Change countdown in Camp to start when the majority of players have readied up, rather than all players needing to ready up. (Only patched for Steam hosts so Nintendo Switch hosts will still wait for all players to ready up until the patch goes live on Nintendo Switch).
Fix issue with option sliders not responding to mouse control correctly.
Note that you may need to restart Steam for the update to download automatically.
Tray Racers! Dev Blog #11: Tray Racers! is OUT NOW!
Go Go Go! Tray Racers! is OUT NOW, for free!!! 🥳 (Party hats not included)
Grab a tray and surf the dunes in this party racer, built for online multiplayer! Every race takes place on a fresh randomly-generated track - with a mix of bizarre & beautiful post-apocalyptic biomes. Between races you can hang out with friends at the chilled-out camp lobby.
Now for a final reminder of all the cool things about Tray Racers! 👇
Features:
Race with up to 16 players in chaotic online multiplayer
Embrace your inner daredevil and pull off cool tray tricks and combos
Hang out with friends, play music, and mess around at the Camp
Customise your very own tray racer with loads of rad cosmetic options
Totally approachable fun - winning isn’t everything!
Bouncing cacti forests, giant worms, towering camels, and more surprises await…
[This image is an accurate depiction of how much fun you will have playing Tray Racers!]
Check out the rad launch trailer below that shows off all the tray (oui we speak french) cool stuff you can do in the game with all your friends, strangers or even… enemies! 😈 Leave a comment and let us know what you love the most about Tray Racers!
Tray Racers! Supporter’s Pack: If you enjoy the game and want to support us, why not buy the Tray Racers! Supporter’s Pack?! You can broaden your customisation options with the very cute desert fox and robot characters in this paid, cosmetics-only DLC. Plus, the Supporter’s Pack will continue to be updated with new cosmetic options in the future!
Also, every purchase of the Tray Racers! Supporter’s Pack will see us plant one tree with Ecosia. These trees will be planted across a range of projects, benefitting both people and planet. From restoring desertified land in Burkina Faso to protecting endangered plants and animals in Brazil 🌍💓
Want to celebrate the release with us? We will be streaming later today on the Bit Loom Twitch channel! Join to play with us in our big celebration lobby ✨
To be the first to know about future community games, chat sandworm lore and share your best clips, join our Discord Community: https://discord.gg/R8zTnwaKSA
Lastly wishlist the gameplay the game! - share it with friends and family and follow us on our socials for more tray content:
Psst! Don’t tell Gabe but there is also crossplay with Nintendo Switch™
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Tray Racers! Dev Blog #10: What is Tray Racers!? And Does it have Ray Tracing?
With Tray Racers! set to release in a week’s time, 13th April 2023, we want to give you a refresher on what the game is all about!
Before we discuss anything too advanced let’s start with the basics.
The Four Elements of the Tray Raciverse are Sand⏳, Speed⚡, Sunlight🌞 and Scrump🦎. If you combine these elements EXACTLY right you will become the raddest, fastest Tray Racer around. Now, there is a complex mathematical equation to do this. If you divide sand by speed then…
OK YOU GOT US we’re joking, BUT there are some key things to know to get the most out of the game! Before we get to it be sure to join the Discord Community to discuss racing tricks and tactics with fellow trayfans: https://discord.gg/R8zTnwaKSA
Ok, for real this time.
The Tray Racers! Camp
The camp is where you head when you join a lobby with friends (or soon to be friends) in Tray Racers! There you can customise your style in the changing room, make music together and most importantly pet Scrump, the resident… lizard-dog?!
The scoreboard here will show your latest race times and stats as well as the running tally for podium points. You can also play some extremely fun games of hide and seek, duck duck goose and giant human pillar while waiting for that one friend to ready up! Or create your own game, the possibilities are endless!
Also, in camp and during races, there isn’t an in game text or voice chat. However you can communicate using emotes, that you can change and assign to different keys/buttons in the changing room. Dab emote if you understand!
Once everyone is ready you’ll head into the race 🌵🌞💨
The Race Structure
In Tray Racers! you have to get from the top of the slope to the bottom as fast as you can! Every track in Tray Racers! is randomly generated from a variety of vibrant biomes like the Cactus Forest, Hot Springs and Camello Dunes; so you’ll never know what the fastest route down is until you start racing.
That is why races are split into two sections, the practice and the final race.
⌛ In the practice you get 5 minutes to set your fastest time, exploring the different routes alongside the other racers. You can call your trusty Giant Sand Worm to return you to the top of the slope whenever you want.
