Hello! My title is Luke and I’m right here to let you know a bit about our newest recreation – Railbound, a comfortable puzzle recreation a few pair of canines on a practice journey all over the world.
On the Proper Monitor
To progress in Railbound, gamers want to position, reroute and take away railway connections in order that practice carriages may be safely linked to the engine whereas sustaining the proper order. The problem stems from the truth that you possibly can solely use a restricted quantity of tracks on every degree, in addition to from us progressively introducing new mechanics and reinforcing them by means of later puzzles.
So as to obtain an optimum expertise we playtest the sport from very early phases. As an example, early on we realized that gamers had plenty of bother understanding that they’ll modify the route of railways they already positioned with out eradicating them, which led us to including particular puzzles that focus solely on that side.
One other instance could also be how in early improvement, the preliminary route of the practice carriages was not seen sufficient, leaving gamers confused about which manner they’ll go – which is why we added animated arrows in entrance of them to alleviate that drawback. These options have been redesigned by means of in depth testing, permitting us to make the preliminary expertise of taking part in the sport as enjoyable as potential.
Virtually everybody on our workforce has had a hand in designing puzzles for Railbound which presents a novel alternative since all members have a barely totally different strategy to creating new ranges. For instance, I are likely to give attention to the unexplored design area between mechanics (which interactions haven’t been lined in current puzzles?) in addition to onboarding the participant (in what order we train the mechanics? Is the tempo of the tutorial too sluggish or too fast?). In the meantime different workforce members may pursue different points, similar to “ranges that look good and symmetrical” or “let’s simply make a extremely brutal puzzle” which provides the ultimate recreation an attention-grabbing stability.
Connecting the World
In our earlier titles – inbento and Golf Peaks – we’ve all the time struggled with incorporating bonus puzzles that might be satisfying for extra skilled gamers, whereas not inflicting frustration to these searching for a extra informal expertise.
This is the reason in Railbound, we’ve divided our 200-plus puzzles into “base” and “bonus” ranges that are linked collectively on the world map. The primary sort are ranges which have to be accomplished in a linear style, and we normally make the most of them to show mechanics that you just’ll want in your journey. Additionally, for fixing all base puzzles in a given world you get handled to a cute illustration that includes our in-game mascots! (And sure, you can pet the canines).
Bonus ranges current related, however extra complicated challenges, usually designed as a variation or extension of the bottom ones. Fairly often these additional ranges have been truly designed first, however after realizing that they have been a bit too difficult (but nonetheless attention-grabbing sufficient), we designed less complicated variations of them to function base puzzles. Usually it seems that altering a single tile in a degree or eradicating one piece of railway could make it a lot, a lot trickier to unravel!
Our intent is that almost all gamers ought to give attention to the primary path; however should you ever end up in want of additional problem or can’t discover a strategy to crack a base degree, be at liberty to take a look at the bonus ones too!
Trains for Everybody
As talked about earlier, a giant focus for us on Railbound was ensuring that every one gamers can benefit from the expertise; which is why we’ve added a slew of accessibility options to accommodate all types of gamers.
First off, from the beginning of the sport you possibly can determine to unlock each single degree in Railbound and skip any puzzle that you just really feel is simply too troublesome. That is additionally helpful for anybody who needs to proceed taking part in on one other gadget… or who may’ve misplaced save information due to a youthful sibling.
If skipping puzzles altogether seems like a bit an excessive amount of, we’ve acquired an elective trace system that implies placement for a number of tiles on the present degree, with out spoiling the entire answer.
We hope that you just’ll have a good time taking part in Railbound and our different puzzle titles – we’ve put plenty of coronary heart into them and can proceed to take action sooner or later.
Railbound
7Levels
$12.99
$11.04
Join and sever railways throughout totally different landscapes and assist everybody attain their properties. Resolve over 200 intelligent puzzles starting from light slopes to twisted passageways.
BEND RAILS TO MAKE THE TRAINS GO ‘CHOO-CHOO’
Place, take away and reroute connections in order that carriages safely connect with the locomotive. However, watch out and don’t make them run into one another!
200+ PUZZLES TO COMPLETE
Principal ranges will take you thru quite a lot of areas at a relaxed tempo. Forks alongside the street will lead you to spicy brain-teasers that’ll please even essentially the most demanding gamers!
TRAIN-INSPIRED MECHANICS
Use tunnels to cowl huge distances immediately. Delay trains utilizing well-timed railway limitations. Swap tracks to reroute vehicles in several instructions. Decide up cute buddies on the way in which and encounter much more challenges in your journey!
ART AND MUSIC FULL OF WHOLESOME VIBES
Throughout the sport’s world get pleasure from our comic-book-inspired visuals and a soothing unique soundtrack by the workforce behind Golf Peaks and inbento.