From this minute - RIGHT NOW - Fromto: Toy Cars in Hell starts into Steam Early Access! I truly feel really proud of what Fromto has become over the last weeks and month. You are all very welcome to join my devilish physics racing platformer!
Fromto offers a single player campaign including various puzzle challenges, friendship-testing multiplayer modes and a level editor with more than 40 of the craziest track elements to build your own awesome tracks and crack them with your friends locally!
Over the upcoming weeks and month there will be several updates bringing user feedback and more content to the game. We will release an Early Access Roadmap tomorrow so that you can take a look on our plans till the full launch in early 2020.
Today at 5 PM CET Fromto will release on Early Access. And we are going to make it a party! We have invited some professional streamers who will be playing the game and stream it on the store page. Welcome to join in! I am sooo looking forward to it. I truly feel really proud of what Fromto has become.
Check out these awesome people who are streaming today:
Hey hey hey! Only 2 days left till Fromto: Toy Cars in Hell will launch in Early Access!
I was planning to show you guys the new level loader today in a nice screenshot. But we are still working on it. No worries, we will make it. There is almost two full days left to work on it. Or only two days left before you can play around with it! ːsteamhappyː
Anyway here is a small impression of the level editor which lets you create those levels:
Easier to make it then to make it!
I will tell you more about the cliffhanger tomorrow. I have to get back to work!
Today I want to point out a very cool new Steam feature! Maybe you’ve already heard about it. Maybe not. It's Steam Remote Play Together!
Steam has started a beta a few weeks back which allows you to play your favourite local multiplayer games online! This means you can easily connect with your Steam friends to play games as if they were sitting next to you. So this is supercool! Even cooler is that it will work with Fromto right from Early Access release. ːsteamhappyː
What is the difference with the regular online multiplayer mode in Fromto? Well in this case you will be streaming your monitor to the others. In Fromto’s ‘all together’ race mode online the camera will only follow you where in local play everybody must be on screen.
Play with or play your friends?
But the main difference is that you would need only one copy to play with your friends. This is available since last week or so for every Steam user. Here is some more info:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/3032537193879549687 So I would say a good opportunity to check out Fromto with some friends starting this Thursday…
Yihaa! Four days left! I can’t wait for you to start playing my little furious baby. On the other hand I wish I had more time... Always stupid things have to happen at the last moment. ːsteamfacepalmː
Anyway today was a bit hectic here balancing Fromto and family. I am mostly improving things right now performance wise (which most of you probably wouldn’t even notice). But I want people with lower specs also to be able to have a smooth play experience. I am working on it and this optimizing will be an ongoing process.
Let me tell you about unlocking new multiplayer levels today. When you first start playing there will be three levels unlocked, ready to play for all of you. For the other ones you must find and collect (hidden) maps throughout the game. Here is my buddy Abbing showing off how it done:
When you have any questions or just want to mingle with us and other people from the community you are very welcome to join our discord server:
Only 5 days left till Fromto: Toy Cars in Hell will launch in Early Access! This is my first release ever so I am currently eating a broom stick to calm my nerves.
To ease my pain I decided to write a little story about why I think Fromto is so cool.
One of the coolest things in Fromto are traps. While trying to build a road to the finish together you must make sure you get there first. So you use traps to make it hard. But then again you need to be able to make it. Or not? Maybe the fun lies in obstructing the people who are so handy with their controllers. Beat this giant car munching gorilla! (Meanwhile you created another path the others weren’t paying attention to.)
Speaking about a car munching gorilla?
Oh and know what? When you play in ‘take turns’ mode (race in succession) the traps you placed won’t harm you! So remember this - as a tip from the dev - for next week, when all hell breaks loose... “If you can’t make it, make sure the rest can’t either.”
When you have any questions or just want to mingle with us and other people from the community you are very welcome to join our discord server:
Hi there! In 6 days Fromto: Toy Cars in Hell will launch into Early Access. It has been and still is a hell of a ride. Currently we are working night and day to implement the Mod.io tool [https://mod.io/]. With this you can easily share your custom designed levels in game with your friends.
So yeah! there will be a level browser to find cool maps made by the community.
Oh and watch out we have tanks: ːsteamhappyː
When you have any questions or just want to mingle with us and other people from the community you are very welcome to join our discord server:
Hope to meet you there!
Cheers, Erikson
Welcome to the Fromto Early Access Feature Hightlight!
Hi there! Early Access is only three weeks away. So let's highlight a few cool things that will be within the Early Access release version.
The core gameplay In Fromto: Toy Cars in Hell you must build the track before trying to reach the goal of the level. You will start off as a little helicopter, collect crates and use the items inside to pave your way to the finish. After building you can try to make it to the finish in a hell of a ride. Can’t do it? Rebuild it.
Highlighting some Early Access release features:
2 Multiplayer Modes
Race in turns: the traps YOU place won’t harm you, but they will be a pain for the rest.
Race together: you can crash against each other. Push them of the cliff!
Singleplayer Campaign Chapter 1 Combine your brains with your skills to earn gold medals on all levels. (about 20 levels)
Gameplay Customization Customize your multiplayer game with your own gameplay settings. (modifiers)
Level Editor Build your own multiplayer map in minutes and play / share them instantly. Download and play maps build by the community.
See ya all on the tracks at the Fromto: Toy Cars in Hell Early Access release on 14th of November! Cheers! Erik
Fromto on Track for Early Access on November 14th!
Hey guys! It's been a little while since my last update, but no worries! We are still alive and kicking! Today we have some exciting news to share.
We have been pimping this devilish ride with great dedication and focus. We added a multiplayer mode were you can race together! Another added feature is the level editor where you can show of your level design skills. Basically the whole game got a fresh new paint job. We implemented a lot of community feedback and are excited to show it to you all.
So we are inviting all of you to joining us for the Steam Early Access launch on November 14th. Why Early Access? The answer is very easy: We want to listen to your feedback and use this to finalize the game to perfection in the last stretch of the development.
The Early Access release will include the first chapter of the single player campaign (about a third of the full campaign), multiplayer and level editor. (See the full feature list under ‘features’.) More features will be implemented during the Early Access. We will post a roadmap with the global plan here soon.
Cheers! Erik
PS. We have decided to remove the Party Crash demo. This will happen within a couple of days. I feel that the demo has become redundant and outdated.
gamescom is around the corner, there is less than one week to go! If you want to take a deeper look on our hilarious sandbox racing game Fromto, let's meet in Cologne! You can find us in hall 10.2 at the Indie Arena Booth!
Come by, meet the nice guys of Headup, let's have a chat and get your hands on four more gems of the Headup line-up: Vambrace: Cold Soul (developer on-site), Silver Chains, OUTBUDDIES and Colt Canyon (developer on-site)!
