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| Published | Kind | Announcement | Build |
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| Major update | Hero Academy Is Here! Richie's Plank Experience now has Hero Academy! This update includes all three game modes: Missile Defence, Rocket Race and Fire Fight. Missile Defence: Protect the city from the falling missiles by punching them out of the sky. Rocket Race: Use your rockets to fly as fast as you can through the hoops across the city. Fire Fight: Grab your fire extinguisher and your rocket to fly through the ci… | — | |
| In-game event | Nightmare Update + Bug Fixes and Improvements Today is the day we say goodbye to the Clowns. They’ve given us plenty of scares over the years and we wish them all the best as they move on to chase their dreams as kid party entertainers. Good luck Clowns! In this update we have streamlined the Nightmare mode. It’s now more impactful allowing you to move through the experience at a better pace. Ultimately, this will make it easier for you to… | — | |
| Community | Decal hunt and Easter Egg Hunt For those active on our Discord server the new massive decal "gemini - the decal hunter" isn't a big surprise. They would know the effort gemini has put into engaging with the present and missing decals in Richie's Plank Experience. To keep the decal hunting going, there are now 3 colorful eggs on surfaces in the city. It should be a fun challenge for all ages to try to find them. Once you get… | — | |
| Game update | Magic Umbrella Add the Umbrella to the end of the plank from the Desktop menu. ( Press M on your keyboard) Magic Umbrella soften your fall. If you pull and hold the trigger, you can fly around the city at a relaxing pace. | — | |
| Game update | New Santa Simulator. Free with Richie's Plank Experience You may already be familiar with the old Santa Simulator bell inside the elevator in Richie's Plank Experience. Well, it's been polished and improved in a night time sleigh ride. Santa Simulator is now published as a Stand alone experience for sale on Steam for $6.99. Owners of Richie's Plank Experience on Steam receive it for free and should now see the new Santa Simulator in your Library. | — | |
| Game update | Don't Pickup the Pumpkin We're happy to publish this update in time for Halloween party season. This update is purpose built for entertaining your guests. You now have an option to add a special pumpkin to the end of the plank. Whatever you do, don't pick it up. Not suitable for those with Acrophobia. | — | |
| Community | Rise and Falls of Updates Update Rise and Falls! tldr: the game should be stable now, if it isnt switch to pre-update. to use OculusSDK switch to oculussdk As everyone has noticed we got some new exciting updates lately - it sure was a long list. With that came a bunch of hidden bugs we found out about from your feedback and we did what we could to respond to those fast. As a result we not only fixed the bugs that were… | — | |
| Game update | Mixed Reality Update + 31 other minor fixes/changes Lots of small improvements and bug fixes this week. IMPROVEMENTS · Added Mixcast SDK! This makes it much easier to film mixed reality videos, with or without a green screen. · Removed some redundant objects / models for slight FPS boost. · Improved spatial audio for 4 different Nightmare sounds. The breathing dentist adds a lot! Nightmare is activated with 666 on the number panel. · Changed bil… | — | |
| Community | Congratulations to the SkyBrush Competition winner! Congratulations to Mars S Malo for his entry into the SkyBrush competition. Impressively, he completed his entry in costume and in Mixed Reality. We really liked the result and was also very timely. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018! He wins naming rights to a building in Richie's Plank City and the $50 steam voucher. Full video of his entry is here | — | |
| Game update | Officially out of Early Access! After over 12 months of development and improvements, Richie's Plank Experience is finally out of Early Access. Here's how it looked then and now. Plank View THEN NOW Flying THEN NOW Thanks again for your support. Merry Christmas! | — | |
| Community | BANNED. It's time to say goodbye to Reddit /r/Vive. Toni and I have come to the sad realisation that we can no longer be a part of the /r/Vive community. What the Hell Happened? Yesterday we posted about our grand opening update to /r/Vive . This update isn't a regular update. It is essentially a remake. Rebuilt from the ground up by a 3D artist, feet tracking, a nightmare mode and a bunch of surprises. For perspective, it cost us 8X more than t… | — | |
| Game update | The Grand Opening Update This is Toni and Richard from Richie's Plank Experience. Below you'll see details of a rebuilt city, feet tracking, nightmare mode and a few other surprises that came out today. Announcement video here (8min) If you have any questions, we're here to answer them for you. REBUILT CITY The city has now been rebuilt from the ground up. Textures, buildings, rooftops, interiors, sky, roads, the plank… | — | |
| Community | First person to guess what this phone does, gets a building named after them. So our update is delayed by a few days. Really sorry about that. We wanted to add a little more polish and make sure Santa Simulator is still included. In the meantime.... First person to guess what happens when you answer this phone, will get a building named after them. | — | |
