We’re super excited to show you the Parkitect: Taste Of Adventure today!

It will launch next week, on November 20th.

This is a huge game update that consists of two parts: the paid Taste of Adventure expansion, adding a ton of tasty new content; and a free patch that adds a whole bunch of improvements and new features to the base game.
Here’s a trailer to show you some of the highlights:

So, what exactly is included? 

There’s a whole new campaign map for you to prove your theme park building skills in 10 challenging scenarios. Can you also beat them without pausing the game or using blueprints?

Adventure

Exciting new objects for the most intrepid adventurer!

Candyland

Welcome to the land of cotton candy and gingerbread!

River Rapids

A staple in many theme parks, but certainly the trickiest ride for us to implement!
Features customizable channel width, freely placeable bumpers, rapids and waterfalls

Safari Ride

A calm scenic ride that can be made more exciting with freely placeable bumps on the track.

Vertical Spinning Coaster

A coaster than can only be built vertically with freely spinning rows of seats.

Swinging Coaster

A Wild Mouse-type of coaster with unique cars that can swing sideways

Inverting Spinning Coaster

A spinning coaster capable of launches and inversions

Inverting Wooden Coaster

A hybrid coaster combining wooden and steel sections

Experience

A thrill ride that spins and inverts guests

Clockwork

A flat ride that looks exciting in motion but is fairly tame

Cookies, Shirts, Sub Sandwiches and Corndogs!

• Animated doors and gates

• Lava

• turntables for the Water Coaster

• elevators for the Wild Mouse, Spinning Coaster and Swinging Coaster

• customizable 3D text signs

Free update

Some of the highlights of the free portion of this update include:

• customizable water colors

• custom image signs (with modding support!). Your custom images are stored in the savegame/blueprint, so other players can see them too when downloading your shared content from the workshop! Note that custom images take up a lot of the limited storage space in blueprints though

• ride photo sections for all tracked rides

• modding support for creating custom coaster trains!

• improved staff zoning that allows overlapping zones

• all path styles can be used as queues now

• improved track builder that preselects the settings of removed track segments, making track editing faster

Version 1.3 is available now! It mostly fixes some annoyances, for example the default window spawn positions have been improved to not be in the center of the screen anymore (i.e., the place you want to work on and most likely don’t want to have obstructed by windows…)

Since the game remembers where you dragged the windows to you will only really notice this on a fresh install. It has been annoying many new players though, so it’s good to have that improved.

We also overhauled the Build Challenge voting UI. The old UI always gave an advantage to entries that were submitted early. It showed the highest-rated entries first, so if you submitted a good entry very early it was likely to get to the top of the list and as a result receive even more votes and stay at the top, whereas entries that were submitted after a few days oftentimes got buried and received very few votes. This has gotten more extreme after the 1.0 launch since there are more players now.
The new voting UI looks like this:

• it only highlights one entry at a time, giving you a better view of the build
• voting or waiting for a few seconds switches to the next entry
• the order of entries is somewhat randomized but entries with fewer votes have a higher chance of being shown first, so overall everyones submissions should receive roughly the same amount of visibility, even if you submit quite late
• the actual ranking at any point can still be seen on the Workshop

It’s entirely possible that this will need some further tweaks of course, but let’s see how it goes :)

Changelog

- added new Build Challenge voting system
- added a highlight to the transport system connectors of the Deliveries Building/Depot/Trash Chute when in transport system build mode
- added lower camera sensitivity options
- some campaign balance adjustments
- updated Korean translation
- improved which shop gets researched if scenario starts without a food/drink shop
- improved default window spawn locations to obstruct the view less (for newly installed game)
- improved Korean font support
- fixed guests sometimes ignoring certain food/drink shops when hungry/thirsty
- fixed being able to delete things in the tutorial when you’re not supposed to
- fixed clicking notification for drowned guests moving the camera way off-screen
- fixed rides that were pretty much fully covered still stopping during thunderstorms
- fixed some sounds not playing while game is paused
- fixed a case where background music could play twice
- fixed being able to delete prebuilt scenery on land with support rights (e.g. road in Highway Hijinks scenario)
- fixed market research ride intensity preferences graph being quite inaccurate
- fixed being unable to delete/select particle effects after reloading a park
- fixed rides with a queue length of 1 tile being unpopular
- fixed “hold to win” countdown resetting when reloading savegame
- fixed mods not being loaded when creating a new scenario
- fixed bad starting loans in default sandbox scenarios

Parkitect has an official Korean translation now, and the Dutch translation received a complete overhaul.

The game is by far the most popular in Germany, the US and Korea currently, so we hope the addition of a Korean translation and Korean font support will make the game more comfortable to play.
Parkitect also always had a large amount of players from the Netherlands since the beginning. The Dutch translation had become very incomplete over the years, so it was time for an update :)

We know there are still some very common languages missing, and of course we will continue adding support for more languages over the coming weeks and months.

Soundtrack

We had some requests to make the soundtrack available as separate download, so if you want to listen to the games music outside of the game you can do so now.
It is now available on Steam.

If you have backed our Kickstarter at the Soundtrack tier or bought the Soundtrack Edition directly from our website you can find the soundtrack as a separate download in your Humble library now. If you’re not using a Humble account and lost your download link please use the Resender to retrieve it.

Changelog (Version 1.2a)

- added Korean translation
- updated Dutch translation
- added stripe pattern to sources of bad decoration rating to make them easier to distinguish from undecorated areas
- small campaign adjustments
- made info pips (no resources, no path connection etc) click-through while building something
- improved ghost train visibility when a visualization view is enabled
- fixed a case where water could disappear in unexpected places when terraforming
- fixed very short rides being more exciting than they should be and 1-2 other small exploits
- fixed a memory leak