Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
ETS2 Truck Customization UI
We have talked about truck customization several times recently, and now we are ready to tease you even more! ;-)
The user interface screen for truck customization is still not fully finished, but you can already see the wealth of options and flexibility that we have in mind. These shots actually happen to be the very first images showing a glimpse of the user interface style that we are going to use in Euro Truck Simulator 2.
The user interface screen for truck customization is still not fully finished, but you can already see the wealth of options and flexibility that we have in mind. These shots actually happen to be the very first images showing a glimpse of the user interface style that we are going to use in Euro Truck Simulator 2.
Saturday, June 25, 2011
CD Project News
It looks like our Polish publishing partner CD Project really wants to give the truck game players in Poland an absolutely stellar treatment. It started with the gift-packed Special edition of Trucks & Trailers, but that's far from all. If only we could find more such dedicated distribution partners in other countries...
Together with Scania, CDP will feature Trucks & Trailers at Master Truck event taking place in the city of Opole, Poland, July 15-17. This looks like such an interesting show that SCS Software will be sending a few people there as well to check it out, and perhaps even show some new stuff that we are working on. Here is a press release announcing CDP's and Scania's cooperation.
Equally exciting news, CD Project is launching a Trucks & Trailers competition with epic prizes, including a Logitech G27 steering wheel controller and cool gadgets from Scania Griffin catalog.
Together with Scania, CDP will feature Trucks & Trailers at Master Truck event taking place in the city of Opole, Poland, July 15-17. This looks like such an interesting show that SCS Software will be sending a few people there as well to check it out, and perhaps even show some new stuff that we are working on. Here is a press release announcing CDP's and Scania's cooperation.
Equally exciting news, CD Project is launching a Trucks & Trailers competition with epic prizes, including a Logitech G27 steering wheel controller and cool gadgets from Scania Griffin catalog.
Friday, June 24, 2011
A few more customization close-ups
This is an image from a presentation that we are preparing for licensing discussions with a key international lighting and after-market parts manufacturer. Keep your fingers crossed for us!
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Good start in digital distribution for T&T
We were not sure what to expect from the start of Trucks & Trailers on the market; T&T is a small game with narrow focus, and we are well aware that the gameplay concept is alien to a significant part of the truck sim games fan base.
Well, the early reports are quite optimistic! The game has scored very high placements in top sales charts on several digital distribution portals, like GamesLoad in Germany (where the game's title was altered to LKW-Rangier-Simulator) or on Orange portal in France (where the French distributor Anuman gave it an even more generic title - Truck Driving Simulator).
We can only hope that not only general public, but also the hardcore truck sim fans will understand the purpose of the game and its place and purpose in the ecosystem of truck simulators, and that sales from our own own websites at www.trucks-and-trailers.com and www.scssoft.com will keep growing beyond the few hundred sales accumulated so far over the launch week.
Well, the early reports are quite optimistic! The game has scored very high placements in top sales charts on several digital distribution portals, like GamesLoad in Germany (where the game's title was altered to LKW-Rangier-Simulator) or on Orange portal in France (where the French distributor Anuman gave it an even more generic title - Truck Driving Simulator).
We can only hope that not only general public, but also the hardcore truck sim fans will understand the purpose of the game and its place and purpose in the ecosystem of truck simulators, and that sales from our own own websites at www.trucks-and-trailers.com and www.scssoft.com will keep growing beyond the few hundred sales accumulated so far over the launch week.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Truck customization in ETS 2
We have made great progress on implementing the truck customization feature in Euro Truck Simulator 2 during the last week. Over the past half a year, we have built tons and tons of 3D models of upgrade parts to choose from, but the code wasn't yet in place to easily try them and swap them in the game. Finally when we want to make a screenshot with some tricked-up truck, we won't have to painstakingly hand-edit things, instead we will swiftly tune the truck to our liking. For now just a couple of teaser images...
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Trucks & Trailers demo out!
Get the Trucks & Trailers demo from the official website at http://www.trucks-and-trailers.com.
We hope that many people among truck game fans will find the game fun and enjoyable. T&T is not trying to be a complete simulation of all things in trucking, quite the opposite, it concentrates just on one particular skill - being able to navigate the truck through tight spaces, especially on reverse gear. Think about it as a sort of game of solitaire for people into trucks - quick to get engaged and overcome a few challenges in the game and then move on again.
This is not a game that could teach you how to drive a real truck. None of games could really make such a bold claim. However, we believe that Trucks & Trailers may become a very useful training tool for helping wannabe truckers connect those reverse-a-truck-skill neural paths in the brain. For this purpose, for bringing together the worlds of gamers and real truck drivers, the game may be even more suitable than the "big" simulators requiring long hours of play time to get anywhere.
Today we are launching the demo protected by the same technology that we have used for years. Unfortunately we don't have the alternate payment methods like PayPal ready yet. We tried hard to prepare them for the digital distribution launch, but even after burning a few weeks on this, the system is still not fully implemented. An updated version of the demo will be available later.
We hope that many people among truck game fans will find the game fun and enjoyable. T&T is not trying to be a complete simulation of all things in trucking, quite the opposite, it concentrates just on one particular skill - being able to navigate the truck through tight spaces, especially on reverse gear. Think about it as a sort of game of solitaire for people into trucks - quick to get engaged and overcome a few challenges in the game and then move on again.
This is not a game that could teach you how to drive a real truck. None of games could really make such a bold claim. However, we believe that Trucks & Trailers may become a very useful training tool for helping wannabe truckers connect those reverse-a-truck-skill neural paths in the brain. For this purpose, for bringing together the worlds of gamers and real truck drivers, the game may be even more suitable than the "big" simulators requiring long hours of play time to get anywhere.
Today we are launching the demo protected by the same technology that we have used for years. Unfortunately we don't have the alternate payment methods like PayPal ready yet. We tried hard to prepare them for the digital distribution launch, but even after burning a few weeks on this, the system is still not fully implemented. An updated version of the demo will be available later.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
A little promo in Czech Republic
Our friends from SvetSim have asked us to help them promote a little competition that they are organizing in cooperation with Czech publisher of the game - Comgad, awarding 3 copies of Trucks & Trailers to the winners. Here is the competition page. If you live in CZ or SK to qualify, and if you have followed the community translation effort or seen the gameplay movies, it's probably worth trying to grab the game for free...
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