GeneRally 2 il ritorno

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http://sequel.gene-rally.com/

 

 

 

So, the wait is over – we’ll be starting our Kickstarter fundraising in January 2014 (pending their approval turnaround time).  Whilst we had originally aimed for Q3 2013, some changes behind-the-scenes meant we ran about a month behind and, with Christmas soon to be upon us, we wanted to try and maximise our chances of getting funded by not competing with the festive season for peoples’ wallets!

By the time the Kickstarter rolls around in January, we should have a closed alpha of the game available to our selected community testers that will have all the gameplay basics included (car physics, AI, etc.) and be in a state where we can get meaningful, relevant initial feedback.  We also hope that we can provide this early alpha to selected reviewers, to broaden awareness not only for the Kickstarter campaign but GeneRally in general.

Our funding goal will be a modest one by Kickstarter standards (we’re just finalising the budget at the moment), but will allow us to cover our costs for development licenses, server facilities, etc. as well as permitting us more time to develop without having to worry about whether we can afford to eat or not!  We’ll have some reasonable ‘stretch goals’ that cover some of the more ambitious features we’d like to see in the Sequel, but which the initial target wouldn’t be able to cover.

We hope to provide tier-based rewards that give people an incentive to contribute, without artificially inflating the Kickstarter goal by needing to cover postage and other costs (many Kickstarters use as much as 50% of their funding for fulfilling rewards alone).  There will be a range of digital rewards, along with some nice physical bonuses for the higher funding tiers (including some opportunities to work with us to have something of your own included in the game).

Over the weeks leading up to Kickstarter, we’ll be covering some important issues about the Sequel, including:

• More information about the Kickstarter target, rewards and stretch goals.
• An insight into some of the changes we’ve made behind-the-scenes recently.
• Our response to the community reaction on the poly-count for cars.
• How we plan to handle the public beta testing phase of the project, when that rolls around (hopefully) in 2014.

Stay tuned, it’s shaping up to be an exciting couple of months!

 

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la campagna Kickstarter è partita -> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/curiouschickengames/generally-2-top-down-arcade-racing-game

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GeneRally ‏@Gene_Rally 

Thanks to everyone who supported us on @kickstarter - we didn't reach the goal, but we're still enthusiastic about GeneRally 2's future!

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https://gene-rally2.com/blog/

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2104920/GeneRally_2/

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GeneRally 2 Demo Now Available

Between now and 13th February, try out the GeneRally 2 Demo as part of Steam Next Fest!

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2104920/view/3651891758371814639?l=english

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Accesso anticipato https://store.steampowered.com/app/2104920/GeneRally_2/

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As you may have seen by now, GeneRally 2 launched into Early Access yesterday. We're really happy that people are enjoying playing, and we're actively going through all the feedback (both positive and negative) to see what we need to improve and see areas of friction people are having.
The purpose of this post is to update on a few of the recurring things that came up over the past day or so, and to outline what we'll be working on in the coming days and weeks in response to that!

Collected Feedback
These are some of the things players have told us over the first 24 hours since the game's release - the big ones have their own section below, but we've read every piece of feedback and every comment, and have added them to our player-feedback tracker!

The AI
This is our number one priority at the moment. The AI launched in a state that was less-than-ideal, and a lot of bugs became apparent - particularly in the championship mode - right away.

GeneRally 2's AI is aiming to be smarter and more fun to race against than the average arcade racing game AI (most of which stick solidly to one line, and act like the player doesn't even exist) - however, in our current implementation, the AI are too nervous and too prone to making curious avoidance manoeuvres.
We have today been testing some initial improvements to the AI, aimed to improve their confidence, and their ability to follow the racing line in difficult situations. They should still display the slightly more natural behaviour many of you liked - they'll continue to make mistakes, take different lines in search of speed, etc. but they will do this in a more controlled and sensible fashion.
The update we put out in the next day or two will be an initial step, and we'll continue to improve from there.

The Driving Physics
A big part of GeneRally is the satisfying driving feel - and this is something we want to ensure is present in GeneRally 2. At the moment, particularly for the Formula and General cars, that feeling is sadly lacking. Many users reported those two cars feeling "floaty" and difficult to drive.

Thanks to the detailed feedback from several community members on the GeneRally 2 Discord we have been able to identify some specific issues in the handling of certain cars that caused unintuitive or unpredictable behaviour. Markku is hard at work tweaking the setups, and you can expect improvements coming into existence over the next days.
In addition to this, several people highlighted the engagement of the reverse gear being a significant issue for them in some cars - and this will also be fixed in the near future.

The In-Game UI
The in-game UI is definitely not the final version of the UI. Many areas of the UI are in need of an actual "design pass" to bring them up to a higher quality, and make them more convenient and friendly to use.

Over the coming weeks, we'll be making lots of improvements to the UI - including moving the in-game car status areas to a more friendly location, adding timings and a live-updating set of racing standings.

Other Feedback
There are plenty of other things users gave us feedback about. This is not a complete list of them, but here are some of the more common requests:

• Saved driver presets;
• More colour options for cars;
• Change ghost car to be more translucent, and able to be disabled;
• Track player statistics;
• Add keyboard rebinding;
• Allow the menus to be navigated with keyboard and controllers;
• Increase damage scaling to go past 100%;
• Implement a zoom override;
• Improve camera controls in the Track Editor;
• and more...

Many of these items of feedback will see progress over the coming days and weeks.

What's Next?
Whilst we can't give exact timelines for all of these things, we do want to give you a bit of an idea of where our priorities lie right now.

This Week
We'll be working on more improvements to the AI and physics problems described above. You'll also most likely see some fixes for bugs and the addition of some small quality-of-life improvements for the game and the game UI.

Next Week or Two
We'll bring more improvements to the AI and physics, and start to work on some of the larger high-priority features (like keyboard rebinding and controller-enabled UI). These features might not arrive next week, but we will begin working on them.
We'll also start looking at improving the design and implementation of some of the UI in the game - starting with the in-game UI and the track-selection screen.

After that...
We'll continue on with our plan for Early Access - improving in response to this kind of player feedback, and working on things like Online Multiplayer and GR1 track importing.
You can expect blog-posts from us on the state of development and what we're focussing on - and we'll be adjusting our course and schedule based heavily on player feedback.

 

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The August Update for GeneRally 2 is NOW AVAILABLE on Steam This update includes updated handling; a new car; new tracks; new objects; and more! Check out the patch notes on our website https://gene-rally2.com/patch-notes/v0.4.d7636b3/

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GeneRally 2: tante novità con l'update di Agosto

 

 

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Multiplayer in arrivo https://gene-rally2.com/blog/2023/09/multiplayer-and-beyond/