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Kiteboarding Pro screenshot
Genre: Simulator, Sport, Adventure, Indie, Arcade

Kiteboarding Pro

Graphics update

- Crash detection corrected: Player will crash if landing in the upwind direction
- Reworked some shaders to give it a little more of a stylized look and make the colors pop more
- Graphics settings: resolution, anisotropic filtering, anti-aliasing, beauty filters
- Improvements to low quality water setting: now it doesnt look like total sh** anymore

Known issues:
- Player does not pull the bar to the hips on some occasions

Hotfix

- Fixed some issues with the ship's AI
- Ship now also breaks ice blocks
- Fixed collision issues on ice map
- Fixed a bug where the shark was not attacking the player
- Nerfed jump power

Spring update

- Lake map has now time trials with four tracks
- Continued working on ice map
- Background sound for ice map
- Object Pooling of ice blocks for unlimited destructable ice blocks
- Ship wreck texture improvements and shader effects
- Ship in ice map with AI
- Whale in ice map has now collision and is grindable
- Whale sounds
- Player pops off grinding instead of sliding off when cancelling a grind
- Improved grinding mechanics
- Improved water splashes
- Completely reworked the pendulum physics when player is dangling under kite from scratch
- Adjustments to kite and player physics

Known issues:
- Jump power and hangtime need to be nerfed
- Some objects on ice map don't have any collision at all or a bad collision proxy

Small update for external player/board/kite textures

The player, kite and board texture is now editable externally.
The respective UV-layout is also provided.
For the board there is also a photoshop file.

Weekly update

- Improved unhooked "pulling bar to hips" handling
- Steer assistance also during airtime
- Partially fixed bug where player bounces off water after an unhooked trick
- Pushing windsurfer animation
- Improved switch animation
- Tweaked water shader

Weekly update

- Addressed white artifacts underneath the water in caribbean map
- Player auto-rotates to regular stance in first-person-camera for less confusion
- Added windsurfers

Weekly Update

Added first-person-camera: Still needs some tweaks though.

Weekly update

- Improved passing bar animation
- "Crashing with boat" sound
- Eagle cry
- Boat water effect
- Option to disable kite effets
- Shorebreak sounds
- Changes to camera 3 to keep the player more in the viewfield
- New player textures (WIP)

Weekly Update

- added destroyable boats
- added eagles in lake map
- improved player animation during kiteloops