Planet Coaster Alpha Weekend Begins Today – More Info

Good news everyone! For those of you clever people who have pre-ordered Planet Coaster, there is Alpha Access on the game all weekend (ending October 10 at 5pm GMT). When does it start? Oh it started tonight (October 6) at 6pm GMT!

According to a press release we received from Frontier Developments plc, the Alpha weekend is called the Party in the Park community event and at present, it’s only available to those of you who have pre-ordered the Planet Coaster Thrillseeker Edition on Steam. Before I continue, let’s take a break with a little gameplay trailer.

The main bulk of the press release reads as this:

Be the boss in the Planet Coaster Alpha Weekend. Create, Manage and Share the world’s greatest coaster parks with friends and content creators around the world. Surprise, delight and thrill your guests as you build your coaster park empire, and let your imagination run wild with an early peek at the future of coaster park simulation games:

  • Create. Anyone can create in Planet Coaster. Build coasters, lay paths, design scenery and customize rides with Planet Coaster’s piece-by-piece construction. Sculpt the world to raise mountains, form lakes, dig caverns and even build islands in the sky!
  • Manage. The most sophisticated park simulation in gaming history makes management fun. When Planet Coaster launches you’ll control every aspect of your park and see your guests react as you build your coaster empire. Together, your guests tell you at a glance just how well you’re doing.
  • Share. Be inspired and inspire others. Share your creations with the world, and download the best parks, rides and scenery from your friends, community celebrities or the Planet Coaster team. Build it, name it and share it!

And join Planet Coaster’s community team for Party in the Park: an epic, imaginative and fun weekend of community livestreams and activity, where the best community creations from this weekend’s Alpha test will be brought together to build the first-ever crowdsourced theme park.

Tune into the Planet Coaster livestream this Saturday and Sunday from 18:00 BST until 21:00 BST for Party in the Park. For full details on events and scheduling, visit the Planet Coaster Community Newsfeed.

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Planet Coaster looks to have a wonderfully beautiful cartoony style and I cannot wait to get stuck in to give you all some good honest first impressions.

Planet Coaster is released on November 17 on Steam for $40.49 (£26.99) with the Thrillseeker Edition costing $44.99 (£29.99).

Are you looking forward to creating the worlds greatest theme park in Planet Coaster? Are you eligible to play the Alpha? Let us know what you think in the comments below, the RGM Forums or on Twitter.