Second Quest

Building global scale simulation games from 🇮🇳
🛠️ 🎮 'Model Trains' - bringing the joy of building model train sets into a rich, digital sandbox experience

[Second Quest @SecondQuest_]

We’re live. Play Hour #7 is on.

Last time @kinshuksunil built a whole railway and the train immediately gave up. Today we find out if he did his physics homework.

👉 https://t.co/GbPkOnEqYU

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Last Play Hour, we built a whole railway and the train derailed immediately.

Tonight we try again. Live in a few minutes

👉 https://t.co/GbPkOnEqYU

#indiegame #modeltrains #gamedev #shorts #sandboxgame

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We're live. Tune in now.

https://t.co/lqehpftJvy

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We're walking through the Train Manager live today. Build your own consists and run them on your layout.

Railyard Diaries 9.

🇺🇸 2 PM ET · 11 AM PT · 🇬🇧 7 PM BST · 🇪🇺 8 PM CEST

https://t.co/lqehpftJvy

#gamedev #modeltrains #modelrailway

[Kinshuk Sunil @kinshuksunil]

Was on @TheKenWeb's Daybreak podcast this week talking about AI in games, game flow, and why the gaming community isn't just anti-AI. It's anti-slop.

🎙 https://t.co/SFNQJ9Tfga
Also on YouTube: https://t.co/rAZxbR0dCW

What do you think? Let me know in the comments.

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@kinshuksunil @TheKenWeb This is something we think about every day building Model Trains. The challenge is the point. 🎮

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Listen to our co-founder @kinshuksunil's take on why the gaming community isn't anti-AI, it's anti-slop. 🎙

[The Ken @TheKenWeb]

Microsoft called Copilot "entertainment only." Then killed it on Xbox.

Where does AI actually belong in gaming?

Find out in today's Daybreak.

Listen on Spotify: https://t.co/al7X7q7coX

Or Apple Podcasts: https://t.co/8MEwp3pcYe

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The 'Train Manager' introduces a workshop inside Model Trains. Browse, build and run your own consists on your layout. We'll be walking through it live this Saturday, 30 May.

Subscribe to get notified: https://t.co/lqehpftJvy

#ModelTrains #GameDev #IndieDev #Devlog #TrainSim

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@BillyBonesIndie @vivekjha92 Thank you ❤️

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So @vivekjha92 's been buried in art experiments this week. Lighting, textures, dense fog. Just working out what Model Trains actually looks like. We think he's getting there. 🌫️🚂
#indiedev #gamedev #buildinginpublic #builtinunity

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🔴 LIVE.
Play Hour #6 is on. @kinshuksunil's building, @yadurajiv's watching it fall apart 😂

Come join 👇
https://t.co/WuvcNjukB7

#ModelTrains #Gamedev #Indiedev #BuildInPublic

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Prototyping game UI is tricky. Mocking things up without real interaction and data always feels a bit distant @yadurajiv went back to Figma Make for our train manager and it just... clicked. Working prototype, lots of iterations, couple of hourssatisfying 🚂
#indiedev #gamedev

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#indiegame #modeltrains #gamedev

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Trees that animate as they appear. Dirt that displaces as track gets constructed. @kinshuksunil and @vivekjha92 on the small details that make building in Model Trains feel genuinely satisfying.

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#indiegame #modeltrains #gamedev

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So @vivekjha92 built a tool that tells you exactly where your tracks are going, distance to nearby objects, exact angles, parallel alignment.
@kinshuksunil tried it and called it his favourite feature in the game.
Watch why.

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Building the real-world trains wasn't just an art task. @kinshuksunil spent time walking through the history of railways and finding locomotives that matter to the model train community, researching the coaches, understanding what made each one iconic.
#modeltrains

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The game world was always the source. Our co-founder @shagufta147 wrote about why the next era of big IPs belongs to platforms that give players the tools to build 🧵👇

[Shagufta Khan @shagufta147]

Pokémon is the highest-grossing media franchise in history at $147B.

Not Disney. Not Marvel. Not Star Wars.

Two Game Boy games from 1996. 🧵

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@northlandz The bridge detailing alone. We're making a model train sim and this is both inspiration and intimidation 😅

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@denniscamp Decades of building by hand. This isn't a layout, it's a legacy🤌