I'm just finishing off some refactoring work and created a new "Valley" level. The idea of the Valley is to have denser areas of trees, tunnels and a big bridge to flip through. Here's a short teaser

The City is here, have fun flying it. A little bit more info about the level and a few specifics that just apply to it in this video

or watch it here https://youtu.be/RUstuI_hK1o if the inline player doesn't want to work.

In the next week or so the 0.55b release will be available which includes a new level: The City. Here's a trailer.

A small "oopsie" in the release of 0.54b 4 days ago meant that Steam leaderboards weren't being updated. This is essentially due to the fact that I disable them whilst in my development and testing phase and managed to not turn them back on.

They are back now!

This is a small, but potentially very useful update. There are a LOT of keyboard functions in the sim, and whilst I can generally remember them all, not many other people can.

So what we have in this release is the "Quick Menu". From within the Sim (i.e the flying part, not the menus), if you click the mouse button, you'll enter the quick menu. This menu will list all the possible options you have got (it's context-sensitive as well, so if you aren't crashed upside down then the flip option won't appear, and if you are not using the weather system you won't have the option to produce random weather, etc)

You can use this menu in one of 3 ways. Firstly, if you want to do something, but you can't remember the key, then here's a reminder. Secondly, whilst in the menu, you can press those keys and the function will happen. Or thirdly, you can use the mouse to manipulate the values from the menu. In essence, you don't need a keyboard to play any longer.... YAY!

In the main game, there are different menus for Quads/Planes/Cars as they all have slightly different limitations. In the Online game, you'll notice a few other differences as it supports specific online functions. It's also supported whilst in Quad-Ball, but it's much more limited in scope (as Quad-Ball is as well)

The only other thing to note is that whilst entering the menu pauses the game, this isn't the case online as other people inhabit the world. You are best doing things from a landed position, else your model will just carry on in the direction it was going!

Also, as per usual, there have been a bunch of bug fixes, and a small enhancement to Quad-Ball in order to make things a little easier/clear. In the moving platforms sections in stages 9 and 10, the moving platforms have a red line to signify where each platform ends and the next begins.

0.53b is live. Aside from the usual bunch of bug fixes, this also brings two new features. The first is individual rates (RC Rate/Superrate/RC expo) for Roll/Pitch/Yaw. Due to the number of rates, the 5-0 keys no longer are used to manipulate them. This is now done via a new Flight Assist Page (press A) This will also give you a way of easily editing the rates via a UI and several ways of visualising them.

The other major part of this release is Quad-Ball: The Game. Previously available in beta, we took on the feedback to make things more accessable to all.

Quad-Ball now has it's own menu, and it's own set of rates/camera setup so there's no need to alter your regular setup. The game also supports Steam Leaderboards - in the future they'll be in the game, but for now you can see how you are doing compared to everyone else here https://steamproxy.net/stats/1331330/leaderboards/6235874

More explanation of the features are in the wiki, and also this YouTube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuZ_jtVEiF4

0.53b is live. Aside from the usual bunch of bug fixes, this also brings two new features. The first is individual rates (RC Rate/Superrate/RC expo) for Roll/Pitch/Yaw. Due to the number of rates, the 5-0 keys no longer are used to manipulate them. This is now done via a new Flight Assist Page (press A) This will also give you a way of easily editing the rates via a UI and several ways of visualising them.

The other major part of this release is Quad-Ball: The Game. Previously available in beta, we took on the feedback to make things more accessable to all.

Quad-Ball now has it's own menu, and it's own set of rates/camera setup so there's no need to alter your regular setup. The game also supports Steam Leaderboards - in the future they'll be in the game, but for now you can see how you are doing compared to everyone else here https://steamproxy.net/stats/1331330/leaderboards/6235874

More explanation of the features are in the wiki, and also this YouTube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuZ_jtVEiF4 which doesn't seem to want to embed properly so it's here as a link

Welcome to Quad-Ball, the game of quads and... erm, balls. Ok the concept is simple, you hit the ball with your quad until the ball goes into the goal. But as you progress the levels will become more challenging. The idea here is to go for the best times you can!

I'm putting this out as an open beta to gather feedback about how you guys think it works as a gaming idea. There's obviously a lot more to do in terms of extra levels, UI and other things, but I want to make sure people want to play it before I continue on. If you have any comments - good, bad, or whatever, please use the communtiy hub to post a message or email me directly at currykittensim@gmail.com

A quick tip here is to start off in the game using a flat (0 degrees) camera angle and quite low rates. Try beginner or intermediate from the flight assist menu (key A in the main sim) But set this up in the main sim before entering the game as the ability to adjust rates in game hasn't been implemented as yet.

0.52b has been released. The main points of this one include:

- Weather Effects
- Cooling towers to fly around (and in)
- Drive as a car
- More gentle default rates on the plane