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Thoughts of Trains
A multi-tasking switch management brain game with trains.
Most games make you play the way they want you to play and give little control over the environment. Thoughts of Trains hands the settings over. You set the train speed, train interval, open stations, even the scenery like lakes, trees and season. Make it slow and gentle for a kid, or fast enough to break you. Every map is grown from a seed word or phrase. 1000's and 1000's of different maps. Too many for your lifetime. Share your seed and settings with a friend and they can play the same map.
Every time I play a game I want to fix it and make it better. In this case I took a simple switch management game, routing trains to the proper station, and crossed it with a procedural system like RimWorld. Instead of a fixed set of levels and a handful of maps, Thoughts of Trains can create more maps than you could play in a lifetime. I also give the player control of the settings, from train speed to the number of trees on the map. This is the game I wanted to play, so I made it, and I keep coming back to it.
About Thoughts of Trains on Product Hunt
“A multi-tasking switch management brain game with trains.”
Thoughts of Trains was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 2 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #152 on the daily leaderboard. Most games make you play the way they want you to play and give little control over the environment. Thoughts of Trains hands the settings over. You set the train speed, train interval, open stations, even the scenery like lakes, trees and season. Make it slow and gentle for a kid, or fast enough to break you. Every map is grown from a seed word or phrase. 1000's and 1000's of different maps. Too many for your lifetime. Share your seed and settings with a friend and they can play the same map.
On the analytics side, Thoughts of Trains competes within Indie Games, Puzzle Games and Games — topics that collectively have 110.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Thoughts of Trains performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Thoughts of Trains?
Thoughts of Trains was hunted by Dan Stout. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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