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Union Pacific's Big Boy No. 4014, the world's largest steam engine, made a stop at the Arcadia Valley Amtrak Station, in Arcadia, Missouri as part of its "Heartland of America Tour." • Millions of uni...
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November 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Teaser for the next new feature being worked on in #TrainMisconductor. The basic functionality is finished, owing as always to MsAsterisk's excellent work; the u.i. integration is pending.

(No, it's not (and never will be) multiplayer)
screenshot of train misconductor, an isometric overhead perspective pixel art styled 3D video game. There is a railway track spanning the scene. Two trains, each with a yellow locomotive, are pointed at one another, at an impasse. There are three cars each, and a siding big enough for just one car or locomotive. One locomotive is dirty and weathered and pulling logs, while the other is clean and pulling dimensional lumber.
September 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Big update!
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Total redesign of the GUI for controlling the Advanced Steam Tank Engine in #TrainMisconductor! Gone are the basic sliders, now replaced by a skeuomorphic control stand interface.

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Train Misconductor: New Control U.I.
YouTube video by Luna Rose
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September 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Narrow gauge "Foresight" class S20-332 Advanced Steam Tank Engine no.11513₆ of the South Lymer Railway (the SLYM) on the planet Gymnome, circa 2335 AD.

#worldbuilding #train #steamtrain #trains #TrainPuzzle #TrainMisconductor #IndieDev #DigitalArt #art #slimegirl
Digital art painting of a yellow steam locomotive on an alien planet with a slimegirl crew. The locomotive is short, with twelve red wheels, a yellow saddle tank, cab, and coal hopper, front and rear platforms, two funnels, and highly detailed valve gear, brake compressor, dynamo, frames, and piping. The slimegirls are the curvy, apparently busty orange Conductor, who is standing on the front platform with their hand on a handrail. They wear a dark blue vest with hi-vis yellow stripes, and a glob of purplish hair-goo bangs drip from their red and black flannel headscarf. The other slimegirl is the thin blue Engineer, who is standing on the ground behind the engine, about to climb up to the front platform with the engineer. They wear a blue and white striped shirt and headcarf, and has a big blobby messy dark purple pony tail, and in addition baggy pants and a dark blue vest with hi-vis yellow stripe. The background is a somewhat alien landscape with brown rocky cliffs, blue-green clovers, wildflowers, and weirdly shaped trees, but with a normal partly cloudy blue sky.
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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We've reached a development milestone in Train Misconductor: version 0.4. It's still unreleased, but we are doing closed playtesting, and we're very proud of our progress. Here's some of the highlights.

New background on level select!
September 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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the vehicles so far. The big Garratt model is very unfinished and may not ever go in the game anyway, having begun as a standalone model rather than a low poly game asset.
blender screenshot showing a line-up of alien vehicles. a huge untextured broad gauge Garratt locomotive, a yellow narrow gauge advanced steam tank engine, a futuristic looking red and white advanced steam semi-truck, a steam powered forklift, a dinky little EV truck with a flat nose, and a minimum gauge red Garratt with a rounded cab ditto, but from a different angle
August 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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#TrainMisconductor #TrainPuzzle #PixelArt #IndieDev #Slimegirl

i'm still mostly just having fun playing around with pixel art--no clue if something like this would end up in the game.
August 28, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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#TrainPuzzle #TrainMisconductor #GameDev #IndieDev #PixelArt #WalkCycle

Not sure if this will end up used in-game, but I wanted to see if I could animate a convincing walk cycle with sprites. I think I did alright.
August 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Someone wanted to know if Train Misconductor had car kicking. Oh. Don't worry.

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August 23, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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#ArtFight #ArtFight2025 I got attacked by MsAsterisk! She drew the Conductor and Engineer, the (as yet unnamed) characters from #TrainMisconductor / #TrainPuzzle.

MsAsterisk, in addition to doing an incredible job on this art, is also the codeveloper for the game these characters are from. :P
Two slimegirls in railway uniforms standing next to each other in a field of patchy grass. The conductor (left) is looking at a clipboard and pointing to something behind the viewer. The engineer (right) is blocking the sun with her hand and looking in the direction the conductor is pointing.
July 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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New freight cars for #TrainMisconductor. Steel pipes for the skeleton flat, an empty stakeless flatbed, coils of sheet-metal steel, and steel plates. Also, a stainless steel refrigerated boxcar.

Oh yeah, and a turntable. #IndieDev #GameDev #Train #TrainPuzzle
Train Misconductor: steel industry cars and a reefer
YouTube video by Luna Rose
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July 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Reintroducing...
Railway Misconductor, a shunting puzzle game based on model railway switching layouts, under development by me and MsAsterisk.
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Digital art drawing of the advanced steam tank engine from my train puzzle game. It is an 0-6-6-0 Mallet tank engine with some modern looking fixtures. A blue slimegirl is climbing the steps onto the running board, where an orange slimegirl with four arms is standing. The background is a brown rocky cliff face about as tall as the loco with slime molds and blue-green clover-vines growing on it. The title of the game is given as Railway Misconductor, with Railway and Conductor rendered in gooey blue and orange words and "mis" rendered as a scratchy purple sticker. Screenshot of Railway Misconductor, an orthographic pixel style video game, showing a small steam engine pulling out two boxcars from a siding in an Inglenook Sidings switching puzzle. The cars are detailed with various designs, including a lesbian sunset pride flag and a plain yellow car that has been painted with graffiti. There is a headshunt track that can fit the locomotive and three cars, a siding that can hold five cars, and two sidings that can hold three cars each. There are eight boxcars, and five of them need to be ordered specifically next to a warehouse. There are a pair of steam powered forklifts waiting to unload the boxcars. Railway Misconductor screenshot showing a Timesaver layout with the destinations highlighted. There is a passing loop and five sidings connected together, with five cars that need to be moved to their proper place. Railway Misconductor screenshot, showing the steam engine connected to two trash hoppers, about to enter a turntable. There are three other cars on the other track, which is connected to another turntable, and then a short track connects both turntables together. The timer reads 58 minutes and the move counter is at 103.
June 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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A chemical shipping bureau on the Meridian Railway has unveiled a new livery for their tankers.
Screenshot of Train Puzzle dot exe showing a pixel art style yellow steam engine parked next to a tanker and a boxcar. The tanker is blue with light blue, pink, and white stripes, so as to resemble a trans pride flag, and the boxcar is striped in shades of purple and orange so as to resemble the lesbian sunset pride flag.
January 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The past few days has been busy for us at Train Project dot exe (title pending) development studio (title pending). We now have a level changing system and I've even learned how to use it to make a few new puzzles.

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Screenshot of our game, showing a pixelated view of a train yard densely packed with switches, with five cars that need to be rearranged. Screenshot showing a tuning fork train switching puzzle with an extra spur holding a single car attached to the headshunt. Five cars across two 3-car-long sidings need to be reordered, and a sixth car needs to be swapped out at the single-capacity track at the top. level select menu showing seven buttons. Tutorial 1: Moving Cars. Tutorial 2: Swapping Cars. Tuning Fork. Inglenook Sidings. Classic Timesaver. Random Timesaver. Ice Boxed In.
January 17, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPKN... solving the Inglenook puzzle in full from a random start and end configuration
Solving an Inglenook shunting puzzle in our pre-alpha video game
YouTube video by Luna Rose
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January 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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#IndieDev #GameDev #Trains TrainPuzzle dot exe (title pending) v0.2 has added a lot of new features: 22 more freight cars (including new hoppers and tankers), new icons, sound effects, and a warehouse building on the destination track.

The next major step is additional levels and a proper tutorial!
January 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM