Monday Update! Should We Do These Weekly?

Every Monday, the team holds a brief meeting to sync up for the week and discuss our goals for the upcoming week. I wanted to start sharing those goals with you guys. Let me know in the comments if this is something you would like me to do every week.

Here is what the team is working on this week.

Maggie

Maggie is working on the Frameworks DH bike that you see in the images here. She is done with the mesh of the bike and is now working on the UV maps. She hopes to finish the bike this week, if all goes to plan.

Zac

Today Zac fixed up the shralping mechanic by squashing some of the bugs. We will wait to finish this mechanic until we have a third-person camera in the game. That will make it easier to test and tweak it.

Next, Zac will rework the crashing logic. There are many times you should crash, but you don't. We need to make crashing look and feel more realistic, but not to the point where it ruins the fun.

Cedric

Cedric has started on a new trail. I won't spoil anything here, so you guys will just have to stay tuned! Our goal is to get out three new trails a month.

Bryan

Bryan is working on a new portal for Cranked Collabs which will be a one-stop page for everything. It will include info about Cranked Collabs for interested parties looking for more info and it will allow players to enter their code and reserve their t-shirt. He hopes to have a working version for us to test internally by the end of this week.

What is Cranked Collabs? The short version is, we will periodically collaborate with cool brands to create an exclusive in-game t-shirt you can claim by watching our live streams on Thursdays. We dropped the first one two weeks ago. The next one should be coming either this week or maybe next.

Me (Joe)

My goal for the week is to get the Steam page up and make some social posts encouraging players to wishlist the game. I'm also be working on some more outreach trying to get more eyes on the project and into Patreon.

Other Stuff We Discussed

Steam Free Demo

We have decided it's important for us to release a free Steam demo. We will release the prototype map as a Steam demo sometime in the next month or less (hopefully). We believe in this game and that getting it in the hands of more people will only benefit us in the end. We have some things to fix up in the prototype map before we want to release it, like making Fika Break a bit easier by moving the finish to be before the big jumps, fixing some bugs, etc.