Hello fellow Doll-Citizens!
First thank you all for your patience! The long awaited beta is finally here, and you can access it using the beta branch of the game (properties --> BETA --> dollcitybeta). Of course, the game still being in beta, there will be probably some bugs left. We will spend the next days correcting every error that we can find. We will be checking the discussion boards daily so feel free to give us your feedback and comments!
Being a very small team (at first we were two developpers, a sound designer and a scriptwriter), we originally planned Doll City as a smaller VR side scroller project. But when we laid our greasy little hands on the HTC Vive and discovered roomscale, it blew our minds! This is why we kept improving the game mechanics and had to re-imagine everything to meet our expectations of what a VR game should be. We hired a third developper to help us and took the hard decision to delay the release of Doll City by a few month in order to offer you a complete and satisfying VR experience.
We added a more complex gameplay, including infiltration and shooting. We also decided to create a much bigger environment, with some entire neighbourhoods ready for exploration. We also had to rewrite the main storyline to remain coherent with the game's universe and the new levels. More polished sounds and music have also been added (a lot are still waiting to be integrated though) and we began working on the overall mix.
Today you are going to get your first taste of these new features, and we hope you'll like it! The final version is getting closer evryday, and we can't wait for you to discover the whole story and many surprises of Doll City.
Again we want to thank you all for making videos or sharing your feedbacks with us. This really helped us improve the game.
Important information about this update:
- Doll City gets a new, more complex gameplay: infiltration.
- Right now, roomscale mode is only available for the HTC Vive. But we are working hard on bringing it to Oculus Touch as soon as possible.
- Seated mode can be played with HTC Vive, Oculus Rift or OSVR, with an old fashioned early 21st century gamepad.
- The options menu is not available yet. It will be available in a short time.
What's next:
- New levels, which will lead you to the conclusion of the main story and uncover some dark secrets...
- New gameplay elements will make their appearance in the final version.
- To thank you for your patience, a free bonus mode will appear shortly after the final release. It will have a part of the city in free roaming mode, with new things to discover: minigames, musics, videos...
Cheers!
The InfiniVerse team