Developer posts and news about this game.
SimplePlanes 2 version 0.7.8 is now LIVE, with TURBOSHAFTS , an Exhaust part with customizable particles, and the Curved Fuselage that can make weird concave shapes with one part! There are also a bunch of bug fixes and smaller improvements (propeller noises have gotten some extr
After nearly a month of public beta testing, SP2 version 0.7.6.1 is now LIVE, with brand new Procedural Landing Gear, bay doors, the new Coughinton Refinery location, and a whole host of performance improvements and bug fixes! You can find the full patch notes here , or on the bo
Greetings! Today the Steam Summer Sale begins, where all of our games are on sale! SimplePlanes 2 is 10% off, and our other games are a whopping 75% off! To celebrate the occasion, we've prepared a big new update for y'all to beta test: Procedural Landing Gear! Please note: This
SimplePlanes 2 version 0.7.4.0 is now live! This update focuses on improving the multiplayer experience, giving the host and other players more tools to curate their space. Server Settings There are now a number of new server settings the host can access, including the ability to
v0.7.03.200 Multiplayer Added the ability to disable multiplayer chat via the game settings Added a button in the player list to block chat with individual players Updated multiplayer chat to support clickable SimplePlanes website links while removing other external links Removed
Update 0.7.3.1 is now LIVE on Steam! This update includes the highly requested Overload XML editor , plus a number of UI improvements, bug fixes, and more! You can find the full patch notes at the end of this post, but let's talk about the star of the show: Overload Being by far
v0.7.2.201 UX / UI Added configurable quick-save and auto-save functionality for designer crafts Added support for cloning parts with the translate tool by holding CTRL while dragging a gizmo Changed Funky Trees dropdown name to Custom Input and added information to the input dia
Hello everyone! SimplePlanes 2 has been out for a few days now, and today we’ve just released our first patch, v0.7.2 , which re-adds the missing bug report button and fixes some bugs y’all have uncovered in your time playing. (Note: all players in a multiplayer lobby must be pla
View game page The wait is over! SimplePlanes 2 has officially cleared for takeoff on Steam! We’ve spent years rebuilding the game from the ground up to give you more power, more realism, and a whole new playground. For the first two weeks you can get SimplePlanes 2 on Steam with
SimplePlanes 2 is now releasing April 23rd After we announced that we're releasing on April 28th we had kind of an awkward realization that s&box , a spiritual successor to Garry's Mod, was also releasing on the 28th. This is good news for all manner of sandbox game players,
Hey everyone! You’ve read the title already (I assume…) so let’s cut to the chase: SimplePlanes 2 is releasing into Early Access on April 28th!! Fun fact: this is almost exactly two years after we posted our initial announcement trailer, which released on April 26th 2024. The gam
Hello again, we hope you all have been having fun with the new demo this past week! Today marks the beginning of Steam Next Fest , a week-long event run by Valve where thousands of game developers publish demos of their upcoming games, and we're happy to announce that we're parti
Hello again! I think it’s about time for another SimplePlanes 2 demo, don’t you? Since the start of this year we’ve been hard at work on our biggest demo by far, and you can play it starting right now until March 2nd! This demo features both Driftwood Island and Bannock Station f
Hey everyone! We hope you’ve been enjoying the demo, it’s been awesome seeing you playing (and breaking) it this past week. We’ve got a bit of an impromptu SimplePlanes 2 blog post here for you today. Normally we post dev blogs dedicated to multiple related topics at a time, but
Surprise!! With the holiday season now upon us and the ten year anniversary of SimplePlanes 1’s release on Steam coming up on December 17th, we’ve released another SimplePlanes 2 demo (or playtest, whichever you’d rather call it) for you to try that you can play RIGHT NOW , featu
For this next dev blog, we’re going to be talking about a major new set of POIs (points of interest) located on the southern tip of New Yoke Island, and what better way to start than with the heart of it all: Power Plant Sat next to a mountain running with gigantic trenches is a
A new day, a new blog post. This time, it’s about more environmental vehicles! If you missed the last time we talked about these, please check out Environments Part 3 . Among other things, it goes over Emmanuelle Le Nouaille’s contributions to the game, which we’ll be going over
A few months ago you got to see some of the capabilities of the brand new fuselage part in SP2. This next blog post will showcase some other bits we didn’t talk about, like the UI (which wasn’t ready at the time we first talked about these). Sliders No, I don’t mean “slider” as i
Our procedural powertrain system might seem like it’s just for cars, however it is anything but that. We are adding aircraft engines that can interact with powertrains in the same way the car engine can, using a brand new procedural propeller part you attach to the front (or to a
Hello again! It’s been a few weeks since the last dev blog, as we took a break while you all were playing the demo (which we really hope you had fun with, we plan to do more in the future!) but we’re back with more. We’re kicking things back off with something you may have alread