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[-] digdilem@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Well, that's this afternoon planned then.

[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

This is great, Locomotion was a good game in its own right. Hopefully this will be an opportunity to change and fix the game a little going forward - its a game that never quite reached its full potential although already a good game.

Thanks for sharing! I'm going to download it and try it with my gog version. Its 80% off now on fog now BTW.

[-] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

Wait I'm sure I saw a very similar game in KDE Discover once. Are there 2 similar games being developed at the same time? Anyways great to see more FOSS games and I love the programming language choice.

[-] youngalfred@lemm.ee 35 points 2 days ago

Possibly OpenTTD?

Same developer but different games, from what I can tell he released Transport Tycoon first, then Locomotion which had ?better graphics and less complexity?

I'll have to try openloco, I've only ever played OpenTTD and it's pretty good

[-] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 days ago
[-] Skasi@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I feel like comparing OTTD to OpenLoco is a bit similar to comparing Freeciv to Freecol. OTTD and Freeciv just had so much more popularity and development. But OpenLoco and Freecol are still nice to try.

[-] derpgon@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago

This looks exactly like OpenTTD

[-] Skasi@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Of course! TTD and Locomotion were developed by the same person. From my understanding Locomotion is closer to the Roller Coaster Tycoon engine and UI. Also I think I remember reading an interview in which Chris Sawyer said Locomotion had the cleanest code out of the three.

On that note, considering the original engines are similar I wonder if OpenRCT2 and OpenLoco have any big similarities in the code base as well...

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

On that note, considering the original engines are similar I wonder if OpenRCT2 and OpenLoco have any big similarities in the code base as well…

Probably! From the About OpenLoco page:

The OpenLoco project started in early 2018 by the same group of people behind OpenRCT2.

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