06-20-2019, 11:57 AM
The bonus ammo is in now, let me know if it's enough and whether getting all 10 should give you an extra bonus!
As far as new games, we're organizing all the ideas and have begun a few prototypes, but also see a lot more depth that could be added to existing games.
A big question is how much to prioritize multiplayer and social features, for players online at the same time by happenstance or planning. We know that multiplayer can greatly enhance gameplay and motivation to stay exercising. It's still early for VZfit so there's not a lot of online overlap yet but we want to be ready for it.
One of the promising prototypes we started is a Rocket-League-like mode for Tank, which would be team vs team but require a lot of online players and more complicated matchmaking. But it's too early to devote ourselves to something like that before we're even seeing a lot of head-to-head plays. As an incremental step soon, we'd like to notify all online players and watchers of vzfit.com when someone is waiting for a head-to-head match.
We're also looking to expand our appeal beyond pure gamers to casual exercisers interested in technology, who want to give VZfit a shot for being fun, transportive, and convenient. So we're considering games with more direct outdoor analogies, for instance racing a Regatta, skiing, even surfing.
In the short term we think Explorer has the most to gain, by making it even more comfortable for anyone (we're now looking into auto-braking and auto-steering), more game and training modes, and multiplayer. Simply riding with a friend along the same path being able to see and talk to each other could make it twice as compelling, and turn into group rides and spin classes where a leader chooses the path.
That's our current thinking anyway!
As far as new games, we're organizing all the ideas and have begun a few prototypes, but also see a lot more depth that could be added to existing games.
A big question is how much to prioritize multiplayer and social features, for players online at the same time by happenstance or planning. We know that multiplayer can greatly enhance gameplay and motivation to stay exercising. It's still early for VZfit so there's not a lot of online overlap yet but we want to be ready for it.
One of the promising prototypes we started is a Rocket-League-like mode for Tank, which would be team vs team but require a lot of online players and more complicated matchmaking. But it's too early to devote ourselves to something like that before we're even seeing a lot of head-to-head plays. As an incremental step soon, we'd like to notify all online players and watchers of vzfit.com when someone is waiting for a head-to-head match.
We're also looking to expand our appeal beyond pure gamers to casual exercisers interested in technology, who want to give VZfit a shot for being fun, transportive, and convenient. So we're considering games with more direct outdoor analogies, for instance racing a Regatta, skiing, even surfing.
In the short term we think Explorer has the most to gain, by making it even more comfortable for anyone (we're now looking into auto-braking and auto-steering), more game and training modes, and multiplayer. Simply riding with a friend along the same path being able to see and talk to each other could make it twice as compelling, and turn into group rides and spin classes where a leader chooses the path.
That's our current thinking anyway!