If you looked at the steam page lately you must have noticed that lunr.rdio.taxi took part of the Six One Indie Showcase with a new trailer announcing the launch of our demo. This version of the demo has everything the most recent playtest build had, plus a bit more stuff. If you’ve already played the latest demo, please go to the store page and leave a review! We wanna know what you think.

We finally modeled the skybox of the initial phase on the sun (now you know it took place on the sun). Following that, we also finished modelling the last level obstacles that still had placeholders. The last temp assets were well done and fit the aesthetics, so a lot of players never noticed they weren’t final, but the game looks more polished now that all obstacles have a proper design.

The character, planet and track selection screens got a makeover! The game’s visual direction is to make every screen look like a cool poster, so we’re trying not to make them look too much like UI.

This of course risks making the controls more confusing, so if you get stuck anywhere not knowing what to do to advance, please let us know. We’re going to keep balancing aesthetics with usability.

That said, we also made some improvements on the controls! We gave the game another input pass to make sure you could do the whole level selection part entirely with a mouse, keyboard or a controller. If any of these input methods are broken, please let us know!

You can now add your friends friend code’s on the contacts tab of the LUNR app window. This is in preparation for really cool forms of player interaction we plan to add in the future, but for now, you can already use it to filter a level’s ghosts to show only your contacts. If you haven’t messed with the ghost filter options on the ghost tab already, this might be a good moment to start.

Don’t you know how to find your own friend code? It’s the 4 letter name you chose for your save plus the 8 digits that folow. You can find it in the save selection screen and the top part of the LUNR app window. Now go add all your friends on lunr.rdio.taxi.