What an amazingly neat concept. I do wish the train stops weren't that super specific about letting passengers on and had a slightly bigger margin of error. Other than that; perfect. I can't believe this wasn't done before.
As simple as this game is it's really beautiful ! I had a great time cruising the trains into the stations it's actually pretty relaxing ! Awesome work.
Honestly the only bad thing about this game is that it's, as far as I've looked, the only one of its kind. Pretty to look at and simple to play lol I'd play more train driving games if only they looked even half as pretty as this and weren't so dang complicated Good stuff and best of luck with your future projects!
So I've set up a Playstation TV with a PICO-8 emulator on it outputting to a spare monitor above my desk and having this in express/screensaver mode is great. How awkward would it be for a screensaver mode that automatically stops at stations? Thanks again for making Cab Ride.
Thanks for playing! Your setup sounds really cool.
Auto-stopping is something I have thought about. I am not 100% sure if I have enough space in the pico-8 cart to add this though. I have around 2-3% space left and one or two other fixes that need to go in to a release at some point in the next couple of months. If it's feasible I will add it, but I can't guarantee it.
Sorry I can't give anything more concrete at this time.
God, I'm glad I searched for games with procedural generation. What a calm, pleasant game! I'm glad I found this, and will certainly share with my friends.
enjoyed it too. I missed all stops but they let me keep on riding, felt a bit like a train robber. pico-8 has that special charme. Prehistoric pixel size with perfect 3D math. If you squeeze your eyes together to get a blur view, it looks almost photorealistic.
This is pretty amazing. I turned the sound off and left it on my tv for a while traveling at the second to slowest speed possible. It was nice. It'd be nice if screensaver mode would turn off the counters at the top of the screen and also the big red/green markers, and maybe even have an option of auto stopping for passengers. I'd probably put it on my tv often. Really impressive for a pico-8 game.
Thanks! Regarding sound - difficult, there is no ambient sound. We cut engine hum at the last minute as it messed with the music in the web player and couldn't find a way to get them to play nice.
If you finish a journey (hold left) you will get a journey report with that info summarised. An aggregate score might be something I investigate in future, but there are several features I want to get in v1.1 first.
Cab Ride is amazing; my wife and I have been mesmerized by it for the past two nights!
Would it be possible to get a "Sound on/off" toggle in the start button menu? I cannot figure out how to mute the sound of just the game on my iphone so I can play while listening to my own music (the song in the game is great, it just gets a bit repetitive after a while.)
Thanks! Really glad you and your wife have enjoyed it so much!
Re: sound toggle. Yes, definitely - it's near the top of my TODO. I didn't realise the mobile view of the game disables/hides that option. This will be in the next patch release (a few days away hopefully).
This has now been added to the pause menu. This might move to an on-screen button in future if the mobile view changes, but this allows the sound to be disabled for now :)
Great, thanks for adding that option! I will now put myself to sleep every night watching this while listening to real train sounds :)
Just a heads up: the music does not come back when toggling sound back ON (sound effects do become audible again). Resetting the cart via the menu brings it back. If it matters, I'm using Safari on an iphone, latest ios version.
No problem! The music not immediately coming back on is a known issue - it should start back up when the time of day next triggers the next track. If I can get the on screen buttons to work at some point, this will be fixed.
It is possible that 'Express' mode is activated. Pressing the right arrow key enables/disables it. In Express mode, all other input is disabled and the train drives itself. I'm making a note to make this work like announcing the last stop, where you hold down the left arrow key, so it is more difficult to accidentally end up in that mode.
Thanks for your reply. Maybe it was the case, but I think, that I was trying every other button, to try, to gain possibility to control the speed again. But it is still possible that I just activated it and couldn't turn this mode off.
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Very pretty and cool game ! It's a very chill way to pass time ^^
What an amazingly neat concept. I do wish the train stops weren't that super specific about letting passengers on and had a slightly bigger margin of error. Other than that; perfect. I can't believe this wasn't done before.
As simple as this game is it's really beautiful ! I had a great time cruising the trains into the stations it's actually pretty relaxing ! Awesome work.
Honestly the only bad thing about this game is that it's, as far as I've looked, the only one of its kind. Pretty to look at and simple to play lol
I'd play more train driving games if only they looked even half as pretty as this and weren't so dang complicated
Good stuff and best of luck with your future projects!
Very charming ^-^
This is incredible! Great work
I love this so much :D THANK YOUU
Really, really love this - it's so chill and enjoyable.
Is there any way to be able to contact you about something maybe kinda-cool?
ryan@superraregames.com
So I've set up a Playstation TV with a PICO-8 emulator on it outputting to a spare monitor above my desk and having this in express/screensaver mode is great. How awkward would it be for a screensaver mode that automatically stops at stations? Thanks again for making Cab Ride.
Thanks for playing! Your setup sounds really cool.
Auto-stopping is something I have thought about. I am not 100% sure if I have enough space in the pico-8 cart to add this though. I have around 2-3% space left and one or two other fixes that need to go in to a release at some point in the next couple of months. If it's feasible I will add it, but I can't guarantee it.
Sorry I can't give anything more concrete at this time.
The game is really nice, I enjoyed it very much.
I am at peace with death
Wow. I love this so much. Thank you for making it!
