on track to party

_Do you like trains? You can find them right here in this game!_

Join Jeffrey the Giraffe in his high speed adventure to create the perfect party train!
Travel accross 9 biomes and countless stations to get all the resources you need, whilst
meeting new Giraffe passengers on the way!

Be warned! Every journey between stations only takes 10 seconds, not a lot of time to plan!

Tutorial

You help Jeffrey to manage his train. For this you interact with stations and junctions.
The goal is to afford the _party carriage_ to fulfill Jeffrey's dream and allow him to retire. 🦒🎉

Stations

- There are 100 stations to explore in total on our hand-crafted map
- Each station is either a main station (marked in gold), cargo--only (marked in purple) or passenger-only (marked in green)
- You can discern the stations by their icon on the map and the main stations show a gold name in the station ui

Biomes

- The map is divided into 9 biomes: plains, sea-side, desert, city, mountains, underwater, rain-forest, volcano and rainbow space road!
- You can differentiate the biomes based on the environment around the station

Cargo

- You can buy cargo at main and cargo-only stations, each station offers 2 (cargo-only) or 3 (main station) types of cargo
- You can sell cargo at any station
- Some cargo is common and available in all biomes, while other cargo is specific and can only be bought at stations in certain biomes
- A full list of all cargo in the game can be seen in the sell tab
- For cargo which is not offered in the biome a station is in, a higher price will be paid when you sell it to the station

Passengers

- You can let passengers board at main and passenger-only stations
- Passengers pay you when they reach any other main or passenger-only station
- The "total added count" does not properly update in the jam version

Upgrades

- You can upgrade your cargo and passenger carriages and your locomotive
- Upgrades are linear, i.e. you can only upgrade to the next tier one by one (Mk1 -> Mk2 -> Mk3)
- Furthermore, you can upgrade to the _party carriage_ (at the end of the horizontal list), to finally fulfill Jeffrey's dream
- In the jam version the carriage upgrades are only cosmetic, as the increased capacity has no effect
- Furthermore, in the jam version the cargo and money don't get deducted when upgrading (as time for implementation ran out)

My Train

- The list on the right shows your currently loaded cargo
- Below, you can see your current amount of cash you've got available
- Earn cash by selling cargo at a higher price and transporting passengers
- The total weight shows how heavy your loaded cargo is in total, in the jam version however it has no effect

Map

- The bottom right corner shows you a mini-map of your current surroundings
- By pressing [M] on your keyboard you can open a full screen map
- The map gets progressively revealed, once you visited a station its connections are shown on the map

Travel between stations

- By clicking the "Go!" button besides the map, you set off to drive to the next station
- Every journey takes 10 seconds
- You only have 5 seconds to set the fast approaching junction!
- Click on one of the available buttons or press the appropriate key on your keyboard to decide which path to take

Extended Version

_The jam version is the state of our game at the end of the jam time - beware it has missing features and bugs._

_The extended version contains additional fixes and extensions to cover our game idea better._
:white_check_mark: added original music by Losch
:white_check_mark: adapted styling of main menu and settings menu
:white_check_mark: added more decoration in various biomes - including _giraffes_ 🦒