Introducing Easy Day High School! Coming to Skater XL July 28th
What is up guys? Today, we are excited to be sharing a NEW MAP REVEAL with the announcement of “Easy Day High School”. Included in the 1.0 game launch on July 28th, Easy Day High School is the quintessential skateboarder’s playground, capturing the California schoolyard vibes and terrain where much of skateboarding’s roots come from.
At approximately 11x larger than the L.A. Courthouse map, here you’ll find a utopia of picnic tables, stairs, handrails, manual pads, and banks, offering lines that are limited only by your imagination.
The level comprises a mix of areas and spots including ones we designed from scratch, and also more than 25 real-world spots from high schools and elementary schools that are staples of skate videos and magazines over skateboarding’s history. We've got the Wallenberg ‘Big 4’ in there, the famous Clipper ledge, the Lockwood Elementary bank-to-benches, The ‘Leap of Faith’ and pieces of a lot of other recognizable locations from throughout skate history.
One thing we learned over the course of building the game is that exact one-to-one replicas of real spots can look great, but don’t often provide ideal gameplay. Given that Skater XL has a completely new game mechanic based on physics and independent foot control and that our core philosophy has always been to prioritise gameplay first, we decided to go back to the drawing board on how we approached level design for 1.0.
Easy Day High school is the result of months of work figuring out how to unlock the most gameplay in an environment. Through countless testing and play sessions, we've learned how each real-world spot can stay true to their real life counterpart, while optimizing them to get the most fun and variety in gameplay. So the angles, the distances, the way things fit together and the combinations of elements are arranged in a way to make sure that there's a lot of runs and as you finish one trick, there's always something more to do next.
Check out the teaser video for a deeper look at Easy Day High School, and check out preview on Game Informer and GamesRadar+ for even more information.
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Thanks again for your continued support and we couldn’t be more excited to bring 1.0 to everyone on July 28th. Stay tuned for even more big news over the coming weeks!
At approximately 11x larger than the L.A. Courthouse map, here you’ll find a utopia of picnic tables, stairs, handrails, manual pads, and banks, offering lines that are limited only by your imagination.
The level comprises a mix of areas and spots including ones we designed from scratch, and also more than 25 real-world spots from high schools and elementary schools that are staples of skate videos and magazines over skateboarding’s history. We've got the Wallenberg ‘Big 4’ in there, the famous Clipper ledge, the Lockwood Elementary bank-to-benches, The ‘Leap of Faith’ and pieces of a lot of other recognizable locations from throughout skate history.
One thing we learned over the course of building the game is that exact one-to-one replicas of real spots can look great, but don’t often provide ideal gameplay. Given that Skater XL has a completely new game mechanic based on physics and independent foot control and that our core philosophy has always been to prioritise gameplay first, we decided to go back to the drawing board on how we approached level design for 1.0.
Easy Day High school is the result of months of work figuring out how to unlock the most gameplay in an environment. Through countless testing and play sessions, we've learned how each real-world spot can stay true to their real life counterpart, while optimizing them to get the most fun and variety in gameplay. So the angles, the distances, the way things fit together and the combinations of elements are arranged in a way to make sure that there's a lot of runs and as you finish one trick, there's always something more to do next.
Check out the teaser video for a deeper look at Easy Day High School, and check out preview on Game Informer and GamesRadar+ for even more information.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
Thanks again for your continued support and we couldn’t be more excited to bring 1.0 to everyone on July 28th. Stay tuned for even more big news over the coming weeks!