Distance is a survival racing game that combines the intense action of arcade racing with the exploration of an atmospheric world. You control a unique car that allows you to boost, jump, rotate, and even fly through a chaotic and twisted city. The world has a mysterious history, and as you explore you'll be able to uncover pieces of its past.

The roads are treacherous and unpredictable with obstacles around every corner. Instead of doing laps on a loop, you'll be trying to survive to the end in the quickest time. Since your car has several abilities, it allows you to not only drive fast on the track but also upside down and on buildings and walls! You can also fly to discover new shortcuts and paths. You'll be able to take on the roads alone, or in multiplayer with your friends!

The game is a spiritual successor to the multi-award winning game Nitronic Rush, created by ourselves and 5 others at DigiPen Institute of Technology. It was widely praised for its innovative mechanics, visual style, audio design, and atmosphere.

Key Features

Adventure: A single player experience which unveils a short story about this world's mysterious past.
Multiplayer: Online, LAN, and Split-Screen play in modes such as Sprint, Reverse Tag, Stunt, and others.
Trackmogrify: Random track generation with seed modifiers.
VR: Experimental Oculus DK2 integration.
Level editor: Use a powerful level editor to create levels from within the game and share them with players around the world.
Original soundtrack: New music from the composer behind award-winning games like Nitronic Rush, Solace, and The Fourth Wall. Listen to a preview here.

The Creativity Update, 33% off this week!

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Today we're unleashing The Creativity Update on the stable branch! For a quick summary check out the trailer below. It includes 3 new levels, a new ability, improved camera, Oculus Rift CV1 support, new editor tools, and more!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-OwcGtGkFk
It's been quite an adventure reaching this build, so thanks to those who braved the experimental branch and gave feedback. Though this is a major release, we still hope to hear your thoughts on everything. Scroll down for the full changelog. Also, if you make something in the editor, send it our way !

To celebrate, Distance is 33% off this week. If you'd like to download the patch simply fire up Steam and it should auto-download. We hope you enjoy!

- Jordan (@torcht for more frequent dev updates)

[h1]THE CREATIVITY UPDATE: BUILD 4474

Improvements[/h1]

New Levels
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Added new level Friction which teaches the new Grip ability
Added new level Amusement which shows off the new particle system
Added new level Uncanny Valley which shows off the new primitive shapes

Controls

Added Grip ability to the car. Gives a high downforce to help control jump timing and sticking to walls and ceilings. Hold the Left Bumper on a gamepad, or Q on the keyboard. Customizable in the Controls options
On gamepads the Left Stick now rotates the car while in air, or if the grip button is pressed. This allows for easier transfers, making the thrusters more accessible for less experienced players, and more convenient for all players
Improved default behavior for Steam Controller (it now acts like an XInput device)
Moved all default controls schemes to unified scheme (removed Advanced / Normal schemes)

General

Updated to Oculus SDK 1.3.2 with Rift CV1 support
Self-righting now works when jets are disabled
Added small animation when a car ability fails
Upgraded menu font to something cleaner
Upgraded car trick/stats text with a new font
Upgraded EmpirePosterDetourRightHologram visuals
Upgraded ability icons with new images
Added ability icon system on the car screen which shows which ability has been enabled in Adventure mode
Updated many early levels to not have jets enabled until the jets ability is unlocked
Updated Wwise to v2015.1.6
Added a General option for "All Abilities in Adventure Mode" to turn abilities on/off in Adventure mode (temporary solution until we have a system in place to unlock all abilities after completing Adventure mode the first time)*
The car screensaver now randomly chooses between several presets when going into "screensaver" mode*
Added support for level playlist saving/loading in the level select menu*
Reorganized buttons in level select menu for starting a level playlist or removing a level from a list*
Added "+enableMIDI" launch option which enables MIDI output for Arduino (e.g. +enableMIDI "Teensy MIDI")*

Graphics

Greatly reduced visual banding in the Ambient skybox and Vignetting graphics effect
Local cars now get priority on rendering the car screen (should make the car screen higher framerate in multiplayer)
Explosion colors are now tied to car glow*

Physics

Changed how the air drag force on the car is calculated. non-cardinal(diagonal) directions are now higher drag. This helps with countering the wheelie super speed, and also helps ramps be a little more consistent.
The car is also fastest while driving on the road, and the new grip ability allows you to more easily get back to the road after jumps and transfers.
Simplified thruster force depletion, now depletes equally, no matter the direction of gravity.
Removed hard landings and new drag (both were more problematic than helpful)
Added small delay between wheels leaving the ground and left stick rotation enabling (helps if steering when going off a jump)
Slightly lowered wing fade in time, and wing drag
Added spline smoothing to tunnels and other shapes
Added smoothing to camera pitch / upside-down effect
Tweaked car acceleration values
Adjusted jet and drag values
Made exploding on virus ramps less common
Car will blow up if it gets wedged between or under objects at high speed
Reduced car wiggle at high speeds

Camera

Changed how the 3rd person chase camera functions. It now orients slightly towards up with respect to gravity. This will hint the player which direction gravity will pull them if they leave the surface.

