Our July 2025 Dev Vlog, slightly re-edited to tidy things up time-wise and rearrange each section to put the funni stick up front. This had initially started as a Mini Vlog but became a full-length vid, so we'll be back in August with a properly miniature vlog, with the next full feature vlog in September!
2025-08-25 20:46:48 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy everyone!
This is Mark, your president of Studio 346. Spoilers, we're delaying July's mini-vlog, but it's not because we need more time for once! It's because I need more time! I've been blessed with the lovely chore that is moving house and it's eating up pretty much every second of time I have. It's a great probl...
2025-07-30 19:39:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Another shorter mini-vlog is planned for July, so it is once again time to field a Q&A! As before, the questions that we can't feature in the video we will try to answer here if we can. We'll update this post again once the window has closed and we prep for filming.
Edit as of August 1st: We'll close this off to new questions so that ...
We've had our fair share of highs and lows over the past month and some change; and we hate to delay vlogs (beyond the standard delays) but this one was fun. We hope you all enjoy looking at our 50 Tonner, and our 4-6-0's!
2025-07-06 03:07:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Leave it to us to cross the finish line for a video on the 42nd hour of July 4th, but that's how software goes sometimes. Since we merged last month's video with this one, we'll be accounting for that one month delay by posting the video simultaneously to both Youtube and Patreon. Regular scheduling and the one-month offset between Patreon &...
2025-07-06 00:28:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy 4th to those who celebrate, we're getting the last bits in before filming begins tonight! We have also been asked by Mark, who has been inundated with multiple incredulous "wait you're a dad?" texts, to clarify that he is not the dad. Our project manager, who is not Mark, is the dad.
2025-07-05 00:09:22 +0000 UTC View Post
The Boss is now a dad, and The Co-Boss has returned from the west coast, so we're getting the last bits together to film what we've been working on. As a heads-up, we likely won't be showing as much with industries as we were hoping given the team members assigned that were the most affected, but we have additional things we've been working on t...
2025-07-01 21:38:33 +0000 UTC View Post
A lot of our team is some flavor of alphabet soup and many others are simply good and caring people who support them, and it's no exaggeration to say that Century of Steam wouldn't be possible without the skill and dedication of people from all walks of life and of all persuasions. Narrow gauge railroading is the passion that binds us together a...
2025-06-15 17:08:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! We know how much of a bummer it's been knowing we had to pause funding for a month; and we also know much we enjoy what we're working on. Here's a quick and cute look at my dev level and playing around with some of the oil firing things on our new engine, the beautiful NCO tenwheeler made by Dan!
2025-06-14 02:08:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
We’ve been busy this last week or so with continued work on the deliverables needed for our next dev vlog, and while we had hoped to catch a reprieve from the things that prompted the initial delay of May’s video, additional struggles were sent our way. From marriages to medical malaise, loss of family members and the ...
2025-06-04 23:22:00 +0000 UTC View Post
That's probably how the saying goes, right? Anyhoo, one of the most fortunate things we have in our project's favor is the proximity of members to the places we want to replicate. It's one thing to look at a photograph from several time zones away, but another thing entirely to stand in a place and feel the sun on your back, the wind in your fac...
2025-05-24 09:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
We've been busy with everyone back at the virtual office here, getting new assets, UI, and gameplay functionality implemented as well as expanding upon older ones, (not to mention a whole new type of diesel to get working since this one doesn't have electrical transition or notched throttles!) and after checking in with each depart...
Although we are ostensibly a ragtag bunch of train nerds making a videogame with goofy explosions and cartoon animal mascots, we take ourselves seriously as a company and as a means of railroad preservation in a digital art-form. Our team members care greatly about the survival and interpretation of historic railroad locations, artifacts, and kn...
2025-05-03 03:56:50 +0000 UTC View PostThis is what happens when Mark goes to another country and the Nevadans come out of the woodwork to unleash their sacred relics upon this realm.
As a clarification to the Q&A segment about structured gameplay: Scenarios are the structured/timed option within a campaign which helps to tell thematic story points in each era, but h...
