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Volo Airsport Development Blog | News & Development Updates At Terminal Velocity Volo Airsport Development Blog News & Development Updates At Terminal Velocity Menu Get Volo The Aurora Wager The Aurora Wager Changelist Old Releases Forums FAQ Goodbye, Volo 12 Replies Hello Pilots, For the past six years, Volo Airsport has been our lives. We’ve thought about it long into the night when we should’ve been sleeping, worked on it weekends and holidays… We love this game, and still find ourselves amazed by the number of players who have come to love it as well. When we released Volo Airsport on Steam Early Access in late 2014, we intended for its development to be a journey – and it certainly has been. We added features that allowed you to choose the way you fly, whether in our signature wingsuit, or the new, customizable parachute. We improved the game’s graphics and upgraded the engine several times over, adding day/night cycles, a weather system, and more. We started a semi-weekly show to catalogue improvements made, future plans, and discuss our approach to game development. And all the while, we were able to rely on you – our community – to guide and support us. Whether you ‘liked’ one of our videos, covered the game, or simply took the time to play it, we can’t thank you enough for your support of Volo Airsport, and our team. As we’ve continued to try bringing Volo Airsport to a point of completion, we’ve begun to hit one roadblock after another. Right now, we’re a team of three, and we simply can’t continue to work on this project we love so much with the revenue it currently generates. We’ve run out of money, and with it, the time we hoped we might have to bring this project to a fitting conclusion. As of today, development of Volo Airsport is on a permanent hiatus. Today’s new branch containing the seeds of the next steps we hoped to take with the game is the last addition Volo Airsport will see. We thank you wholeheartedly for your support, encouragement, and feedback over the course of Volo’s development. We’ve built a game that we’re still quite proud of, and we couldn’t have done any of it without you. We also hope to see you again in our next journey – whatever that might be. Goodbye, Pilots. Sincerely, Ramjet Anvil This entry was posted in Volo on June 2, 2017 by admin . Ramjet Anvil Show Ep. 17: Gameplay Experiments and Contest Results Leave a reply This week we show various bullet hell and wind effector experiments and reveal the flight contest winners! 01:19 Bullet Hell 07:45 Wind Effectors 12:19 Contest results! 13:11 Irate Earwig’s entry 16:19 Skyfreak’s entry 18:40 Teyno’s entry This entry was posted in Volo on May 7, 2017 by admin . Video Contest Extension: 4th of May! Leave a reply Hello pilots! We’re extending the contest deadline right up to (and including) this Thursday so you can get your entries in, and we’ll announce the winners on Friday’s episode. We’re already seen some beauties, keep ’em coming! Record and send your best flights to info@volo-airsport.com by May 4th. Winners get a giftable Steam key! This entry was posted in Volo on May 1, 2017 by admin . Ramjet Anvil Show 15: Parachuting in VR Leave a reply — With the latest 3.7 beta we’re bringing VR flying back to Volo! — 00:00 Oh my god it’s VR 04:12 About motion controls 05:54 The subtlety of brake lines and gamepad triggers 10:18 Parachute selection with gamepad 12:31 Performance improvements 14:52 Pilot now relaxes under canopy 16:02 Fixed tendency for all canopies to bank left without input This entry was posted in RamjetAnvilShow , Volo on March 26, 2017 by admin . Ramjet Anvil Show Ep. 14: v3.7 Beta 4 Release Leave a reply — This week we look at the new beta, featuring pretty parametric 3d models for all your parachutes, new editor improvements, and we go over the polishing work still to be done for the proper v3.7 release. — 00:00 Look at them! 02:41 Iterating on editor UI 06:06 New parachute visuals 08:01 What’s on the todo list? 09:13 The state of VR support 12:57 Small additions 14:33 State of parachute physics consistency This entry was posted in Volo on March 10, 2017 by admin . Ramjet Anvil Show Ep. 12: v3.7 Beta 3 Leave a reply This episode we show off Pilot’s new canopy controlling skills introduced in beta 3, and we tackle comments on last week’s episode! 00:59 DaGhost141: Will tracking jumps be a feature? 03:23 DaGhost141: Can we control speedscaling? 04:56 Parachute-powered backflip fun 08:39 Skyfread: Can we get that slowmotion? 11:58 Beta 3 Discussion Starts 17:53 Dealing with surging wings 21:19 A list of squashed issues 24:13 Beta installation instructions This entry was posted in Volo on February 10, 2017 by admin . Ramjet Anvil Show Ep. 11: Can we remove the leg? Leave a reply While we’re polish up v3.7 we thought we’d mess around with the game while it runs in the editor, leading to very important questions like: What happens if you remove the left leg? 00:52 Jet Fighters and automatic control systems 02:23 Flying without wings, tracking jumps 06:56 What happens if you turn off assists? 09:26 What happens if you turn off ALL stabilization? 11:30 Toribash 12:23 What happens if we remove… the left leg? 14:39 What happens if we remove its butt 15:30 Windtunnel testing 19:07 Tree collision Enjoy! This entry was posted in Volo on February 6, 2017 by admin . Ramjet Anvil Show Ep. 10: To Flail or to Fly Leave a reply In this episode we take a question from the comments about Volo’s current and future art direction, looking at the space between the concepts of pure realism and pure fantasy, where the two are much alike, and where we think they can really help each other. 00:35 MarkusA380’s feedback on the beta’s capsule-pilot 07:20 Plans for the ragdoll animation system 10:24 The complexities of teaching a ragdoll how to move 14:45 Tulipothar’s feedback on the parachute flight model 20:58 Please help test our beta releases! Enjoy! This entry was posted in Volo on January 28, 2017 by admin . Ramjet Anvil Show Ep. 9: Parachute Integration Beta Leave a reply In this episode we discuss the first v3.7 beta release, which brings the parachute system into the full game, detail how we’ll polish this release up over the next weeks, and ask you to help us make it better! Enjoy! v3.7 Beta Forum Thread 00:00 Steam beta instructions 00:53 What in this beta? 07:15 Making things seamless 09:14 Help us test! 10:23 Replacing the capsule with the full ragdoll 10:56 State of VR support 14:16 Summary of planned 3.7 work This entry was posted in Volo on January 14, 2017 by admin . v3.7 Parachute Test Release – Out on Steam 1 Reply Hello Pilots! We just released a new test version of the upcoming parachutes update for Volo Airsport. This update is packed with awesome features: Parachute flight simulation with all the depth of the wingsuit flight model you know and love A rich editor for designing your very own parachutes In-flight deployment of your parachute, with the ability to switch back to wingsuiting at any moment Use ‘T’ or ‘Right Shoulder button’ to toggle Numerous performance tweaks and improvements Go to game in your Steam library - select Betas tab - select ‘test’ to download the new update. If you haven’t done so already check out our development diary on YouTube . In it you can see how the parachute release came to be, what considerations we made while building this update, and many more things. Please let us know what you think about this release on the forums. Also, if you find bugs, please report them on the forums . Happy new year! The Volo Airsport team This entry was posted in Volo on January 4, 2017 by admin . Post navigation ← Older posts Links Martijn on Twitter Volo Airsport on Twitter Youtube Channel Twitch.TV Channel Facebook Page Ask Me Anything (Ask.fm) RSS Feed Search for: Recent Posts Goodbye, Volo Ramjet Anvil Show Ep. 17: Gameplay Experiments and Contest Results Video Contest Extension: 4th of May! Ramjet...