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Letters A Written Adventure shapes the world with words and I liked playing it a lotMay 7, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Letters – A Written Adventure is, say the developers, “a heart warming coming of age story about finding the right words.” It’s part puzzle game, part adventure game, part platformer, but all words. I got to play an early demo of it, and talk to the devs, and it made me think about the joy of writing a letter — of physically putting pen to paper, crafting a long message instead of texting a short snippet. (more…) Have You Played #SelfieTennis?Oct 12, 2018 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. Some might say this VR lark is all a bit of a fad. Those someones, however, haven’t played #SelfieTennis. It was one of the first games released for the HTC Vive back in the heady days of 2016, and goodness me I was absolutely sold the minute I put on the headset. If you’re the owner of a pair of VR cybergoggles but don’t have a copy of #SelfieTennis, I recommend you rectify that situation as soon as possible, because this is arguably the most fun you’ll ever have in VR. (more…) HAPPY NEW YEAR + 2018 UPDATEJan 1, 2018 - Community AnnouncementsHi ponies&friends We made a little NEW YEARS video to show you the new features in #SelfieTennis version 2018: https://youtu.be/XR_pA9Ig14E Update includes new&funky AI by Horatiu + racket tracker support (Vive only). So smack them ball heads up to celebrate that 2017 is sooooo last year! Love, @VRUnicornsHAPPY NEW YEAR + 2018 UPDATEJan 1, 2018 - Community AnnouncementsHi ponies&friends We made a little NEW YEARS video to show you the new features in #SelfieTennis version 2018: https://youtu.be/XR_pA9Ig14E Update includes new&funky AI by Horatiu + racket tracker support (Vive only). So smack them ball heads up to celebrate that 2017 is sooooo last year! Love, @VRUnicornsNEW VIDEO (& secrets)Apr 5, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsLovelies, I made a new video today to show you some of the hidden gems in #SelfieTennis and uploaded it to the Steam page. Let me know if you want some secrets and I'll give you hints. You can bribe me with carrots ;-) Julie/@VRUnicornsNEW VIDEO (& secrets)Apr 5, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsLovelies, I made a new video today to show you some of the hidden gems in #SelfieTennis and uploaded it to the Steam page. Let me know if you want some secrets and I'll give you hints. You can bribe me with carrots ;-) Julie/@VRUnicornsVRUNICORNS BOOTCAMP BUNDLEMar 30, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsLovely players! We have just pushed the LIVE button for #Archery in Early Access and have created a bundle, so you can get it for cheap(er) when you already play #SelfieTennis. You can check out #Archery HERE. And here's a link to the VRUNICORNS BOOTCAMP BUNDLE, if you fancy. + let us know your wishes for the next #SelfieTennis update!VRUNICORNS BOOTCAMP BUNDLEMar 30, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsLovely players! We have just pushed the LIVE button for #Archery in Early Access and have created a bundle, so you can get it for cheap(er) when you already play #SelfieTennis. You can check out #Archery HERE. And here's a link to the VRUNICORNS BOOTCAMP BUNDLE, if you fancy. + let us know your wishes for the next #SelfieTennis update!Mr. Romantic UpdateFeb 23, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsLovely players, we’re back! As some of you know we had a rough 2016 Autumn, but 2017 has proven to be a delightful experience so far. Horatiu aka Mr. Romantic has been cranking out an update of #SelfieTennis with much more focus on hearts and romance. Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day in Romania (Horatiu’s home country), so we felt that this is an excellent time to push the new build live and we very much hope you’ll enjoy the polish and new features: We expanded the heart upgrades to contain more cool features that we feel complement the game (some features are inspired by #Archery that the Swedish unicorns have been working on in parallel...more about that game SOON). 1. Highscores now produce a reward in the shape of hearts! As many as you can score in honest tennis against/with yourself. 2. HEART TRUMPET - once you find it as a heart upgrade it allows you to avoid meaningless violence by directly spawning hearts. 3. The bow - which can be used to shoot regular arrows or ball arrows (or rackets, or ponycorn, or lightsaber or some of the other stuff in the game), so you can shoot the hearts and feel like Cupid. Spread the love! 4. Arrows that impale - use them like you would with anything else in the game - mess around, take selfies and distract yourself from playing with yourself. 