Transport Tycoon 20th-anniversary interview, 2014

Cite as: Transport Tycoon 20th-anniversary interview, 2014
Original: https://www.transporttycoon.com/anniversary
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Accessed: 2026-10-26
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Credit: Antonia McGuire's Q&A with Chris Sawyer, art director Simon Foster, and programmers Steve and Jas, published for the 2014 mobile release.
Notes: Sawyer answers where Transport Tycoon's concept came from, naming Railroad Tycoon as the game he enjoyed and wanted to take further. The same answer is a negative source for SimCity: he says he "hadn't actually played Sim City". Numbered question 5 ("Where did the original concept for Transport Tycoon come from?").

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Chris Sawyer said in 2014 that he thought Railroad Tycoon's gameplay was fantastic and set out to take it further, with more modes of transport and his isometric view. In 2000 he put his aim as something "less complex but more fun than Railroad Tycoon".	`question 5`	Interview
Asked in 2014 about other world-builder games of the time, Sawyer said he hadn't played SimCity.	`question 5, follow-up on world builder games`	Interview