How to Play

🚀 Getting Started

Pixel Park is 100% free and runs entirely in your browser — no download, no sign-up. Just hit Play and start building.

Click the ▶ Play button to drop into your park. You begin with a starting cash balance and an empty plot of land waiting for rides, paths, and crowds.

Your mission is shown in the 🎯 goal bar just under the top stats (and in the top-left objective panel) — usually a target for the number of guests and your park rating to reach before a deadline year. The goal bar updates live and each number turns green as you hit it. Grow your park, keep guests happy, and hit that goal in time to win.

🎮 Controls

You build by selecting a tool, then clicking or dragging across tiles to place things. Most tools let you drag to lay down a whole run at once.

Rotating things

Press R (or tap the ↻ button, bottom-right) to set which way new objects face — handy for pointing stalls, benches and rides where you want. To turn something already placed, hover it and press R, or click a ride/shop and hit its ↻ Rotate button. Facing is saved with your park and travels in share links.

Camera (desktop)

• Hold SPACE and drag to orbit around your park.
• Scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.
• Right-click and drag to pan across the land.

Touch & mobile

• Tap the 🔨 / ✋ button (bottom-right) to toggle between Build mode and Move-camera mode.
• Tap the ☰ button (top-left) to show or hide the side panels and free up screen space.

📊 The HUD

The top bar keeps your vital stats on screen at all times. Hover any button in the game for a helpful tooltip.

🛣️ Paths & Floor Surfaces

Paths are the backbone of your park — guests can only walk on paths, and shops & rides only work when they sit next to a path.

Pick the Path tool to open a picker of surfaces: Tarmac, Sand, Stone, Grey, Asphalt, and Brick. Choose a look, then drag to lay a straight run of path.

Always keep your paths connected from the park entrance so guests can actually reach your attractions.

🎡 Rides

Open the 🎡 Ride menu to place attractions. You start with 4 rides — the Carousel, Swing Ride, Teacups, and Ferris Wheel. Only researched rides appear in the menu, so to get the rest you unlock them in the Research Lab (a 🔬 Unlock more rides link at the bottom of the Ride menu takes you straight there).

Place a ride next to a path, then click it to open its panel, where you can:

• Rename the ride to whatever you like.
• Set the ticket price — your main income lever.
• See its queue length, current riders, income, and breakdown status.

If a ride breaks down it stops earning until a Mechanic repairs it.

🎢 Roller Coasters

Coasters are custom-built with the 🎢 Coaster tool. Here's the flow:

1. Click to drop track points across the land — you need at least 4 to form a circuit.
2. Use the build-height stepper to raise points into hills and drops.
3. Add a vertical Loop at the last point for that showstopper moment. Loops need $COASTR
4. Hit Finish to complete and open the coaster.

Every coaster is scored on four stats: Excitement, Intensity, Nausea, and Length. Balance thrills against comfort to pull in the biggest crowds.

🍔 Food & Drink Shops

Guests get hungry and thirsty as they explore. Place 🍔 Food and 🥤 Drinks stalls next to paths, and guests will walk to the nearest stall to refuel.

Click a shop to set its price and track how much it has Sold and its total Revenue.

🌳 Scenery & Decoration

Scenery makes your park beautiful — and raises your park rating. There are four categories:

Trash cans cut down litter, keeping paths tidy and guests happier. Some premium decor items require holding $COASTR.

🧹 Staff

Hire staff from the Operations panel to keep your park running smoothly:

• 🧹 Handymen — sweep up litter and keep paths clean.
• 🔧 Mechanics — walk to broken rides and repair them, getting them earning again.

Each hire costs a one-time fee plus monthly wages, so balance your headcount against your income.

🔬 Research Lab

Open the 🔬 Research button in the top bar to unlock new rides — one project at a time (each costs money and takes time to complete).

You start with the Carousel, Swing Ride, Teacups and Ferris Wheel. Researchable rides include Bumper Cars, Pirate Ship, Drop Tower, Mine Train, Wild Mouse, Haunted House, Grand Carousel, and Go-Karts, plus the premium water & advanced rides: Log Flume, River Rapids, Gravitron, and the Hyper Coaster.

💰 Economy

You start with a cash balance. Building costs money, and you also pay monthly upkeep plus staff wages. You earn back from ride tickets and shop sales.

Need a crowd boost? Run an 📣 ad campaign from the Operations panel for a temporary burst of new guests.

Keep an eye on cash flow: more rides and shops mean more income, but also more upkeep and more staff to keep them running.

🗺️ Park Size

The Park-size dropdown (in the Operations panel) sets your plot dimensions:

🪙 $COASTR Token

Connect a Solana (Phantom) wallet from the top bar to link your $COASTR holdings. Holding the token unlocks the good stuff:

• 🎢 Coaster loops — vertical loop track pieces.
• 🗺️ Bigger parks — the Large & Huge land sizes.
• ⛲ Premium scenery — statues, topiary & the grand fountain.
• 🔬 Gated research — research the water/advanced rides, plus 2× faster research on everything.

Fair vote weight

The contest uses a deliberately flat vote weight so no whale dominates. Holding under 0.1% of supply means no vote. Above that, you get 1 + floor(percent) votes, capped at 6 — so even a 5%+ whale gets at most about 6× a small holder.

🔗 Sharing & Contest

The 🔗 share button copies a link that encodes your entire park in the URL — no server needed. Anyone who opens it sees your exact build.

Submit your masterpiece to the 🏆 contest (up to 3 entries per wallet), where $COASTR holders vote on entries using the weighted votes described above — one vote per wallet. Best builders rise to the top.

Contests run on a weekly cycle: when one ends, the most-voted park is crowned and added to the Hall of Fame in the gallery, and a fresh contest opens automatically.

💾 Saving Your Park

• 💾 Save — stores your park in your browser.
• 📂 Load — reopens your saved park.
• ✨ New — starts a brand-new park from scratch.

💡 Tips & Tricks

• PATHS Keep paths connected from the entrance so guests can reach everything.
• FOOD Put food & drink stalls near busy paths and benches near rides.
• STAFF Hire a mechanic once you have several rides to avoid downtime.
• RATING Add scenery generously to boost your park rating.
• GROWTH Research thrilling rides to attract bigger crowds.