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Level Editor

New Features
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Added LevelImageCamera, for setting where the level's preview image is taken
Added "Change Track Tool" to change spline segments to a new type (press H)
Added ability to remove track segments from track calculation
Added KillGridBox and KillGridCylinder for custom kill grid positioning
Added SetLevelImageToCurrentViewTool (under "Others")
Added visual picker for Particle Sprite
Added tool for moving a track node along the track
Added support for multi-line string inspection
Added Track Extrude tool
Added Merge Track Node tool
Added "Move Node Along Track" and "Extrude" tools to the move gizmo
When creating a road piece while selecting a road piece, it will copy the colors of the selected road piece and add it to the end of the selected road piece
Added tool to mirror objects across cardinal axes*

General Improvements

The PulseAll component is now an addable component and it’s been tweaked to be a bit more user friendly
Track Manipulator Nodes are now transparent when bigger
MusicTrigger now uses the list of songs instead of an ID
Made it so the level editor now saves out the position and orientation of the cursor and camera with level files. When reloading files, users are placed right back where they left off
MoveCarSpawnerToStartZoneTool now adds a car spawner if it doesn't already exist
Inspector buttons now work with multiple object selected
Material color names are now a little more display friendly
Colors are now pickable on glass materials
Changed transform scale in the object inspector to use exponential step size*

Added Simples 2.0

Highly adjustable primitive shapes
Supports material and texture customization
Collision can be toggled
Added transparency support
Added bump map support
Added world mapping support to allow easy combining of simples to make a blob simple of the same look (like rocks and cliffs for example)
Added presets to help get started on certain a look
Added Randomize" and "Randomize A Little" buttons to help achieve interesting looks
Added ability to copy and paste settings
Open up and look at the new level Uncanny Valley in the level editor to see examples of the new simples

Added new particle system

Highly adjustable particle system that moves all calculations to the GPU
Example presets are in the Decorations->Particles folder (e.g. Snow, Rain, Sparks, DiscoDanceFloor, NeonTower, etc.)
Added the ability to use dynamic components TurnLightOnNearCar and PulseAll
Added Randomize" and "Randomize A Little" buttons to help achieve interesting looks
Added CustomName component so level creators can rename particle systems
Added particle acceleration
Added Solid, Alpha, and BlendAdd particles
Added a few more particle textures
Solid particles now are affected by lights
When attached to a spline, particles now scale when the road scales
Added ability to copy and paste settings
Open up and look at the new level Amusement in the level editor to see examples of the new Particles

Added new placeable objects

Roads/EmpireRoadCap
Buildings/Infected/VirusBuilding007
Buildings/Infected/VirusSpire002
Decorations/EmpireGear001
Decorations/EmpireGas_Pipe03
Decorations/EmpireGas_Pipe04
Decorations/EmpireHexScaffold
Decorations/RotatingEmpireHexScaffold
Decorations/Infected/VirusTriPillar001
Decorations/Infected/VirusArch002
Obstacles/TunnelCrossBarrier
Obstacles/TunnelCrossBarrierRotating
Obstacles/TunnelQuarterBarrier
Added TrafficPlane and TrafficTube in the Decorations folder
Added new environment art: VirusBlockerRev02_Diag, EmpireRoadCap, VirusBuilding008, VirusBuilding009, VirusTriPillar001, VirusTriPillar002, VirusBlockerRev01
Added GlassSplineRoadSideless002, a glass road which can be tweaked to be fully invisible
Added CooldownTriggerNoVisual, which subtly cools down the car
Added VirusTunnel to the Roads/Infected/Tunnel folder in the level editor library
All new Simples in the Simples/ directory
All new Particles in the Particles/ directory

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Bug Fixes

General
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Fixed bug where the car jumps further away when pausing
Fixed bug that was causing levels to not load properly sometimes if a track node was in a group
Fixed bug where the car wheel indicators on the screen could display incorrect information
Fixed bug where wheels could act strange on very large roads
Fixed bug where controls tutorial prompts wouldn't fade out properly
Fixed bug where controls indicator (buttons) weren't showing up during tutorial sections after the car reset
Fixed local leaderboards not saving/loading properly
Fixed bug where leaderboard times greater than an hour didn't show the hour count
Fixed bug where getting squished but not having a strong impact could cause the car to blow up on any impact at any time later*

Level Editor

Fixed bug where the Properties tab would become invalid and unusable if it was closed and reopened
Fixed bug with the cancel button in the level editor (this caused issues when you tried to test a level without a carspawner)
Fixed bug where Move Along Track tool has issues with moving between segments
Fixed bug where ungrouping an attachment didn't work fixed bug where a grouped spline got incorrect spline sibling values
Fixed bug where multi-object inspection didn't work on objects containing multiple components of the same type
Fixed preview icon for "WorldText" prefab
Fixed bug where tracks didn't update with small rotations of the track
Fixed bug where splines might not connect when adding
Fixed bug where Biodome fogDensity would be set to zero on duplication when fog was disabled in the editor
Fixed issue where the level editor's farplane wasn't reset after disabling fog in editor
Fixed bug when duplicating a spline with particles attached
Fixed bug where Track Nodes wouldn't save their visible and frozen state when going in and out of the level editor*
Fixed bug where subdivided track node may be the wrong scale*
Fixed bug where level inspector or object inspector values could become garbled*

Audio

Fixed bug where boost sounds would play even if the boost gadget was disabled but the boost input was pressed
Fixed bug where boost SFX wouldn't play after coming out of a gravity-less zone

Multiplayer

Fixed bug where network car interpolation wasn't smooth
Fixed bug where network car positions could be off after going through a teleport
Fixed bug where the Halloween-themed gates could fail to open in multiplayer

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EDIT: Added some accidentally forgotten items (marked with *)

[ 2016-05-09 16:57:47 CET ] [Original Post]

Minimum Setup

OS: Ubuntu 12.04
Processor: Intel Dual-Core 2.3 GHz or AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHzMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT or AMD Radeon HD 3830
Storage: 5 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Spec will be revised continually during Early Access

Recommended Setup

OS: Ubuntu 14.04
Processor: Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz or AMD FX 4.0 GHzMemory: 4 GB RAM
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 or AMD Radeon HD 7750
Storage: 5 GB available spaceAdditional Notes: Spec will be revised continually during Early Access

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