Hey, Racers!

Just because we're not on Earth anymore doesn't mean we don't celebrate All Hallow's Eve! Everyone enjoys a good pumpkin, even if it's gotta be grown in red sand under a sun 150 million miles away. Load up Desert Child and take a look at the spooky decorations hidden all across Olympia.

As always, I wish you the best of luck in the Grand Prix!
-Buddy

Check out [AG] Buddy & Chris go head to head on Remote Play!

Grab the game right now at 60% off here!

In Desert Child you are broke, but talented, hoverbike racer who needs to find a way off Earth to get to Mars to compete in the Grand Prix, the greatest race in the universe. Explore a vibrant pixel-art solar system in this stylized racing adventure flavored with colorful sidequests, fierce hoverbike competitions, and a chill, lo-fi hip-hop soundtrack.

Game Features

• Hunt bounties, do odd jobs, throw races - do anything you can to earn cash.
  
• Explore a pixel-art solar system inspired by Cowboy Bebop, Akira and Redline.
  
• Customize your vintage bike with various modifications.
  
• Dine on a range of interplanetary cuisine with sweet buffs to help you win.
  
• Master deep combat and racing mechanics and define your own style.
  
• Race, shoot, and get better! Designed for replayability, with secrets that will keep you coming back.
  
• Chill to an original lo-fi/hip-hop soundtrack.

Hey Racers!

We hope you've been enjoying those quality of life updates. We're very happy to announce that trading cards are now available! You can unlock exclusive emoticons and backgrounds by completing sets.

If you haven't had the chance to revisit New Olympia since the patch update, this is yet another reason to come race & chill.

Hey Racers, Happy Halloween month! We hope you've been enjoying the new updates to the game (see 1.1.0 Patch Notes). New Olympia is feeling festive this month only, so you should come see before it disappears like a ghost at the end of the month!

Bug Fixes

• The background no longer tears in certain maps
  
• All Halloween elements during races have been integrated

Happy Halloween from New Olympia!

Hey Racers, long time! Have you been cravin' a race or a little ramen?

Big Changes

• Added Gun Shop - You can now purchase new guns at any point while in New Olympia
  
• 3 New Podcast Episodes added to the Record Shop
  
• Halloween Update - Starting on October 1st, this update adds Halloween decorations around the city of New Olympia, and transforms all the enemies in the game to ghoulish monsters

Minor Changes

• Updated End-of-race summary screen to be easier to understand
  
• Records can now be sold back to the record shop to remove them from the soundtrack
  
• Updated walking animations in New Olympia
  
• Gun models are now animated in Weapon Selection Screen
  
• Weather effects have more visual variety
  
• Water glistening looks more realistic

Bug Fixes

• Kangaroo herding now pays out correct amount based on how many you killed
  
• Smoke from hoverbike in Act 1 Hub now flows correctly
  
• "Nice" Achievement sometimes wouldn't activate, this is fixed

Also previously we had implemented an unlockable weapon, Enzo's 'Soopa-doopa Laza-Bazooka', and New Game + mode with harder racers - so if you haven't seen those yet, more good reasons to come back to New Olympia!

We're excited to announce that Desert Child has been nominated for the NAVGTR Awards in the categories of:
• Game, Original Racing
• Song Collection
• Song, Original or Adapted (Mega Ran and Bag of Tricks Cat - Love is Here)

We're so proud of this and hopefully Oscar can bring home the hardware on March 13th!

More info: http://navgtr.org/archives/3566/

Hey Racers, a few more bugs were found and fixed after the 1.0.2 patch! Thanks to user jabberwok for discovering a few of these.

Patch Notes:

• Balanced Bounty Hunting job for shotgun
  
• Fixed issue in tutorial when starting a new game after recently completing special jobs like Bounty Hunting and Kangaroo Herding
  
• Fixed issue where bike would appear to "repair itself" when transitioning screens
  
• Fixed issue where MARTIC Ammo kit was still active even after removing it

Hi Racers! Happy 2019!

We have been gathering feedback since Desert Child has launched and we have a patch with new features and a few fixes.

Patch Notes:

• Increased difficulty for New Game +
  
• Added 1 second delay between shots for Shotgun
  
• Created controller configuration for Steam Controller
  
• Added confirmation for when player selects New Game in Pause Menu
  
• Fixed issue with monitors with high refresh rates, affecting performance
  
• Fixed memory issues
  
• Fixed 2nd player multiplayer issue
  
• Fixed volume fluctuation and loops
  
• Fixed NPC graphical issues
  
• Fixed issue on Steam where game continues to run when accessing Steam Overlay
  
• Fixed translations

Hello! We're currently experiencing an issue where users with high refresh monitors will run some races insanely fast, 2-4 times the intended speed. This results in the racer crossing the finish line very quickly, and ends with a glitchy graphics, upside down world that lasts ~10 seconds or so.

Essentially the game is running at very high FPS, instead of the intended 60 FPS.

We hope to address this properly, but in the meantime, here are a few ways you can fix it, if experiencing this issue:
1) Run the game in Windowed mode.
or
2) Drop your monitor's refresh rate to 60Hz before starting the game.

Apologies for this issue, and we'll add patch notes at the point it is fixed in entirety.