Mini Motorways News

Hi, commuters! It's been two weeks since the launch of the Night Lights update and we're here with a micro update to fix some of the issues that folks have found, including:

1. Resolving the issue where you could get stuck in the tutorial on the Upgrade Select screen without having any upgrades to choose from.
   
2. Improvements to our error handling in our menus.
   
3. Plus fixes for a range of minor bugs and improvements to resolve some issues under the hood in our codebase.
   

Thanks for all of your continued support :)

Mini Motorways turns on its high beams to shine the light on the Night Lights update, packed with two new iconic maps and highly-requested features.

The Night Lights update features:

• Two brand new maps! Explore Poland’s largest city of Warsaw, located on the winding Vistula River, and help to deliver the capital’s 1.8 million commuters to their destinations. Next, make your way across continents to the ancient Thai city of Chiang Mai where you can test your skills by planning your city around the Old City Moat.
  
• If you have Mini Motorways on Nintendo Switch, you can now do a one-way sync between your Steam account and your Switch, so you can pick up right where you left off!
  
• Headlights for Night Mode! Tackle cities at all hours of the day and night with your high beams on and watch your cities grow brighter than ever before.
  
• Various menu performance improvements and bug fixes including improvements to leaderboards.
  

We hope you enjoy tackling cities on the go, with the Night Lights update as your guiding light!

G'day, Commuters!

We wanted to share with you all some very exciting news about Mini Motorways :heart: The Independent Games Festival awards were held last Friday at GDC in San Francisco, and while our team couldn't be there in person due to covid, we watched from afar over in New Zealand and we were so impressed by the lineup of games that were up for awards.

Amongst those, Mini Motorways was up for the Excellence in Audio award, which meant we were eligible for the Audience Award, too. We were all overwhelmed with gratitude for you all – our amazing community – who showed up for us by voting for Mini Motorways as your top choice as the recipient of the Audience Award! It was a surprising and wonderful moment for us, and it showed us how much support we have from our community. We want to share how much you all inspire us and keep us motivated to always make Mini Motorways better and better!

Thank you to you all for showing your love for Mini Motorways. We are so honoured to have won the Audience Award and we can't thank you all enough!!

Last night, RPS' Bestest Best game of 2021 Inscryption won the Seumus McNally Grand Prize at the Independent Games Festival Awards, confirming that once again, we are correct about everything. If that wasn't enough, though, an hour later, Inscryption then won the Game Of The Year award at the Game Developers Choice Awards. It's the first time a game has ever won both awards in the same year, which is a stonking achievement. Clearly, our Advent Calendar made some pretty big waves this year. Just saying.

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Wow, what a wild year it’s been for Mini Motorways. Or half a year? Most of a year? Something. We’ve been blown away by the response to Mini Motorways on Steam and the support we’ve received from the Steam community.

We’re already busy working on our first big update of 2022 which will coincide with our Nintendo Switch launch, but we wanted to take a break and share some cool news with you. Mini Motorways is a finalist for the Excellence in Audio award at the 2021 Independent Games Festival! We’re so happy for Disasterpeace, and the game was also an Honorable Mention for the Excellence in Design category, which is quite an honour!

As a finalist, we are also eligible for the Audience Award, which is a popular vote between all of the finalists for the Independent Games Festival Awards. If you’ve enjoyed Mini Motorways over the last year, we’d appreciate your support! You can access the voting form via our website or read more on the IGF home page over at IGF HQ!

In addition, we are running a survey to gather player feedback on what folks would like to see in new game modes for Mini Motorways in 2022. We'd love to hear what types of new play experiences you want to see, whether they're existing game modes for Mini Metro or something entirely different. You can access the form via our website - please scroll down to the bottom and read the short instructions to see exactly what kind of suggestions we're looking for. :)

Thanks again and happy commuting!

(This is a repost of an earlier post - clearly we don't post links to google forms that often, we had no idea Steam would smite them! Thanks to the players who gave us a heads up. :))