Buddy Cops, LLC · Devolver Digital
We updated the game to also use the new controller system introduced in the multiplayer to be used in the single player as well. Also fixed a problem related to free play with a particular secret bus starting out spinning wildly.
We updated the game to also use the new controller system introduced in the multiplayer to be used in the single player as well.
Also fixed a problem related to free play with a particular secret bus starting out spinning wildly.
We updated the game to also use the new controller system introduced in the multiplayer to be used in the single player as well. Also fixed a problem related to free play with a particular secret bus starting out spinning wildly.
We updated the game to also use the new controller system introduced in the multiplayer to be used in the single player as well.
Also fixed a problem related to free play with a particular secret bus starting out spinning wildly.
Alright, we're switching over the control system on the main version of the game. Make sure to leave the "controltest" beta branch! It will be going away shortly. We're eventually going to integrate the new controller system into the one-player modes so people can easily use alte
Alright, we're switching over the control system on the main version of the game. Make sure to leave the "controltest" beta branch! It will be going away shortly. We're eventually going to integrate the new controller system into the one-player modes so people can easily use alternate controllers throughout the game.
Also the bronze/silver/gold achievements should actually be obtainable instead of capping off at 36/37 progress.
And here's our support form again, naturally.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14AGPiTEsOuckMhEMc1ZrElcQOyj0_NHBv-lBqrq1VJI/viewform
Alright, we're switching over the control system on the main version of the game. Make sure to leave the "controltest" beta branch! It will be going away shortly. We're eventually going to integrate the new controller system into the one-player modes so people can easily use alte
Alright, we're switching over the control system on the main version of the game. Make sure to leave the "controltest" beta branch! It will be going away shortly. We're eventually going to integrate the new controller system into the one-player modes so people can easily use alternate controllers throughout the game.
Also the bronze/silver/gold achievements should actually be obtainable instead of capping off at 36/37 progress.
And here's our support form again, naturally.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14AGPiTEsOuckMhEMc1ZrElcQOyj0_NHBv-lBqrq1VJI/viewform
We've put up a new update to the game so that it uses a non-XInput-reliant controller system, since DirectX is a problem for non-windows platforms. Since the required us to make quite a few big internal changes, we're making it be on a public beta for a bit, and anybody can help
We've put up a new update to the game so that it uses a non-XInput-reliant controller system, since DirectX is a problem for non-windows platforms. Since the required us to make quite a few big internal changes, we're making it be on a public beta for a bit, and anybody can help us test it if they want. Just right click OmniBus in your Steam library, go to Properties, then Betas, and join the "controltest" beta. We're testing to make sure the whole game works the same, though Versus mode is the main point of concern.
We also made a few other small changes, most notably fixing the All Bronze/Silver/Gold achievements. It should hopefully work now and should give you the achievements if you didn't already have them. Let us know if it doesn't!
Again here is the support form to get a hold us us:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14AGPiTEsOuckMhEMc1ZrElcQOyj0_NHBv-lBqrq1VJI/viewform
Thank you!
We've put up a new update to the game so that it uses a non-XInput-reliant controller system, since DirectX is a problem for non-windows platforms. Since the required us to make quite a few big internal changes, we're making it be on a public beta for a bit, and anybody can help
We've put up a new update to the game so that it uses a non-XInput-reliant controller system, since DirectX is a problem for non-windows platforms. Since the required us to make quite a few big internal changes, we're making it be on a public beta for a bit, and anybody can help us test it if they want. Just right click OmniBus in your Steam library, go to Properties, then Betas, and join the "controltest" beta. We're testing to make sure the whole game works the same, though Versus mode is the main point of concern.
We also made a few other small changes, most notably fixing the All Bronze/Silver/Gold achievements. It should hopefully work now and should give you the achievements if you didn't already have them. Let us know if it doesn't!
Again here is the support form to get a hold us us:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14AGPiTEsOuckMhEMc1ZrElcQOyj0_NHBv-lBqrq1VJI/viewform
Thank you!
Hello everybody, hope you've been enjoying the game! We updated the game to hopefully address some feedback. Thanks for using the feedback form to contact us, and please continue to do so, it's very useful! Here's the details of the update. Please let us know if any issues persis
Hello everybody, hope you've been enjoying the game! We updated the game to hopefully address some feedback. Thanks for using the feedback form to contact us, and please continue to do so, it's very useful!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14AGPiTEsOuckMhEMc1ZrElcQOyj0_NHBv-lBqrq1VJI/viewform
Here's the details of the update. Please let us know if any issues persist or there's other big ones!
-Addressed some camera problems on Ape Buster on some computers.
-Linux x64 build to hopefully address issues launching from Steam
-Mute music option
-Adjusting some hats for sanity
-Fixing typos and other minor adjustments
Keep on bussing!
Hello everybody, hope you've been enjoying the game! We updated the game to hopefully address some feedback. Thanks for using the feedback form to contact us, and please continue to do so, it's very useful! Here's the details of the update. Please let us know if any issues persis
Hello everybody, hope you've been enjoying the game! We updated the game to hopefully address some feedback. Thanks for using the feedback form to contact us, and please continue to do so, it's very useful!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14AGPiTEsOuckMhEMc1ZrElcQOyj0_NHBv-lBqrq1VJI/viewform
Here's the details of the update. Please let us know if any issues persist or there's other big ones!
