People Power: Planet Coaster’s Smart Crowd Technology

Of all the things I expected to be writing this Friday, “you should definitely check out this Planet coaster [official site] dev diary” was fairly low on the list. And yet, here we are.

You should definitely check out this Planet Coaster dev diary because not only does it convey the scale of the theme parks Frontier want to build (crowds of thousands), it also shows some of the tools they’re using to simulate those crowds. There are two interconnected goals – to treat every visitor as an individual and to convincingly portray large crowds moving realistically from one attraction to the next.

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