Beach Ball Valley 1.0 is out, after only 36 build updates since April 2016!
It's been an adventure & we're happy to launch our super unique VR game into the world. Here's a list of the changes we've added since EA launch! Thanks to everyone for joining us in early access! We've had a blast playing & making it & tweaking from your feedback! We're now at a happy, stable, carefully polished release that's so small, it would fit on a CD!
We've tweaked and changed a lot!
- photo based & hand painted graphics
- rebuilt and simplified the valley
- removed teleporting to make it super simple
- added tutorial graphics to show you exactly what's going to happen
- made all the beach balls come to you
- updated unreal engine versions to include better low latency
- balanced mind control around hand instead of head
- mind control two balls at once
- added a number of beach ball drops to make sure you had enough
- super rad beach ball model
- ring the bell minigame
- goalie minigame
- demo keys show up on the pc monitor for easy reference
- rain cloud to grow bigger beach balls
- hints that show up when you look at your hand
- wind in the valley will blow beach balls around
- magnus effect curves spinning beach balls flight paths
- discord rich presence
- keys to start minigames from the keyboard
- beach balls have fall and Christmas colors!
- pimax & virtually all other headset support
- keys to have beach balls jump at the player
- 5+ tracker support for foot & more paddles
- hidden advanced mode with desktop music controls & old mind control
- realistic binaural (hrtf) audio effects
- tiny coins you can eat
- trading cards
- achievements!
Have fun!