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- Go For Launch: Mercury
Inter Solar 83 Kickstarter is now live!
I'm very please to announce that the Kickstarter is now live! Grab a discounted copy of the game, get in the credits, get involved with development! This will run for just 30 days so get over and stake your claim to one…
Announcement - Go For Launch: Mercury
New Company, New Game, New Kickstarter!
I'm very pleased to announced that finally, after many years, I am finally setting up the games company I always dreamed of! First Time Games Ltd is now the official home of Go For Launch, and also my new VR Exclusive t…
Store3 changesGameplay - Go For Launch: Mercury
32bit version now available in betas tab
Hi all, many thanks for the patience while I put this build together. Some people have been finding that the game no longer launches at all. This seems to be some sort of conflict between recent Nvidia drivers and older…
Announcement1 changeGameplay - Go For Launch: Mercury
Hotfix
Hi all, hotfix is now live! This should fix update errors. Please contact directly or via community hub if there are any further issues. Many thanks joe
Announcement1 changeFixGameplay - Go For Launch: Mercury
Hotfix coming shortly!
Hi all, just a quick message to say I'm awware of the issue effecting some players unable to update. This was reported by the fantastic AViTSCJ (thanks!). Please stand by!
Announcement - Go For Launch: Mercury
Performance and bug fix update.
Todays patch should hopefully improve performance on some machines by streamlining the way textures and sounds are accessed by the game. In addition there are various minor bug fixes to correct crashes and memory issues.
Announcement1 changePerformance - Go For Launch: Mercury
Version 11 now live! - Huge performance update + in-game manual
Hi all, sorry for the delay, I've spent a little longer with this update than I initially planned. This was supposed to be just a small update to add the new in-cockpit manual to the game, but I decided to also do a lot…
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Quick Start Guide now available in Steam Guides!
Hi all, Steam didn't like me hosting a pdf via their forum, so I've uploaded a copy of the quick start manual to the Guides section. I'm working on also adding it to the cockpit. Joe
Announcement - Go For Launch: Mercury
Coming out the other side!
Hi all, I hope you are all safe and well in these strange times! Just a quick update to say that I am now back on partial development, family is recovered and some restrictions are now lifted in my country (UK) which ha…
Store3 changesGameplay - Go For Launch: Mercury
Update on development during Covid-19 outbreak.
Hi all, Just to say development is currently on hold for this title during the outbreak. Me, my wife and our 2 young children are all recovering from the virus. In addition to this all of our nation's schools have been…
Announcement - Go For Launch: Mercury
Version 0.10 Live! (again)
Hi all, Version 10 is now hopefully fixed and is once again set as the default version of the game! It was a tiny bit of code, but it took a while to track down! Happy landings!
Announcement1 changeFix - Go For Launch: Mercury
Temporary Roll Back While Creating Hot Fix
Hi all, The update to the new Aurora 7 mission went great!... but unfortunately it's broken some of the other missions. While I work on a hotfix patch for it I have restored version 0.9 as the default as it is in much b…
Announcement2 changesFixGameplay - Go For Launch: Mercury
Version 0.10.0 Now Live!
Hi all, Very glad to say that the Aurora 7 mission is now flyable! It's taken me a lot longer than I'd hoped due to NASA losing all the audio recordings! I have managed to piece some of the mission audio together from t…
Announcement2 changesFixUI/audio - Go For Launch: Mercury
Progress report and road map to Beta
Hi all, Just checking in as I'm sure you're all wondering when the next update is out! I've had a few setbacks with both the code, the source material and real life for the new Aurora 7 mission but I'm back on track and…
Announcement4 changesUI/audioCompatibility - Go For Launch: Mercury
The next capsule.
While I'm still working on the mission control feature in the background, I've switched the main focus of development to adding the next capsule (Aurora 7) to the game. It's likely the next patch will be the Aurora miss…
Announcement - Go For Launch: Mercury
Checking in on development
Hi all, Just checking in to say development is continuing and going well, I'm very pleased to have started the ground work on a new, major feature of the game - Mission control! Rather than having any sort of overlay or…
Announcement1 changeUI/audio
