Scenario Editor, Objectives tab: Pirate Paradise

About this game

Developer: Frontier Developments · Publisher: Frontier Developments · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Stylized 3D · Screen type: City & Base Management

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What to study

The Anniversary Update's Scenario Editor turns scenario design into filling in a form the game itself could have shipped: a scenario is three star-rated tiers of goals, and authoring one is picking a difficulty and choosing goal types from a list organised by the system each goal measures (money, guests, management). The Objectives Preview card in the centre is the clever part, it renders your scenario exactly as a player will meet it, Easy/Medium/Hard stacked in one card, so the author proofreads the player-facing version while editing. The editor never takes the whole screen: the park being authored stays visible on the left, because a goal like 'Attract 1100 Guests' only means something next to the park that has to attract them. Frame at about 0:47 in the Anniversary Update video (Steam), a manual probe extraction (probes/anniv-p46.5.png at 46.5s).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

action-list panel-grid

Components

Parts on screen.

Card Tabs Toolbar List Toggle Quest tracker

Screen inventory

• the editor's frame: a blue SCENARIO EDITOR header with eight tabs, Objectives, Park, Finances, Research, Marketing, Staff, Guests, Crime, docked over the right two-thirds of the screen while the park it edits (a pirate ship ride in a flooded quarry of track) stays live on the left, the normal building toolbar still visible along the bottom
• centre, the OBJECTIVES PREVIEW card for the scenario 'Pirate Paradise': three difficulty tiers as star-headed groups, Easy (Attract 800 Guests, Build 2 Rides), Medium (Attract 900 Guests, Build 4 Rides), Hard (Attract 1100 Guests, Acquire $15,000.00), the goals read as a checklist a player could recite
• right, the authoring controls: Difficulty as three stars (one lit), and the Type dropdown open on 'Choose Objective Type', its list grouped by the system the goal measures, Finances (Company Value, Park Profits, Park Value, Pay Off Loans, Total Money), Guests (Firework Display, Guest Count, Guest Happiness), Management (Catch Pickpockets, Hire Staff)
• Cancel and Confirm buttons ghosted at the bottom right, the editor commits explicitly, nothing applies live while you browse

Top 3 colors

#3c4345 28%#e4e2e2 26%#afdff1 18%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Frontier Developments, Planet Coaster screenshot: Planet Coaster Launch Trailer, Planet coaster GamePlay Trailer 2 and Planet Coaster Anniversary Update videos (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Frontier Developments.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-21. verified 2026-10-21: manual probe frame (probes/anniv-p46.5.png, 46.5s) inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080 native) and confirmed as a genuine, settled Scenario Editor frame, all eight tabs, the Pirate Paradise objectives card with all six goal rows, the difficulty stars and the full objective-type list are sharp; no trailer typography overlays the panel

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