It’s all Jacks fault!  Blame him!

Look how smug he is! It’s sickening…

This is nothing to do with Plain Sight, but we figured we’d show you something to do with the Channel 4 project we’re working on.

It’s in Unity, so all you have to do is click here and (fingers crossed) it should pop up in a new window.

There are no guns, points or robots - just a vertical slice of the environment art style. Most of this was done by our resident environment guru Jack in 2 weeks – impressive stuff!  

In Plain Sight news; there’s a big patch coming out next week. It’ll have new gameplay modes, millions of fixes and a brushed up UI. It’s looking pretty ace and is certainly something we’re keen to show off to a boatload of people. So, if the servers are feeling a little empty, nil desperandum, things will pick up soon…

A new version of the Plain Sight gamma test has been released.

Fixes include:
- Improved networking. Now feels more ‘fair’.... it’s hard to explain.
- Better performance
- Working dedicated servers.
- Lots of little bug fixes…

Here’s hoping the auto-updater will work ok!

So we’ve been working hard resolving all the bugs you’ve reported over the gamma. We’ve found some interesting issues with the server corrections we’re trying hard to uhhh…correct. While most the bugs have been fixed we’d love to improve the over feel of the gameplay over the dedicated servers and thought we would have nailed everything down by today…but we haven’t.

Rather than give you a partially fixed version we’re going to hold off a few days more until we’re good and happy it’s ready…then we’re going to give you as many dedicated servers as we can muster and invite loads more people to play with hopefully insuring there are always people playing Plain Sight.

Thank you kindly for your patience.

Typical British weather, it’s never quite good enough. With panic-stricken news stations forecasting apocalyptic storms with snow flakes the size of Danny DeVito, the Beatnik team woke to a pathetic layer of snow dibbled over London town.

Which meant we had to go to work.

Damn it.

Never mind, there are other places in the universe where the sun always shines and robots are always happy. I think it looks like this:

PS: New Gamma patch should be up tomorrow/next day. Once it’s deemed stable, we’ll release a load more serials.

PPS: after writing all that, NOW it starts snowing properly… looks like we’re having an office sleepover!

Hey everyone, hope you all had a great Christmas / New Year.

After a much needed break, we’re back in the office fixing up the remaining gamma bugs. Once they’re squashed, we’ll be giving out a bunch more keys (lots more than last time) – so you should have a load more people to play with! Should only take a couple of days…

Anyway, thank to everyone who left feedback over Christmas, it was incredibly useful!

Happy Christmas to everyone from the Beatnik team!!

As you can probably guess from our quietness, we’re all huddled up at home eating our body-weight in turkey. However, rest assured, we’ll get around to patching Plain Sight as soon as we can muster up the strength to move away from the tv set and the millionth repeat of Die Hard…

Hope you all have a great holiday.

Cheers!

PS: shout in the forums if you want access to the gamma test, we’re all in a particularly good mood today ...

Thanks for all the feedback everyone. As expected, there were a number of teething problems with the first couple of versions the Plain Sight Gamma. But, what the hell, that’s what it’s here for!

Anyway, we aim to have a patch ready by the end of the day we have a patch ready that should smooth out the majority of problems. Also, the dedicated servers should be fixed, so those experiencing a laggy connection should have a butter smooth game experience as soon as possible…

For those who didn’t manage to get a serial number, no need to cry, we’ll release more later on. If you’re nice to us, we’ll probably give you one anyway!

For those members of the forums who’ve helped out – thanks a million! 

Happy Christmas Plain Sight fans!

  We’re giving away 1000 serial numbers for the gamma test starting NOW!

  CLICK THESE WORDS

  A great deal of work has gone into Plain Sight over the last 11 moths, so the number of fixes/improvements is a far too long to list. However, briefly, the gamma has:

  - 4 game modes!
  - 5 maps !!
  - power-ups !!!
  - robot upgrades !!!!
  - graphical prwettyness !!!!!
  - improved stability !!!!!!
  - improved networking performance !!!!!!
  - auto updater !!!!!!!!
  - and more !!!!!!!!!

  PLEASE NOTE: This isn’t the full final game. The final game will have loads more stuff and be on sale in February…
 

PS: Why only 1000? Well, last time we were a little overwhelmed, our servers died and it all went tits up. We’ll be releasing more over Christmas, however, if you just cant wait that long, go and bitch a moan in the forums. We might take pity on you…
PPS: We’ll be hosting some dedicated servers so even those on a lag-tastic connection can play along.