5. Added 3D unicorn for better selfies - remember to log-in on the screen before tweeting from the #SelfieStick. There’s unfortunately no easy way to get around this log-in process for now due to Twitter’s web API. 6. Added more bees which can be shot to make more bees (with no upper limit, but they are really hard to shoot so if you lag your game it means you're really good at it). 7. Various small fixes to graphics and racket physics improvements which increase overall performance. Have fun you all! Be prepared for more craziness in the future. -Julie Mr. Romantic UpdateFeb 23, 2017 - Community AnnouncementsLovely players, we’re back! As some of you know we had a rough 2016 Autumn, but 2017 has proven to be a delightful experience so far. Horatiu aka Mr. Romantic has been cranking out an update of #SelfieTennis with much more focus on hearts and romance. Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day in Romania (Horatiu’s home country), so we felt that this is an excellent time to push the new build live and we very much hope you’ll enjoy the polish and new features: We expanded the heart upgrades to contain more cool features that we feel complement the game (some features are inspired by #Archery that the Swedish unicorns have been working on in parallel...more about that game SOON). 1. Highscores now produce a reward in the shape of hearts! As many as you can score in honest tennis against/with yourself. 2. HEART TRUMPET - once you find it as a heart upgrade it allows you to avoid meaningless violence by directly spawning hearts. 3. The bow - which can be used to shoot regular arrows or ball arrows (or rackets, or ponycorn, or lightsaber or some of the other stuff in the game), so you can shoot the hearts and feel like Cupid. Spread the love! 4. Arrows that impale - use them like you would with anything else in the game - mess around, take selfies and distract yourself from playing with yourself. 5. Added 3D unicorn for better selfies - remember to log-in on the screen before tweeting from the #SelfieStick. There’s unfortunately no easy way to get around this log-in process for now due to Twitter’s web API. 6. Added more bees which can be shot to make more bees (with no upper limit, but they are really hard to shoot so if you lag your game it means you're really good at it). 7. Various small fixes to graphics and racket physics improvements which increase overall performance. Have fun you all! Be prepared for more craziness in the future. -Julie #SelfieTennis #UpdateAug 7, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsLovely #SelfieTennis players! We wanted to push an update live a few weeks ago, but Horatiu had to find a new place to live and I (Julie) have been hit by some autoimmune arthritis and have been in-and-out of hospitals the past three weeks. Steroids have brought be back to functionality and I’ve finally been able to playtest Horatiu and Simon's work on this update to the max. And it's awesome IMO. First, the new stuff: - #FriendsMode! Play with your friends, and track scores with the local highscores. Enter this mode by pressing F on the keyboard (see part 1 below for more info). - #MixedReality! An experimental tool for recording with a static Mixed Reality camera. Enter this mode by pressing XXX on the keyboard. Remember to adjust FOV and the clipping planes yourself. You can turn the playspace 90 degrees in VR on grips after pressing T on keyboard. Rotating playspace can be useful when recording action shots (see part 2 below for more info). - Other fixes and tweaks (see part 3 below for more info). 1. FRIENDS MODE: LOCAL MULTIPLAYER! Our friends love it when we have Vive parties, where we pass the headset along and let each other take turns playing. We started making our crazy sports games by making prototypes in the middle of the night and having friends over to playtest them, and that's exactly the spirit we want to bring to you with the #FriendsMode. In this update, you will get: On-screen local multiplayer scoreboard Features for adding players, renaming, removing and clearing their scores 3 game modes with more on the way in future updates! #VanillaTennis game mode, where you play the good old who-can-keep-the-ball-going-over-the-net-the-longest #SelfieTennis original rules #ThrowUp game mode, formerly known as #HighBalls, but this time with Rackets, because bouncy rackets are funnier than bouncy balls. The rules are simple: throw your racket the highest to win! #HorseRace. NEED WE SAY MORE??? Use the #Ponycorn to go from one end of the court to another in the shortest time. You can add your own rules to this: finish the race only after #spanking all the ball people