"The only reason they ever correlated to specific destinations was to ease the creation of the passenger timetables. "He figured it all out," says Curry, adding that even though this was their original interpretation, the team now only refers to stations by shape. One expert even pointed out that the simple simulations of Mini Metro weren't far off from the software high-level experts use to analyze train patterns. Planners enjoyed seeing a video game portray their work, while the transit map community gloried in a system that let them sketch their own rail networks. "Having experts over what we'd made was understandably unsettling."īut while there were some corrections and feedback, the overall response was positive. "At first we were a bit nervous when it went through the transit planning community, because we'd done so little research," admits Curry. After sweeping through IndieCade, Steam Greenlight, and Early Access, Mini Metro released on Steam in November of 2015-and that's when the team began receiving long emails from public transit enthusiasts, designers, and academics. They formed a studio- Dinosaur Polo Club-and hired a small team to work at their home base in Wellington, New Zealand. The game was enough of a hit that the brothers decided to stick with the formula and upgrade the game to a full experience. "He'd found it surprisingly satisfying, so perhaps we could make a game with the tube map?" I wasn’t just hypnotized by the rhythmic movement of trains from station to station, I was completely absorbed in making them perfect." - IGN DemoYou can check out Mini Metro for yourself and play a game on the London map in the demo."That led Robert to think about planning trips on the London Underground," says Curry. "Mini Metro’s clean, stylish interface encourages me over and over again to make the trains run on time, and there’s a deeper amount of strategy to growing a sprawling metro system than meets the eye. If you love Mini Metro, check out the highway-planning follow up Mini Motorways! More from Dinosaur Polo ClubYou can find us on all the usual social media haunts like Facebook and Twitter.
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