The TG Team & Making of ...
Posted: 03 Jul 2003 08:48
The Transport Giant Team:
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Posted: 03 Jul 2003 11:02
Click where?
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Posted: 10 Jul 2003 09:31
How do horses learn to gallop?
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Posted: 17 Jul 2003 16:01
From The Studio
Programmers and rats
This picture shows Markus Zeller's working place. His screen is closely guarded by a big plastic rat.
Incidentally, at one time this rat was almost instrumental in sending our Senior Cleaning Manager into the great Beyond when, unsuspectingly opening the coffee machine, she happened upon a huge rat. The colleagues who came up with this practical joke want to remain anonymous to this day, as they are still terrified of her revenge.
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Programmers and rats
This picture shows Markus Zeller's working place. His screen is closely guarded by a big plastic rat.
Incidentally, at one time this rat was almost instrumental in sending our Senior Cleaning Manager into the great Beyond when, unsuspectingly opening the coffee machine, she happened upon a huge rat. The colleagues who came up with this practical joke want to remain anonymous to this day, as they are still terrified of her revenge.
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Posted: 31 Jul 2003 13:10
From The Studio
Landscapes designed without the help of computers at all
Joe Reitinger manages to produce landscapes even without computers. In his spare time he will tinker with dioramas or his little model railroad installation. The result is quite impressive – though hardly anyone at the studio really understands his decision to use the N scale.
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Landscapes designed without the help of computers at all
Joe Reitinger manages to produce landscapes even without computers. In his spare time he will tinker with dioramas or his little model railroad installation. The result is quite impressive – though hardly anyone at the studio really understands his decision to use the N scale.
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Posted: 31 Jul 2003 13:12
His kids can use them to play with 
Posted: 31 Jul 2003 19:56
But if they break it, uh-oh... 
Posted: 07 Aug 2003 15:17
From The Studio: The Green Parlor
Where do you gather in a developers' studio for a social rather than an official meeting? Why, at the coffee machine, of course.
On this picture we see part of the team in our so-called Green Parlor. For the sake of the picture, we have even managed to persuade the smokers among us to do without their beloved cigarettes for a few minutes. Under normal circumstances, the smoke haze is so thick that flashlights won't penetrate it.
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Where do you gather in a developers' studio for a social rather than an official meeting? Why, at the coffee machine, of course.
On this picture we see part of the team in our so-called Green Parlor. For the sake of the picture, we have even managed to persuade the smokers among us to do without their beloved cigarettes for a few minutes. Under normal circumstances, the smoke haze is so thick that flashlights won't penetrate it.
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Posted: 07 Aug 2003 16:48
"Without" their cigarettes 
Posted: 10 Aug 2003 11:07
Heh, smoke in break room here (australia) and someone will sue
Posted: 03 Oct 2003 20:51
Monitoring is necessary
Developing games is an expensive and time-consuming business. Whereas not so long ago, programmers would simply program away, developers are now aiming to plan and monitor all procedures as meticulously as possible. Therefore detailed project plans are drawn up and adherence to them is continuously being monitored. Sabine is the one responsible for this supervision at our Ebensee studio. She begins her rounds every day at 4 p.m. sharp and collects the daily status reports from each worker.
Developing games is an expensive and time-consuming business. Whereas not so long ago, programmers would simply program away, developers are now aiming to plan and monitor all procedures as meticulously as possible. Therefore detailed project plans are drawn up and adherence to them is continuously being monitored. Sabine is the one responsible for this supervision at our Ebensee studio. She begins her rounds every day at 4 p.m. sharp and collects the daily status reports from each worker.
Posted: 16 Oct 2003 06:48
Woeful Wednesday
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Our coffee machine is cleaned every Wednesday morning. It is a fact well-known to everybody in the studio. The procedure always takes place at the same time. - And yet, inexplicably and bafflingly, almost every week, you will be able to observe a small cluster of people gathering in front of the machine at that exact time. They wait with long, impatient faces for the cleaning procedure to end and the machine to finally start working again
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Our coffee machine is cleaned every Wednesday morning. It is a fact well-known to everybody in the studio. The procedure always takes place at the same time. - And yet, inexplicably and bafflingly, almost every week, you will be able to observe a small cluster of people gathering in front of the machine at that exact time. They wait with long, impatient faces for the cleaning procedure to end and the machine to finally start working again
Posted: 17 Oct 2003 17:56
Round and round
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For Industry Giant 2, the Austrian model train manufacturer Roco published a special edition of a digital starter set. One of these much sought-after collector's items is in our studio now. Here you can admire it in its full magnificence.
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For Industry Giant 2, the Austrian model train manufacturer Roco published a special edition of a digital starter set. One of these much sought-after collector's items is in our studio now. Here you can admire it in its full magnificence.
Posted: 01 Nov 2003 08:11
Knotted leads
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Berni is not only our chief programmer, but also our system administrator. When everything grinds to a halt again on the network or the server gives up the ghost, his help is needed.
Here you can see him engaged in a – seemingly impossible – search for a dead-end in the studio network. In his defense it must be said that this local jam on the data highway was resolved within a very short time.
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Berni is not only our chief programmer, but also our system administrator. When everything grinds to a halt again on the network or the server gives up the ghost, his help is needed.
Here you can see him engaged in a – seemingly impossible – search for a dead-end in the studio network. In his defense it must be said that this local jam on the data highway was resolved within a very short time.
Posted: 06 Nov 2003 20:57
A new face
It's the right time and place to introduce a new face.
Christian Charbula supports us as a programmer in the Ebensee studio since June 2003. His main task is artificial intelligence. He can be made responsible later on if the opponents are too stupid or clever. But we are optimistic that he will design the opponent's personalities so that there is exactly the right opponent for each player.
If not ... his email address is ...a bit later perhaps;-)
It's the right time and place to introduce a new face.
Christian Charbula supports us as a programmer in the Ebensee studio since June 2003. His main task is artificial intelligence. He can be made responsible later on if the opponents are too stupid or clever. But we are optimistic that he will design the opponent's personalities so that there is exactly the right opponent for each player.
If not ... his email address is ...a bit later perhaps;-)
Posted: 06 Nov 2003 21:01
He joined the team late... did they have to programm him first 
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Gone to the dogs?
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The latest addition to our studio could encourage malicious-minded people to maintain that we are slowly going to the dogs. After all, the number of dogs here has doubled over the last month.
The new-comer is a young labrador lady called "Farah". Not really house-trained yet, she keeps her owner and master Martin on the go. Right now, she is still small and cute - but wait another six months, and people might decide that they'd rather not be fresh around her. With a bit of luck, by then she will also have learned that shoes, model cars and cables are not to be chewed on.
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The latest addition to our studio could encourage malicious-minded people to maintain that we are slowly going to the dogs. After all, the number of dogs here has doubled over the last month.
The new-comer is a young labrador lady called "Farah". Not really house-trained yet, she keeps her owner and master Martin on the go. Right now, she is still small and cute - but wait another six months, and people might decide that they'd rather not be fresh around her. With a bit of luck, by then she will also have learned that shoes, model cars and cables are not to be chewed on.
Posted: 04 Jun 2007 15:41
I dont get it. You just broke your own game and send picture thread on tt-forums?? SHAME YOU! Why you dont thing about your own customers(players)? And where is Railroad Pioneer, huh? I think You should make now some "repairing game" big patch and not a pictures of yourself. Dont waste your time for being human... You are Developers, go and develope some game!
Posted: 04 Jun 2007 16:10
Why revive a 4 year old thread, this must be a record