Hello Gamecrafters!
This has been the last day we are all in office this year. It’s been an amazing year for us and we have been absolutely blown away by everything you have created. We have enjoyed it so much, we want you to keep sending us all of your amazing creations over the winter holidays. Share them with us on Workshop, Steam Discussions, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and our Discord! We want to see your fun games, wacky creations and funny builds!
Seb’s Competition Let’s Play
We’ve finished uploading our daily Let’s Play for the ‘Create a Game for Seb’ competition. It was great fun to record and you can watch all the episodes in the playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkrUoIf8Lbr8DapRqOqj1lFL2kH3LN2xR
Gamecraft Holiday Competition
We’ve announced the winners for our Gamecraft Holiday Competition. You can see those winners here: https://steamcommunity.com/gid/103582791464559041/announcements/detail/2992010505947947642
We’ll be uploading the Let’s Play videos of that in the new year and handing out prizes early in the new year.
What to Expect in the New Year?
In the new year we will be working on some really exciting things. We’ll be continuing our on multiplayer, to fix and improve based on the feedback you give. We’re also working on Tyres to improve their handling by splitting out forwards and sideways friction and setting those independently, this should make them feel more realistic. Alongside this, we’re also working on new tyre variants, such as a bicycle tyre, monster truck tyre and F1 tyre. Some of these will be visual differences while others will functional differences on different surfaces.
Another feature we are working hard on is the wiring system. Akin to other games, you will be able to drag a wire from one part - through an in-world UI - to another. We’re making this change from the signal channel system as a wiring system is infinitely more powerful, easy to use and also allows us to have a better design over alt-stats and makes it easier for future features we want to add, like logic, as the channel system would have made features like this problematic.
Alt-stats was briefly mentioned above, this is another feature we will be working on. Alt-stats will allow you to tweak the stats on a part through the same in-world UI as the wiring system. You’ll be able to tweak the min and max angle of a servo hinge, or set a motor to turn counter-clockwise on a positive signal instead of clockwise. This is an easier way to control parts instead of using the averaging mechanic we currently have in place to get the desired effect.
You can look forward to all this and so much more from Gamecraft in 2020. We hope you stick with us as we continue to adapt, evolve and grow Gamecraft.
That’s it for this week - and year - we’ll give you another update when we’re back up and running in the new year. Until then, Happy holidays, we hope you have an enjoyable time playing games and spending it with loved ones. Please follow us on our social spaces and share your creations with us:
Twitter- https://twitter.com/Gamecraft_FJ
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/GamecraftGame
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/GamecraftGame/
Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/GamecraftGame/
Discord - https://discord.gg/gamecraft
Thanks for reading!
The Gamecraft Team