Dude, I’ve been trying to tell you guys this for years now. I just knew there’d be interest for VR support but y’all kept shrugging it off. I’m so happy to see that this survey has finally shown you guys just how much interest there really is
BEYOND stoked for this game to get some proper VR support! Being in that environment now even in the current state of VR with using playspace mover was surreal. I would be playing Tower Unite a lot more with all my friends if I could immerse myself! Thanks for all your hard work on TU so far!
The technology wasn’t very good at the time and now technology and tools to create VR experiences have matured. We also didn’t have a lot of experience with the new technology and have been working hard on the base game. I also didn’t have a lot of interest in VR personally until the headsets got better. They would always give me motion sickness and now they do not.
I wouldn’t worry too much about that ranking as SDNL is still on track for the next game world. We need more time on Horror Hill.
Looking forward to this games future. I wish though that Mututors would get some love. Serious that addition would add so much replayability for all gamemodes. So many ideas you could do with it.
I think it mostly comes down to people still not being really aware of what they are, when we eventually get around to it I imagine itll be quite popular
I mean, fair enough about the lack of interest and experience but I really wouldn’t be so quick to judge the tech. I got my first VR headset in 2016 (the HTC Vive) and it was amazing. The games and experiences from around that time, are still some of the best experiences I’ve had in VR. Hell, Superhot VR came out in 2016 and, to this day, is still almost universally considered one of the best VR games ever.
There’s a lot of things I’d love to see in this, but I think the one thing missing from a list of things I’d most excited about are bug fixes. I really love this game, but it really needs a lot more love for existing features. I do know of at least one person who was a patreon that gave up on playing the game anymore due to bugs.
It’s difficult when you’ve essentially made quite a number of small to medium sized games in one piece of software, so there’s a lot of potential for bugs, but there’s some things that feel slightly neglected.
Again, this is due to a devteam this small covering that much ground, which results in very scattershot development. In my view, this is Pixeltail’s greatest weakness and they really need more workpower to mitigate it but, as far as I know, they’ve been mostly losing people and have only done one or two hires during the span of development of Tower Unite.
We’re always working on bug fixes in each update. Doing a huge bug fix update takes a lot of time, but we’re also working on features that get the game in a finished state.
Our team hasn’t decreased in over 3 years, only increased. All our previous developers have left on good terms and for various reasons such as AAA jobs.
We can’t hire a ton of people as we don’t enough income to massively increase our team size.
It seems like they are enjoying this as a labor of love concept where the creators are doing what they love and enjoy. I prefer that for them honestly and would rather support that as I know content and updates as are being made because the people involved are seemingly enjoying their jobs. I would hate to see a good game ruined because people want to apply pressure to a timeline that has been running fine all this time without the additional pressure.
Thats ultimately what my peers and I enjoy about this game compared to other social games, it feels made with purpose and intent and not just to make money quick or meet a deadline and deliver a subpar product.
I’m very sure that the team is aware of the benefits and downsides of publishers and have made calculated decisions about it accordingly lol. It’s not just about “being shitty” too, as others said there’s the sudden attention to deadlines/features from a third party that would likely conflict with the goals of the team. Not great for a game that has run successfully by a controlled team for a long time now. Honestly tho it doesn’t matter what their reasonings are, no matter how fast they put out updates and bug fixes people will still say it’s not fast enough.