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Radar pulse, controls and responding to feedback
[ 2016-08-25 05:26:37 CET ] [ Original post ]
When I said that I was putting Caretaker Sacrifice onto early access so that I could engage with the community and get feedback to make the game better I really meant it. Over the last 3 days Ive been acting on feedback and making changes to the game. The first bit of feedback was that there needed to be some way to help with locating the suppressors in the level. I liked that they were hard to find but some of you were finding them too hard to find. So, to help with this Ive now added a radar pulse that you can fire off which will light up both the portal and the suppressors to let you know where they are. When the pulse hits them they will light up as green and can be seen through walls for a short time. You can hit the pulse as many times as you like. To add a bit more variety, Ive now made it that the suppressors start off in random locations (except for the first two times you encounter them) so not even I will know where they are which makes it more fun for me when Im testing too To activate the radar pulse press B on the joypad or hit the space bar. Ive still got to come up with a sound for the pulse on my synth but for now its in the game and working so give it a go and let me know what you think. The second biggest bit of feedback was about the controls. For those of you playing with the mouse and keyboard you wanted another way to do a roll rather than just hold down the right mouse button. Ive added Q and E to roll as well as R and F to move up and down. Right, its back to making levels for me. Thanks again for buying a copy of Caretaker Sacrifice and I hope these changes make it an even better game for you let me know!
[ 2016-08-25 05:26:37 CET ] [ Original post ]
Caretaker Sacrifice
Xiotex Studios Ltd
Developer
Xiotex Studios Ltd
Publisher
2016-08-17
Release
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🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
🕹️ Partial Controller Support
Positive
(20 reviews)
The Game includes VR Support
OPEN VR Support: 1
Keyboard & mouse: 1
Gamepad support: 1
Standing: 1
Seated: 1
1000 rounds of ammo, one shield charge and a Star Killer to take down. What could go wrong?
Navigate through the Star Killer and blow up all the hubs you find to stop it destroying all the stars in the universe in this 6DOF based action game for PC, Mac and Oculus Rift (Vive support coming very soon!)
Caretaker Sacrifice stars the incredible David Hewlett, who played Dr Rodney Mckay in Stargate Atlantis and has also starred in films like Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Cube.
You can hear some of the (edited) story narrated by David in Caretaker Retribution here: http://caretaker-game.com/CaretakerVODemo.mp3
Stargate Atlantis
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Cube
The role of Andy Carolan in Caretaker Sacrifice is played by the talented voice actor Ed Mace.
http://edmace.com
Project “Retribution” weekly update report
Confidentiality level: department heads only
Report begins:
I’m going to confirm a rumour I’m sure most of you will have heard by now.
A Star Killer returned to the Alpha Device in a very damaged state. Every attempt we’ve made to stop these automated machines has failed, they are incredibly tough – they have to be in order to get close to a star and harvest all it’s energy, leaving it dead. So one returning in such a devastated state got everyone who saw it very excited.
Our first question was ‘who or what did this?’ because if something or somebody out there can destroy a Star Killer then there’s hope for a solution to these relentless killing machines. For the first time ever we’ve been able to explore the inside of one through the holes in the wreckage and that’s when we discovered the biggest surprise of all – we did this.
Okay, to be technical it was Commanders Alan Purdy and Andy Carolan, two pioneers sent out over 20 years ago on the Jolton mission to discover why all the stars were disappearing. They are the reason we found the Alpha Device, the place that all the Star Killers are harvesting the energy for. Even though they led us here through that signal they sent us we never knew what happened to them. Well now we know.
We found a flight recorder in the wreckage. It belonged to Commander Andy Carolan and it’s a video recording of the events that took place inside the Star Killer. It’s not as complete as we would have liked. For some reason the footage comes completely from Andy’s tactical computer which gives the world a simulated look, the ‘raw’ footage is there but after over 20 years it’s degraded too much.
Commander Alan Purdy discovered a series of connected nodes that seemed to be central to the harvesting of energy from stars. Even more important – he managed to isolate hubs within those nodes that appeared to be controlling each node. Alan surmised that destroying these hubs could be enough to disable the Star Killer. Alan’s first attempt to destroy a hub got him killed.
Each node looks to contain drones that appear to perform some kind of Caretaker role but when the safety of the node is threatened they swarm on the threat until it’s removed. While the threat is present it looks like the hubs can manufacture these Caretaker units at an incredible speed.
Having watched his colleague die from being swarmed by these Caretaker units, Commander Andy Carolan worked out an optimal way to destroy the hubs while avoiding the Caretaker units and it worked.
I never met Andy or Alan, I was too young when the Jolton missions happened and I’m going to guess you were too. They paid the ultimate sacrifice of their lives to get us this crucial information and we should honour that sacrifice by making sure that the Retribution project succeeds.
Navigate through the Star Killer and blow up all the hubs you find to stop it destroying all the stars in the universe in this 6DOF based action game for PC, Mac and Oculus Rift (Vive support coming very soon!)
Caretaker Sacrifice stars the incredible David Hewlett, who played Dr Rodney Mckay in Stargate Atlantis and has also starred in films like Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Cube.
You can hear some of the (edited) story narrated by David in Caretaker Retribution here: http://caretaker-game.com/CaretakerVODemo.mp3
Stargate Atlantis
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Cube
The role of Andy Carolan in Caretaker Sacrifice is played by the talented voice actor Ed Mace.
http://edmace.com
Project “Retribution” weekly update report
Confidentiality level: department heads only
Report begins:
I’m going to confirm a rumour I’m sure most of you will have heard by now.
A Star Killer returned to the Alpha Device in a very damaged state. Every attempt we’ve made to stop these automated machines has failed, they are incredibly tough – they have to be in order to get close to a star and harvest all it’s energy, leaving it dead. So one returning in such a devastated state got everyone who saw it very excited.
Our first question was ‘who or what did this?’ because if something or somebody out there can destroy a Star Killer then there’s hope for a solution to these relentless killing machines. For the first time ever we’ve been able to explore the inside of one through the holes in the wreckage and that’s when we discovered the biggest surprise of all – we did this.
Okay, to be technical it was Commanders Alan Purdy and Andy Carolan, two pioneers sent out over 20 years ago on the Jolton mission to discover why all the stars were disappearing. They are the reason we found the Alpha Device, the place that all the Star Killers are harvesting the energy for. Even though they led us here through that signal they sent us we never knew what happened to them. Well now we know.
We found a flight recorder in the wreckage. It belonged to Commander Andy Carolan and it’s a video recording of the events that took place inside the Star Killer. It’s not as complete as we would have liked. For some reason the footage comes completely from Andy’s tactical computer which gives the world a simulated look, the ‘raw’ footage is there but after over 20 years it’s degraded too much.
Commander Alan Purdy discovered a series of connected nodes that seemed to be central to the harvesting of energy from stars. Even more important – he managed to isolate hubs within those nodes that appeared to be controlling each node. Alan surmised that destroying these hubs could be enough to disable the Star Killer. Alan’s first attempt to destroy a hub got him killed.
Each node looks to contain drones that appear to perform some kind of Caretaker role but when the safety of the node is threatened they swarm on the threat until it’s removed. While the threat is present it looks like the hubs can manufacture these Caretaker units at an incredible speed.
Having watched his colleague die from being swarmed by these Caretaker units, Commander Andy Carolan worked out an optimal way to destroy the hubs while avoiding the Caretaker units and it worked.
I never met Andy or Alan, I was too young when the Jolton missions happened and I’m going to guess you were too. They paid the ultimate sacrifice of their lives to get us this crucial information and we should honour that sacrifice by making sure that the Retribution project succeeds.
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