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Euro Truck Simulator Pictures

Pavel Sebor (SCS Software) has sent 6 exclusive pictures specially for TruckPol site and TruckPol Forum members. These part of pictures reflect last changes in ETS game. You can find them in the top of Euro Truck Simulator Screenshots Section.

Rig'n'Roll Development Update

New development update has been added to Rig'n'Roll official site.

Development update:
• The game economics is being tested, and all the main parameters of its parts (warehouses, carriers, auto dealers, recruiter agencies, hired drivers etc.) are being balanced.
• Sports subsystem (the California championship) of the game is being tested, debugged and balanced.
• All the routes and parameters of individual races, rating system parameters, and road qualities of different vehicle models are being tuned, as well as the effect of installable upgrades on the latter.
• The demo version of the game was evaluated at the Intel testing lab for multi-core performance boost factor. The performance increase of 70-80% has been confirmed.The testing of the game world and the vehicles is continuing.

You can find New Year animated card by SoftLab-Nsk team as well.

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I Hope You Have a Wonderful Holiday Season!
Many thanks for your next year with TruckPol Community.

American Long Haul In ValuSoft Shop

The official page with 18 WoS American Long Haul has been appeared on ValuSoft site. You can buy 18 Wheels of Steel American Long Haul for only $19.99.
Remember, you kill truck game development if you use illegal version of this game! Do not do it!

The TruckPol Shop Page was updated too.

American Long Haul Demo

Online demo of the latest game in the 18 Wheels of Steel series has been launched, you can grab it from SCS Software server. The offical 18 Wheels of Steel American Long Haul website is up and running now, too. Look at here.

Meeting with Pavel Sebor

I was in Prague in a business trip 10 days ago. The trip was more exciting than other ones I had before. I have had possibilty to meet with Pavel Sebor in his company - SCS Software - in centre of Prague on Jana Masaryka street.

I think I was one of the few who seeing live Euro Truck Simulator and 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul in action in their producer headquarter before release. Pavel and Viktor explain me how Euro Truck Simulator is created and showed me major changes in comparison with preceding 18 Wheels of Steel series. I must say that the game looks very nice even though it is still in preparation. New generation of Prism3D engine is used, with a lot of improvements and total overwrites of several areas. The objects and trucks are more smoothed and have more details, the roads more or less is based on real european road network. The biggest western countries will be have 2 or 3 cities in game, the others only one city (Poland, Czech for example). Russian was not available in game - maybe it will be in next sequel (the same as my city Cracow in Poland).

The main futures are:
• DirectX 9.0c compatibilty
• better compatibility and utilization of graphics card
• large enhancement in tree rendering
• enhanced the truck driving simulation
• real looking interiors of European trucks - especially dashboard
• many kind of European AI cards on the road
• traffic system is much improved from 18 Wheels of Steel series
• dashboard and internal HUD has more details
• gas stations, truckstops, repair stations reflect European standards
• some name/mark of trucks and cars are changed due to copyright (licences!)

The second game, 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul is more based on prevoius game called Haulin'. The game areas is expanded to Mexico now. Some existing Haulin' road system/environment was changes to reflect your wishes. It was polished over 3 months.

The good news 18 WoS American Long Haul is close to finished and "gold" status can be reached to the end of this month. The game can be released even this year! The official site will be probably ready in couple of weeks.

Rig'n'Roll Update

New development update has been added to Rig'n'Roll official site.

Development update:
• Artwork testing of the game world and fixing of the bugs in the artwork are in progress.
• Testing of the vehicles is in progress; each vehicle model gets a number of custom upgrades for it. Repair shop stock lists are formed, taking into account the presence of actual vehicle manufacturer representatives in the vicinity.
• Multi-core optimization and debugging is complete. The demo version of the game has been sent to an Intel lab for performance testing.
• The development of the scenario subsystem is in progress.
• "Instant Order" mode of the game is complete. In it, with an initial sum of money and a user-selected truck, the user is completing a delivery order from a user-selected warehouse. A demo version based on this mode was shown at the recent "Igromir?2007", a gaming expo in Moscow.
• The best results are displayed in three ratings, by the profit, by the average speed and by the safety. In the "Instant Order" mode, most of the vehicles are available and almost the whole game world territory. The user can select the weather conditions and the time of day at start.

