That Flipping Mountain News

I know it's been quiet here the last few months, but that will soon be changing.

I have made the decision to release Just Flip to Early Access so those interested can get in, give it a go, and hopefully provide some great feedback as I build out the rest of the game world.

I've been making physics games in my spare time for well over 10 years and I always fall short when it comes to getting pre-release feedback. I think some aspects of my previous games have suffered because of this.

This time I have decided to do the opposite of what I've done in the past and instead build out the game world with the help of a community.

I resisted this for a while because I didn't think it would be possible given my game dev time is pretty limited: Family, day job, life. However, I think I found a way to do it.

I've spent the last several months working to get all the important underlying game systems developed and solid. This should leave mostly world building, the fun stuff, for Early Access.

With the underlying systems in place, I think I can keep a steady flow of content for the Early Access players.

My ultimate goal is to end up with 1 MASSIVE, continuous mountain world for players to jump, flip, and ski through. I plan to get there by building smaller sections of the world and releasing them at regular intervals.

I have a lot of ideas for the world, but I'm really excited to get input and ideas from others. This is my number one reason for releasing to Early Access.

I don't have any actual release date yet, but I'm getting close.

Stay Tuned and please let me know what you think of the refreshed steam page!

I've been working lately on making Just Flip look a bit more alive. I'm currently putting together some new screenshots and a new preview video.

Also a lot of game play updates but more on that later.

Stay tuned!

Just a quick drive-by update to let everyone know I'm still working on things. I'm currently putting together a more in-depth proof of concept for the skiing mechanic. This lets me flesh out what works and what doesn't and helps me figure out some of the look and feel.



Getting close to done with the skiing proof of concept then plan to move on to building the actual game level.

As always let me know if you have any questions.

Updates are a bit slow and un-exciting right now as I work on some of the more mundane game systems. Trying to get everything in place so I can begin the fun stuff... building the actual mountain that you will flip and ski over.

Finished the first pass of the Setting screen a while back and now I'm setting up my input system to support both mouse/keyboard and game controllers.

Stay tuned for more exciting updates soon...ish.

-Jeff

Started working on the menu system for Just Flip.

A few things:

• The background color will be the color of the sky that corresponds to your current progress within the game.
  
• The smoke from the chimney is animated.
  
• It snows.
  

Next up, the setting screen....

-Jeff