Planet Explorers - Post-Funding Update #49

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Pathea Games has a new post-funding update for Planet Explorers with a new Alpha version for eveyone for X-mas.

And a Merry Christmas to you, here’s a gift!

PE Alpha 0.7 PC Torrent: http://www.pathea.net/a07pc.torrent

PE Alpha 0.7 Mac Torrent: http://www.pathea.net/a07mac.torrent

PE Alpha 0.7 Linux Torrent: http://www.pathea.net/a07linux.torrent

Speed will be faster once we get more stuff uploaded to some seeds.

Direct Links forthcoming.

Alright, after working on this for almost 5 months, we’ve finally finished the initial version of alpha 0.7. Now, it’s not completely bug free, that’s for sure, so we will be putting out a a0.71 version for sure. In fact, some last minute multiplayer syncing bugs almost kicked this build to next year (we fixed them in the eleventh hour). We actually tried to do a little too much for a0.7, and some of the experiments failed. We tried to do realtime cubemap based ambient lighting. It worked, but the frame rate took a dive to around 15fps even on the HD7970. So it went out the window. We also wanted to write a sound program that runs outside Unity in parallel for all the sounds of the game so you don’t get a hiccup when Unity does garbage collection (Unity’s Mono is really old, so garbage collection takes longer than it should, and doesn’t seem to work all too well anyway). We were waiting to see if Unity will upgrade their Mono with Unity 4.3, they didn’t, and by the time we knew that, there wasn’t enough time to add this feature. So you’ll still get awkward skips in sound and music in this build.
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UM,your christmas "gift" is not a gift is it?
I mean you are charging money for v.07,so how is it a Christmas gift?
Though i may be mistaken,please say if it's so.
 
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UM,your christmas "gift" is not a gift is it?
I mean you are charging money for v.07,so how is it a Christmas gift?
Though i may be mistaken,please say if it's so.
You have to be a backer to play the Alpha, and that should be common knowledge. A few posters on this forum backed the game. This is who the post is for.;)
 
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