| Community | Special Announcement and Price Increase coming late November In late November we'll be revealing a surprise update to Richie's Plank Experience. We can't wait to share it with you. This date also brings us out of Early Access, so the price will be increasing to $US15.99 PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, if you are sitting on the fence about buying, or waiting for a discount, please purchase now, to avoid disappointment. | — | |
| Community | A note from Toni. Richie's Plank is 1 year old today. A little over a year ago, Richard & I sat at the table behind us in this picture and decided to work full-time on making a VR experience. We were newly married and probably still ‘living in a dream’ to think it was a great idea to both start working full-time in an industry that we had no experience in. Today marks one year since we released Richie’s Plank Experience. I remember sitting at that… | — | |
| Game update | 2 Dead Bugs Fixed bug which meant user sometimes fell through the ground. Gravity is adjusted in a more natural way when flying now. | — | |
| Game update | 7 Dead Bugs Bugs Fixed · Mixed reality is working again. · Cake can be picked up with the trigger again. Mmmm. Cake. · Fires are now neverending again. Car fire is back! · If you fall off the plank, the app menu buttons are temporarily disabled. This stops accidental game menu opening when in panic mode. When demoing, we also recommend enabling arcade mode in the steamVR console to also disable system butt… | — | |
| Game update | You asked to fly faster. Now you can. You want to fly faster? You get to fly faster. Enable Ludicrous Speed mode in game settings in the VR menu. May cause motion sickness. It also has less wind drag so it's a lot more loose around corners. Enjoy | — | |
| Game update | Mountain Terrain + Richies Plank Update Today's Richies Plank Experience update includes: New HD building on the ground floor. Across the street from starting location. Headset fades to black if you try to cheat and peek through the elevator doors. Terrain texture is now complete. It looks WAY better when flying through the mountains. Be sure to enable 3d terrain in the graphics settings. Higher res realistic lighting. Improved skybo… | — | |
| Game update | 6 month celebration update GRAPHICS · New light raytrace light baking · New static car · Car shadows · Better frame rate · Better street lights with light emission. · New aggressive rocket models and particle effects. Faster looking and better frame rate. · 2 New buildings. · New fire particles! Better looking and better frame rate. · Improved bloom effect. · PBR Plank Textures. Much more realistic looking. · Improved El… | — | |
| Game update | Glorious Atmosphere is Here In this update: Without Glorious Atmosphere With Glorious Atmosphere (enable in App Menu Button -> Graphics -> Glorious Atmosphere) GRAPHICS · Enable Glorious Atmosphere in App Menu Button -> Settings -> Graphics. It's disabled by default until more testing is done. Please report back if it doesn't work. · Now using Single Pass Rending. · Adjusted Color Correction BUGS FIXED · Custom sky writin… | — | |
| Game update | Love is in the Air Update It's nearly valentines day! This update includes: · New flower growth when you hose the grass. The more you water, the bigger they grow. · A custom sky writing message so you can surprise your friends and loved ones. Video: | — | |
| Game update | The Gardener Update GRAPHICS What happens if you hose the grass in the main park? What happens if you hose it? Lift doors are now realistically thick. Added a flower bed for our friend Meelad's niece and nephew. Improved color correction. Increased draw distance. Positioned birds closer to the plank. Improved quality of the grass. Made skybox less orange. Added more cars. BUG FIX Cars don't glitch together anymore… | — | |
| Game update | Christmas is Over Update This update fixes a few issues and removes the christmas button&bell. If you still want to ride in that sleigh, there's an option to enable it again in Game Settings. Fixes and improvements in this update: GRAPHICS Trees are now animated. Lighting and shadows have been re-baked. GAME PLAY · Removed santa simulator as default (re-enable in Game Settings) · You can now disable falling off the pla… | — | |
| Game update | Real world plank measurement now 15cm (6") more accurate Now available in the latest minor update. | — | |
| Game update | Bell Bugs Update This update has some bugs fixed... · Everything fades to black after going up in the lift. Fixed! · Bells now ring properly. · Bell in the sleigh is now more reliable. · Fixed presents falling out of the Sleigh at the start. His aggressive approach was responsible. · VR Menu was glitching some of the buttons. Made them unusable. Should be fixed now. · Changed settings are now auto saved even af… | — | |
| Game update | Santa Simulator is now on Richie's Plank Experience There's a mysterious bell in the elevator. You ring it. Next minute, you're riding in a sleigh, dropping presents in chimneys. Welcome to Santa Simulator, now on Richie's Plank Experience. 15 Second Gif - Use the trigger on your controller to ring all the bells and throw presents into the chimneys. How many presents can you deliver? 0 - 5 presents - Santa School Student 5 - 10 presents - Shoppi… | — |
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