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, elevator. Pretty much everything has been rebuilt. We admit, the early versions looked pretty bad.
Old Version
New Version
New Version from the Ground
FEET TRACKING
Here's how it works:
Vive Controllers
Using a rubber band, attach the controller upside down, with the head of the controller on the outside of your shoe. This works pretty well, straight out of the box. Attach additional rubber bands if it's not tight enough. Please note that flying and other levels won't work since you obviously won't be able to use your hands. Feet tracking enables hands free mode.
Vive Tracking Pucks
Great for arcades and serious VR demo fans. Screw the tracker onto some immitation Crocs (or real crocs) for a universally fitting shoe. Purchase the screw from a hardware store. You'll need to dampen harsh vibration with some rubber bands. This stop the shoe from glitching slightly. Please note, the latest update is still being uploaded to the Vivestore.
Oculus
You'll need two rubber bands for each controller. Both individually looped onto the wrist strap. Then, run them under the shoe and finally use the touch controllers' "circle of lights" to hook the rubber bands. See announcement video for details. We noticed that with most Oculus setups, camera's can't see the ground. Please promise you won't attempt this if your Oculus cameras can't fully see the ground. You'll be setting yourself up for frustration, otherwise.
NIGHTMARE MODE
Press 666 into the number panel in the elevator to enable Nightmare mode. Hope you enjoy the surprise! We'll be improving this over time. Not suitable for children.
FLYING IS MORE FUN
Faster sounds. Tuned Rockets. Note: If you enable Ludicrous Speed mode in settings, you can easily die if you hit something at high speed. Pressing code 112 on the number panel will automatically give you rockets.
SKYBRUSH COMPETITION
To celebrate coming out of early access, we're hosting a competition. Win a $50 Steam voucher and naming rights to a Building in Richie's Plank Experience. Post a photo or video of your skybrush art to Steam, Twitter or Instagram with #SkyBrush hashtag. Winner picked December 31st.
NEW GAME
Yes, we're working on a new game. All we can say for now is that it'll involve flying and a super hero academy. ETA 2019.
UPDATED SANTA SIMULATOR
It's that time of year to say Merry Christmas!
It looks better and works more smoothly. There's also an option in settings to have the sleigh automatically center itself to the center of your play space. It does this when you first enter the sleigh. Required for smaller play spaces. HO HO HO! My best score is 59 presents delivered. Can you be a better Santa?
OUT OF EARLY ACCESS
Thank you to everyone who has supported us while in early access! We hope you enjoy this update. The early access price will finish when this post is 48 hours old, so if you've been sitting on the fence, consider buying it now. We will strive to keep bringing you bug fixes, improvements and a SPACE Y launch late next year.
