Hey everybody,

It's been slightly over 4 months since the last update, and it's been productive.

First, we've got the new 2024 trailer:
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Second, we've got the 81st Lazr Devlog:
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Leave your feedback in the discord: https://discord.com/invite/mTsHasX

For the next update, I'm planning to work on one mission (The Studio) only.
This should make the next update quicker to produce, I estimate 2 months.

//MrGrak

Lazr Devlog #80

Mission 13: The Recyc Center

In this update we'll take a look at levels 73-78, a new magnet boss fight, and upgrades to fire, smoke, weather, spatter, trash, glass shards, and more. Finally we'll explore new band practice spaces.

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In this update, we'll take a look at the end of Act 2 and how that transitions into Act 3. We'll fight through Mission 11, and hang out downtown at the record store. You can wishlist LAZR on Steam!

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//MrGrak
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Huge Lazr update:

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Hey everybody, this month's dev log features a meat-filled fight through an infected hamburger factory!
Enjoy:

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//Grak

Hey Everyone!

I'm super excited for 2023. I think Lazr will finally be completed this year. We've been making incredible progress on the game, which I'd like to show off now, in this month's devlog:

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Hey everyone,

For this update I'm posting two videos. #74 explores new levels, #73 explores lore and challenges.

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Hey Everybody,

here's Lazr's 72nd dev log:
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Hey everyone! Here's Lazr's 71st dev log.

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Lazr Dev Log #70

Hey everyone! Here's Lazr's 70th dev log.

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Hey Everybody,

Here's Lazr dev log #69!

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Hey Everyone,
Things are progressing well, here's the latest update:

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Hey everybody, here's updates 66:
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and 67:
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Hey everyone! Here's Lazr's 65th dev log:

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Hey everybody,

Here's the 64th devlog for Lazr:
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Hey Everybody,

Check out the latest Lazr devlog, #63 - Garages!

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Hey Everybody,

Check out the latest Lazr devlog, #62 - Arcades!
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New fall 2021 trailer too:
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//MrGrak

Hey Everybody,

Here's the latest devlog for Lazr - featuring artifacts, mirrors, and procedurally generated levels! We've almost got the beta ready! :) //MrGrak

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Hey everybody!
Here's the latest 2 dev logs:
#59 https://youtu.be/c8HpEGGSNYA
#60 https://youtu.be/WjqXTtMFj6s

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Hey Everyone, here's Dev Log #58:
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Hey everybody!

Here are dev logs for updates 56 + 57. I got so focused on development that I forgot to post update 56, so my apologies for that. Enjoy! :)

56 - https://youtu.be/vYH3s4HzgkU
57 - https://youtu.be/2qwnDdki3EM

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Hey Everyone! Here's the latest update!
I hope you are doing well. //MrGrak

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Hey Everybody!

In this update we'll take a look at Mission 3 'Underground' and businesses:

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Thanks! //MrGrak

Hey Everybody,

Here's the 53rd dev log for Lazr:

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Hey Everyone! Here's Lazr's 52nd dev log:

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Hey Everyone!

In this update we'll take a look at dev logs 50 & 51.

50: [previewyoutube=rdbuXepIKMc;full][/previewyoutube]
51: [previewyoutube=FfTMvkivIWY;full][/previewyoutube]

Hey Everyone!

This dev update features additions to levels, homes, vehicles, along with the addition of loot chests and also hoverfan interaction with cloth. There's also a special announcement. See you in the next dev log!

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Hey Everybody!

This update features new enemies, new npcs, and develops the lore and world of Lazr more. Enjoy :)

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Hey everybody!
This latest dev log features homes, the realtor, new mods, and shows how Lazr is evolving to be more customizable and testable. Check it out:
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Hey everybody! Here's two weeks of updates. In these videos, we'll take a look at how the world of Lazr is evolving and being tested. Exciting!
//MrGrak

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Hey Everyone! Here's the 44th dev log for Lazr.

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This update shows off the hero's voice, homes, and different levels in development.
Thanks for watching! //MrGrak

Hey Everybody, here's this week's dev log, #43:

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Hey Everyone!

Here's the latest dev log, #42, showing off arcade levels. Lazr is really starting to come to life!

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Hey Everybody,

It's been about 4 weeks since I last updated, and I've been busy.

Here's part 1 of this week's dev log:
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Here's part 2:
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I'm working hard on getting the beta ready now, which people will
be able to play, on windows. Should be a few more months.
Thanks! //MrGrak

Hey Everyone! This week was focused on contracts and airbikes.
Check it out:

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Hey Everyone!

This week a ton of work was done, check it out:

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Hey Everyone!

Here's this week's dev log:

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//MrGrak

Hey Everybody!

This week was focused on improving the story spiral art, and linking up 3 new procedurally generated level types. Check out this week's progress!

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//MrGrak

Hey Everybody!