⏰ After the practice comes the final race, when everyone is returned to the start line for one last chance to nail the perfect run. Whoever gets the fastest combined practice and final race time will be at the top of the podium! But take note, restarting during the final race will not reset your time so don’t do it unless you are really stuck.
If you want to make it to the top of the podium there are lots of different ways to get speed while shaving off those precious seconds and Ray Tracer is here to help.
Ray Tracer’s Tips and Tricks
The legendary tray racer, Ray Tracer, runs the tutorial out on the dunes and will teach you the basics of how to play, but here - straight from Ray’s Book of Zoom - are a few extra ways to go fast, and we all know you GOTTA GO FAST! 💙
The secret to leaning! 🤫 Leaning forward downhill or leaning backward uphill will help you pick up speed but be careful, leaning the wrong way will slow you down so watch out for the warning exclamations when leaning! What you might not know is that leaning in mid air can also help! Lean back to get more air time (perfect for pulling off triple tricks) and lean forward in the air to drop down fast and get back on the ground (great for catching a ramp or boost.)
A one trick, two trick, three trick, boooooooooost! ⭐ While you are in the air you can pull off a trick for a small boost but that’s not all, after finishing your first trick you can pull off a second and then a third for even bigger boosts (and cooler looking tricks)! Be careful though… if you land while pulling off a trick, or try to pull off the next trick too soon, you will fumble and lose speed. And remember you can lean back while in the air to slow your descent and pull off more tricks!
Braking isn’t just for losers, it’s for winners too! 😎 You can tap the brake to slow down just enough to turn those tight corners in the caves or to slalom between some dense cactus clumps. Just a tap is enough, holding the brake will quickly bring you to a halt. By default brake is shift on keyboard and either of the triggers on controller.
Always be boosting! 🌊 Any time you see rushing wind through an archway, over a ramp or in rushing rivers it will give you a boost! Aim for these even if they are a bit out of the way and you are sure to be zooming in no time. Watch out though, sometimes the shifting sands will put these boosts in places that send you flying into a wall or worse… a WASHING LINE.
Chill out in style! ✨ If you are racing in the same fit every session you’re missing out. It might not make you objectively faster but switching up your style will sure make you feel faster! Remember you can hop off your tray at any time to walk around and show off your new fit, explore your race path options, pet a frog or jump out of a tight spot. By default you can get off your tray with B (for board) on keyboard or the X button on an xbox controller.
The Weekly Races
As well as the regular online races you can also race solo against the leaderboard in the Weekly Races! Every day a new race will show up and stick around for the next seven days. Everyone races on the same tracks and sets times on a global leaderboard. These are a great way to race the same track a few times in a row. Show off your fastest high scores so your rivals can try to take you on! Be kind and share the shortcuts and tips you’ve found to help them climb the leaderboard! 🌵
Now you know the basics (and the not so basics) you are more than ready to round up some fellow racers and hit the slopes when Tray Racers! launches on April 13th! Be sure to wishlist the game and follow us on our socials for updates 👇
Oh and yeah the game doesn’t have Ray Tracing™ just the legendary Ray Tracer.
Tray Racers! Dev Blog #09: Release Date Announcement!
IT’S READY AND WORKING!!! PLAY TRAY RACERS! APRIL 13TH 2023!!!
We are extremely excited to announce that you and your friends can hit the slopes on April 13th 2023 when the game releases on Steam (PC) and Nintendo Switch. Check out our tray cool 😎 date reveal trailer below, let us know how excited you are to play in the YouTube comments, it helps us A LOT! 🌵
Thank you so much to everyone who played the demo and gave feedback during the traytests, we couldn’t have done it without you! ✨
Well tray team, we had an absolute blast during the Steam Next Fest Demo this past week! 🎉 Seeing all the great reactions from people hitting the slopes for the first time and competing for the top spot on the weekly leaderboards with some legendary Tray Racers! has been so much fun!! There were some silly hidden bugs features found too! 🐛
If you played the demo and have any thoughts please take a moment to fill out this short feedback form: https://forms.gle/jW94erw4HfsQUkwd6 we really appreciate it! 💖
To memorialise the amazing weekly leaderboard times here is a little collage I made, hope you enjoy:
If you didn’t get to check out the demo then be sure to watch the two streams we recorded during the Next Fest! There were some great questions from Susie and the chat in our first stream, Chat with the Devs: https://youtu.be/yYun_wdCLQc ...and some wild podium finishes from our Discord community in the second, Race with the Devs: https://youtu.be/Mg7r9-h3Ae0 You can join the Discord here: https://discord.gg/R8zTnwaKSA to stay up to date with when the game is launching later this year! You can also wishlist the game and follow us on our socials below! 👇
We will be playing the Tray Racers! Demo and racing alongside the Discord community during Steam Next Fest. To get all the details, join the Discord: https://discord.gg/R8zTnwaKSA. 🌞
Hope to see you on the dunes! 🌵
Chat with the Devs!
