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changedIt's that time of the year where even pacifist, vegetarian game developers that have dragons throwing friendly magical orbs at you so you could tune into the rhythm of nature and save the world suddenly start punching ghosts to gory pulp as pumpkin-headed Halloween monsters. Also, some of us throw incredibly long sentences at our players, without any punctuation, which could also be considered an act of violence, fitting the season. Such a sentence is in some ways like an insanely long slider or spinner: You just can't wait until it's finished without breaking your combo.
changedYou better be, cause here's some important news: For those of you that don't own Holodance, yet, this will be the last chance to get it at 50% off for the time being. We can't tell you when or witch which the next sales will be - but we'll do the next sale that we participate in after this one at 40% off, and the one after that at 33% off. The reason is that we're slowly moving towards the end of Early Access, so the price will eventually go up. That's not meant to scare you, it's just meant to make you not put off till tomorrow what you can buy today.
changedWe also just recently had a huge update: Holodance V0.9.1: Halloween, Modding, and all the Beta-Updates . That included the beta-update: Holodance V0.9.0b19 (alphadev/beta): A *lot* of Update and Holodance V0.9.0b21 (beta): Tech Update, Mixed Reality, Bugfixes .
changedSpooky TownMost importantly, this version has a seasonal Arena for the spooky season called Spooky Town. If you don't like blood, or ghosts, or giant pumpkins, this one is not for you. You'll still want to play this version of the game - just don't go to Spooky Town because it would give you nightmares. But if you want to punch, or slice, or shoot ghosts before they punch you, we got you covered.
addedSpooky TownI'm honestly not quite sure what to do with this after Halloween, so make sure to let us know in the comment section. Should Halloween stuff only be available during Halloween? Or should we simply add this to the Free Mode Arena selection, maybe to be unlocked with a not-too-hard to reach accumulated score? I'm open to all suggestions.
addedNew Avatar SystemIf you followed the news (you better!), you already know that we have added a lot of new Avatars and streamlined the whole thing. Especially for Halloween, we added a few spooky ones: A Halloween monster called Methus, a shaman rat called Peter, an ice golem called Torog, and finally, the Dark Angel some of you may have seen ages ago in our first Avatar system teasers. Those will definitely stay in the game as they are.
Holodance changes
changedIt's that time of the year where even pacifist, vegetarian game developers that have dragons throwing friendly magical orbs at you so you could tune into the rhythm of nature and save the world suddenly start punching ghosts to gory pulp as pumpkin-headed Halloween monsters. Also, some of us throw incredibly long sentences at our players, without any punctuation, which could also be considered an act of violence, fitting the season. Such a sentence is in some ways like an insanely long slider or spinner: You just can't wait until it's finished without breaking your combo.
changedYou better be, cause here's some important news: For those of you that don't own Holodance, yet, this will be the last chance to get it at 50% off for the time being. We can't tell you when or witch which the next sales will be - but we'll do the next sale that we participate in after this one at 40% off, and the one after that at 33% off. The reason is that we're slowly moving towards the end of Early Access, so the price will eventually go up. That's not meant to scare you, it's just meant to make you not put off till tomorrow what you can buy today.
changedWe also just recently had a huge update: Holodance V0.9.1: Halloween, Modding, and all the Beta-Updates . That included the beta-update: Holodance V0.9.0b19 (alphadev/beta): A *lot* of Update and Holodance V0.9.0b21 (beta): Tech Update, Mixed Reality, Bugfixes .
changedMost importantly, this version has a seasonal Arena for the spooky season called Spooky Town. If you don't like blood, or ghosts, or giant pumpkins, this one is not for you. You'll still want to play this version of the game - just don't go to Spooky Town because it would give you nightmares. But if you want to punch, or slice, or shoot ghosts before they punch you, we got you covered.
addedI'm honestly not quite sure what to do with this after Halloween, so make sure to let us know in the comment section. Should Halloween stuff only be available during Halloween? Or should we simply add this to the Free Mode Arena selection, maybe to be unlocked with a not-too-hard to reach accumulated score? I'm open to all suggestions.
It's that time of the year where even pacifist, vegetarian game developers that have dragons throwing friendly magical orbs at you so you could tune into the rhythm of nature and save the world suddenly start punching ghosts to gory pulp as pumpkin-headed Halloween monsters. Also, some of us throw incredibly long sentences at our players, without any punctuation, which could also be considered an act of violence, fitting the season. Such a sentence is in some ways like an insanely long slider or spinner: You just can't wait until it's finished without breaking your combo.
You still here?
You better be, cause here's some important news: For those of you that don't own Holodance, yet, this will be the last chance to get it at 50% off for the time being. We can't tell you when or witch which the next sales will be - but we'll do the next sale that we participate in after this one at 40% off, and the one after that at 33% off. The reason is that we're slowly moving towards the end of Early Access, so the price will eventually go up. That's not meant to scare you, it's just meant to make you not put off till tomorrow what you can buy today.
We also just recently had a huge update: Holodance V0.9.1: Halloween, Modding, and all the Beta-Updates. That included the beta-update: Holodance V0.9.0b19 (alphadev/beta): A *lot* of Update and Holodance V0.9.0b21 (beta): Tech Update, Mixed Reality, Bugfixes.
There are more updates coming but here's a really quick recap of the recent news:
Spooky Town
Most importantly, this version has a seasonal Arena for the spooky season called Spooky Town. If you don't like blood, or ghosts, or giant pumpkins, this one is not for you. You'll still want to play this version of the game - just don't go to Spooky Town because it would give you nightmares. But if you want to punch, or slice, or shoot ghosts before they punch you, we got you covered.
I'm honestly not quite sure what to do with this after Halloween, so make sure to let us know in the comment section. Should Halloween stuff only be available during Halloween? Or should we simply add this to the Free Mode Arena selection, maybe to be unlocked with a not-too-hard to reach accumulated score? I'm open to all suggestions.
New Avatar System
If you followed the news (you better!), you already know that we have added a lot of new Avatars and streamlined the whole thing. Especially for Halloween, we added a few spooky ones: A Halloween monster called Methus, a shaman rat called Peter, an ice golem called Torog, and finally, the Dark Angel some of you may have seen ages ago in our first Avatar system teasers. Those will definitely stay in the game as they are.
Also, if you have the Valve Index controllers, almost all the avatars support full finger tracking. To a certain degree, this also works with Oculus Touch but it's best with the Index controllers.
Modding
This had been on the list for a really long time, and what we have now is really just the beginning: The arenas Trippy Tunnels and Zero Distraction now support text-file based modding, so you can replace textures, skyboxes, change the lighting and some of the geometry in Zero Distraction (to make it very distracting), tunnel effects based on the combo in Trippy Tunnels, and postprocessing effects in both Trippy Tunnels and Zero Distraction.
If you create