It's been two weeks since my last update. I've been very busy. I've made a really cool video for you this week, covering all that was completed recently. Good news: the alpha is done! So, I'm working on the beta now, which backers will get to play. A few more months, and the beta should be done. I'm really excited to move into this phase, because it means I finally get to make new levels, new enemies, new bosses, and really expand the world of Lazr. It's a very exciting time, but it's also a very busy time, so I apologize for being a little late with this update. I think I'm going to move to updating every two weeks. This new schedule will give me more time to produce content and work on the game. So, in another two weeks I'll post the next update video, hopefully with some new content in it too! Alright, check out this video:

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//MrGrak

Hey Everybody!

This week was spent on getting the alpha ready.
Here's a playthrough with developer commentary:

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Hey Everybody!
This week was super busy - I worked on the main story spiral and modeled a bunch of stuff in 3d. Here is this week's video:

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It's really exciting to see the story spiral working, along with the level count. I think this will help players to understand the 'challenge' of Lazr much easier - beat all 99 levels. The rest of development will be creating these spiral levels with interesting level designs, enemies, and bosses, along with a story that ties it all together and interesting characters that change and evolve. Oh yeah, and *cloth*. ;)

Hey Everyone! This week was busy, airbikes were completed, vehicles were added, new soundfx as well. Lots of polish on the tank boss fight too, check it out -

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Hey Everybody!

This week I worked on airbikes, glitch transitions, editing a new trailer, and updating Lazr.online. Check it out:

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Visit https://lazr.online/ to see the updated site! The alpha is almost ready, I expect by the end of November it will be done, and we'll be testing it internally for bugs and errors. At that point I'll be working on the Beta, which will take a few months to produce, but then backers will be able to play the Beta, hopefully by Feb of 2021. So, I'm working super hard to get all that done! Thanks for staying with me!

//MrGrak

Lazr Dev Vlog #31 - The First 15 Minutes!

Hey Everybody! I've been working hard on Lazr's alpha.
Check out the first 15 minutes:

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//MrGrak

Hey Everybody!

This week I worked portraits, sound effects, dialog, and level design. This week's video is really good, in my opinion, and it really shows what Lazr is becoming. Check it out:

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Hey Everyone!

This week I worked on portraits and the first cut scene. Check it out:
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Hey Everybody!

This week was focused on getting the first mission working. Check it out!

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See you next weekend! :)

Hey Everyone!

This week was spent working on the intro and playtesting the Alpha.
Check it out!

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Hey Everyone!

This week I worked on polishing the first boss, adding the new modifications screen (and mods), and also animated some level backgrounds. Check it out:

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This week I worked on districts, and preparing the alpha to be played. I spent some time rewriting the engine behind the spinning overworld maps. Now this engine is much faster and can handle more particles, which allows me to make environmental effects, such as fire and smoke. It's important to be able to make these effects, because in the world lore the city is rioting and being destroyed. I also spent time on polishing the user interface and experience, for districts. Check it out:

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Hey Everyone,

This week was super busy, and I've made two videos that cover it all:

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Here's a summarized list of what's been updated:

• smoke was improved visually, and can be pushed around now.
  
• smoke emitter was created.
  
• clouds were fixed and are back in the game now.
  
• while in fluid, smoke rises slower and ignores wind.
  
• cluster levels 1 and 2 now have smoke emitting from pipes.
  
• there is now a fps counter on screen, in addition to frametime.
  
• particle system was refactored to be single threaded, due to
  
• cache size limitations of psvita. psys was optimized as well.
  
• lasers no longer produce debris.
  
• a button pops on dialog screen upon input.
  
• options menu screen was completed (for now).
  
• frames per second counter was added, along with game timer.
  
• cluster district art was updated.
  
• mission select screen was completed.
  
• title was redesigned and linked to mission select screen.
  
• mission select screen links to cluster, bionic menagerie,
  
• and war foundry districts, which load appropriate levels.
  
• alpha city district created, title swapped to it.
  
• mission review screen was added, zooms out of district screen
  
• to reveal it, zooms back in too. part 1 and 2 produced.
  

Hey Everyone!

This week I worked on improving smoke and fire, while also evacuating from hurricane Laura. Check it out!

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//MrGrak

Hey Everyone!

This week was focused on menu redesign, check it out:

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I'm really excited about finishing up these menus and polishing the first mission. See ya next week!

//MrGrak

Dev Vlog #21 - Mission 1 Review

Hey Everyone!

I'm really proud of this week's video, check it out!

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The world of Lazr is starting to really develop. I'm very excited about where this first mission will be at in a few weeks, as the surrounding game systems are improved.
//MrGrak

This week's video is a bit special as it's the 20th dev log update. I made it a bit longer, and I go into more detail about my plans for the first mission. This vlog showcases 3 levels and the first boss, The Hovertank. The Hovertank is in Lazr's demo, but for the full game it got a complete makeover. Check it out:

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So much cool stuff is coming up, I'm excited. See you next week!

