When Ski Lifts Go Wrong is an evolution of the title previously known as Carried Away. We have changed the name in preparation for the full launch early next year, which will see more stages and new vehicles. There’ve also been a number of improvements since the successful Early Access began, such as a complete UI overhaul, players having more control over the riders and extra buckets of polygonal blood (look, it’s a square bucket, okay?).
So it's time to get carried away with When Ski Lifts Go Wrong.
Be sure to share your most enjoyable failures and greatest accomplishments.
Happy landings,
Team Curve Digital
Thank you for your support... It's our Birthday!
Wow! We can’t believe it’s been one year since Carried Away joined Steam in Early Access.
We have been delighted and humbled with the response from our community. With your help, we have added snowmobiles, cannons, new themes, extra gore, speed boosters, mountains of levels as well as fixed many, many bugs!
But it doesn’t end there, we have been very busy building up to something huge, so keep your construction skills honed and stay tuned for our upcoming announcement!
Thanks to everyone who has been a part of our journey so far.
Jonny, Will & Andy
Curve Digital and Hugecalf Studio Team Up!
Hello skiing friends and builders,
Its Curve Digital here and we’ve partnered up with Hugecalf Studios to help lift Carried Away out of Early Access. We wanted to say hi and give you all a quick update.
We’ve collaborated with the team at Hugecalf to complete the game’s construction and lay down solid foundations and updates for the final release in Early 2019. As a result, the price of Carried Away will increase on the 20th of August to £14.99/$14.99/€14.99.
We’re really excited to bring you the final version so stay tuned for more news and be sure to wishlist now!
Happy constructing (or deconstructing)!
Team Curve Digital
New patch out - Fixes and improvements
Hello builders!
We have been working on Carried Away: Winter Sports. A short spin off that will contain 3 new mini game modes and all new winter sports!
Here are some minor fixes, before a bigger patch next month.
p.s. If you want to download Carried Away: Winter Sports it will be available on Friday 9th Feb
http://store.steampowered.com/app/788010/Carried_Away_Winter_Sports/
Gameplay
*Snowmobiles can now go through gates and drive on the downslope (slope 2).
*Flipping the direction of the skiers is now based on the direction on the rotation of the skis
Bug fixes
*Gallery no longer leaks memory
*Removed santa from the game after seasonal event ended
*Collecting stars as medals and objectives now works correctly
Speed Booster Jumps, floating islands, super snow cannons and lots of blood
Greetings! Patch 0b.02 has arrived, so here is a list of all the improvements and additions that we have made it into Carried Away over the last month. Happy Holidays! We’re open to community feedback, so come and talk to us on the forums, or on our Discord channel!
Gameplay
Speed Booster building piece - a Jump piece that will alter the speed of the skier or snowmobile based on the speed that you set it to be.
Floating Islands - This is something we have wanted to implement for a while. This allows for more variety of challenges. Choose your path, over or under the mountains!
Improved snow cannons - set the speed and the angle of the snow cannons and use them to your advantage.
8 new levels in Mountain 6, ‘The Highlands’!
Skiers will now voluntarily jump (or fall) out of chairlifts on your command. Because there wasn’t enough carnage already. The default hotkey is ‘H’
Added a jump button to the UI. This means you no longer have to use WASD if you would rather play the game entirely using your mouse.
Aesthetics
Gore slider. You can turn the blood off, or increase the levels to extra gorey. Default remains as normal.
Night theme added
Added lamposts for the night theme
Christmas assets - can opt in ot out of seasonal aesthetics in the other menu
Added objectives icons to the builder mode to better represent the objectives on each level.
Improvements
Added more steam achievements
Improved the Gallery
Improved snowmobile and skier behaviour so that they are more predictable and less jumpy
Can now play without internet connection
Colour blind mode - accessed in the other options menu
Bug fixes
Fixed a bug that was causing an error when adjusting the terrain lines in the sandbox
Fixed a bug where objects were getting moved from scenery to in front of the ski lift line in the sandbox
Snowmobiles, extra levels and a whole new mountain
Patch v0b.01.00
Wow! It’s been 7 weeks since the launch of Carried Away into Early Access and it has absolutely flown by! It may have been radio silence from us for the past few weeks, but by-golly we’ve been busy.
We have been hard at work engineering a fleet of snowmobiles just for you and our explorers have carved out 16 new levels in a new region known as The Jimmylayas.
Keep reading to get a detailed update of all the changes we have made to Carried Away, or dive on into the game to see for yourself!
Feedback
We want to hear from you! Report ideas, bugs, or other suggestions to Reddit or the Steam Forums. Or you can come chat with us on Discord! We’d love to hear your thoughts.
Snowmobiles
We have added snowmobiles to the game based on popular demand from the community. Snowmobiles offer a new and exciting challenge! Find the right combination of driving style and construction to tackle the mountains. Blue, Green, Purple, Yellow, and Orange.
Improved Rope Material
You can now connect the rope to the environment and no longer need to connect it to a foundation point
Max rope length has been increased by 50%
In Game Gallery
You can now save and watch replays directly to the in-game gallery. Filter by level, budget, pass, or fail and learn from the rest of the community. Then vote on your favourite replays!
