Volo Airsport
Goodbye, Volo
For the past six years, Volo Airsport has been our lives. We’ve thought about it long into the night when we should’ve been sleeping, worked on it weekends and holidays… We love this game, and still find ourselves amazed by the number of players who have come to love it as well.
When we released Volo Airsport on Steam Early Access in late 2014, we intended for its development to be a journey - and it certainly has been. We added features that allowed you to choose the way you fly, whether in our signature wingsuit, or the new, customizable parachute. We improved the game’s graphics and upgraded the engine several times over, adding day/night cycles, a weather system, and more. We started a semi-weekly show to catalogue improvements made, future plans, and discuss our approach to game development. And all the while, we were able to rely on you - our community - to guide and support us. Whether you ‘liked’ one of our videos, covered the game, or simply took the time to play it, we can’t thank you enough for your support of Volo Airsport, and our team.
As we’ve continued to try bringing Volo Airsport to a point of completion, we’ve begun to hit one roadblock after another. Right now, we’re a team of three, and we simply can’t continue to work on this project we love so much with the revenue it currently generates. We’ve run out of money, and with it, the time we hoped we might have to bring this project to a fitting conclusion.
As of today, development of Volo Airsport is on a permanent hiatus. Today’s new branch containing the seeds of the next steps we hoped to take with the game is the last addition Volo Airsport will see.
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We thank you wholeheartedly for your support, encouragement, and feedback over the course of Volo's development. We’ve built a game that we’re still quite proud of, and we couldn’t have done any of it without you. We also hope to see you again in our next journey - whatever that might be.
Goodbye, Pilots.
Sincerely,
Ramjet Anvil
Ramjet Anvil Show Ep. 17: Gameplay Experiments and Contest Results
https://youtu.be/yAnsVSNK4Hc
01:19 Bullet Hell
07:45 Wind Effectors
12:19 Contest results!
13:11 Irate Earwig's entry
16:19 Skyfreak's entry
18:40 Teyno's entry
Video Contest Extension: 4th of May
Record and send your best flights to info@volo-airsport.com by May 4th. Winners get a giftable Steam key!
Happy flying!
Video Contest: Send Your Flights, Win Gift Keys!
Record and send your best flights to info@volo-airsport.com by April 28th. Winners get a giftable Steam key!
Happy flying! We can't wait to see what y'all will come up with.
Volo Airsport v3.7 Released!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2NQVOPU1nU
While you're at it, check out the Ramjet Anvil Show, where we demonstrate how to make the most out of the newly added parachutes and announce the first ever video constest.
Video contest details:
Record your best parachute and/or wingsuit lines, send 'em our way, and you can we a free Steam key for a friend (or enemy, your choice)! Bonus points for funky custom parachutes.
Deadline: April 28th
Send videos to: info@volo-airsport.com
00:58 What's in v3.7?
02:07 Editing parachutes
04:16 Flying forever in the secret garden of lift
06:33 How to use the parachute lines
12:23 VIDEO CONTEST!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3rlCVk66fI
Ramjet Anvil Show Ep. 15: Parachuting in VR
--- With the latest 3.7 beta we're bringing VR flying back to Volo! ---
00:00 Oh my god it's VR
04:12 About motion controls
05:54 The subtlety of brake lines and gamepad triggers
10:18 Parachute selection with gamepad
12:31 Performance improvements
14:52 Pilot now relaxes under canopy
16:02 Fixed tendency for all canopies to bank left without input
https://youtu.be/VzJH5aV2GlQ
Ramjet Anvil Show ep. 14: v3.7 Beta 4 Release
--- This week we look at the new beta, featuring pretty parametric 3d models for all your parachutes, new editor improvements, and we go over the polishing work still to be done for the proper v3.7 release. ---
00:00 Look at them!
02:41 Iterating on editor UI
06:06 New parachute visuals
08:01 What's on the todo list?
09:13 The state of VR support
12:57 Small additions
14:33 State of parachute physics consistency
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CEDbTHH8y8
Ramjet Anvil Show ep. 12: v3.7 Beta 3 Release
This episode we show off Pilot's new canopy controlling skills introduced in beta 3, and we tackle comments on last week's episode!
Enjoy!
00:59 DaGhost141: Will tracking jumps be a feature?
03:23 DaGhost141: Can we control speedscaling?
04:56 Parachute-powered backflip fun
08:39 Skyfreak: Can we get that slowmotion?
11:58 Beta 3 Discussion Starts
17:53 Dealing with surging wings
21:19 A list of squashed issues
24:13 Beta installation instructions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOY5Ukjgito
Ramjet Anvil Show Ep. 11: Parachute Integration Beta
While we're polish up v3.7 we thought we'd mess around with the game while it runs in the editor, leading to very important questions like: What happens if you remove the left leg?
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_gM6wIebhQ
Ramjet Anvil Show Ep. 10: To Flail or to Fly
In this episode we see Pilot's first flailing attempts at more directly flying his parachute, and discuss how he'll get better at it.
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jliAk8RLp2E