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Genre: Sport, Strategy, Indie

Frozen Cortex

Frozen Cortex Camera Update
Hi,

We're altering the behaviour of the camera based on user feedback.

Here are our current plans:

- Camera starts in the same place as it does now

- Rolling the mouse-wheel forwards interpolates between this and a top-down, quite-far-away camera that provides more of an overview, as opposed to a top-down closer camera

- POSSIBLY after that point has been reached, rolling the mouse wheel forwards moves the camera closer to the pitch

- POSSIBLY zoom controls are available on a modifier key

I'd appreciate any thoughts you have on this issue.

Brief Frozen Cortex Development Update
We've been quiet for a while on Cortex as a huge amount of stuff is happening behind the scenes.

Here's what we're currently working on:

- Main bug list
- Making and implementing GUI assets for single player
- Additional "hologram" player armour
- Variable player faces
- Single player story mode narrative content
- In-game character-specific text content

We've recently completed:

- Single player "story mode" structure, gameplay implementation and early balance pass

- Single and multiplayer league mode structure, options and GUI stuff (this was a mammoth task)

A lot of this stuff will be wrapped up into a large update for the beta: no specific timeframe on that yet.

Here's a sneaky bit of concept art which gives away some team and character names in the single player: http://imgur.com/8lQu28Z

Also a screenshot showing off randomly generated "greebles" and circuits on blocks, plus block combination that makes the playfield look a lot nicer: http://i.imgur.com/istETnQ.jpg

Thanks for sticking with the game - we like to update slowly and in big chunks which I know can be annoying. There's a lot happening though and I hope you like this new stuff when it's released into the beta.

Frozen Endzone is now Frozen Cortex!
We've renamed the game and changed some elements of the aesthetic: it's still the same gameplay but we've made a few tweaks!

You can read about the decision here and I hope you like the new update which is hitting later today. Here's what's coming:

Here’s what’s in the update:

- OSX and Linux versions
- New pitch, ball and animations
- Completely overhauled AI including much faster performance and much more intelligent play
- Five new stadiums
- Significant performance improvements: frame rate should be 50-100% improved on most hardware
- Big loading time improvements

UI improvements:

- Throwing UI improved
- Intelligent interception-radius rendering
- indicator for whether a move location is “safe” or not
- Minor rules changes to reduce the need to “keep playing when the match is clearly over”; other gameplay improvements
- Quite a few new gameplay options to play around with in the Custom Game editor.
- Significantly updated in-game commentary text
- Other minor changes

Big update coming in July
Greetings,

We will be pushing an update for Frozen Endzone at the end of July.

We’ve also been working heavily on single player content which isn’t ready to release yet. I’ll talk about that a bit in a moment but first, here’s what you can expect in the update…

Change List

- OSX and Linux builds

- Completely overhauled AI including much faster performance and much more intelligent play

- Significant performance improvements: frame rate should be 50-100% improved on most hardware

- Big loading time improvements

- Major aesthetic updates and improvements including...
- new ball
- many new animations
- new throws, new catches, new tackles
- several new stadiums
- other minor graphical improvements with a lot more to come

UI improvements:
- throwing UI improved
- intelligent interception-radius rendering
- indicator for whether a move location is "safe" or not

- Minor rules changes to reduce the need to “keep playing when the match is clearly over”; other gameplay improvements

- Quite a few new gameplay options to play around with in the Custom Game editor.

- Some commentary improvements.

- Other minor changes

Single Player

Alongside this update we have been working on the single player game, which we think is a fantastic combination of a traditional season mode but with a much tighter structure, character interaction and potential for storytelling.

The main mode will feature 7 distinct AI teams, all with their own coaches. Each coach has a response to the player, ranging from hatred to admiration, and their dialogue will change based on this and your performance in the league. You’ll be playing in the Global Cortex League (GCL) against these teams and also in a series of specially crafted contests with hugely variable rules and player behaviour.

You’ll earn incremental stat upgrades and be able to customise your team; there will also be storylines and intrigues which happen within the league that will have a bearing on your progress. The coaches will each have a different agenda and occasionally will propose league-wide votes on rule changes which you can influence.

There will also be other leagues and tournaments where you can coach, as well as an ongoing background story which will progress across different playthroughs with different teams

We’ve been working on this a lot behind-the-scenes for a while and making progress on it is very exciting. This kind of gameplay isn’t something that will work with incremental updates, so you’ll have to bear with us as we polish it up to the level where we’re happy to show it to you.

Thanks very much for the support on Endzone so far: this game means a lot to us and we’re really pushing to make it as good as humanly (and robotly) possible.

Please feel free to ask me any questions on Twitter: @mode7games

Suggestions for single player game
We're about to embark on single player stuff and we'd like some input. The game will be set in a futuristic world and you'll be taking part in a huge league with a lot of other teams. Players will have their own lives and get into trouble etc. off the pitch. There might be illegal modifications, gambling syndicates, conspiracies within the league...that kind of thing! We'd like some info from you: what kind of stories / crazy happenings / events would you like to see in the game? What would you like to be able to do as a coach: for example you could be called on to rig matches, bet on other teams, blackmail other coaches into giving you their players etc...let us know!

Ask Mode 7 Anything
Ian and Paul (the founders of Mode 7) are currently doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) on Reddit.
You can find it at http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/201u70/we_are_paul_taylor_and_ian_hardingham_coowners_of/
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