Huh, it's been a while.. What were you expecting? Regular updates regarding the game? AHAHAHAHAHA. No, take this update post and then wait another eternity for another update.
Now let's dive into the game. I got good news! Most of the game mechanics/ visuals are already in place, now all it's left to do is polishing/ balancing/ marketing/ stuff. Sounds easy, right? Weeeeeeellll, no, that's the hard and boring part of game development, but hey, it must be done anyways. Some info Okay, first of all I want to say that there will be 3 game zones (or biomes if you prefer this term): a city, a beach and a zone with mountains. Now, you've already seen the city in the demo of the game, so in this post I'll talk about the other game zones, the mountains zone and the beach. Mountains zone This one is new, I haven't talked about it before, but now I can show you some footage. I must admit that this game zone is heavily inspired by Taranasus's Vecter.
And here's the footage I promised:
I am once again sorry for the bad quality of the gifs, Steam wouldn't let me upload better ones. Don't forget, the zone is "inspired" by Vecter, so look at these balls:
Anyway, you get the point, that's the mountains zone, something more synthwave, unlike the city which is cyberpunk/ future funk The Beach The Beach is meant to give some kind of Miami of the 80's vibe. Here's how it looks right now:
I know it doesn't look best, but keep in mind that the game is still under development and there are still lots of things to polish. Here's a cool thing:
You may be asking: Why did you trim this footage so badly? I wanted to the landing of the car!!! Well, when I recorded that footage my landing failed and I fell into water (I know, I'm a noob at the game that I'm making) so because of my laziness I posted this footage instead of trying to redo the jump.
But yeah, in the final game there will be sections like those where you have to manage your speed in order to jump over water. Flying I think I've shown footage of flying in the past, but why wouldn't I show more?
If I post once an eternity, I should at least show cool footage of the game, so here it goes:
Here you can see how the city looks like. As you can observe, it's pretty much the same thing as the city in the demo. The improvements are very minor (there are banners on the buildings now, and some of the sprites for buildings have been tweaked) Release and expectations The release date of the game is still not set, but we are very close to release. We still have to polish more things, work on the ranked gamemode/ tutorials/ lore/ UI/ SFX/ post-processing/ assets/ game balancing.... you get the point It's hard to estimate when the game will be ready for the release and which price it will have. Regardless of those factors, I'll try to post updates regarding the game. Note the word "try" in the previous sentence. That one is a veeeeery important word. Writing updates is time-consuming, and it's definitely hard for a lazy person like me. Oh and, one more thing Don't know if I mentioned this in a previous update (and I'm too lazy to check), buy my friend Milu is working on this game called Voidspeed Outlaw. The game is a pseudo-3d racing game, similar to PalmRide. The first time I saw footage of his game I thought it was brilliant, and I am fairly confident that if you like PalmRide, then you would love Voidspeed.
And now, here's how an in-game screenshot looks like:
Here's a link to the Steam Page of the Game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1252130/Voidspeed_Outlaw/ I will definitely try out his game and I'm looking forward for the release.
One more thing.... Again It so happens that at the time of writing this update post, an indie game is preparing for release. My friend, Serj, has been working on Unbound: Worlds Apart for AT LEAST 4 years, and now the game is finally being released. It will be released on 28th of July (this month), and I would highly suggest you give their Steam page a visit and wishlist the game if you are interested. The game is a puzzle-platformer with portal mechanics. It's totally different than PalmRide, but hey, you may want to try it too, after all, variety is good. I myself think that the game will turn out to be great and I was a backer during the Kickstarter campaign of the game. Here's some images with the game:

Again, the Steam Page of the game, for those of you who may be interested: https://store.steampowered.com/app/814680/Unbound_Worlds_Apart/
That's all
Okay, now I think that's about it for this update, this one turned out quite long, I'm not gonna lie. I may have missed some details about PalmRide/ the games I tried to showcase, but I think that the essence is here. I'll try to post more updates regarding PalmRide, but for now, you get this update. I noticed that these Steam posts have a comments section that I guess I should start reading. If you want to know anything about PalmRide, or just want to give some feedback, post a comment here. Oooor, you could join our Discord server: https://discord.gg/MdkxQAQ All right, byeeeeeeee!