Genre: Shooter, Racing, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Adventure, Indie, ArcadeDesert Child
Halloween is here on Mars!
Spooky month is here which means it is time to decorate, dress up, and eat some candy! We take the celebration of Halloween a million miles away from Earth and incorporate it into Desert Child! Load up Desert Child in October to see the spooky decorations that the residences have put up!
Make sure to keep your eyes on the road when driving your hoverbike and good luck on your next race!
-Riv Otter
Even Mars Celebrates Halloween!
Just because we're not on Earth anymore doesn't mean we don't celebrate All Hallow's Eve! Everyone enjoys a good pumpkin, even if it's gotta be grown in red sand under a sun 150 million miles away. Load up Desert Child and take a look at the spooky decorations hidden all across Olympia.
As always, I wish you the best of luck in the Grand Prix!
-Buddy
Desert Child - Remote Gameplay Feature!
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In Desert Child you are broke, but talented, hoverbike racer who needs to find a way off Earth to get to Mars to compete in the Grand Prix, the greatest race in the universe. Explore a vibrant pixel-art solar system in this stylized racing adventure flavored with colorful sidequests, fierce hoverbike competitions, and a chill, lo-fi hip-hop soundtrack.
Game Features
- Hunt bounties, do odd jobs, throw races - do anything you can to earn cash.
- Explore a pixel-art solar system inspired by Cowboy Bebop, Akira and Redline.
- Customize your vintage bike with various modifications.
- Dine on a range of interplanetary cuisine with sweet buffs to help you win.
- Master deep combat and racing mechanics and define your own style.
- Race, shoot, and get better! Designed for replayability, with secrets that will keep you coming back.
- Chill to an original lo-fi/hip-hop soundtrack.
Trading Cards and Badges Available Now!
We hope you've been enjoying those quality of life updates. We're very happy to announce that trading cards are now available! You can unlock exclusive emoticons and backgrounds by completing sets.
If you haven't had the chance to revisit New Olympia since the patch update, this is yet another reason to come race & chill.
Patch 1.1.1 Notes
Bug Fixes
- The background no longer tears in certain maps
- All Halloween elements during races have been integrated
Happy Halloween from New Olympia!
Patch 1.1.0 Notes
Big Changes
- Added Gun Shop - You can now purchase new guns at any point while in New Olympia
- 3 New Podcast Episodes added to the Record Shop
- Halloween Update - Starting on October 1st, this update adds Halloween decorations around the city of New Olympia, and transforms all the enemies in the game to ghoulish monsters
Minor Changes
- Updated End-of-race summary screen to be easier to understand
- Records can now be sold back to the record shop to remove them from the soundtrack
- Updated walking animations in New Olympia
- Gun models are now animated in Weapon Selection Screen
- Weather effects have more visual variety
- Water glistening looks more realistic
Bug Fixes
- Kangaroo herding now pays out correct amount based on how many you killed
- Smoke from hoverbike in Act 1 Hub now flows correctly
- "Nice" Achievement sometimes wouldn't activate, this is fixed
Also previously we had implemented an unlockable weapon, Enzo's 'Soopa-doopa Laza-Bazooka', and New Game + mode with harder racers - so if you haven't seen those yet, more good reasons to come back to New Olympia!
Desert Child Nominated for NAVGTR Awards
• Game, Original Racing
• Song Collection
• Song, Original or Adapted (Mega Ran and Bag of Tricks Cat - Love is Here)
We're so proud of this and hopefully Oscar can bring home the hardware on March 13th!
More info: http://navgtr.org/archives/3566/
1.0.3 Patch Notes
Patch Notes:
- Balanced Bounty Hunting job for shotgun
- Fixed issue in tutorial when starting a new game after recently completing special jobs like Bounty Hunting and Kangaroo Herding
- Fixed issue where bike would appear to "repair itself" when transitioning screens
- Fixed issue where MARTIC Ammo kit was still active even after removing it
1.0.2 Patch Notes
We have been gathering feedback since Desert Child has launched and we have a patch with new features and a few fixes.
Patch Notes:
- Increased difficulty for New Game +
- Added 1 second delay between shots for Shotgun
- Created controller configuration for Steam Controller
- Added confirmation for when player selects New Game in Pause Menu
- Fixed issue with monitors with high refresh rates, affecting performance
- Fixed memory issues
- Fixed 2nd player multiplayer issue
- Fixed volume fluctuation and loops
- Fixed NPC graphical issues
- Fixed issue on Steam where game continues to run when accessing Steam Overlay
- Fixed translations
Game Runs Very Fast on High Refresh Monitor - Bug (and Fix!)
Essentially the game is running at very high FPS, instead of the intended 60 FPS.
We hope to address this properly, but in the meantime, here are a few ways you can fix it, if experiencing this issue:
1) Run the game in Windowed mode.
or
2) Drop your monitor's refresh rate to 60Hz before starting the game.
Apologies for this issue, and we'll add patch notes at the point it is fixed in entirety.