Sky Racket - Performance Upgrades & Nintendo Indie World!
Our beloved heroes got some performance upgrades on their scarves and rackets! Now they can fly so much better that they were even featured at the Nintendo Indie World Showcase to let you know that Sky Racket is now available on the Nintendo Switch!
About the Update
A lot of things happened since the release of Sky Racket (October 2019) and we've spent the last months working hard to make it an even better experience for you all. Our objective was optimizing the game, making it more accessible for less bulky computers and polishing a few graphical and gameplay issues reported by our players.
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We have created a loading screen, so there are no more moments where you are just waiting on a black screen with no idea of what's going on. There's a cute little animation with RacketBoy and RacketGirl to pass the time. We also used this screen to give away some tips and trivia about the game.
We also used this Loading moment to improve our pre-loading of level elements to optimize how they spawn in the game and reduce lagging. We want the game running as smooth as possible in less powerful machines!
Recreating the "movement calculation system": Now our enemies and background objects will use a lot less processing power from your CPU, saving up calculations that, previously, had to be done numerous times. Now movement is a lot smarter! :3
Adjustments on the way the game creates and destroys elements in the game that are necessary for each level in the game, optimizing memory use and management and improving game performance.
Proofread some translated texts in the game.
Updated and created several "rumble moments" for whoever uses rumble controls (such as the Xbox controller or Dual Shock) to increase immersion in the game (plus it's really fun!)
Nintendo Indie World
We have great news! Sky Racket was just released for the Nintendo Switch! We were also selected by the Big N to feature on their Indie World Showcase, where they announced the game's release.
To us is a big accomplishment to have our game being recognized through this event, where only the best indie games are featured! Take a look at our new Launch Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eox0kHT6R0o
Discord
If you're willing to know more details about this update, ask questions or just chat with us, get on our Discord.
We are always eager to hear suggestions for our next steps and improvements. What do you think about being part of this? Let us know what you think!
Link to join in Discord: htpps://discord.gg/doubledashstu
Winter Sale Sky Racket 20% OFF!
Winter sale has started and Sky Racket wouldn't miss this party!
20% off on the Game and on the Soundtrack! 28% off on the Game+OST Bundle!
Don't miss this opportunity to get your copy now!
Nominees for the Brazil Game Awards!
Hey Dashers!
We just received some great news! Sky Racket is one of the nominees for the Brazil Game Awards in the Category: Brazilian Game of the Year!
The result comes out on 12/10! Cheer for us, and we want to give special thanks to our community for all the support! We love you guys!
Link for the article about the Brazil Game Awards (In portuguese):
Indie X aims to promote the best indie games that Portugal has to offer as well as a selection of international indies who tag along for an awesome showcase with tons of experience sharing, it’s an event by developers for developers!
If you are in Lisboa or at least close to it between november 14 to 17 come meet Sky Racket and lots of other great indie games! Also, you can search for one of our devs!
For more information about the event: http://indiex.pt/
Patch Notes #2
Ohayo, minna-san!
We’re back bringing three nice changees, motivated by two very important reasons: reaching as many people as we can with an accessible experience and always trying to make the game better for who’s already here with us having fun.
Japanese localization! This update adds Japanese as one of the supported languages in Sky Racket! We are always looking into reaching new people all over the world, that’s why we want to make the game as accessible as possible for everyone. We hope to find a new public that can enjoy the game playing Sky Racket in their native language.
Control mapping update We want you to be as confortable as possible playing Sky Racket. We made some changes to the control mapping so the game can recognize different controllers and arcade sticks, so you can adapt your playing style.
OST release! A lot of people were asking for it, so now the Original Sountrack for Sky Racket is finally available on Steam! Not much more to say here, because we know you guys will want to listen to some funky tunes now.
A good day for all of you and have fun with Sky Racket!
HALLOWEEN INVASION!
SKY RACKET'S FIRST THEMATIC EVENT IS HERE!
October is here and some of our cute and evil enemies have been possessed by pumpkins, vampires and other spirits of Halloween! Help us ghostbust these spooky (and adorable) monsters breaking haunted blocks into pixel oblivion!
Halloween Invasion brings thematic skins for some of the game's enemies for a limited time, so you can enjoy the world's first Shmup Booo-reaker during this scaring week without getting out of the mood.
Patch Notes #1
Hello everyone! So, we hope you're all enjoying Sky Racket these past few days. We have been watching some gameplay videos and streams, reading reviews and listening to your feedback! So we prepared an update to address some issues in the game. Specially regarding a certain Boss battle that might be too challenging (We're looking at YOU, Tennistar!) Here's a list of what's changed in this Update. If you had trouble fighting Tennistar or Korrg, please revisit them after this update and let us know what you think.
We wish you all a nice weekend, and have fun!
Adjustments made to Tennistar
- We tweaked some numbers to make him less challenging. Still difficult tough. - Bullets are now destroyed when the player dies, stopping Tennistar to keep playing against himself like a dummy and being defeated.(Yes, that happened) - Fixed an issue that made Tennistar serve twice in a row. - Fixed the way that the 50 strikes mission was shown in the pause menu. Now, the progress bar does a countdown showing how many strikes you have left.
Adjustments made to the spores on set 2-2
- Spores are now destroyed when you fly through them. - Added a visual effect when Spores are destroyed.
- Fixed issues where some objects were not adding to the Combo Counter.
- FlowerDuck's hat - The final Boss' weakspot - Luchanuki's head
- Adjustments made to Luchanuki
- Now his illusions can be destroyed by attacks - Fixed a bug where Luchanuki's clones would spawn tanukis twice in a row after being destroyed
Adjustments made to Korrg (First stage) so his fight is more dynamic and a bit shorter. But beware, he's a bit more challenging as well!
Implemented a Vsync option in the Video settings.
- Fixed our button exibition system on the menu, allowing it to recognize different controls, and fixing some "white square" issues.
- Our bug report system now includes the Build's version in the report.
- Fixed minor exception errors that happened throughout the game.
Sky Racket is Avaliable Now! And is 10% off!
It's finally here! Sky Racket can be yours right now!!!
Release Tomorrow!
Release Tomorrow!
After so much time in production, so much struggle, we are finally releasing Sky Racket! We are grateful of all your support, and a big thanks to everyone following and wishlisting us! Tomorrow is the end of a cycle and the beginning of another (We will still be working to give you the best experience possible with Sky Racket), prepare yourself, Tomorrow is the day, the day you play Sky Racket in it's full glory! Thank you all and we hope you enjoy playing as much as we've enjoyed working on it!
Sky Racket Release Date!
Hello Dashers!
We announced our release date today with this beautiful animation!
Don't forget to wishlist us on Steam and watch our new trailer! ːsteamhappyː
