A Food Truck on a Gas Station
How about having a food truck on the gas station? As you might be aware, the release of our Food Truck Simulator is just around the corner (September, 14th). This means the game is in testing and that involves the folks who are working on Gas Station Simulator having a closer look at it occasionally as well. And on one of those occasions they came up with an idea… yeah, of course they did.
“Wouldn’t it be fun to have a food truck on the gas station?” asked one of the developers.
“You mean like a decoration or an event?” asked another in return.
“Eh, yeah, we could do that, too. But I meant like having an actual food truck there that you control, that is another boost for popularity and provides some income.” was the unexpected answer.
And then hell broke loose…
I will spare you the avalanche of expletives that ensued from other devs who heard the conversation or the finer points of treats, intimidation and borderline harassment involved in the process of making the idea take on an actual shape of a plan…
Anyway, after a lot of back and forth the idea really did take on some shape. What we were thinking was adding a food truck to the gas station that you can manage. You won’t have to cook or drive it like in Food Truck Simulator, since let’s face it: it would be far beyond the scope of the idea and that’s what Food Truck Simulator is for. Not to mention you are already busy running the gas station and handling the day-to-day tasks there and more are coming with new content later this year.
Instead, we figured we let you “just” manage the food truck. You will have to take care of its maintenance, make sure it has enough supply to prepare the food it sells and see that the guy doing it all is actually getting paid. We would add a map of the area and on that map there would be several locations in the vicinity and you would have to select when the food truck should be where to maximise its sales, pretty much like you have to do in Food Truck Simulator.
What we would do is grab some of the game logic from Food Truck Simulator when it comes to maintenance, supplies and locations and use them for this idea, as adding a food truck from scratch would just take too long to be a viable idea. Heck, we might as well steal some of their nice customisations while at it so you have to fix it up before it can be put to some use.
Food Truck Simulator has a pretty good demo you should check out to get a better idea how these things work and what we are writing about:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1160920/Food_Truck_Simulator/
And this leads us back to the question: is this something you’d like to see us add to Gas Station Simulator? We have to be upfront about one thing though: adding the food truck might slightly delay the already planned new content for Gas Station Simulator. There is always something, hence us trying to get some feedback from the community to see if in your view, this idea is worth pursuing further.
Please use the Discuss button below to let us know.
