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• VOLO AIRSPORT PLA Y THE GAME CODE

Keyboard controls are the number one requested feature, and I'm happy to report this feature is now working quite well! Any sort of gamepad still gives you an order of magnitude more control, but the game is certainly playable without one. Martijn: Version 3 contains the handling improvements and plumbing work mentioned before. RPS: So what can we expect from the next version? But I have a game to make, and I can do that with the current building blocks. There are things I'd like to model better, such as the wing deformation and deflection of the air stream around the character. The aerodynamic behaviour no longer degrades as your framerate drops the character and suit are now designed to be statically stable, making basic navigation much easier stall characteristics are gentler, reflecting how the shape of your wings can change as you move and some oddball drops in pressure have been resolved. Martijn: There will always be some issues, but the most jarring ones from the prototype have been fixed. RPS: Are there flight modelling issues still to be solved? This way, techniques like sit-flying and head-down flying are not explicitly programmed in by us, but can be achieved through experimentation. The current idea is to provide a simple animation tool with which you can pull and twist your character into basic poses, and link your input to arbitrary muscle movement. The active ragdoll system can theoretically perform any motion you can think of, and restricting it to a basic belly-down wingsuit flying pose would be a crime. I'll be working with Michael Manning to create musical soundscapes for the world, to be tightly coupled to physical space and environmental conditions.Ī more distant feature is fully player-designed character motion. Don't expect narrative content or cutscenes, but more inspired ecology and hints of culture. This means bigger and more detailed terrain, but we're also applying a thin layer of fiction to help elevate it from the generic islands we started with. The world around you is as important as the flight model, and we're working on conceptual and technical levels to flesh it out. The occasional collision mismatch between connected players is less of a problem in the latter case. We could worry about that, and to an extent we do, but the the game will largely be about free-form cooperative play anyway. Due to various technical restrictions we expect high-level competitive play to be difficult to achieve.

VOLO AIRSPORT PLA Y THE GAME CODE

Online multiplayer code is the big focus after that, and we'll find out exactly how difficult it is to synchronize fast-moving ragdolls over the internet.

Martijn: Lots of plumbing, to start with! We're setting up a stable code base that we can build the rest of the game on, making sure the game works on a range of machines and is playable with a large selection of input devices. RPS: So what's the plan now for Volo? What aspects are you working on at present?

There is significant conceptual overlap, but fear the design would devolve into a feature creep nightmare. It is first and foremost about the simple acts of being and moving.įor a time I considered merging the two games, but thought better of it. I had a lot of trouble defining what Volo was, and working on something else gave me the critical tools I needed to figure that out. It strengthened the idea that Volo is not about experience points, competition, hunting, gathering, or dubstep-fueled adrenaline rushes. I learned to give direction to a game experience without restricting play, to listen to the design and hear where it wants to go, and that deep simulation does not exclude fiction, fantasy or frivolity. I was stuck on technical details, and had little of an idea on where to take the game beyond the prototype stage, so I took a considerable break to work on other things. Martijn: You'll have noticed the complete lack of any output from me over the last year. In a recent chat with Flare Path he explained the hiatus and outlined the future for a project that is now, happily, very much back on the front burner. Designer Martijn Zandvliet seemed more interested in hot air and cold climes than turning his mesmerising man-glider prototype into a fully fledged game. He simply understands the restorative power of whizzo wingsuit games like Volo Airsport and Wingsuitflyer.įor a while it looked like Volo Airsport had bought the farm or, at the very least, made a down-payment on it. The good Doctor's advice isn't quite as callous or irresponsible as it first appears.

Merriweather MD, MBChB, ICBM, B&Q, QWOP will suggest you go hurl yourself off the top of a mountain. Turn up at The Flare Path Medical Centre suffering from depression and it's highly likely Dr.