-Addressed some camera problems on Ape Buster on some computers.
-Linux x64 build to hopefully address issues launching from Steam
-Mute music option
-Adjusting some hats for sanity
-Fixing typos and other minor adjustments
Keep on bussing!
OmniBus is Now Available on Steam and is 10% off!* OmniBus is next-to-last gen physics game about the most powerful bus in the universe that can’t stop or even slow down for reasons incomprehensible to the simple human mind. *Offer ends June 10 at 10AM Pacific Time
OmniBus is Now Available on Steam and is 10% off!*
OmniBus is next-to-last gen physics game about the most powerful bus in the universe that can’t stop or even slow down for reasons incomprehensible to the simple human mind.
*Offer ends June 10 at 10AM Pacific Time
Awesome! The game is out! Thanks to everyone for supporting us through development. If you have any technical issues with the game and want to get a hold of us, we have a handy form for you: We will also be looking at comments and social media. Thanks for playing! OmniBus
Awesome! The game is out! Thanks to everyone for supporting us through development.
If you have any technical issues with the game and want to get a hold of us, we have a handy form for you:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14AGPiTEsOuckMhEMc1ZrElcQOyj0_NHBv-lBqrq1VJI/viewform
We will also be looking at comments and social media.
Thanks for playing!
OmniBus
Awesome! The game is out! Thanks to everyone for supporting us through development. If you have any technical issues with the game and want to get a hold of us, we have a handy form for you: We will also be looking at comments and social media. Thanks for playing! OmniBus
Awesome! The game is out! Thanks to everyone for supporting us through development.
If you have any technical issues with the game and want to get a hold of us, we have a handy form for you:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14AGPiTEsOuckMhEMc1ZrElcQOyj0_NHBv-lBqrq1VJI/viewform
We will also be looking at comments and social media.
Thanks for playing!
OmniBus
OmniBus is a bit like the movie Speed if it lived in the Mercenary III world and hung around with Crazy Taxi. That’s a weird combination, isn’t it? Want something weirder? The game’s Bus Driver Edition comes with a soundtrack and an “actual MCI bus that may or may not have been u
OmniBus [official site] is a bit like the movie Speed if it lived in the Mercenary III world and hung around with Crazy Taxi. That’s a weird combination, isn’t it? Want something weirder? The game’s Bus Driver Edition comes with a soundtrack and an “actual MCI bus that may or may not have been used to motion capture lifelike bus movement,” so say publisher Devolver Digital. There’s one available for $7,500, apparently, for which they request “serious inquiries only.”
So there you go. If you’d be happier with OmniBus’ digital incarnation, though, it’s out next week.
OmniBus , aka the game about the bus that couldn't slow down, is releasing on May 26. In case you missed it, I played a bit of an early build a couple of months ago, and found it to be very stupid but also reasonably fun . It's not often that a game lets you smash a bus through g
OmniBus, aka the game about the bus that couldn't slow down, is releasing on May 26. In case you missed it, I played a bit of an early build a couple of months ago, and found it to be very stupid but also reasonably fun. It's not often that a game lets you smash a bus through giant bowling pins, so we should be grateful it exists, really.
Typically, there are a bunch of incentives for you to buy OmniBus quickly: the day one "Game of the Year" edition comes with a 10 per cent discount on Steam. Meanwhile, there's the Ultimate Bus Driver edition, which comes with the game's digital soundtrack and a real life bus.
Yeah, a real life bus. It's a 1977 MCI Charter Bus, and I don't know how much buses usually cost in the United States, but I'm tempted to assume that the $7,500 asking price for the Ultimate Bus Driver edition is a bit of a bargain. You'll have to pick it up from Austin, Texas, though.
That's the bus on the right in the below picture. Looks like a pretty neat bus.
...and here's a picture of another 1977 MCI Charter Bus (not the exact one offered), which I found on the usefully titled Used Buses For Sale website. You gotta admit, it looks like a pretty sweet bus.
My co-worker, let s call him Paul, hates OmniBus . Every time I played the preview build in the office, he would come sit at my desk and talk about how silly it is. He would sit there and watch me crash my bus into buildings, pinball bumpers, trains and cars. This game is dumb as
My co-worker, let s call him Paul, hates OmniBus. Every time I played the preview build in the office, he would come sit at my desk and talk about how silly it is. He would sit there and watch me crash my bus into buildings, pinball bumpers, trains and cars. This game is dumb as hell, he would say repeatedly, shaking his head, while continuing to watch me play the stupid bus game .
OmniBus is not a smart game. The nominal bus is the protagonist, and the objective is to make it to the end of a level, make enough trick points, smash into certain objects (coffins, for example) or to avoid crashing for a set period of time. Thing is, not crashing is very difficult, especially when there are speed boosts, jump pads and pinball bumpers spread throughout each world. It might be sensible not to drive at all under these circumstances, but alas: OmniBus is the bus that couldn t slow down, nor stop, unless forever.