Euro Truck Simulator Update

The Euro Truck Simulator official site was updated last week. New set of screenshots was posted on its gallery page.

Euro Truck official site

I have got an email from Pavel that the Euro Truck Simulator official site was updated. This information was included on TruckPol Forum as well. You can find fragment of this message below:

In addition, SCS Software would like to announce the launch of the Euro Truck Simulator website, located at http://www.eurotrucksimulator.com - your number one source for information, screenshots, and much more. The site will be kept up to date with more news as the game develops, so we hope fans will visit often to get the latest scoop!
Euro Truck Simulator is a truck simulation game set in continental Europe. The player can drive across a realistic depiction of Europe, visiting its beautiful cities, picking up a variety of cargos, and delivering them on time!
The road network in Euro Truck Simulator is based on genuine European roads, and cities in the game bring the essence of their real-world counterparts to the game.

Rig'n'Roll Forum

There is new information on Rig'n'Roll official site. The new forum dedicated to 1C games including Rig'n'Roll is launched. You can visit it and share your opinions and thoughts.
The forum is available here.

American Dream

A Rig'n'Roll preview, titled "American Dream", appeared in "Game Navigator" (# 9, 2007) magazine. More on official Rig'n'roll site. It is available in Russian only.

Euro Truck & 18 WOS: American Long Haul news

I have got a confirmation from Pavel Sebor about new games. Look at fragment of this mail:

Hello Jarek,
..
We are indeed working on two new truck games - Euro Truck Simulator and 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul. We are limited by lack of time rather than too strict NDA's, I know we should try harder to communicate with the fan community. This information is not really a heavily guarded secret.
..
Anyway, as the work is progressing, I hope that we will unveil more about ETS in the next week or two, and information about ALH should follow soon, too. In fact, we'll be launching official websites for both games within the next month or two, with information, screenshots and everything. But I will make sure you also receive a bunch of exclusive screenshots for TruckPol
..

You can wait for new information looking at official sites in the meantime (in preparation for update)

• Euro Truck Simulator official site
• 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul official site

Thanks Pavel for email!

SCS Software news

Pavel Sebor from SCS Software has posted interesting message on TruckPol Forum today:

Thanks everyone for helping us in choosing the trucks to add to the 18 Wheels of Steel wheel.
For your information, here is the final choice:

• International ProStar
• Mack Rawhide

We'll be disclosing more information about 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul soon. For those inquiring about when it's going to be released - not yet. We'll be breaking the pattern - in the past, 18 Wheels of Steel games used to be released early in the Autumn. This game is going to be ready later, possibly towards the end of this year.

New SCS software's games

The rumours are circulating that SCS Software is at work on new 2 games. The first is probably Euro Truck Simulator and its site you can find here. The second will be maybe the next part of 18 Wheels of Steel series.

TruckSaver

There is old news on the SCS Software about truck screensaver. TruckSaver is a 3D animated screensaver with a trucking theme.
More information you can find on the official TruckSaver site

Rig'n'Roll Update

Rig'n'Roll official site was updated last.
New development update has been added to this site.

Development update
• The game world has gone through technical testing (testing on the consistency of the objects in the game world), right now they are testing the characters of the game world.
• They are testing all the vehicles in the game and at the same time they are adding the final touches on the system of upgrades that you will be able to perform on your truck and the garages where you will be able to do this.
• The development of missions is complete. They are testing it and fixing all the bugs.
• The development of the game installer is complete. They are testing it on different operating systems and computer types.
• They are developing the system of automatic error checks for the game.
• They have finished optimizing the game to work under multiprocessing platforms.
• They are working to optimize game features for different computer configurations.
• They are putting the finishing touches on different lighting for the characters.
• They are also finishing the different scenarios that will be possible in the game.

Rig'n'Roll Picture Joke

There is a Rig'n'Roll picture joke created by Igor, sent me in his last email. Look at the text in the bottom of the picture ;-)

Rig'n'Roll News

I got a new email from Igor Belago about Rig'n'Roll game 3 weeks ago. I am sorry for delay in post it.
Hi Jarek!
I am sorry for delay. We have completed an economics of the game world and now I am a richest shipper in California. Unfortunately my competitors become more and more angry and I feel they eject me next time I test the game (save/load does not work good yet). We are completing now the development and verification of our mission engine for RnR. I like it and it looks like we are able to create three games instead of one on the base of RnR. Just sit and invent different stories and the engine will animate them in the game. The next and I hope the last stage will be a completion of scenario implementation. So as you see we did not have any chance for vacations.
Best regards
Igor.