in the court, or you're only allowed to jump backwards, or you have to use #GiantMode or do laps... Your imagination is the limit! Known issues: If you get the magic mushroom upgrade and try #HorseRace in the #FriendsMode your start & goal will spawn outside the court. WOOOPS. Lesson learned: don’t do magic mushrooms. Also, in this mode ball people sometimes fly in outer space...just don’t do drugs. Seriously. Remember to lock the interface with the little lock button if you want it always on-screen! This works great for parties and showcase events! The scores are saved between sessions, so you can pick up the game where you left off, or start a new session with your friends the next weekend when you get together again! Pimp yourself up by changing colors using the selfie stick! Hit yourself in the head to change colors. ACTIVATE #FriendsMode WITH THE CHEAT KEY F 2. MIXED REA...#SelfieTennis #UpdateAug 7, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsLovely #SelfieTennis players! We wanted to push an update live a few weeks ago, but Horatiu had to find a new place to live and I (Julie) have been hit by some autoimmune arthritis and have been in-and-out of hospitals the past three weeks. Steroids have brought be back to functionality and I’ve finally been able to playtest Horatiu and Simon's work on this update to the max. And it's awesome IMO. First, the new stuff: - #FriendsMode! Play with your friends, and track scores with the local highscores. Enter this mode by pressing F on the keyboard (see part 1 below for more info). - #MixedReality! An experimental tool for recording with a static Mixed Reality camera. Enter this mode by pressing XXX on the keyboard. Remember to adjust FOV and the clipping planes yourself. You can turn the playspace 90 degrees in VR on grips after pressing T on keyboard. Rotating playspace can be useful when recording action shots (see part 2 below for more info). - Other fixes and tweaks (see part 3 below for more info). 1. FRIENDS MODE: LOCAL MULTIPLAYER! Our friends love it when we have Vive parties, where we pass the headset along and let each other take turns playing. We started making our crazy sports games by making prototypes in the middle of the night and having friends over to playtest them, and that's exactly the spirit we want to bring to you with the #FriendsMode. In this update, you will get: On-screen local multiplayer scoreboard Features for adding players, renaming, removing and clearing their scores 3 game modes with more on the way in future updates! #VanillaTennis game mode, where you play the good old who-can-keep-the-ball-going-over-the-net-the-longest #SelfieTennis original rules #ThrowUp game mode, formerly known as #HighBalls, but this time with Rackets, because bouncy rackets are funnier than bouncy balls. The rules are simple: throw your racket the highest to win! #HorseRace. NEED WE SAY MORE??? Use the #Ponycorn to go from one end of the court to another in the shortest time. You can add your own rules to this: finish the race only after #spanking all the ball people in the court, or you're only allowed to jump backwards, or you have to use #GiantMode or do laps... Your imagination is the limit! Known issues: If you get the magic mushroom upgrade and try #HorseRace in the #FriendsMode your start & goal will spawn outside the court. WOOOPS. Lesson learned: don’t do magic mushrooms. Also, in this mode ball people sometimes fly in outer space...just don’t do drugs. Seriously. Remember to lock the interface with the little lock button if you want it always on-screen! This works great for parties and showcase events! The scores are saved between sessions, so you can pick up the game where you left off, or start a new session with your friends the next weekend when you get together again! Pimp yourself up by changing colors using the selfie stick! Hit yourself in the head to change colors. ACTIVATE #FriendsMode WITH THE CHEAT KEY F 2. MIXED REA...#RacketUpdateJun 30, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsLovely #SelfieTennis players, The #RacketUpdate is live and all about rackets (and the like). The default racket has been revamped and now looks and feels better - based on real life standards. You can choose various skins to play with, but you need to unlock them by smashing special #Hearts (kill a spectator, knock said spectator over the edge and smash the heart). Link to #RacketUpdateTrailer There are a few unlockable special rackets too: - #Lightsaber as an ode to our lovely friends at ILMxLAB - #Ponycorn - a pony on a stick - childhood favorite! Ride/jump to the end of the #Rainbooooow!!! (Actual rainbow will be included in a future update) - #MultiRacket - Experiments sometimes result in success, other