2025-05-01 06:28:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello All,
With Mark out overseas engaging with various steam heritage railroads in Australia and several stateside members under the weather this month, April's mini-vlog will be kept especially brief this time, but we'd like to open for a small bit of Q&A as a follow-up to March's video showcasing a full day on the railroad in Keystone....
6 miles out, 6 miles back; new sim, functional industries, making money, tons of new UI, the list of bullet points to touch on was exceedingly long and we still might've missed some things...
Plus, I decide to choose violence and leave boiler explosions on for a 2 hr+ vlog. What could go wrong?
2025-04-03 16:26:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all! We're nearing completion of the things we need to get done for March's Dev Vlog, which will be the biggest yet with a ton of new gameplay features, plus some things y'all have been asking about and some really cool tech which will test your wits behind the throttle and give additional depth and purpose to running the trains! However, ...
2025-03-31 23:00:17 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy folks! Here we are, on the scenic February 29th... well, 28th, you get the idea. We decided to make a vlog rather than a Post; here we are, featuring some fun updates as well as some of your Q&A questions!
2025-03-01 11:04:31 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy Everyone!
We're almost there with the actual February Patreon post; it just needs a wee bit more time. Should be done by early tomorrow morning, or maybe late tonight (depending on how long Patreon wants to take to let us upload...). We ended up deciding a video made more sense for this month - there will be Q&A and some fun smal...
2025-03-01 02:32:47 +0000 UTC View Post
[Note as of 2/28/25: We're now at the cutoff point for this Q&A as we will begin filming the February dev vlog shortly. It should be coming out either tonight or tomorrow for patrons, so stay tuned!]
We'll be hosting a brief Q&A bit for February's vlog, and as we're transitioning to an alternating schedule b...
2025-02-23 00:43:49 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy folks! We're back here in 2025 to show off the ALCO DL535 and how it's simulated within Century of Steam. Recall it's really a century of 3' gauge railroading - and that includes diesels! This is a gorgeous locomotive with lots of fun simulation built in, and we talk about a ton of other new features along the way... come check it out!
2025-02-01 12:19:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy all! I'm sitting here on Inyo blabbing about my new favorite diesel locomotives and how cool they are at a camera. Vlog will be out probably late this evening - thanks for your patience! -Mark
2025-02-01 03:51:28 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy Patrons! Welcome to the "November" Devlog - some of the challenges pushed us back a little bit, but we're excited to share how some neat features are going to work within Century of Steam, alongside a few community requests, bugfixes, and some Q&A!
2024-12-11 23:52:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy everyone!
We're just about wrapped up on November's vlog, our sincerest apologies on the delay. With the holiday season beginning, relentless trips to the North Pole, and plenty of fun and nuanced rabbitholes gone down, it's simply taken a little more time to get done. That said, we should be filming today or tomorrow, so the vlog w...
2024-12-09 16:03:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope you all had a happy turkey day! A couple small announcements as we move into another holiday season of development:
Firstly, October's dev vlog with the Mason Bogies and Block Signals will be going up on Youtube shortly. Secondly, November's mini dev vlog to showcase some more in-between work will be rescheduled to the first week of...
Mason Machine Works made some of the best locomotives around, well regarded in all media... and some of them ran in, interesting conditions that we wanted to make sure were modeled. We hope you enjoy the video!
2024-11-01 05:07:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy all! As we mentioned in September's Devlog, we've got part 1 of the OST coming to all streaming services on ROCKTober 11th! You can get notifications about it at the link.
2024-10-01 14:56:35 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy folks! Mark here. We're on time for once! But that's because we've been doing a ton of administrative / software / annoying things behind the scenes. There's been a ton of cool stuff done recently; just not ready to share with you all. That said, what we can show, is super cool!
2024-10-01 02:41:11 +0000 UTC View Post
An extra long devlog... to follow an extra long devlog! This month we take a look at some of the customization options available on the Shay, talk all things Shay with Dan, answer a BUNCH of Q+A questions and... introduce our new team member Drew! I hope you all enjoy!
- Jake
