"Classic" ElectroTrains now available free on Android

Andy has finished converting the original ElectoTrains to Android. Now available (for free) on the Play Store.

More ElectroTrains is now on Android

By overwhelming popular demand, More ElectroTrains is now available for Android.

Just in time for Christmas, my old friend Andy Murdoch has finished converting More ElectroTrains to Android phones and tablets. It should now be available for download on the Play Store (there's a link on the right).

He's now hard at work converting the original ElectroTrains which should be available soon.

ElectroTrains now has over half a million downloads

The original ElectroTrains game was free for a couple of days earlier this week, to help promote the new sequel. With 150,000 new downloads this week, that takes the grand total for the original game up to a bit over half a million I reckon.

Now, if only some of these people like it enough to buy the sequel, I might actually make a little bit of money out the game!

More ElectroTrains - TouchArcade forum thread

Just noticed there's a thread for the game on TouchArcade.

More ElectroTrains now available in the AppStore

The sequel to ElectroTrains - "More ElectroTrains" is now available in the AppStore. It has 6 new maps, some new graphical effects and now fills the screen properly on the iPad and new 4 inch iPhone and iPod touch. It also looks great on the retina iPad.

I made a new track editor and a set of track parts modelled on my son's toy train track, which makes it much easier to make new maps, and to draw them so they look good on screen. There's a bit more geometry involved in designing parts of a toy railway than you might expect - unless you get the radius and lengths of the curves and straights perfect you end up with something where the two ends of your track won't meet up!

I might make the track editor available in a future update, if I can figure out how to easily let people swap maps.

The original ElectroTrains has been downloaded almost half a million times (sadly for my wallet, most of these when it was available for free), with lots of nice reviews from around the world and a lot of very regular players on GameCenter. I hope lots of people download the sequel too - it's a bit more polished and closer to my original vision.

"LED powered train madness"

It's been a while since I've spotted a new review of ElectroTrains on the web, but saw this nice one this morning:

http://reviews.whatsoniphone.com/electrotrains-review-led-powered-train-madness/

Dunno why they reviewed such an old version though, since 1.5 has new maps and features?

52,000 new players

Just got yesterday's download figures from iTunes connect. Hope all these people are enjoying the game and say nice things about it! The free promotion ends at 5pm today (UK time), so get downloading if you want it for free. If you stumble upon this blog after ElectroTrains goes back to full price, then do check it out anyway - it only costs a dollar (or 69p) - and I promise you'll love it!