With a lot of effort from the team and others from the IGDA-TC, we have launched Cosmotic Blast on the Steam store with support for the HTC Vive and Valve Index. Of course, we continue to support the Oculus Rift[s].
Please come and check it out on the Steam Store:
Not going to publish this too much but the free version of Cosmotic Blast is going away. The pay version will have the DLC included. So if you want the base version, get it now. You have until April 24th.
Hello everyone, we hope you and your friends and family are safe and healthy. Luckily for us gamers, we can continue to do what we love and promote a healthy lifestyle. (Not used to saying that.)
Ian Davis
This release is a big upgrade for those who like changing up the base ship. This new version has 10 new ships that you can unlock by playing the game or by buying them. I’m going to go over each ship and what unique about them as well as some other updates.
Description: This is the tried and true ship with three front cannons and one cannon each other direction besides backwards.
Animation: This ship has a spinning core that reacts to the amount of fire rate.
Color: Red
Available: Immediately
Description: With this ship, you can acquire a fan like array of cannons that can blast with a vertical plane of destruction.
Animation: None
Color: Red
Available: Level 10
Description: Like the base 1A1, this ship fans out a wall of bullets but as you shoot, the rig spins faster and faster, coving more area.
Animation: Spins on the z-axes as you fire.
Color: Black
Available: Level 50
Description: With front facing canons, this ship can focus a lot of power to where you want it. The draw back is to contain that energy, the cannons have to recoil when you fire.
Animation: Recoil as you fire.
Color: Red
Available: Level 10
Description: Front facing canons, recoil and now with spinning!
Animation: Recoil as you fire and spins up.
Color: Black
Available: Level 60
Description: Front facing canons, with no recoil and with spinning! How can this be!?! The recoil is contained in a random rotation on the z-axes.
Animation: The per shot spin is random.
Color: Red
Available: Level 20
Description: Like the base but with a fixed rotation on the z-axes. Like a revolver.
Animation: The per shot spin is fixed.
Color: Black
Available: Level 70
Description: This wide angle ship is my favorite. While others have suffered from recoil, this ship focuses its shot the more you shoot. Try this with full auto.
Animation: Focus Shot
Color: Black
Available: Level 30
Description: This one is a challenge. Just hard to play with but it is worth if you can get full cannons and full auto. You see, the cannons wobble but when it’s full auto, it’s awesome!
Animation: Wobble Shot +/- 5º
Color: Red
Available: Level 40
Description: Now I’m just messing with you. This ship wobbles +/-10º and that is very hard to contain. But full cannons and full auto, it’s like a cone of destruction.
Animation: Wobble Shot +/- 10º
Color: Black
Available: Level 90
Description: What’s this! We captured an enemy ship and converted it to be one of our own.
Animation: None
Color: Black
Available: Level 80
I really thought people would get a kick out of a coin that did nothing but support the game development. Boy was I wrong, no one bought one. Oh well. So now it’s replaced with a simple “Donate” button. Hopefully it’s less scary and doesn’t trigger peoples natural aversion to coins in free games.
OK ok ok … you can now enable in-ship perspective. Warning, a lot more intense vr experience. You’ve been warned. Default is off, I have it on because it’s fun.
Also, now you can enable snap rotate 90º in the game, not just in the pause menu. I don’t like it because you can twirl and hit asteroids but I’m not you. You be you and now that’s even easier with this setting.
… thanks for reading this far, if you play my game, and you have a better name for each of these, contact me and I’ll update it and give you a shout-out. : Discord
Just an update about the new build published today, Jan. 31, 2020.
User “Martin[…]” informed me he didn’t even know about the pause menu while playing the game. Why is that an issue? The pause menu is where you can exit the game early or get information about your progress unlocking items or changing some of the settings.
I added a section in the Tutorial so players know to press B in game to bring up the pause menu. Also, by taking off your HMD it’ll bring up the pause menu too.
How about a bit of help learning the movement with these guides. Tell me if that helps with your piloting.
This one is just a name change. It was called Gravity Center but not only did “Kbomb[…]” recommend changing it to Gravity Well, but then I saw the new Star Wars and it was mentioned like a 1,000 times. So yeah, Gravity Well it is.
Did you know you could change the name of a profile in this game. Most didn’t, soooo if you have default name, “PROFILE 1” then a little tip helper will give you the heads up you can hit the EDIT button and make it personal. Personally, I’m partial to public participation please … tell me what you think.
What!?! You didn’t know I was doing this for money. I am, but not a lot, I promise. This is your fun money. Well now I can take your fun money in the pause menu. Just another reason to point out the pause menu, I guess.
I wish I didn’t have bugs, but if I didn’t have bugs then I wouldn’t be as good finding them. Thus the ninja training. Makes sense? No. Well just be glad there are less bugs.
Come and get it at the Oculus Store.
Read more about it on the Cosmotic Blast page.
Are you the press, check out the new Press Kit and Asset pages.
Or just tweet us on our Twitter page or hit us up on Facebook.
It’s official, you can have a blast blastin’ this blast from the past on the Oculus Store on January 28th, 2020 at 10:00 AM PST!
Learn more about Cosmotic Blast.
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.
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!
