Bears Can't Drift!?
Final Update, slight delay
Thanks,
Arran
Bears Can’t Drift!? 2.95: Audio update, GDC and EGX Rezzed
Audio Update
- End of Race win
- Start of Race
- UI-Rollover
- Select
- Add Player
- Cancel
- Boost Sfx wasn’t spacialised
- Music and BG audio fades on level load
- Music now plays in all game modes
Fix List
- Second tier rocket uses old particle system
- Braking at low speed is too strong
- Make stopping easier
- Animate Race UI
- Pickups now pop in and out
- Pickups are made larger
- Wind effect doesn’t play in time trial mode
- Intro camera sequence added to all maps
- Visual feedback for mushroom spawn powerup
- Rebuilt save/load structure
- Pressing quit while in hub world (multiple players) breaks the game
- Ai Tracking doesn’t reset when they fall off the cliff
- Camera collision should ignore other players
- AI mortor and mushroom drops don’t fire correctly
- Improved visuals to arctic tracks
- AI weapons are easier to see
- Added arctic directing wind to arctic tracks
[H1]GDC[/H1]
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It’s been a really busy couple of weeks! Bears Can’t Drift was picked to be part of the Epic Games Showcase at GDC. It was the first time Bears Can’t Drift!? Was running on a PS4 alongside 7 other games! If you get a chance, take a look!
Grip http://store.steampowered.com/app/396900/
Astroneer http://store.steampowered.com/app/361420/
Obduction http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=191173244
Rocket League http://store.steampowered.com/app/252950/
Street Fighter V http://store.steampowered.com/app/310950/
Ark http://store.steampowered.com/app/346110/
Abzu http://www.abzugame.com/
[H1]EGX Rezzed[/H1]
Bears Cant’ Drift!? is on show at this years EGX Rezzed in London. I have secured a 3x2m booth so head over to East Mall 1 - the Games Industry.biz careers fair!
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Fingers crossed this booth back board doesn't collapse!
If you are attending it would be great to see you, so make sure to come and say hi!
Thanks,
Arran
Bears Can’t Drift!? 2.9: Readability and cleanup
Bears Can’t Drift!? is getting really close to being finished! Only a few sfx/music tracks and a bit more polish left! I have a nice long list of fixes and improvements for you to test out. Let me know what you think in the forums :D
Fix list
- Picnic UI now displays correct rank
- Added unique icons to each map in hub worlds
- Changed turning, accelerating and looking to analogue inputs
- Updated foliage in Ruin worlds
- Auto detect console mode
- Adjusted hat sizes
- Updated ruin buildings
- Fixed arrow guides Ruin tracks
- AI Picks random bear from collection
- Added flags to ruin hub
- Texture broken Road sections in lava level
- Added intro animation to difficulty options
- Fixed portal collision
- Tiled portal images
- Texture hat baseball cap
- Improved paws menu responsiveness
- Animated paws menu
- Picnic now spawns you facing the right way
- Replaced picnic baskets with large food
- Improved ai track navigation
- Fixed restart option in hub worlds
- Driving into a hat automatically sets it as active
- Timetrial UI now displays correctly in multiplayer
- Made Deleting save data option clearer
- Fixed collision in core hub world
- Intro camera animations for race play on all tracks
- Player camera now does collision tests
Audio Update
- Music Ruins Racing track
- Rocket fire and explode
- Mortor hit
- boost
Thanks,
Arran
BCD!?: 2.8, 32bit build and Hub UI!
32Bit version added
There is now a 32bit version of the game. The minimum requirements will stay at 64bit and the game will load 64bit by default. I recommend using caution when buying this game for a 32bit machine and make sure you are happy with frame rate etc.. before passing the returns policy deadline :) The game does require a moderately high spec machine to run so always check the recommended specs on the product page before buying.
Minor
- Track guides added to more tracks
- Added shield sfx
- Added Flags to ruin tracks
- d-pad on paws menu now works
- pickups now face the right direction
- Pickups now animate in and out
- New icon for salmon rocket
- Unique icon for multi-rocket
- Double boost effect
- Hats have been moved to respective tracks
- Improved UI for hub world
- Added UI to credits mini game
BCD!?: 2.7, Achievements and mini game.
Added remaining acheivments
Head over to the achievements page to check them out! There are 16 in total.
Special Thanks mini game
I wanted to make something more interesting and fun than the usual list of names at the end of the game. While this has been a solo project for the vast majority of developement, many people offered critique, advise and help bringing it together. The 'Special Thanks' mini game is completable but is missing a UI element which is coming in the next update. Good luck finding it and thanks to everyone in the game.
Updated Graphical assets
I have created a new header image that I hope makes the game stand out a little more in your library, let me know what you think!
Minor
- Textured Scifi ceiling
- Created underside for lighthouse
- Animated Picnic end sequence
- Animated Timetrial lap sequence
- Animated Paws menu icons
- Improved track directing on arctic tracks
- Improved collision on forest night and evening
- Stopped hats popping in
- Stopped mortor rockets popping in
- Player spawns looking in the wrong direction
- Improved Arctic ocean shader
- Snow particle effect while driving over snow.
- Pickups now bob animatedly when picked up
- Lightmapped several assets
- Stop camera switching while in player select mode
- Increased Security for remaining tracks
As always, I hope you enjoy the latest update of Bears Can't Drift!? and if you have any critique or issues then let me know in the discussion board :)
Thanks,
Arran
BCD!?: 2.6, All Characters and Hats are in! Big improvement to ruins world
Player Character
- All Eight playable characters are now in.
