Welcome to the GameGuru weekly news, just days before we launch as an Early Access title on the Steam store. As you can imagine the entire team has been focused on making sure GameGuru is stable by testing every aspect of the engine.  We spent the weekend hosting a number of multi-player games for a group of alpha testers and these tests we’re very successful. A couple of minor issue were spotted by our eagle eyed test team and we have now fixed them and will be checking the new build as we put the last layers of polish onto the build.

GameGuru will launch on Steam this Friday 27th at 9am PST / 4pm GMT at $19.99. For a short period we’ll even be offering a special launch discount of 25%, so grab it early to snag a bargain! The entire team will be around for the launch to give assistance and offer advice and we’re all looking forward to it very much.

As these last couple of weeks have been about finalising a stable build there has been no new features to report so let’s take a little look ahead to some of the exciting features we see being added to the engine in the months to come. Expanding  multi-player  to cover not just the 8 person death-matches we currently have, but team-play, capture the flag games and a host of other types are already on our radar. We’re having a blast playing the multiplayer maps which were designed by community members!

Another feature is the character creator, this will let you create how you’ll look in your multiplayer games and how enemies and allies in your single player games will look.  With it you can even import your own face image and see your own avatar!

All of these features will be possible through a very easy to use interface, so users starting out with the product will be able to get great results quickly. We won’t be forgetting about our more advanced users either and we will be expanding the already powerful LUA scripting language to allow for more amazing and deeper control over all areas of the game environment.

All in all, the GameGuru development team is very excited about the future and are looking forward to seeing what fantastic games our very talented users design.

Store News

Now for some exciting media from the prolific Valuable Assets who continues to expand his excellent range of buildings which are ideal for single and multi-player games. This media is well complemented by the work of Tazman and Skywriter who have also uploaded an electrical infrastructure pack and a set of great looking pipes respectively. Between them, these artists range is perfect for any modern day or post apocalyptic environment.

In other store news, we’ve updated the store to allow for the use of Steam wallet to complete your purchases and converted the points system into a real world currency, so you can clearly see what great value the models are. You can of course still use any points you have on your account to purchase media.

Work In Progress

This impressive WIP caught our eye this week, from the forum user Grooovy. His game The Terrible Truth is showing signs of excellent progress and we are looking forward to watching him develop it.  You can follow his development thread here.

 SIGNING OFF

That’s it for this week, now it’s back to our final rounds of testing before going live on Steam. We hope to see you all there on Friday!

Thanks to all of our pledgers who have helped us to get this far, you’re Steam keys will be sent out just before the release on Friday.

The GameGuru Team.