Diary of a Rollercoaster Tycoon Addict

Strategy, Scenarios, Soundtracks, and Sleep Deprivation

Monstrosity Park — designed and loaded with rides by me

Rollercoaster Tycoon: The game that rules my life. Each day I think up new ways to design parks that are difficult to beat. Maybe I should make so many hills that I can’t efficiently build rides and ban adjustment of the landscape. Just for kicks I’ll make it impossible to see anything.

Monstrosity Park — designed and loaded with rides by me

How about I start with only $1,000, and I can borrow up to $75,000, but my loan interest is 65% a year? Guests will have to pay an entrance fee AND pay to ride, so they won’t be willing to pay much for either. I’ll spend most of my gameplay in debt. Fun!

Lighthouse Park without any rides — designed by me

When designing the scenario, I’ll choose the option to make guest generation difficult, they enter the park angry, and only show up with $25. I don’t have an ATM, either, so they’ll only ride two or three rides and then leave.

Lighthouse Park with *mostly* custom rollercoasters (I won)

Maybe I’ll make the objective to build ten massive rollercoasters. But because I still like myself, I’ll build lots of hills so that I can save money on supports. I’ll load it with scenery so that the excitement rating stays high without spending extra money on foliage, but it WILL cost money to delete trees.

P.B. Park designed by me, with hills that allow me to build ten 5,280+ meter rollercoasters affordably

I’ll spend the first ten in-game years struggling to build enough small rides to have a passive income as I pay back my debt and break even. Year 11 I can start building some doozies. The cooler they are, the more I can charge. It’s only uphill from here!

I’ll also leave hidden messages that I forget about to make myself giggle later.

P.B. Park’s hidden messages under the trees (What the P stands for)

Sometimes I just want to design rollercoasters that will never run, because symmetrical things feel nice on the eyes. If you flip a moth upside down onto its back, it might look like this.

Track Designer- where I can create massive money-free aesthetically pleasing designs

Hello, sir. Can I recommend face yoga for those fatty spots?

A single-rail rollercoaster exists in real life, proprietarily designed by Rocky Mountain Construction.

I need to build something compact, exciting, cheap, and visually interesting. I believe this bad boy only cost me $2,000ish.

Demonseed. Named after a beer at Black Sky Brewery

How about I build four “interlocking” rollercoasters so that all four seem more exciting than they actually are and will earn a fat chunk of income if they are synchronized?

Last but not least… I’ll screengrab the creation process and write a sweet soundtrack for it.

There’s no time for sleep when you have one perfect catalyst for all creative outlets.

Chris Sawyer, I think you’re brilliant and I’d like to be your friend.

Watch me be nerdy on Twitch: @Child0light (child zero light)