Rover Builder News

We just shipped an update! Here's what's new:

Sandbox Mode:

• A brand new mode that you can find in the mission menu (in the player information box)
  
• White, flat and clean environment for testing designs without having to start a mission everytime
  
• New Rocket part in the sandbox mode! Pretty self-explanatory, a part that provides thrust with Space key by default. As of now you can't use this in the existing planets, there will be a rocket planet in the future. We just wanted to already let you play with it in the Sandbox :) In the missions rockets will have limited fuel, but Sandbox has infinite fuel.
  
• "Drop a box" -feature that drops a random box behind the rover, so that you can easily test lifters
  
• Sandbox mode is also ideal for stylish screencasts!
  

UI / Usability features:

We just shipped an update! Here's what's new:

Sandbox Mode:

• A brand new mode that you can find in the mission menu (in the player information box)
  
• White, flat and clean environment for testing designs without having to start a mission everytime
  
• New Rocket part in the sandbox mode! Pretty self-explanatory, a part that provides thrust with Space key by default. As of now you can't use this in the existing planets, there will be a rocket planet in the future. We just wanted to already let you play with it in the Sandbox :) In the missions rockets will have limited fuel, but Sandbox has infinite fuel.
  
• "Drop a box" -feature that drops a random box behind the rover, so that you can easily test lifters
  
• Sandbox mode is also ideal for stylish screencasts!
  

UI / Usability features:

Another small bugfix update while we work on new features.

- Fixed a bug where steering boxes could be placed partially on top of existing ones
- Fixed a bug where motors would disappear if they had a wheel attached close to them
- Fixed a bug where the teleport option wouldn't show up if the central box was too high up
- Added a missing collider to a stone pillar in planet2 mission5

Another small bugfix update while we work on new features.

- Fixed a bug where steering boxes could be placed partially on top of existing ones
- Fixed a bug where motors would disappear if they had a wheel attached close to them
- Fixed a bug where the teleport option wouldn't show up if the central box was too high up
- Added a missing collider to a stone pillar in planet2 mission5

A small update, mostly bugfixes and a couple new shortcuts.

- Fixed a bug where motors could be placed on top of existing motors
- Fixed a bug where you couldn't build a steel beam straight out of the steering part's side
- Fixed a bug where you could build overlapping steel beams
- Bug fixes for the mirroring. Now if you build overlapping steel beams with mirroring, the mirrored beam is deleted.

- Added WASD (+QE) shortcuts for camera movement in the building mode
- Added Esc shortcuts for opening and closing different menu's
- Added Enter shortcut for teleporting