When I first started playing OmniBus, I hated it. The graphics recall the PS1-era, and the destruction is woefully (or hilariously) weightless. The bus can gather huge speed thanks to boost pads strewn throughout the maps, but when it catches air it soars sluggishly. Adjusting your landing position and trajectory is like running a Matchbox car through a bucket of wet cement. Perhaps because I m really bad at this game, I spent most of the time watching my bus glide through the air, rather than careering gracefully between obstacles.
In the preview build I played there s a story mode, freeplay and split screen competitive. The story mode is a conveyor belt of absurd tasks that should never be asked of a bus: in one level, Omnibus must drive straight up the side of a skyscraper while cars fall from heaven, while in another it s unaccountably speeding through space, hurtling through asteroids and struggling to avoid pinball bumper planets. There were four worlds in the build I played, each with at least six levels, and all, frankly, were stupid. But they were often fun, too.
As you can see in the gif above, OmniBus is sometimes tasked with driving up the side of buildings. That's not very remarkable in the wide scheme of things (not in OmniBus lore, anyway) but it serves to demonstrate how each story mode level tinkers with the game's formula in unique ways. Most of the time you're encouraged to bounce around and gain air for the sake of pulling off lucrative tricks, but in a rare show of respect for realism, this level requires the OmniBus to never leave the ground. Some of these levels are better than others: OmniBus is most fun when it's a gauntlet of obstacles, because gaining a certain amount of points for tricks is tedious, because doing tricks is hard.
Splitscreen is fun but simple. After complaining about the game so much co-worker Paul was inevitably inspired to play it. There is only one mode, and the winner of each round is the one who can keep the bus on its wheels for the longest. I figured out a pretty neat strategy: drive around in circles until your opponent buggers up.
My co-worker Paul didn't last long playing splitscreen, because it was too stupid. He did continue to watch me play the story mode, however, and even some of the free play mode. This latter mode is a sprawling (quite small) cityscape (bunch of textured cereal boxes) peppered with the usual boost and jump pads. I feel like this will only be fun once I'm proficient at driving the OmniBus: as it stands, I am crap at the game and spent more time hurtling towards the skybox than I did pulling off mad tricks.
I think there are ways OmniBus could be more fun. For starters, each spawn could do without the two second delay getting back into the game. When failure is so frequent, that tiny wait to get back into the game feels long. Also, some of the maps are very small, making it hard not to fall off into the abyss of skybox. I feel like sometimes this game doesn't let you enjoy the primal pleasure of going really fast often enough.
Am I eagerly anticipating the official launch of OmniBus? No, not really. I will get it though, to play whenever I am feeling angry about buses. I think it'll end up being a neat game to snack on between other, more serious games, and it sure brings a smile to my face more often than a grimace.
Here s the thing: there are no other games that let you smash a two-carriage bus through bowling pins arbitrarily situated on top of a building (please comment immediately if there is). Pulling things off deliberately and gracefully is very difficult in OmniBus, but it s the stupid accidents that seem to matter the most. If you like either QWOP or Surgeon Simulator and feel the bus simulator genre needs to be less simulate-y, OmniBus may be the ticket.
OmniBus releases on Steam this Spring, or Autumn in Australia.
Omnibus is just about as weird as it looks. I got a chance to play it today on the show floor of PAX South , and was happy to see that there was more to it than just the strange exterior. While it may look like just another wacky sandbox game, the missions and objectives in each
Omnibus is just about as weird as it looks. I got a chance to play it today on the show floor of PAX South, and was happy to see that there was more to it than just the strange exterior. While it may look like just another wacky sandbox game, the missions and objectives in each level turn the topsy-turvy bus crashing controls into a difficult to master game mechanic. I spoke with Developer Amir Badri about why his game is so damn strange and fun, which you can watch in the interview above.
Phil wrote a bit about OmniBus last year, rightfully describing it as "cool" and even creating a new tag in honour of it. A lot has happened since Phil wrote his story. Studio Buddy Cops has continued to develop it off the back of a Kickstarter campaign, and respected indie publi
Phil wrote a bit about OmniBus last year, rightfully describing it as "cool" and even creating a new tag in honour of it. A lot has happened since Phil wrote his story. Studio Buddy Cops has continued to develop it off the back of a Kickstarter campaign, and respected indie publisher Devolver Digital has decided to publish it. Described as "a crazy Playstation 1 style physics game about the unstoppable force of nature that is OMNIBUS!", the game is set to release in spring (or autumn if you're in Australia).
The game looks like fun, and will presumably involve more than just ramming buses into the side of buildings (perhaps the free demo holds the answer). Even if the game doesn't involve more than ramming buses into the side of buildings, that seems okay to me.
But if the game ends up being garbage, at least we'll have the above trailer, an alternative history where OmniBus is a long-awaited 3DO title in development hell. After many years in development, it finally gets a release date, and people on Twitter are happy about it. Seriously, just watch the trailer. You can pre-order it on Steam.