#boxcar

[whirligig-girl]

Finally ready to start showing off the project we've been working on for a few weeks.

TRAIN PUZZLE (dot exe) (title pending)

me and @msasterisk are working on a switching puzzle game set on slimegirl astronaut Eaurp Guz's homeworld. You operate an Advanced Steam switcher to move cars around. The prototype implements a single level, a model railroad Inglenook layout, but there will be other original levels as well.

MsAsterisk has done all of the programming and game engine work, I've done the game design and art assets.

more screenshots and development photos below the cut:

Until the last couple of days, the game has used plain colored boxes for its cars. The first playable version, shown here, was just a pixel art train toy, with no actual game mechanics, but with an external list randomizer you could still run the inglenook game.

The physics was apparently a monumental undertaking to get working, but now it works great!

i don't remember what this was about. Truncated the vertices to the unit cube or something.

@thefallencomet's playtesting of the first prototype revealed a severe bug with couplers where switching cars coupled at a distance between three tracks at once would completely break physics. MsAsterisk fixed it by simply breaking couplers when they're too far apart.

car concept art

u.i. concept art. The tracks are bonafide pixel art here, but they've since been replaced with all 3D assets. The loco here is a pixelated render done in blender of the advanced steam tank engine model that i made about a month ago.

control stand model, WIP. We're not sure if we're going to go for this kind of detailed control stand. Why does a steam engine use a control stand that would look more at home on an EMD diesel? It's the magic of Advanced Steam Technology! The actual engine is controlled with actuators and microcontrollers, they're merely operated from the safety of the control cabin. The gauges are for brake cylinder, boiler pressure, steam chest, and speedometer--but no promises about whether these will be functional.

and finally, portraits of the engine crew

More to come as the game continues development.

[venus-online]

Montana 2023.

[evilhorse]

The Crimson Avenger #2

[dronescapesvideos]

Experimental Fairchild XC-120-FA Modular Packplane, Developed From The C-119B-FA Flying Boxcar, 1950.

➤STRANGE PLANES VIDEOS: https://dronescapes.video/Extreme

➤HD IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/XC120

[houseshoesandtallboys]

[decemberthe7th]

Part 2 is a blast. (:

[bmxpotato]

Jawbreaker - "Boxcar"

"You're not punk and I'm telling everyone

Save your breath, I never was one

You don't know what I'm all about

Like killing cops and reading Kerouac

My enemies are all too familiar

They're the ones who used to call me friend

I'm coloring outside your guidelines

I was passing out when you were passing out your rules

One, two, three, four

Who's punk? What's the score?

Got a friend, her name is Boxcar

Cigarettes and beer in El Sob

Her hair was blue, now it's green

I like her mind, she hates the scene

My enemies are all too familiar

They're the ones who used to call me friend

I'm coloring outside your guidelines

I was passing out when you were passing out your rules

One, two, three, four

Who's punk? What's the score?

You're on your own

You're all alone"

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

The Castle Mystery The Boxcar Children Book by Gertrude Chandler Warner

1993

Found on Ebay, user therusticruin

[steamedtangerine]

[mrquizzer]

quiz car 98 origin story

[grusik]

Paser/?? by quiet-silence

[venus-online]

[cletusthurstonbeauregard]

[onlyfr8love]

I didn't have time for a bit

[cargobulls]

ONE HIT DOES IT

photo by @wojophoto via Flickr

[houseshoesandtallboys]