Roboteers, stand by!
Dear Robot Rumble 2 community,
My name is Chris Bruce, and I am the owner of Nerd Island Studios, creators of Robot Rumble 2. It has been a full month since we released the game on Steam, almost five years since we first released the game on itch.io, and over seven years since we started the project with the goal of creating the best robot combat simulator we could make. None of that would have been possible without your support and enthusiasm.
Over the next few months we will be shining a spotlight on a different member of the development team. Each will be giving their own take on what it means to be a RR2 developer, and will be sharing some insights into the game dev process. We hope you enjoy the series!
Massive sparks fly as the two mighty spinners of Kabagon and Brutal Belial clash! Bots built by Ranking.
Since the Steam release of Robot Rumble 2 the team has been hard at work delivering improvements and new features to the game. We've had our first major update introducing new ways to manage your bot lists, as well as releasing the game for Mac. Alongside these features were a myriad of improvements for performance and overall stability of the game.
A battered Caffeine Machine lies in tatters at the end of a match well fought! Bot built by nathansilver.
The development team are still working away on the next major feature update, bringing with it a long time requested feature: Undo/Redo states in the BotLab! This has been one of those projects that has been in the works for a long time but the actual implementation was always a bit of a tricky one to get right. We are hoping this change is a massive improvement to the quality of life when using the BotLab going forward. We are also putting a lot of focus in to the onboarding of new roboteers and have been internally testing some ideas to bring new players in to the game and to help guide them through what it takes to build a functional combat robot.
Deutronopia and Launch Control duke it out in the new and improved default US Arena, coming soon!
Thank you all once again for the support and encouragement over the years of development and we cannot wait to show you what we've been working on more in future updates and Dev Diary entries.
Sincerely,
Chris Bruce
Project Lead
Robot Rumble 2
https://discord.gg/RobotRumble2
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