Thank you, and you're welcome! :)
God, I'm glad I searched for games with procedural generation. What a calm, pleasant game! I'm glad I found this, and will certainly share with my friends.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
enjoyed it too. I missed all stops but they let me keep on riding, felt a bit like a train robber. pico-8 has that special charme. Prehistoric pixel size with perfect 3D math. If you squeeze your eyes together to get a blur view, it looks almost photorealistic.
Thanks! From my limited research I found train sims seem ok with you missing stops (Train Sim 2020) at least until you reach the end.
almost cried for some reason. love this so much. thank you.
You're welcome and thanks for sharing :) Hope it was a positive experience.
That video was the original inspiration for Cab Ride! :)
This is pretty amazing. I turned the sound off and left it on my tv for a while traveling at the second to slowest speed possible. It was nice. It'd be nice if screensaver mode would turn off the counters at the top of the screen and also the big red/green markers, and maybe even have an option of auto stopping for passengers. I'd probably put it on my tv often. Really impressive for a pico-8 game.
Thanks! I'm planning an 'even more relaxed' mode soon, which removes the tutorial/goal/objective messages, leaving just the conductor message.
The red + green markers are red/green signals and my attempt at faking Unreal 1/UT99 style lighting bloom :)
'Very Chilled' Mode is now added :) (no HUD, bar station names)
This is lovely, only two suggestions I can think of :-
Option to have SFX only ("rattle-ker-chunk, rattle-ker-chunk, rattle-ker-chunk")?
Some way of game-ifying things more? A final score based on stop-rating, time taken, signals correctly passed?
Thanks!
Regarding sound - difficult, there is no ambient sound. We cut engine hum at the last minute as it messed with the music in the web player and couldn't find a way to get them to play nice.
If you finish a journey (hold left) you will get a journey report with that info summarised. An aggregate score might be something I investigate in future, but there are several features I want to get in v1.1 first.
really cool game, but at the beginning menu, I couldn´t read the text and the buttons, because there was to big pixels.
Thanks!
Was the in game text easier to read than the title screen text?
The font is fixed by PICO-8 but it would be possible to increase the contrast of the text.
"Was the in game text easier to read than the title screen text?":
a little bit
cool, I will give this some thought for a future release.
As a big rail enthusiast, I approve! This cozy little game has kept me entertained for the past few days, it's strangely addicting. Nicely done!
Thanks! Really great to hear that :)
Cab Ride is amazing; my wife and I have been mesmerized by it for the past two nights!
Would it be possible to get a "Sound on/off" toggle in the start button menu? I cannot figure out how to mute the sound of just the game on my iphone so I can play while listening to my own music (the song in the game is great, it just gets a bit repetitive after a while.)
Seriously great job on this, its fantastic!
Thanks! Really glad you and your wife have enjoyed it so much!
Re: sound toggle. Yes, definitely - it's near the top of my TODO. I didn't realise the mobile view of the game disables/hides that option. This will be in the next patch release (a few days away hopefully).
Wow, awesome! We'll be looking forward to it. Keep up the great work!
This has now been added to the pause menu. This might move to an on-screen button in future if the mobile view changes, but this allows the sound to be disabled for now :)
Great, thanks for adding that option! I will now put myself to sleep every night watching this while listening to real train sounds :)
Just a heads up: the music does not come back when toggling sound back ON (sound effects do become audible again). Resetting the cart via the menu brings it back. If it matters, I'm using Safari on an iphone, latest ios version.
No problem! The music not immediately coming back on is a known issue - it should start back up when the time of day next triggers the next track. If I can get the on screen buttons to work at some point, this will be fixed.
sweet!!
Thanks!
I had fun playing it, thanks for making it :)
Thanks, I'm glad! :)
when comes download?
They will be up by this Saturday :)
wooowww
:D
Wow, thanks for the video!
I love this game.
Thanks! :)
This feels so much like
Densha de Go!
and I say that with a lot of praise...
Haha thanks! :)
So awesome! I quickly felt myself relax <3
Nice! That's what I was going for :)
Beautiful
Thank you! :)
This is so wonderful and lovely, I've missed commuting and this really captures the more romantic parts of a journey - thank you!
Brilliant, glad it's filled a gap :)
This is lovely :)))
Thank you! :)
Awesome!!!
Thanks! :)
What a delightful time, adore the art and music! take me to chips parkway any day
Thank you! :)
I've been watching your work on Twitter for a while. I love that this is now available! Great idea and cool music! It just looks phenomenal.
Thanks! Glad it's been worth the wait!
Beautiful visuals for a Pico-8 game. Impressive.
Nice work!
Thanks!
Really cool! The art is lovely
Thanks you!
This is SO lovely & calming, Ben. 😊
Congrats on the release, been a long time coming 😉
:) Thanks Paul!
After like 5 mins, the "up" and "down" buttons stopped working. Can't see a reason why.
It is possible that 'Express' mode is activated. Pressing the right arrow key enables/disables it. In Express mode, all other input is disabled and the train drives itself. I'm making a note to make this work like announcing the last stop, where you hold down the left arrow key, so it is more difficult to accidentally end up in that mode.
Thanks for reporting this :)
Thanks for your reply. Maybe it was the case, but I think, that I was trying every other button, to try, to gain possibility to control the speed again. But it is still possible that I just activated it and couldn't turn this mode off.