Dear Furballs,
Every week, I'll post a "Weekly update" to let you know what is going on in the colorful world of VR Furballs. This is the episode 4 :)
WILLKOMMEN! BENVENUTI! WELKOM!
This week the game got translated in German, Italian and Dutch. Thanks a lot to all our translators!
We are still missing 20 languages to check all the boxes in Steam. So if you speak fluently any of the missing languages, give it a shot:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/704470/announcements/detail/2933400383266087264
EARLY ACCESS LEVEL CREATION CONTEST
We received our first user-created level. Thanks a lot to LionXV for building and sending us this level! You too, build and send us levels to join the Early Access Level Creation Contest and get the chance to win a VR Furballs T-shirt, have your level being part of the final game and have your name in the game credits:
http://steamcommunity.com/games/704470/announcements/detail/1595829206585267336
WEEKLY COVERAGE
VR Furballs - Demolition kept getting great reviews this week! Thanks to all the reviewers for their time! Last week coverage:
- A gameplay video by shane4games
- A great hands-on article by Tattastic Gamer
- A 2 minute review video by Ben Plays VR
- A gameplay video by Martin Risby VR
- A great and thorough review by HelixxVR
- A live stream by Mahula Bros Inc
One more thanks to all of you who took a few minutes to write a Steam review. Once more, every article, video, review, comment, like, share, etc... will help us immensely, so thanks to all of you who try to help.
GAME UPDATE
On the dev side, it hasn't been a too productive week, because the Leaderboards improvements took me way more time than expected. Here is what has been done:
- New: Added German language.
- New: Added Italian language.
- New: Added Dutch language.
- New: Added tabs at the top right of the online Leaderboards to switch between "Global" and "Friends only" scores.
- New: Added buttons at the bottom right of the online Leaderboards to let you navigate through all the scores.
- Improvement: Removed loud breaking/exploding sounds when you press on the Next Level button.
- Bugfix: Fixed traditional gamepads connected to the computer will also vibrate when the Motion Controllers vibrate.
- Bugfix: Fixed long names overwriting their associated score in the online Leaderboards.
- Bugfix: Fixed crash when you build a level and put only one Portal inside. Now if you throw a Furball in a lone Portal, it will fry the Furball.
- Bugfix: Fixed Steam Achievement popup appearing before you see your final score in the Victory panel.
- Bugfix: Fixed wrong Portal mesh collision (it was too big).
Here is the list of the known and fixed bugs:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/704470/discussions/0/1692659135903288420/
WHAT'S NEXT
Here is the plan for next week:
Add a Progression panel that sums up all your online ranks and shows you whether you completed the levels with each weapon.[DONE]- Improve colors of the screenshots taken with the in-game camera (they are a bit too dark). [DELAYED]
Improve Swatty's tutorial.[DONE]- Replace the Motion Controller weapon type icon by a non-platform specific icon (since it is a Vive controller now). [DELAYED]
- Build more levels!
Don't hesitate to give us feedback about the game, to report bugs, or to give us ideas. VR Furballs was created for you, so we'd love to hear what you think about it!
Thanks again to everyone playing VR Furballs - Demolition! See you next week!
Steeve
Gamily Studios