Gaming

Transport Tycoon Deluxe (TTD) has re-released on Steam and GOG after being abandonware for 25 years. Whilst it’s great that you can now legally buy the game, OpenTTD is no longer available for free on Steam. I can only see this as a cash grab by an investment holding company.

OpenTTD is a game where you build a transportation empire with road vehicles, trains, boats, and planes. It’s an open-source remake of a game called Transport Tycoon by Chris Sawyer, released in 1994. I have been playing it for many years; I have no idea how many hours I’ve sunk into it.

There are a few setting changes that I consider essential. It’s bizarre to me that these aren’t the defaults - I guess OpenTTD is trying to keep close to the original 1994 game. I like to focus on passenger and mail services, and therefore consider these essential.

Progress Renderer (Steam | GitHub) is a brilliant mod that takes a screenshot once a day, and dumps it into a folder.

The following bash script can be used to generate an mp4 timelapse of the screenshots. Simply specify a region to cut out of the screenshots, and some other parameters, and run the script in the working directory.