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<\/a>Onlookers prepare to have their minds (and chunks) blown at BFIG<\/p><\/div>\n
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New Project: \u201cVRMT\u201d (working title!)<\/b><\/p>\n
Anybody who\u2019s encountered Defective at events lately is privy to a brand new project that we haven\u2019t announced online yet: VRMT.<\/p>\n
VRMT is a VR creation game and worldbuilding tool, aiming to be something between Minecraft and Maya. \u00a0You\u2019re presented with a set of props and tools with which you and your friends (multiplayer soon! \u00a0Really this time!) can create environments. Much inspiration comes from Bruce Branit’s short film Worldbuilder<\/a>.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll save the media for VRMT\u2019s proper dedicated announcement post\u2026 but eager fans just might be able to find everything about the project on the Internet already \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n Some time ago we mentioned a number of jams and new projects we\u2019ve been working on; VRMT is the first of those to make it out into the world, and more new projects will follow. \u00a0We have a lot of ideas and a lot of things that work and we enjoy playing and making, and we\u2019re eager to break from our history of neverending monolithic projects. \u00a0As every game developer knows, you make good games by making a ton of games<\/a>.<\/p>\n And despair not spacefreaks, the best CosmoKnots is ahead<\/b><\/p>\n We haven\u2019t put out an update or news on CosmoKnots in quite a while, but worry not, significant updates are coming. \u00a0We spent the months following the alpha release fixing things up, increasing the awesome, and adding a few new features — but it wasn\u2019t enough. \u00a0After taking a break, we realized that what CosmoKnots really needs isn\u2019t an incrementally better version of what we have — which you longtime Defective fans may remember is a significantly pared-down version of our vision for the game — but entirely new features, living up to that grand vision. \u00a0The first two major updates we\u2019ll be working on are multiplayer (multi-Snake first; later, perhaps, bringing the racing-on-the-tail element back), and VRMT integration as the CosmoKnots in-game level editor.<\/p>\n UniMerge: Now an even better tool that all Unity devs need<\/b><\/p>\n UniMerge, our Unity editor extension for merging scenes and prefabs (something every Unity developer forever has desperately needed, and if you are one and just found out about this, you probably just peed a little), has seen various improvements, and the latest (version 1.5) is available on the Asset Store<\/a>, still for the impulse-purchase-price of $15. \u00a0It now features proper git integration, and is much faster, making the experience of working with the tool much more seamless and convenient. \u00a0Both of these new features were the direct result of user feedback, so keep it coming!<\/p>\n Festivals, Conferences, Meetups, Showdowns<\/b><\/p>\n We\u2019ve demoed our recent projects (including a couple still not mentioned here!) at a number of events: the Boston Festival of Indie Games, the Richmond Virginia Makerfest (Schoen lives in Richmond now!), Oculus Connect, and various Boston developer meetups and demo nights. \u00a0Each of these events gave us invaluable feedback, suggestions, and notes on how to improve these projects before the proper public (Internet) reveal. \u00a0And of course were tons of fun.<\/p>\n Paying for all this awesome<\/b><\/p>\n Since we\u2019re not about to get $2 billion dropped on us by Microsoft or Facebook (Mr. Helgason: Just Say No!!), we\u2019ve taken on contract gigs to keep the ramen flowing. \u00a0We\u2019ll elaborate on each of these in their own post soon, but since last you heard from us, we were hired to build a very cool \u201cVR Home Screen\u201d for the Gameface mobile VR headset<\/a>, design and teach a number of classes for a nerd camp, and develop a new web platform set to blow up the ski and snowboard industry (we and the client hope!).<\/p>\n The Defective Collective<\/b><\/p>\n