More customer variety is a common request for Gas Station Simulator and something we are keeping in mind. We already have plans for bikers in the future and now adding another customer group that is missing just got a lot easier for us: truckers.

Massive long haul trucks is just what we need. And the truckers themselves are always an interesting bunch. We initially wanted to have trucks on the gas station with special fuel pumps and dedicated parking spaces, but we ran into some serious problems with the system handling the traffic. It is something we created early on, but then made the mistake to add and add tweaks onto it. At some point later in the game’s development we realised that the way we set it up and then expanded it simply won’t handle large trucks properly - or anything that “bends” somewhere like trailers etc.



That is a mistake we didn’t make when creating the traffic system in Food Truck Simulator. While we used the Gas Station Simulator traffic system as a starting point there, we went into a different direction with it. And while there are no large trucks in Food Truck Simulator (yet), its traffic system already supports them. So since we are on a roll of stealing stuff from them, we will do it again. It will require some more work to make it play nicely in Gas Station Simulator, but we don’t really have a choice in the long run:

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1792100/view/3359142561385503351

Yes, trucks and truckers are going to play a more significant role in Motel Simulator and since Motel Simulator, Road Diner Simulator and Gas Station Simulator will have mechanics supporting each other, some of the content from one of the games will inevitably have to spill over to the others. In this case having a nice gas station here will provide incentives to truckers as customers for the motel and thus they will have to show up on the gas station. That is going to be so cool! This whole “making these games work together” approach is something that we are really excited about.



Just a reminder, Food Truck Simulator is going to be available on September, 14th. There is an updated demo, so you have a look at the traffic system there. It's a tad more sophisticated, no question about it:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1149620/Gas_Station_Simulator/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1792100/Motel_Simulator/