Park / Alien

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  • Comment System%s's Photo
  • JJ%s's Photo
    Looks familiar :p, Oh and I don't know why but I LOVE that tree with turquoise leaves at the top of the overview :wub:
  • FK+Coastermind%s's Photo
    first of all, i love this because it's Alien, which is a favorite movie of mine, but then i think that is what ruins part of it for me.
    as far as a design goes, its great. Alot of very abstract archy and some really nice details like the crashed ship and the sci-fi buildings. Alot of color and shapes that look awesome and create a very unique atmosphere. I wasnt a wicked fan of the coaster design, but its hard to tell pacing on my computer due to window 7 effing with my life...

    as an alien coaster however, i feel this lacks. Maybe you did not intend it to be based on the movie alien, but if you did, it would be better to call the design aliens since this is more from the second movie then the first. The main problem for this compared to the movie is really the color, which i ironically find i love. the movie of alien and its follow ups were extremly dark, and metallic, with alot of grey, browns, dull reds, and silvers. The color and freshness of this IMO differs greatly from the dirty, aged, industrial feel of the movies...and really, the alien is pure black with green blood, not purple..

    so as a design, i like, just don't feel the alien to it on an atmospheric level, but that's just me being a movie freak.

    FK
  • Maverick%s's Photo
    I have to agree with FK here. As a design I think this is great, but as a movie tie-in it is definitely reaching. And it definitely falls towards the second movie Aliens over Alien.
  • Midnight Aurora%s's Photo
    I'm unable to open RCT2 parks these days, but I must have missed the part where this was claimed to have anything to do with the movie.
  • Roomie%s's Photo
    When i voted on this i did't really consider it a movie tie in. I think its the logo that gives that impression mainly :)
  • MadraDot%s's Photo
    Who made the remaining 10%?
  • Roomie%s's Photo

    Who made the remaining 10%?


    Haha :)
    good spot
  • verti%s's Photo

    When i voted on this i did't really consider it a movie tie in. I think its the logo that gives that impression mainly :)


    The Aliens font for the logo was by request, though. I didn't really see the tie-in myself.

    Apart from that, it's a solid coaster, and the theming definitely has its charms.
  • BelgianGuy%s's Photo
    It started as a coaster themed to the movies but as time went by we didn't feel it really showing it so we redid a lot of stuff like other colours for the track and such, we thought of the theme of it being a military base on a "habitable" planet in the distant future...

    the font was indeed by request and sorry if it confuses people, also the 10% is a little mistake when submitting^^
  • deanosrs%s's Photo
    I thought it was very nice, very capable... just lacking any sense of wow for me. It has few to no faults...

    I like seeing novel ideas and ways of using the game and I didn't really get any with this. I think as well it was something that might have been researched better as it seems you've changed the theme as you've gone through construction. I just tried that on a part of my park... got the land clearance tool out because it just didn't have anything going for it. Maybe it's that when you look at things outside RCT and try and create them within the game, that's when you're forced to go outside comfort levels and you're forced to do stuff you wouldn't usually.

    I did enjoy it though don't get the wrong end of the stick. Really looking forward to seeing some more great stuff in the future.

    *edit* I did just look again... I do like the foliage, the solar panels and the spiky buildings towards the back. What is the purple thing outside the gates?
  • dmaxsba%s's Photo
    Great win for you BelgianGuy and nin, so happy see you both on the front page!
    As for the coaster I really liked it, Alien or Aliens movie tied into it or not. It is a solid coaster with great scenery to add to the visual appeal.
  • J K%s's Photo
    I liked where you were going with this but I just feel it needed to have more of an impact. Some of the archy had nice touches but others felt slightly sloppy.

    Congrats on design Belgian Guy and Nin!
  • That Guy%s's Photo
    I love everything about this. One of if not my favorite design of all time.
  • Maverick%s's Photo

    It started as a coaster themed to the movies but as time went by we didn't feel it really showing it so we redid a lot of stuff like other colours for the track and such, we thought of the theme of it being a military base on a "habitable" planet in the distant future...

    the font was indeed by request and sorry if it confuses people, also the 10% is a little mistake when submitting^^

    Yeah, the font being the official "logo" of the movie franchise is a bit misleading. There were several other good alternatives out there.
  • nin%s's Photo
    Glad most of you seem to have liked it. Like BG said this really as going to be a full Alien-themed coaster, as it was originally made a for a full movie park. Unfortunately, the park never really happened and BG took off with this, giving me updates every once in a while. Eventually he sent it to me for a final run through, but rather than simply tell him of the suggestions I had, I kinda just took it and changed around some things, hoping he'd like it. Everything was completely optional, btw.

    Afterward BG tagged me on to the project and we both gave it a bit of a face-lift, and while it doesn't exactly represent our plans for it, I think it turned out quite nicely.

    What is the purple thing outside the gates?

    seems like someone, or something, missed the runway.
  • posix%s's Photo
    You know I thought it had its moments, but they were a little too few. I still think Saloon Swing is your best work.
  • nin%s's Photo
    Quick question: are the points corrected over time? It seems mine are off.
  • rK_%s's Photo
    as a real roller coaster i thought it would be pretty fun, right amount of theming for me while most focus was on the coaster itself the entire ride. good work.
  • posix%s's Photo

    Quick question: are the points corrected over time? It seems mine are off.

    They look correct to me now? I guess it has to recalculate the rankings first before it shows correctly. It does this once every 24h.