Hey spinners, just a quick update about our upcoming patch.
We are redoing our tutorial from scratch. We have a few goals we want to achieve with the new tutorial, including:
- Music that is more modular (with vamp sections so we can better control the flow)
- More encouragement, less frustrating feedback
- Clear AI-controlled demo sections supporting different input displays
- Proper text explanations for each gameplay element
- Smaller, more relevant chunks, pertinent to the difficulty level the player is actually trying to play
- Players are required to play a tutorial before a level, but it's simple to skip
- Currently obscure elements like release notes should be taught properly
- Tutorials accessible from the track select menu at any time
We hope that this new tutorial system will make playing the game much more accessible for new players.
In other news, we have been accepted into BitSummit 2021!
It looks like we will be having to exhibit digitally, but either way this is a huge honour for us! Hopefully we can discover a few new Japanese fans!
And lasly, we were asked to do a talk for China's version of GDC (China Game Developer's Conference). As with all events, it got kind of slain by the COVID19 delta outbreak in China and fizzled out. We still wrote and recorded the talk, so we released it on YouTube. If you're interested in a bit about the development process for SRXD it is worth a watch.
As always, thanks for your support and patience, and see you at the next patch.