Another week looms into view and we’re very pleased to welcome thousands of new users to the world of GameGuru from the recent Humble Bundle promotion. If you’re new to GameGuru, this is where you can catch up with all of the latest news, views and updates from our Store, our community and of course our hard working development team.
GameGuru update
As our regular followers will be aware, hot on the trail of our recent updates comes the start of the performance work. It is still very early days so there’s nothing to report in the way of statistics, figures or eye candy, but even at this stage, with many wires hanging out, we’re very happy to say that work is well underway.
As the team work diligently to squeeze lots of extra FPS out of the engine, we’re already looking to the future of development, and are pushing ahead with our promise that GameGuru is and will remain to be a community lead project. A major part of this is the new voting system. A fair, balanced and easy to use online survey, asking you to tell us what you want to see after the performance work.
Vote Now
We are always listening to our users and the one thing we heard loudest was you all shouting. “Let us tell you what we want next.”
So, we’ve listened and introduced this new voting system.
We want your feedback so we can be sure we’re developing the features that matter the most to our community, please read this guide before you start voting please note;
- Features voted towards the “Urgent” right side will score higher marks.
- The more features you mark as “Really need” and “Urgent”, the less these scores will be worth.
- It’s therefore best to choose just a few items that are important to you and score those highly.
- The scoring is live and you can change your votes at any time.
- Your changes are updated immediately so no need to save.
Store News
This week we’re taking a look back at two of the great modern weapons packs from long standing store artist BSP. These excellent packs expand the range of weapons by 20 between them, and are a must for any serious game developer.
Don’t forget to check out the store for all of the latest releases and of course 1000’s of free and paid models to help bring your games to life.
Become a Store Artist!
The Game Creator Store connects creative artists and musicians with enthusiastic GameGuru game developers. Can you create game ready 3D models or themed atmospheric music for the GameGuru community? If so, sign into the GameGuru website and sign up to HERE!
More Twitching!
We’re sure you’ve all been keeping up with Lee’s Twitch’s. (Support very well by our own Dave “Ravey” Milton. If not, you can keep up with the regular broadcasts here.
As we keep reminding you, we strive to be very much community lead, and on top of our voting system, we’d also like to know what you would like us to Twitch about.
Click here to see a list of our recent broadcasts, and also for a chance to help shape future Twitch’s.
Don’t forget our competition
There’s still plenty of time to get in on the latest competition and grab yourselves some free store points to spend on some of the great GameGuru media available from our store. As a reminder, this time, we’re asking you to come up with the most imaginative custom face using the new Character Creator import a face feature and we’ll be awarding the best FIVE entries 3,000 store points each.
There’s no restrictions on what kind of face you make but we’ll be judging on originality, quality and entertainment. To enter, all you need to do is create your face, upload it to the gallery and send us the link and a copy of the character. (Located in the custom Character Creator folder). Best of luck to everyone and we’re looking forward to seeing what our talented users can come up with.
The Rules
1) You may only use public domain or custom images, you may be required to prove usage rights.
2) Please email the image link and the custom character to Dave Hawkins at davehawkins@thegamecreators.com
Ensure you use the format USER – FORUM -COMPETITION8 e.g thescenecommander-GameGuru- competition8 in the subject line. Entries that do not meet this criteria will be disqualified.
3) You must include the following information in your email.
3.1) Your real name
3.2) A valid email for your TGC account so we can award prizes.
4) All entries must be received by midnight GMT 31st July 2015.
5) This competition is not open to any member of TheGameCreators staff or support team.
6) You may enter as many times as you like, but remember quality is better than quantity.
7) The competition will be judged by at least two members of TheGameCreators staff and their decision will be final.
Signing Off
That’s it for this week. Don’t forget Lee’s Blog for daily updates on development and of course the thrice weekly Twitch Streams, where you can keep up to date and maybe get a couple of teasers.
As always, thanks for your incredible support and we’ll speak to you all again next week.
The GameGuru team
