Hello! My title is Luke and I’m right here to inform you a bit about our newest recreation – Railbound, a snug puzzle recreation a couple of pair of canines on a prepare journey all over the world.
On the Proper Observe
To progress in Railbound, gamers want to position, reroute and take away railway connections in order that prepare carriages will be safely linked to the engine whereas sustaining the proper order. The problem stems from the truth that you may solely use a restricted quantity of tracks on every degree, in addition to from us regularly introducing new mechanics and reinforcing them via later puzzles.
With a purpose to obtain an optimum expertise we playtest the sport from very early levels. For example, early on we realized that gamers had a variety of hassle understanding that they will modify the path 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 path of the prepare carriages was not seen sufficient, leaving gamers confused about which means they’ll go – which is why we added animated arrows in entrance of them to alleviate that drawback. These options have been redesigned via intensive testing, permitting us to make the preliminary expertise of enjoying the sport as enjoyable as potential.
Nearly everybody on our staff has had a hand in designing puzzles for Railbound which presents a novel alternative since all members have a barely completely different strategy to creating new ranges. For instance, I are likely to give attention to the unexplored design house between mechanics (which interactions haven’t been coated in current puzzles?) in addition to onboarding the participant (in what order we educate the mechanics? Is the tempo of the tutorial too sluggish or too fast?). In the meantime different staff members may pursue different points, comparable to “ranges that look good and symmetrical” or “let’s simply make a very brutal puzzle” which provides the ultimate recreation an attention-grabbing steadiness.
Connecting the World
In our earlier titles – inbento and Golf Peaks – we’ve all the time struggled with incorporating bonus puzzles that may 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 kind are ranges which should be accomplished in a linear vogue, and we often 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 may pet the canines).
Bonus ranges current comparable, however extra advanced challenges, typically 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 resolve!
Our intent is that the majority gamers ought to give attention to the principle path; however if you happen to ever end up in want of additional problem or can’t discover a option 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 may determine to unlock each single degree in Railbound and skip any puzzle that you just really feel is just too troublesome. That is additionally helpful for anybody who needs to proceed enjoying on one other system… or who may’ve misplaced save information because of a youthful sibling.
If skipping puzzles altogether appears like a bit an excessive amount of, we’ve bought an non-obligatory trace system that means placement for a couple of tiles on the present degree, with out spoiling the entire resolution.
We hope that you just’ll have a good time enjoying Railbound and our different puzzle titles – we’ve put a variety 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 completely different landscapes and assist everybody attain their houses. Clear up 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 hook up with the locomotive. However, watch out and don’t make them run into one another!
200+ PUZZLES TO COMPLETE
Essential ranges will take you thru a wide range of places 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 instantly. Delay trains utilizing well-timed railway obstacles. Swap tracks to reroute automobiles in several instructions. Choose 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 authentic soundtrack by the staff behind Golf Peaks and inbento.