Thanks Igor for message! The picture from this email will be post probably tommorow.

Haulin' News

Pavel Sebor posted interesting post on TruckPol Forum some days ago.

Hi,
I would like to ask TruckPol for help. We are looking into extending Haulin' fleet by a few more trucks (tractors), but we are not sure which would be your most favorite choice. So we thought - let's ask! Please only consider Northern American trucks for now. There may come a day when we will be asking you for European trucks to suggest, but that day is not here yet, just not yet. ;)
Once we have a good enough list, maybe we can then set up a poll to choose the most wanted trucks?
Thank you very much,
Pavel Sebor aka Sabre
CEO, SCS Software

If you interesting in discuting in this matter please use this link.

Rig'n'Roll News

Here is a short email from Igor Belago about Rig'n'Roll update status:
...Unfortunetally, we still can not indicate the final date of development. Testing process continues. Moreover we are now finalising the mission system, game engine optimization and scaling. So we still have a lot of work and one more summer without vacations.

Thanks Igor for news!

Rig'n'Roll trailer

Rig'n'Roll official site was updated a week ago. The present game trailer from 1C Company last press tour was uploaded there. Download and admire it ;-)

"Don't be afraid." Pope John Paul II said...
John Paul II's second death anniversary April 2 is today.

TruckPol - Spring Cleaning

The Link and Shop pages have been refreshed on TruckPol site. If your site is not linked here, please let me know it.
The new section about Bus Driver game will be available soon.

Bus Driver has been released

SCS Software has today released Bus Driver, an eagerly anticipated bus driving game for the PC, into digital distribution. They have also launched the offical Bus Driver website with more information about this unique driving game.

You can find a message by Pavel Sebor (SCS) on TruckPol Forum as well.

Rig'n'Roll News

Here is a short email from Igor Belago about Rig'n'Roll update status:
...We are mostly working on economical and scenario parts of the game now. A lot of development yet... Hope to complete this spring nevertheless... I have attached some new screens for you.

Thanks Igor for news! These 4 pictures are on the my screenshots page.
Please, do not link directly to my resources if you want see next pictures in the future..

Bus Driver News

It seems to me that Polish company TopWare will be the first publisher of Bus Driver game in the world. Below you can find the links to TopWare site and Bus Driver Polish official site. More news soon - I hope...

Rig'n'Roll Update

There was an update on official Rig'n'Roll site 3 weeks ago.
It concerns an article in the 3rd issue of PC Games magazine.

Rig'n'Roll in MTV

Courtesy of Anatoly Subbotin (PR Manager) from 1C Company, TruckPol site has received information about Rig'n'Roll update.
MTV movie "Video Games Icon" - "Rig'n'Roll" is available at Rig'n'Roll official site yet. The file has 400 MB length!. Special thanks to Ubaku from TruckPol staff for English translation.

Bus Driver News

I got email from Pavel Sebor (SCS Software) 2 weeks ago. I am sorry for delay in posting this message. I was away home some days... Please look at fragment of fresh information from SCS Software:

Bus Driver is completed - the game is done and waiting for release! SCS Software is currently negotiating for retail distribution of the game in many countries (including Poland :-) ), but these negotiations take time, and it will take more time for the publishers in various countries to prepare and manufacture localized editions of the game.

The full text seek out at TruckPol Forum...

Rig'n'Roll in MTV

Footage for the next MTV's "Icon" program dedicated to Rig'N'Roll was shot on January 12, 2007. The program is going to be aired at about the end of January 2007. Follow the announces at Rig'n'Roll official site.

Rig'n'Roll in GameLand

Rig'n'Roll official site has English translation of GameLand magazine (An interview of Alexey Artemenko, PR & Marketing Manager of 1C Company). This PDF document was created by Ubaku from TruckPol Stuff. Thank you very much! The translation will be available to download from TruckPol site soon.