times in failure. Once every million tries though…you get something a bit more unique. The new rackets are accessible via the new selection system on the touchpads. Don’t worry if at first it doesn’t do anything! All you need to do is whatever it is you normally do (kill and go for the hearts) and the upgrades will come to you. Performance improvements courtesy of Unity 5.4 (we finally upgraded from 5.3). Future: - We teased a ball cannon, but didn’t finish it yet, but you can already shoot balls (go figure!) - We’re working on AI for the #BallPeople - they will still be the old lovable characters you all know and love, but with a bit more personality. - #Rainbooooow!!! @VRUnicorns#RacketUpdateJun 30, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsLovely #SelfieTennis players, The #RacketUpdate is live and all about rackets (and the like). The default racket has been revamped and now looks and feels better - based on real life standards. You can choose various skins to play with, but you need to unlock them by smashing special #Hearts (kill a spectator, knock said spectator over the edge and smash the heart). Link to #RacketUpdateTrailer There are a few unlockable special rackets too: - #Lightsaber as an ode to our lovely friends at ILMxLAB - #Ponycorn - a pony on a stick - childhood favorite! Ride/jump to the end of the #Rainbooooow!!! (Actual rainbow will be included in a future update) - #MultiRacket - Experiments sometimes result in success, other times in failure. Once every million tries though…you get something a bit more unique. The new rackets are accessible via the new selection system on the touchpads. Don’t worry if at first it doesn’t do anything! All you need to do is whatever it is you normally do (kill and go for the hearts) and the upgrades will come to you. Performance improvements courtesy of Unity 5.4 (we finally upgraded from 5.3). Future: - We teased a ball cannon, but didn’t finish it yet, but you can already shoot balls (go figure!) - We’re working on AI for the #BallPeople - they will still be the old lovable characters you all know and love, but with a bit more personality. - #Rainbooooow!!! @VRUnicornsUpcoming Features!!! #PinkyPromiseJun 23, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsLovely players! We’re updating #SelfieTennis within a few days (most likely Sunday late eve). We’re fueled by carrots, apples and sugar to push it live and we promise this update will make you FLY on rainbows (really, anything in life should, but we hope this REALLY will). It’s always hard to promise, but we’re currently crunching on: 1. New rackets (which are NOT measured after the kids racket Julie brought to the office in November last year back when we knew nothing about tennis….sorry!) 2. Andreas made some #StarWars-related #OdeToFriends at ILMxLAB. Surprise! 3. Horatiu is implementing some sweeeet AI on the ball people (on top of everything else Mr. #Wizard is adding). 4. And we are doing overall performance fixes (finally updated to Unity 5.4 instead of 5.3 - yiiipiiphihihi) and we are also working on the ball-racket collision. 5. Oh, and someone mentioned a ball cannon, right? RIGHT!!! BALL CANNON!!! @VRUnicorns Upcoming Features!!! #PinkyPromiseJun 23, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsLovely players! We’re updating #SelfieTennis within a few days (most likely Sunday late eve). We’re fueled by carrots, apples and sugar to push it live and we promise this update will make you FLY on rainbows (really, anything in life should, but we hope this REALLY will). It’s always hard to promise, but we’re currently crunching on: 1. New rackets (which are NOT measured after the kids racket Julie brought to the office in November last year back when we knew nothing about tennis….sorry!) 2. Andreas made some #StarWars-related #OdeToFriends at ILMxLAB. Surprise! 3. Horatiu is implementing some sweeeet AI on the ball people (on top of everything else Mr. #Wizard is adding). 4. And we are doing overall performance fixes (finally updated to Unity 5.4 instead of 5.3 - yiiipiiphihihi) and we are also working on the ball-racket collision. 