Developer posts and news about this game.
Optimized rendering for the bulldozer tool (previously, if you selected a large area with it, the way it would draw the overlay was super wasteful and would decimate the frame rate). Added additional vegetation assets, so undeveloped land is more visually interesting. Because of
With the Gold Edition of IsoMetro, the Grimesoft infrastructure allows you to host a game without running into port-forwarding headaches. A dedicated server is available (and due to being distributed as a Docker image, should also be fairly straightforward to set up on any platfo
This update is for Windows users who are experiencing IsoMetro failing to launch. It seems to be a result of telling SDL (the library we use for keyboard, mouse, drawing in the window, etc.) to initialize features we don't even use -- allowing more to go wrong from differences in
Before this, launching the game thru Steam would fail while running the executable, downloaded from Steam, without using Steam to do so (i.e. by double clicking in a file browser) would work, at least on Ubuntu 24.04 used as a developer system. Bundling has been adjusted, so that
More updates rolled out for IsoMetro, so here’s another Metro Monday writeup. This week’s changes have been solely content expansion. For starters, there are two new car models to improve the visual variety of traffic vehicles driving around town. These are a flashy yellow sports
It’s been two weeks since the prior Metro Monday (these are for announcing changes, and are not strictly weekly). Here’s what’s happened in that time: On the asset side, there are two new buildings. First, “Anderson Antimicrobial” is a 3x3 tile chemicals facility. The archetype f
Here’s a rundown of what happened between today’s Metro Monday and the last one, which was also the first one. Firstly, this past Friday we launched the game! The Free Edition, which has been available on itch.io for years as a rolling developer preview of sorts, is now also on S
On Friday this week, we’re going to launch IsoMetro because it’s finally in a state that we consider presentable. Our plan is to continue gradually improving the game after launch (refining the simulation engine, increasing the variety of buildings, adding new modes), so to take