Hi All, A long overdue update on the game; After the success of the Greenlight campaign and having won the Peoples Choice award at The Big Pitch event in Melbourne, we received numerous investment proposals from Venture Capital firms, Angel investors and game publishers. The past 14 weeks has been spent negotiating with several of those who approached us, with many hours spent in the boardroom. Although I cannot be specific with details of the executed term sheets, I will be able to announce the round we close in the coming weeks. This will secure the future of the game/company and allow us to hire more people, expand the company, and more importantly release the game. On the development front, the porting to Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) has gone extremely smoothly and weve incorporated your feedback/ideas that we received on the Greenlight trailer. You can now bend the chassis permanently as well as be thrown from the kart as a ragdoll if you hit hard enough. Weve also added breakable tyre stacks. The switch across engines has also yielded a massive performance boost. The tyre model alone now runs 476% faster than it does in Unity primarily due to the increased performance offered from C++ vs C#. Weve also started work on the Go Kart Club of Victorias Todd Road track which you can see scan data from below. Screenshots from UE4 to come! Finally, weve been testing the original Unity prototype with a number of fans we selected from the page with fantastic feedback. As much as Id like to invite everyone to participate, the inability to obfuscate/protect the source code in the Unity version has meant holding off the release until the UE4 version is ready. Were not far off moving the testing to the final UE4 version at which point well invite more fans to join the beta testing as we move toward the full release! Again apologies for the length of time between updates. Ill be adding footage from the UE4 version showing off the new features soon. Zach Griffin
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:39:56 +0000
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