Welcome to the last of interviews of the Simutrans Anniversary before the final event! Our special guest today has the honor of being the only other successful developer who has made a Simutrans fork: Simutrans OTRP. Let’s explore the boundaries of Simutrans with the help of his creator, Himeshi! ______________________________________ First of all, introduce yourself. […]
One of the greatest honours an open-source project can have is to generate enough interest so that other people consider making their own versions of it. Simutrans, being a successful open source project, is no exception, and the greatest of those versions is Simutrans Extended (formerly Simutrans Experimental). Today, we will take a closer look
After Hajo left Simutrans, a man took care of continuing development – and has continued to do so for over 17 years (more than double the time Hajo was involved with Simutrans!). Without him, we would not be here today celebrating 25th years of development. It is now the turn of developer Markus Pristovsek (known
Simutrans was started 25 years ago, not by a game development company, not even by a team, but by a single man who dreamed to build the best ever transportation simulator: Hansjörg Malthaner, known by the Simutrans Community as “Hajo”. But who is this “Hajo”? How did he develop Simutrans in its early days? What
Hajo’s first Simutrans sketch. At the top-right, a date can be read: 30-06-1997. Today, 25 years ago. Simutrans started 25 years ago. Not yet as bits and bytes, but in the mind of a man: Hansjörg Malthaner (known by the Simutrans community as “Hajo”). Today, Simutrans is still alive, not only as bits and bytes
It took a long time… But the blog is once again online, on a shiny new server. Don’t blame VS at all! ;-)
We analyze the results of the Simutrans player survey.
Our beloved benevolent dictator (and administrator of The International Simutrans Forum) Isaac.Eiland-Hall has released his first music album: “Journey Beginning”.
An interview with Markus ‘Prissi’ Pristovek, the current manager of the Simutrans project.
“- Hats everywhere!!!” “- Omg the hats are everywhere! Multiplying! Run!” Our forum is suffering a hat attack. This is the silliest most dangerous attack that we have suffered since forum opening. Beware! Hats can attack your avatar too. Many Members’ avatars have been hat’ed. Link: Our forum was hat’ed