more obvious that it's my turn would be good. And I'm not sure the passthrough adds much gameplay-wise but it is kind of cool having your train track in your living room.

I love that I can pull the whistle.

Thankyou for making a Pico version! That allowed me to play it with passthrough.

(I tried recording a video for you, to return the favour, and I did, but it didn't record my microphone so there was no point uploading it.)

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Copper Tunic131 days ago(+1)

Thanks for playing! Giving the player better feedback about when it is their turn to place a track and when it isn't, and also when and why their placement is denied is one of the things I have already started working on for a post-jam release.

The intention is that the music and the beat is the main cue for when to place tracks, along with the colours of the tracks in your hand matching the colour of the ground coming up next. Everything else in the game is synced to that rhythm  and intended to reinforce it;  the animation cycle of the  CPU player, the track signals on the side that you noticed, the train's bouncing animation and the train's puff puff noises. But you aren't alone in finding it tricky, so I'm continuing to work on it more.

Allowing placement of extra tracks ahead of the beat timing would break the rhythmic and turn based nature of the game, so it would be a hard pivot to ditch those aspects entirely if I go that way.

Making a pico version was a given, the only headset I own is a pico!

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Matt Giuca131 days ago

Thanks for the detailed reply.

> Making a pico version was a given, the only headset I own is a pico!
I was wondering if I should go to the bother of learning how to make an APK but I figured I wouldn't be able to make a Quest build since I don't own a Quest (maybe it isn't too hard to do even if you can't test it - I see you also posted a Quest build) and nobody else would own a Pico so there'd be no point. Guess I was wrong on the second and maybe the first!

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