Balance changes to jumps and their supports
We have made changes so that jump materials are more suitable and playful for jumps, bridges, and snow mobiles collectively:
Jumps weigh less but aren’t as strong
Supports are weaker
Force is now averaged over a small period of time to make the jumps and supports more flexible and receptive to impact. This should make high speeds and jumping less likely to break the jumps whilst heavy objects will still have a significant effect on jump materials.
Campaign levels have been rearranged to smooth the difficulty curve, so make sure to check back to previous maps and complete all the levels!
Improved statistics
Analyse where the most tense moments were when testing your structures and compare it between runs. Use this information to improve your structures design.
Easily see how you fared against the rest of the community using the histograms and filter the scoreboards to show only those who succeeded at getting the trophy achievement.
Other noteworthy changes
Building near or behind an object such as a tree will now temporarily make the object transparent
Default camera settings have been improved to give a better view of what's happening
Changes to terrain generation - smoother and more predictable skiing down mountains and collision with rocks
Performance improvements when many things break at once
Improved the instant replay tool allowing you to capture the best moments with less editing
Jump supports now collide with trees for consistency
Thanks so much for your support! We will continue to add new features and fun to Carried Away. We welcome your feedback, so come and have a chat with us on Discord, Reddit, or on the Steam Forums.
- Jonny, Will, and Andy
New Beta Build is live! 16 new levels and snowmobiles
We have just released a new build on to the public beta branch which has 16 excellent new levels, snowmobiles and in game community features.
Changes:
5x top of the range snowmobiles added
The rope materiall can now connect to terrain and scenery
16 new levels and new map
Significant Jump and Jump Support balance changes to accommodate snowmobiles
Objects such as trees now fade when building planks etc behind them
In game replay gallery added
In game community sharing features
Changed the camera angle and behaviours
Improved terrain generation to make collisions more predictable
New level complete box with instant replay and added statistics
To opt in to the public beta build:
Go to your Steam Library and right click on Carried Away
Select “Properties” from the drop down menu
Select the “Betas” tab
From the select the beta you would like to opt into drop down, choose:
'public-beta - Public beta for Carried Away updates!'
Be the first to visit the Jimmylayas! If you encounter any issues be sure to let us know in the comments below, or follow the link to the forum!
Bug reporting
Happy building, skiing, driving and destroying!
Jonny, Will and Andy
New patch out. Soundtrack for sale. Development roadmap released!
Hello engineers!
We have 3 exciting bits of news:
Patch v0b.00.06 is live. Get the full patch notes here!
After popular demand you can now purchase the OST ‘Lounging Away’ - by Juhani Junkala
We have been working on our Early Access development road map where you can see all the upcoming feature and proposed timings. You can view it here.
Thanks for the support... it's time to get Carried Away!
Cheers,
Jonny, Will and Andy
Patch v0b.00.06 live on the beta branch
There is a new patch on the public beta branch of Carried Away. Help us test it and get access to the new features a few days early!
To opt in to the beta build:
Go to your Steam Library and right click on Carried Away
Select “Properties” from the drop down menu
Select the “Betas” tab
From the select the beta you would like to opt into drop down, choose:
'public-beta - Public beta for Carried Away updates!'
Additions:
Added a ‘Trophy only’ filter on the leaderboards. Check your score vs others who have collected the trophy award.
Made it easier to delete foundations that you have placed
Planks now lock to near by nodes from a greater distance
Rope position updates when adjusting wheels.
Option to delete your maps in the Sandbox mode
Added buttons to cycle through the selected riders
Can no longer place items under the floor in the sandbox
Added a 1 conveyor belt piece to all ski lift huts as default
Bug fixes:
Leaderboard and workshop fixes. (These should no longer be temperamental)
Fixed bug where people were experiencing a purple screen on startup
Fixed bug where adjusting a log between two foundations caused a lockup
Fixed a bug where you could stretch logs and planks using the undo key
Fixed some grammatical and spelling errors
Fixed bug where music volume isn’t remembered when entering the game
Balance and level fixes:
Fixed Up and Over level to now include the missing star
Made the rope building piece lighter and tighter
Removed an exploit where you could flip the skiers before getting on a chair, making them less likely to fall out
Changed ‘It’s a Drag’ to require some building to be passable
Changed the available budget on some levels based on player feedback
Removed some building materials on certain levels where they shouldn’t have been available.
If you encounter any issues with the build, then please let us know in the comments or on the forums. Thank you for continuing to support us and for being an incredible community. You rock <3
1 Week in - what’s next?
It’s only been a week since the Early Access launch and we’re delighted with all the positive feedback. We are constantly amazed at the innovative screenshots, gifs, videos and workshop creations from the community. It has demonstrated what can be achieved in game!
Since the launch, we have been focusing on fixing the temperamental leaderboards, refining the ease of use, and balancing the initial content. We aim to have this patch to you next week.
After this we will be turning our attention to the first big patch where we will add some more levels, some of the community suggestions and our first new, big feature. We have been talking a lot about our development roadmap this week, which we will be ready to share with you soon.
Thanks for the ongoing support, you guys are the best!