Join the devs at Bit Loom for a tour around Tray Racers! We will be hanging out in the camp answering some questions from Susie, our Community Manager, then hitting the slopes for some racing. We’ll stop off at different biomes to show you some of the flora and fauna you can find in the game and answer any questions you might have!
Be sure to check out the demo and join the Discord community where you can get updates about future events like our upcoming Race with the Devs event on Friday 10th February at 17:00 GMT!
Tray Racers! Dev Blog #07: Steam Next Fest Demo
Grab your tray and get ready to race! 🌵 We are very excited that Tray Racers! is going to be part of the Steam Next Fest this February. That means from the 6th til the 13th of February you can play the game all week long! Just like during our previous playtests we plan to host a stream where you will have the chance to race against the devs and hang out with us in the camp.
Be sure to stay tuned for further announcements and join the Discord to stay up to date and connect with other players during the event: https://discord.gg/R8zTnwaKSA
You can also wishlist the game and follow us on our socials below! 👇
Check out this TikTok video showing off some wild cactus bouncing! (Click to see the full video) 🌵🌵🌵
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Tray Racers! Dev Blog #06: Past and Future of Tray Racers
A big Tray Racers! Happy New Year to you all as we slide in to 2023! 🌞 Hard to believe it is already over six months since we announced the game at Future Games Show in June 2022.
Let’s take a look at all the cool stuff that happened with TR! since then and what’s coming up in 2023…
The Tray Racers! Traytests we ran were so much fun and gave us loads of great feedback and ideas, thank you so much to everyone in the Discord and on Steam who played the game, we couldn’t have done it without you! 🌟 If you missed out you can watch the recordings from the streams we hosted here: Traytest #1 Stream: The first one and Traytest #2 Stream: Back for more.
Check out the perfect offbrand mystery squad outfits we dressed up in for the most recent one 👌:
We also showed off a special highscore version of the game similar to the in-game weekly races at a couple of local events here in Dundee, it was awesome seeing people’s reactions to the game in person and how much everyone loved trying to set a best time with their friends.
Finally we were lucky enough to have the game featured in the MIX Next showcase with this short overview video giving a little more information about the game and showing off a Tray Racers track!
Massive shout out to Susie, our Community Manager, who has been running the Discord and our socials including putting out some absolutely incredible content on TikTok like our highest viewed video documenting the most exciting thing that happened in the Bit Loom office this year:
So after everything that went on in 2022 what is next?? ⏳
🎉 We are excited to announce that Tray Racers! is going to be in the Steam Next Fest this February! That means from the 6th til the 13th February you will be able to play the game and just like the Traytests we plan to host a stream where you have the chance to race against the devs and hang out with us in the camp. Make sure to join the Discord to stay up to date and connect with other players during the event: https://discord.gg/R8zTnwaKSA
Last but not least Tray Racers! is going to be releasing later this year!!!! 2023 is officially the year of the Tray. 🌵 To find out when we announce the release date you can wishlist the game on Steam as well as follow us at all of the usual places below! Can’t wait for everyone to hit the slopes with us when it drops 🐪
Tray Racers! Playtest 2 and New Overview Video (Dev Blog #05)
Hey tray-heads! After the success of last month’s playtest we are very excited to announce the dates of Playtest Number 2! You can help test the game during the first weekend of December with a special event on Sunday 4th where you’ll get another chance to play with the dev team. Last time everyone had a great time racing, trying out different styles and petting Scrump!
And if you missed the last playtest you can check out this video from our stream as well as this clip from one of our previous playtesters, Zoid, getting a really fast time! Woohoo! 💨
The second playtest will be starting on the night of Friday 2nd December when you’ll be able to play the game on your own or with friends, everything from the tutorial to full blown races! The game is still in development so everything is subject to change and your feedback is greatly appreciated.
The team will also be streaming Sunday 4th’s event on Youtube so that anyone who can’t play can watch along and ask questions about the game.
WE CAN’T WAIT TO PLAY WITH YOU ALL AGAIN!
Last but not least, if you're curious to know more about Tray Racers! our ✨new overview video✨ was put together to show you what the game is all about:
And as always for more updates you can wishlist the game and follow us on Twitter and TikTok and now Instagram! 👇
