Branch Line Adventures
About
You build railroad branch lines in the beautiful, but very remote Cévennes mountains in France. Create a breathtaking scenery far away from any major city, with the ribbon of steel meandering like a river through it, crossing valleys and deep canyons on audacious bridges, battling steep grade mountain passes or tunneling under them if necessary.
IMPORTANT NOTE
THIS GAME IS IN A VERY EARLY STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT (CONSEQUENTLY: NOT FEATURE COMPLETE) AND CURRENTLY ONLY OFFERS A SANDBOX MODE. SINCE IT IS A VERY EARLY PROTOTYPE AS WELL AS A PROJECT TO LEARN NEW SKILLS, ITS LONG-TERM FATE IS UNKNOWN.
How to Play
The tiles can be placed freely on the entire grid. All nature tiles (except river tiles) can be freely mixed, but tiles containing human made objects (like roads, train tracks, villages etc.) do not mix well. Watch the edges and rotate a tile accordingly or move it to an entirely different place on the grid.
Right now, the tiles can only be placed; there are no points rewarded or any other game play.
Controls
The controls specified below hold true for a mouse with wheel and QWERTZ keyboard. For more options and shortcuts, visit the "Settings" Menu.
- Place/Replace/Delete/Pick Tile, Select: Mouse Left Click
- Rotate Tile Clockwise: Mouse Right Click
- Rotate Tile Counter Clockwise: SHIFT + Mouse Right Click
- Move Camera: WASD
- Zoom in/out: Mouse Wheel, ; and :
- In-Game Menu: ESC or BACKSPACE (especially in Browser the latter!)
KNOWN ISSUES
It is strongly recommended to NOT PLAY THIS GAME IN A BROWSER, since the performance/visuals is/are not great. It is highly recommended to download the game instead!
General
In-Game Menu Bug
In-Game Menu Bug
Sometimes when entering and exiting the In-Game Menu quickly, the graphical user interface is wrongly shown or hidden. If after resuming the game the graphical user interface is not shown, entering the In-Game Menu another time, waiting for five seconds and then exiting again should bring the graphical user interface.
In addition, whilst playing a game in "Creative Mode", sometimes the options can be executed when the In-Game Menu is open.
User Interface Interaction can feel imprecise
User Interface Interaction can feel imprecise
Under very rare circumstances it can occur that Mouse or Keyboard Input is not processed quickly enough or at all. This can lead to no action being executed or another element than expected is selected.
Web Version
There have been reports that the hexagonal grid would not load with Firefox Version 127.0.1, which would make the game unplayable!Visuals
Visuals
Since the Web Export uses a different rendering engine, the colors of the tiles are washed out, which makes them hard to distinguish.
Entering In-Game Menu
Entering In-Game Menu
For entering the In-Game Menu, it is recommended to use BACKSPACE instead of ESC, since some web browsers use ESC internally to exit fullscreen modes and do not allow another application to use ESC for something else.
Browser Compatibility
Browser Compatibility
Firefox
There have been reports that the hexagonal grid would not load with Firefox Version 127.0.1, which would make the game unplayable! At the moment, this bug was only reported under Linux and there is no information available whether it also occurs under Windows.
Linux: Firefox does not allow the usage of ESC for entering the In-Game Menu; it only resizes from fullscreen.
Windows: ESC at first resizes from fullscreen, but than allows to access the In-Game Menu.
Opera
Windows: Opera likes to crash when the player tries to rotate and move the tile.
Chromium
Linux: Chromium does not load the game at all. It crashes with a "WebGL context lost" warning. This also a known issue in the Godot Community.
Brave Browser
Linux: The Brave Browser shows the same error message as Chromium
Edge
Windows: Edge seems to work fine without any known issues.
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