![]() ![]() You also have a limited supply of locomotives, so you could use fewer lines and place multiple locomotives on any line, or use as many lines as possible with one locomotive each. As necessary, you must use tunnels from a limited supply to cross the Thames. Where and how many times lines meet is an important strategy in your network.Ī clock ticks over hours and days during which passengers continually appear and every so often a new station will wink into existence, meaning you must decide which line will service it. It may be the line on which they board does not have that shape station, in which case you’ll need to ensure your lines are linked through at least one station so they can change lines to reach their destination. Once you place a line on the map, simply by dragging between stations, a locomotive appears and begins to traverse the line back and forth, picking up passengers and delivering them to their destinations.Įach station has a simple geometric shape – a circle, square, or triangle, for example – and you can see which shape of station each passenger is destined for as they are represented by a symbol in that shape. The city view is, like the famous map, very much symbolic, so you don’t get much of sense of place except that the familiar snaking path of the Thames river crosses the map from left to right. The game starts you off in London and begins with three stations which you are free to connect with up to three separate train lines. You can also get a version for your Mac as well as Windows, Linux, Android, and even in your browser. That is the premise of the game Mini Metro which is now available on iOS. What if it was simpler? What if you could start from scratch and build it up slowly? That could be kind of therapeutic, I think, don’t you? And wouldn’t it be cool if, while you were drawing the map, you could see little trains run along the lines? And see people getting on and off. When I was in London in 1999 I bought a t-shirt with the map on it and I have had my sister, who lives in the UK near London, send me new versions of this several times over the subsequent years as I wear them out.īut you could argue the map is a little too cluttered. It should come as no surprise, then, that the famous London Underground map ( ), designed by Harry Beck in 1931, tickles my fancy. ![]() There’s just something about oodles of white space, simple, bold colours, and crisp lines that appeals to my brain. One of the reasons I like Apple products is because I like clean, simple design. Hello Allison and NosillaCastaways, Allister here from New Zealand again with another review. ![]()
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