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
Screenshot shared by ahakuoku on the Simutrans Discord Building amazing transport networks is a lot of fun, and after building the railway of your dreams you surely would want to share it with others! For this purpose, and also delivering to you Simutrans news and other content, Simutrans is present on many Social Media platforms.
Votes have been submitted and winners are very clear. Congratulations to the winners! First winner The first position goes to… Aéroport De Jean Luc Picard, by DThunder518. Congratulations for your revenge, you finally win a contest! Second winner In second place, we have another image by DThunder. Schmetterlingsstadt gets the silver medal. What’s this, is
Thank you everyone who have submitted screenshots for this second Simutrans Steam Screenshot Contest. Submissions are now closed, and we have over 20 screenshots from pak192.comic (I must admit that it is a bit over my initial expectations). It is now time to select the winners! Let’s proceed to cast the votes. Wiki survey Vote
Christmas has come early for pak128.Britain fans! The latest version (1.17) is released today. You can download it from sourceforge. New in this version: lots of new planes (Milko/JamesPetts) lots of new modern trains (The Hood) new rail tunnel internal graphics (Walsonja) new road stops (Aquin/Wlindley) new rail signal graphics (JamesPetts/Vladki) more citybuildings (Archon) Have
Sarlock, a fellow member of our community, published an interesting and detailed step-by-step tutorial that teaches you how to use Blender, a free 3D computer graphic tool, to create graphics for Simutrans, focusing on buildings. The tutorial also introduces you to the basic functions of Blender.
If you love skiing, mountain climbing or a well planned railroad then you can play on this map of the Swiss Alps made by NYC911. It is part of an interesting scenario in which you have to be very careful in laying your track. Links: Swiss Mountains Scenario – Forum topic Simutrans Maps – download
We have been able to extend our Simutrans South American maps collection by courtesy of gabyregistrado. He made a very nice map of the western part of the Rio de la Plata. It measures 1599×798 and has nice water and mountain features. Apparently the air is very good in this environment. Links: Rio de la