- Added Playable Character Prehistoric Bear
- Added playable character Dummy Bear
- Added playable character Black bear
- Improved visuals to panda
- Improved braking animation
- Added animation sequence to chicken powerup
- Added animation to shield
- All hats are now unlockable
- Salmon rockets now hit close enemies
Arctic World
- Improved Arctic base materials
- Added Aurora Borealis to Arctic world
Forest World
- directing particles effects added to all forest levels
- Add Palm tree to Forest Beach level
- Textured wooden platforms
Ruin World
- Fixed Gaps Between RuinWall
- Pathways added to Ruins Hub world
- Major Improvements to visuals of Ruin levels
Hub Core
- Fixed cheat to unlock hard achievement without making jump
- Replaced Delete save data with new visual display to show completion level
- Delete save data option moved to a server room
- New intro screen
- Minor Improvements to Paws menu and graphics options panel
Race modes
- Improved Ai competitiveness
- Added visual flags to checkpoints in Single Race and TimeTrial
- Added remaining hats
- Ai change based on difficulty
- Lock timer to 99:99:99
- Added animation to end race text
Remaining tasks
So there are still a few things left to go before I am calling the game finished. If you want to help shape the game then make sure to get your critique in soon!
- Add remaining achievements
- Music track for ruin race modes
- SFX for weapons and UI
- Improve pathfinding for Ai
- Add thank you credit mini game
- Animations for UI
- Final Art tweaks and polish
Thanks,
Arran
BCD!?: 2.5 New maps and more!
All maps released
You can now play all 12 maps in Bears Can't Drift!? Major work still needs to be done to the tracks. The ruin hub (red zone) tracks are all made to blockout stage at the moment so the next few updates will be to improve visual fidelity to match the forest (green zone) tracks. You should notice yellow hammers at the entrance to some portals to let you know which tracks are still under construction. 4 tracks have been added to the ruins hub (Red zone)and 1 track added to Arctic hub (Blue zone).
Paws menu Graphics options
Paws menu has new artwork added (animations still to come). The add player icons now represent the difficulty mode to let you know which diff mode you are in. Difficulty modes should be added in the next update, at the moment its still locked to Medium. You can now access the graphics control panel by pressing LB(L1) or RB(R1) in the Paws menu. It is currently locked to mouse input only, you can control all the effects that were in the previous build. Fullscreen, Vsync, quality and resolution, art assets are still being developed for this.
Achievements
3 achievements are currently obtainable, Activate Easy, Medium and Hard. More achievements will be added and implemented in the coming weeks, post any suggestions for achievemnts on the forums.
Achievements
Hats
Cosmetic hats have been added to Bears Can't Drift!? Lock icons can be found throughout the hub worlds which will turn into hats when you unlock them. Hats are hidden throughout the 12 tracks and game modes. In order to unlock them you must find the hat and come in first place. Currently you can unlock two hats, more will be added over the next few weeks!
New playable character
Robobear is a new playable character that can be unlocked. Like with previous new characters, press select while in the hub world and move left and right to change character.
Hope you enjoy the game and as always, any feedback on the game is welcome :)
Thanks,
Arran
Dev
Adding Achievements
I am going to be adding achievments to the game over the next couple of days! you won't be able to unlock them yet but you should be able to check them out in the achievements section :) The next update is going to be a big one and I can't wait for you to all play it :)
BCD!?: 2.4 Minor updates
- save data for Picnic Game mode now working.
- Portal data is clearer to see
- Save data for Time trial Now working.
- Cam shake on boost
- Game mode icon appears above portals
- Track Ranking in Picnic game mode.
- Added flags back in.
- Portals now pop between game modes.
- Removed crowns from Hub world.
BCD!?: 2.3 Weapon changes, new arctic track and character!
Removing some weapon combinations.
I have done a lot of experimenting with the weapon combo system and have come to the conclusion that it is too complicated. After getting a lot of feedback I found people really struggled to remember all of the different combinations. Because of this I am lowering the weapon combinations to same item only (from 14 total to 8 total). If you pick up two of the same item, it changes to a super power item. After play testing this I found people picked up the game much more easily, were able to be more tactical and remember the combinations. I hate removing content, but I genuinely feel that it makes the game better, if you have any feedback on this please let me know in the forum. I will change the description page to match the changes made.
Improvements have been made to the second tier weapons so they all work as intended. Some more work is still to come for the visual side. Animations for the mushroom drop and chicken attack still need work as well as more particle effects and SFX for all weapons.
New Player Character
I have added the polar bear to the roster of playable characters! You can change your character any time in the hub world by pressing select on your gamepad and then moving left/right with the analogue stick to switch between characters!
New Arctic Track
A new arctic track has been added to the game! Check it out in the arctic hub world.
Second tier drift
If you hold the drift for long enough you now get a second tier hit of speed. You get much more speed but a lot less control.
Minor Changes
- Added clover to forest world
- Foliage interaction in the forest world
- Mushroom drop throws you into the air
- Some bears have crowns in the hub world when they shouldn’t
As always, thanks for checking out Bears Can’t Drift!? and let me know what you think of the game in the forums :)
Thanks,
Arran
Dev