Today we are announcing our new title, Cosmotic Blast. Think destroying asteroids, collecting upgrades and defeating enemies! It’s going to be a BLAST!
Get all of the information on our Cosmotic Blast page and spread the word by using #CosmoticBlast.
This is just the beginning of a new title. Look for more information to come.
The Cosmotic Mission is ready to come out of Early Access to a full release on the Oculus Store on May 28th.
The full release will include new content and new game play and new collectables.
Start getting your pilot skills ready! May 28th is the day to test your skills.
The Cosmotic Mission available now on the Oculus Store.
Early Access users will get the full release auto magically. Thank you for your support and your feedback.
People ask, what are you working on? What more do you have to develop for The Cosmotic Mission to get it to v1.0? Of course I tell them content and that means levels and game obstacles but that also means completing the ship.
Ever wonder what the other button was for? Did you see that the ship had three bays?
The main bay is the Commanding bay, where you navigate the cosmos, launch the drone and tally up your score.
Version 0.6.1 introduced the second bay, the Living Quarters, an area to play around with collectables, see where you live, and reset the game.
The game functionality of the engineering bay is simple, credits. I know, not exactly what gamers are pining to get access to but I need to give credit where credit is due. I had so much support from my Kickstarter and friends and family. I want to recognize them. Also there are tools and plug-ins that I need to credit. Joy.
In game, this is where you get access to the heart of the ship – this intergalactic magnetic-cosmotic-energy space-time warping high tech modern wonder.
Here are examples of the Living Quarters, sketch to final.
The Engineering scene is very simple in regards to game overhead, no grabbing obstacles, no collision, no added functionality so I have a lot of room for mesh detail. I hope to flex my modeling skills here.
The commanders bay hinted of the engineering bay with three tubes leading off to the left. This room will have the first cosmotic crystal discovered by humans wired up so we can take advantage of its mysterious powers.
There will be tubes and glowing crystal with large gears that look like they could drive the three spinning rings. Rubber and metal are the predominant materials. Digital panels will display titles and names to satisfy the credit criteria.
This is where I am today. I’m going to play in modo and block some shapes to get a better feel of the space.
The Cosmotic Mission has been patch with an update to the loader of the Living Quarters.
This was actually quite an interesting trouble shoot because I had thought my loader was not working correctly because it would stall in the activation stage of the newly loaded level.
I combed through the loader code, finding some room for optimization but ultimately it was not the loader. It was a massive job during the initialization of some of the objects in that scene.
Then I went through texture sizes and mesh colliders. None of those seemed at fault. I isolated the issue down to it being just the larger mesh objects. Which surprised me because the vertex count was only around 10k and that should have been addressed in the loader. So what was it?
It was a shader! I use a highlight effect to show interactions. That highlight effects pre-calculates a manipulation to the vertices that on large meshes brings Unity to it’s knees. So what to do? Turn off the effect? limit the poly count? I’ve got a better idea.
Turn off mesh read/write on the larger objects. Ta da! Yes the effect isn’t as prevalent on those objects but they also have a base that does function well.
So there you go. If you haven’t already gotten The Cosmotic Mission, please support a great game by downloading it now. Piloting a drone in space in room scale is awesome!
As of this morning a new version of The Cosmotic Mission is live on the Oculus store.
We got feedback that while trying to solve some of the more challenging levels, it was getting tedious to go back into the ship to launch or restart the drone. So I made it a button. By hitting the ‘Y’ button. (Left hand – top button on the touch) it triggers this function.
“So I made it a button”
-Ian
… this has become my favorite button.
Boo, long load times when going to the Living Quarters. How else are you going to check out what collectables you’ve unlocked. Well for now, you’re going to have to wait. It takes about 15-20 secs to load. Ugh, that’s like forever.
We are going to use an asynchronous load for that oh-so-juicy living quarters content so you don’t have to wait. err… but for now you’re going to have to wait for update. #ironic.
Please check out the update and give me feedback. If you don’t already have The Cosmotic Mission, get it!
Cosmotic commander, we are now getting more information about the new crystal you might be encountering April 30th.
Long distance bleak data inversion (Long-Dbdi) has been able to pin down a location of a new type of crystal. This crystal has been named expansive-isotropy crystal but typically has been referred to as simply,”Exploding Crystal.”
The proximity to the Cosmotic Crystal should be taken under advisement. Proceed with caution.
The matrix of this crystal type appears to be empty space. Truly unique characteristic which is upsetting many of our resident scientists for the implications are massive.
The first location captured a few days ago is now void of crystal. All near mater has been observed to be on a new trajectory away from that point. Perditions of an explosion was derived from this finding. Addition information about what caused it to become unstable is yet to be known. Is it like the Cosmotic Crystal?
We are pleased to announce a major update to The Cosmotic Mission early access on April 30th, 2019. This will be the last major mission update. After this update there will be a content lock down until full release is launched.
This update includes the discovery of an additional galaxy with multiple Cosmotic Crystal site locations. These locations have increased debris and obstacles so it will be even more challenging to collect the Cosmotic energy.
Without this energy, your chances of coming home are marginal.
Be on the lookout for a newly discovered, highly unstable crystal spotted this in the area of the new galaxy. Take precautions, for this crystal appears able to emit a lot of force that could damage the drone and other Cosmotic Crystals.
We’ve already sent out canisters for you to collect to aide in your mission to the new galaxy. This includes synthetic crystal fragments of the newly discovered crystal for you to study. As well as provisions for your long mission back to earth.
There will be new software transmitted to your ship adding functionality and drone controls. This adds more control and better launching routines to ensure your mission success.
This early access days are numbered. We have many more details about the full release in coming days. Get your copy today before it goes to full retail value at the Oculus Store.
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Here is the first image that was submitted from the pledge “Contributor – Take My Picture.” I’ll place this in the captain quarters . Who is she? What was her relationship to the captain?
