Following the discharge of its cross-platform simulator, Bus Simulator City Ride, we took the chance to talk with astragon Entertainment’s PR & Marketing Manager, Yvonne Lukanowski, about its newest entry within the collection and the explanations for the franchise’s continued success. Here’s what we mentioned..

First off, congratulations on the launch of Bus Simulator City Ride. Unless we’re mistaken, that is now the seventh launch within the collection?

Thank you very a lot. Bus Simulator City Ride is the most recent installment of the Bus Simulator collection and the primary for cellular units and the Nintendo Switch, which actually marks the start of a totally new journey. Since the very first recreation again in 2012 the collection made large steps. After bringing the final Bus Simulator video games on PlayStation and Xbox consoles, we’re completely happy to now give a fair broader viewers the prospect to dive into the world of a bus driver.

What elements of the sport do you suppose will enchantment most to gamers?

The official licensed buses are one in every of our predominant options which additionally differ us from different bus simulator video games on the cellular market. We imagine that driving an actual bus that gamers know from actual life actually helps to extend immersion.

But the driving controls are additionally one of the crucial necessary elements of the sport. It was an actual problem to convey reasonable bus driving physics to a cellular machine. But this was positively an necessary funding and one thing that’s important for a simulation recreation.

What do you’re feeling has been the key to the collection’ success and its longevity?

Listening to the wants of the group but in addition sticking to the core pillars of the collection and giving the absolute best approach to reconcile all expectations, wants and desires – such because the steadiness between a practical simulation and informal recreation component, simple accessibility and naturally the official licensed buses we now have within the recreation. All of this as a basis allowed the collection to develop prior to now and likewise allowed us to succeed in new folks with each new entry.

You simply talked about license holders as one in every of your core pillars. What we are able to see is that astragon gives actual life manufacturers in all their video games. Why are official manufacturers so necessary to you?

Yes, that’s true. The manufacturers not solely improve the extent of immersion of the sport, but in addition give gamers a particular feeling by utilizing the formally licensed automobiles. A big a part of our participant base are fans of the respective career – in Construction Simulator, for instance, we now have many gamers who work on development websites in actual life or have an excellent curiosity in development equipment, both due to the technical side of the machine or as a result of they’re merely impressed by these large and highly effective machines. The risk to make use of actual machines or automobiles within the recreation is a giant deal for them they usually recognize the enjoyment of controlling a giant excavator or an enormous crane. The identical is true for our bus simulator video games: Many of the gamers are bus drivers in actual life or are fascinated by buses. They often know loads in regards to the technical options of the completely different bus manufacturers and revel in driving several types of buses.

That is why we’re very eager to implement formally licensed automobiles as realistically as potential in each recreation we develop: For Bus Simulator City Ride, the cockpits, sounds and your entire design have been developed in cooperation with the producers. The variety of license companions grew with every new entry. With now 10 companions from all around the world, we now have a variety of various manufacturers in Bus Simulator City Ride. We even have several types of buses within the recreation, from electrical buses to articulated buses and even a double decker.

What have been a number of the inspirations for the design of town maps and what have been a number of the key concerns for making the driving expertise as genuine as potential?

The look of the fictional metropolis of Havensburg is impressed by varied northern European cities and options quite a lot of eye-catching buildings and landscapes, together with the nautical warehouse district, the harbor, the previous city and the countryside. The visitors guidelines that apply on the streets of Havensburg are, because the title may counsel, primarily based on German visitors guidelines. They additionally contribute to the immersion of a simulation recreation. Traffic guidelines all the time discover their method into our video games and are an necessary a part of the gameplay. You may even get a rushing high quality in Bus Simulator City Ride!

Lastly, how a lot of an element has fan response and ideas been in serving to to form and enhance the collection?

Fan suggestions is all the time an necessary issue for us, not solely with the Bus Simulator collection, but in addition with all our different simulation video games. The simulation group may be very engaged and places a whole lot of effort into the video games they play. We consistently get a whole lot of suggestions, which we all the time take heed to rigorously. It’s additionally one thing we maintain doing even lengthy after the sport is launched, and it is one thing we’re at present doing with Bus Simulator City Ride, too.

If youd wish to strive it for your self, Bus Simulator City Ride is out there to obtain on the iOS App Store and on the Google Play Store for Android units.