Trailmakers/Pre-release TrailMakers

TrailMakers
Also known as: Pioneers, Project Karoo Developer: Flashbulb Games Platforms: Windows This game has unused code. This game has unused objects. This game has unused models.

This page details pre-release information and/or media for Trailmakers.

This page sucks. If you could make it suck less, that would be awesome. Specifically: Appears to contain a mix of prototype and prerelease content, not to mention all of this being on the wrong namespace.

TrailMakers, Pioneers, or Project Karoo are pre-release versions of the videogame Trailmakers. The only accessible build of TrailMakers is Alpha Demo (made public after the game went into early access), being manifest 1105845463103535907 of the public Trailmakers depot on Steam.

Unused Assets of Alpha Demo

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  Model from an aircraft controller pack by Peter Lee, in very early development it can be assumed they used it for idea testing.

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  "PlaceholderScreenshot.png", not seen anywhere in Alpha Demo, probably some placeholder for a UI element that was scrapped.

Scrapped/Planned Content

Content within TrailMakers that never made it into the full game.

Fuel

In pre-release versions of TrailMakers, the developers were experimenting with a fuel system and fuel tank for engines, they however scrapped it before it made it into the game.

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  Depiction of the fuel tank within concept art.

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  Another depiction of the fuel tank within concept art.

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  UI for ingame fuel, found left in the files of Alpha Demo.

Minimap

TrailMakers initially had a minimap, however this never made it into the full game.

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  Minimap as seen in Alpha Demo.

Pirannahs

Initially, there were pirranahs, that would kill the player in campaign mode if they swam out into open water too far, however this was removed with the full release, these are the only things that can be remotely considered an "enemy" in such old versions, but as they aren't more than a fancy display, they are not.

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  Pirannahs as seen in Alpha Demo.

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  3D model of a pirannah.

Megafauna

Whilst not entirely gone, there were instances of megafauna in pre-release versions that never made it into the full game.

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  GIF showing a giant land whale in pre-release TrailMakers.

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  GIF showing a giant tortoise whilst developing Alpha Demo, it was removed with the release of Alpha Demo.

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  Screenshot from Project Karoo (early development TrailMakers) showing giant armadillos.

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  Screenshot from Alpha Demo showing a very large bird.

Tiny Alpha Course

A big sand and stone based map for Alpha Demo.

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  Screenshot of the map showcasing the Tiny Alpha Course at the start.

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  Screenshot of the Tiny Alpha Course from free camera.

Planned Map

A planned very large map featuring a variety of regions, from deserts to meadows and fields to snowy mountain ranges and volcanic wastelands. It is often referred to in the official discord as "old map", it was never publically accessible and stayed private to developers aside from pre-alpha-1 where very few testers were able to try it.

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  Map of the planned map, found in the Flashbulb Houdini Connect video.

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  GIF of driving through The Meadows past the crossing to Hurricane Heights, leaked in the official discord server by former developer Stidsholt.

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  Screenshot of a place in the planned map, as seen in the announcement trailer.

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  End banner of Alpha Demo, shows the planned map.

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  Texture of a billboard in Beta Expedition (early access) showing concept art for Hurricane Heights of the planned map.