Greenlight

We have started our Greenlight campaign, so make sure you vote for us to secure our spot on the Steam Store. It looks to be going well so far and at this rate we should be in the top 100 quite quickly, but we still need as many people as we can get to vote yes.

Demo

We have also updated the demo that was submitted for the PAX Australia Indie Showcase, and made it available to download. The links are on the homepage as of this morning, and here is the video preview:

Music

We are happy to announce that we now have Azz Batic from Azzuro Arts working with us on the game music. It was a big help for the demo to have a reasonable length soundtrack with appropriate music and we look forward to working together on a better soundtrack, for the full game.

Other

Some last minute planning allowed us to display Formula C at the Adelaide's Anime and Video Games Festival (AVCon), yesterday. It was fun getting a range of people to play the demo and helped us find a couple bugs which have been fixed for version 1.0.1. Generally, people seemed to find it challenging but addictive. Some people spent a lot of time trying to perfect their runs and progressing through the tracks. However it's shown that it could probably do with a slower progression of the track difficulty, so that will be kept in mind for the full game and possibly for a future demo.

Comments on the Greenlight page have shown an interest in having Rift compatibility on Linux and Mac. Unfortunately for the moment Oculus has put that support on hold so it's more difficult to get it working. If more people ask for it then we will look into what can be done in the short term (I have started a discussion here). In the long term and for the full version we plan to support all VR headsets on Windows, Mac and Linux but it could depend on the support provided by the manufacturers or on people like the ones working on OSVR to provide methods of achieving that support. That means that it might just take a bit longer for support of some headsets on some operating systems.

The demo has been submitted for the PAX Australia Indie Showcase. We believe we have a good chance of being selected to go but wish us luck, we might need it.

We are just doing a few more final touches to the demo and then we will release it publicly. If you can't wait to try it, just let us know you're interested and we will give you a link to download the current version.

I have uploaded a range of new screen-shots to the gallery (a few above) as the older ones were out of date will all the work over the last month. The videos are also out of date now but it will just be a little longer to make a new one.

Finally all the progress made in the demo means we are ahead of schedule so we now plan to start working on the multiplayer functionality very soon. That should hopefully allow us to release the full game around the end of the year, instead of an early access version

We are working hard to get a demo version of the game up and running. The aim is to have it done within a months' time to be able to submit it for consideration in the PAX Australia Indie Game Showcase. This is the top priority and there may or may not be a lot of updates until that's done but either way we will be busy.

In other news: We have been contacted by WEARVR and they have listed Formula C on their website. When we have the demo completed we will get them to host it for anyone to download.

We have added a glow effect, it's something we had planned for a long time and we finally got around to implementing it. We are still tweaking it but you can see it in the animation below (which is set up for you to see in 3D when you go cross-eyed).

Otherwise I have been doing a whole lot of bug fixing to make sure the editor performs smoothly and just adapting the rest of the game to accommodate the new way of creating the tracks.