Editing Simutrans (section)

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{{short description|Cross-platform transport simulation game}}
{{Infobox software
| name                       = Simutrans
| logo size = 200px
| logo                       = Simutrans-full.svg
| screenshot                 = [[File:Simutrans pak64.png|250px]]
| caption                    = Simutrans pak64
| author                     = Hansjörg Malthaner (initial, left in Spring 2005)
| developer                  = Markus Pristovsek "Prissi" (current head of development)<br />Simutrans Development Team
| released                   = {{Start date and age|1999|03|06}}
| latest release version     = 124.3
| latest release date        = {{Start date and age|2025|01|11}}
| programming language       = [[C++]], [[Squirrel (programming language)|Squirrel]], [[C (programming language)|C]]<ref name = "github">{{cite web|url = https://github.com/simutrans/simutrans|title = simutrans/simutrans on GitHub |website = [[GitHub]] |access-date = 2025-01-11}}</ref>
| operating system           = [[Multi-platform]]
| platform                   = [[Cross-platform]]
| size                       = 10~400 MB
| language                   = [[Multilingual]]
| genre                      = [[Construction and management simulation|Construction and management]]
| license                    = [[Artistic License 1.0]]<ref name="github" />
}}

'''''Simutrans''''' is a [[cross-platform]] [[simulation game]] in which the player strives to run a successful transport system by constructing and managing transportation systems for passengers, mail and goods by land ([[Rail transport|rail]], [[Road transport|road]], [[tram]], [[monorail]], [[maglev]]), air ([[airplanes]]) and water ([[ship transport|ship]]) between places. Like ''[[OpenTTD]]'', ''Simutrans'' is an [[open-source software|open-source]] transportation game based on the ''[[Transport Tycoon]]'' idea.<ref name="ff">{{cite web|title=Freeware Friday: Simutrans|url=http://news.bigdownload.com/2008/11/21/freeware-friday-simutrans|work=Big Download|publisher=GameDaily|author=James Murff|date=November 21, 2008|access-date=11 October 2009|archive-date=5 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005005027/http://news.bigdownload.com/2008/11/21/freeware-friday-simutrans|url-status=dead}}</ref>