Hey Everyone!
Here's the weekly dev vlog:

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Hey Everyone!

I've made a ton of progress on fluids this week - here's a recap:

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Next week's focus is on levels, enemies, and bosses.

Hey Everyone,
Here's the 17th dev log, focusing on fluids:

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I'm really excited to develop fluids more. That's what I'll be working on the next week, then a boss fight is planned, to test out water while also developing the boss systems. Then I plan to build the levels leading up to that boss fight, the dialog as well, and it will probably be the Syntel orb based 'Bionic Menagerie' mission. Then I can combine that Syntel mission with the intro levels and that will be a work in progress Alpha that we can start testing with. That's the overall plan, right now. There's much more to add as well, from holographic ads, to holographic pets (Holodog!), to a variety of npcs and enemies, then mods and ui improvements, district overworld maps as well. Lots to do!

Hey everyone, here's the weekly dev vlog:

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Hey Everyone,

Here's Dev Vlog Update 15:

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Hey Everyone!

Here's the weekly video update, enjoy! :)

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And here's number 13 too, if you missed it!

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Hey Everybody!

I wanted to announce that Lazr will be featured in the Steam Game Festival coming up. Very exciting! The demo is available for free on Steam, and I'm looking forward to seeing let's plays and videos from streamers, along with feedback from players.

Now is a good time to introduce Lazr to new players:

Lazr is a physics based 2d platformer with cloth simulations, set in a cyberpunk city called Alpha City One. You play as the killer android Lazr, facing off against rogue AI and mega-corporations.

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Lazr is an action-platformer that combines fast-paced, skilled movement and combat with a dark and beautiful world, exploring the theme of what it means to be human. Indulge yourself in decadent levels, complete with their own weather systems and architectures. Explore Mode7 inspired city districts - from
seedy underground housing districts, to shiny, corporate offices floating in the sky, to sweltering foundries churning out war machines for the weapons manufacturer Voth - and more!

The original idea for Lazr came from a challenge posed by a fellow programmer to add verlet cloth sims into a platformer. A protoype was built, and it was so much fun to play that the decision was made to turn it into a larger demo. A video of the demo went viral on Twitter, and the decision was made to make Lazr into a full fledged game.

I'm also maintaining a weekly development blog. I'm on the 13th week, check it out:

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Hey Everybody!

This week's dev vlog is up, check it out:

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and here's last week's dev vlog too:

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Lazr is in a great spot right now, everything's working really well and fast - so next week will be a bit more focused on some technical stuff. There's so much to do, and The Big Art Push is still just right around the corner. I've got the styles established for Bluegardens/Downtown and Humacorp, and I really like how they look.

The game is missing holographic ads right now, as I'm still reworking their style to look better than they did in the demo. In particular, I'm working on making the volumetric lighting effect stronger for bright neon signs. I'm really excited to add new enemies and bosses and airbike levels too, as the intro/training levels have been defined well. The first 5-30 minutes of playing a new video game is crucial (to me), so a lot of focus and effort is going into that early experience with Lazr. I want to 'train' the player, so they feel powerful in-game, but that has to be done with respect to action and engagement. I don't want boring tutorial/training levels, in other words. And that's a critique I have of Lazr's demo - the training levels weren't engaging, and they introduced too many concepts at once. So, I designed the new opening of the game with that critique in mind.

There's so much to do, so I should get to it. See you next week!
//mrgrak

This week I worked on dialogs, and reducing the texture footprint of Lazr to fit on the PsVita's gpu. Check it out:

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Hey Everyone!

Things have been so busy and productive lately!
I've been working on levels, here's a video covering that:

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I missed posting updates 6, 7, and 8 here. That's my fault!
So, here are those links:

6: https://youtu.be/6YTHO-9qddU
(Talks about cloth and particles)

7: https://youtu.be/2_TKnfV4jdI
(Talks about environmental fx and hero polish)

8: https://youtu.be/NlSaHu4U6aI
(Talks about explosions and physics)

I'm really excited to work on the art styles this next week.
Lots of exciting stuff coming.
//mrgrak

Hey everyone!

This week I worked on improving the cloth. Check it out:

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Next week I'm working on different cloth behaviors, like burning.

Hey Everyone!

I'm going to be posting development updates to Steam now too. This week I focused on Districts, and their overall design. Check it out!

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Thanks for your interest in Lazr. It's an evolving game/project, so if you're interested in watching it grow and change, keep checking back here or on the youtube channel. See you next week!

Hi there,

Just a quick update, we recently ran LAZR on Kickstarter, and are glad to say we've finished with about 105% of our goal. This puts LAZR on a strong release trajectory for around the end of this year, or at most beginning of next year. We are also looking into Backerkit, for those of you who may be interested in still pre-ordering or looking for additional physical merchandise.

For future updates, make sure to follow the developer on Twitter - regular updates are posted with cool gifs/videos and behind the scenes information. You can follow him here.