5. Oh, and someone mentioned a ball cannon, right? RIGHT!!! BALL CANNON!!! @VRUnicorns #MajorPhysicsRevamp + #Achievements + #LoveJun 8, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsFirst of all: WE LOVE YOU!!! And we love #SelfieTennis, so we’ve been crunching through carrots to give you NEW PHYSICS (we’re getting closer to semi-realistic tennis now) & also ACHIEVEMENTS. And as always: please keep sending us your ideas and feedback. Let’s dig into the list of updates and important cheats: - Physics system has been revamped and tested with REAL Tennis Players (no kidding. We've spent hours in a tennis club + have had real tennis players testing) - Serves have been MASSIVELY improved. IRL tennis players seem to prefer the experimental ball serving mode (cheat key: B) - Implemented topspin and slicing, quite subtle but noticeable in #ProTests - Improvements for ball/racket collision system (will revisit in the future #PinkyPromise) - Achievements: steamcommunity.com/stats/392190/achievements - B: for high Balls - E: for Enio ball (experimental - for higher visibility) - K: for Kids mode (don't cheat, if you're an adult...by age) - S: deactivate the #SelfieStick - New high score leaderboard for new physics and we’ll keep the old one for show-off/historical reasons: steamcommunity.com/stats/392190/leaderboards/1323402 - I: spawn peeps outside court - O: delete peeps outside court - P: spawn peeps inside court - L: delete peeps inside court - M: turn of Music - Arrow keys: rotate play space Minor bug fixes: teleportation bug, rotating play space bug and then some. Next update: we’ll push out next update in a few weeks, so give us your input, feedback, crazy ideas, wishes, whatnot on Steam, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, email, snail mail, pigeon, unicorn, YOUNAMEIT! #carrots, #rainbows, #love @VRUnicorns#MajorPhysicsRevamp + #Achievements + #LoveJun 8, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsFirst of all: WE LOVE YOU!!! And we love #SelfieTennis, so we’ve been crunching through carrots to give you NEW PHYSICS (we’re getting closer to semi-realistic tennis now) & also ACHIEVEMENTS. And as always: please keep sending us your ideas and feedback. Let’s dig into the list of updates and important cheats: - Physics system has been revamped and tested with REAL Tennis Players (no kidding. We've spent hours in a tennis club + have had real tennis players testing) - Serves have been MASSIVELY improved. IRL tennis players seem to prefer the experimental ball serving mode (cheat key: B) - Implemented topspin and slicing, quite subtle but noticeable in #ProTests - Improvements for ball/racket collision system (will revisit in the future #PinkyPromise) - Achievements: steamcommunity.com/stats/392190/achievements - B: for high Balls - E: for Enio ball (experimental - for higher visibility) - K: for Kids mode (don't cheat, if you're an adult...by age) - S: deactivate the #SelfieStick - New high score leaderboard for new physics and we’ll keep the old one for show-off/historical reasons: steamcommunity.com/stats/392190/leaderboards/1323402 - I: spawn peeps outside court - O: delete peeps outside court - P: spawn peeps inside court - L: delete peeps inside court - M: turn of Music - Arrow keys: rotate play space Minor bug fixes: teleportation bug, rotating play space bug and then some. Next update: we’ll push out next update in a few weeks, so give us your input, feedback, crazy ideas, wishes, whatnot on Steam, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, email, snail mail, pigeon, unicorn, YOUNAMEIT! #carrots, #rainbows, #love @VRUnicorns#QuickFixMay 17, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsEdited: we realized it was a driver issue. Let us know if you still have any issues! Original post (without the bad language...tsk tsk...Danes aka Julie). We’ve never had frame rate issues in #SelfieTennis before, but something happened with the #HeartAttack update and a few of you lovely players (luckily very few) suffered from frame rate drops. Thanks for letting us know lovely people! We’ve done a quick fix on the #SelfieStick as it seems to be related to that little gimmicky fella and we will do an overall performance optimization very soon. You might not be into taking selfies, but we always had it ready at hand (=spawned in the level). We’ve tweaked that now, so we keep it inactive when you don't feel like documenting and tweeting about your #KillingSpree. We don't know why it became an issue, but this #QuickFix seems to have done the trick. Let us know whether it works for you peeps who suffered! Make sure to spank us if you see us IRL. We’ll be at Nordic Game Conference this week.#QuickFixMay 17, 2016 - Community AnnouncementsEdited: we realized it was a driver issue. Let us know if you still have any issues! Original post (without the bad language...tsk tsk...Danes aka Julie). We’ve never had frame rate issues in #SelfieTennis before, but something happened with the #HeartAttack update and a few of you lovely players (luckily very few) suffered from frame rate drops. Thanks for letting us know lovely people! We’ve done a quick fix on the #SelfieStick as it seems to be related to that little gimmicky fella and we will do an overall performance optimization very soon. You might not be into taking selfies, but we always had it ready at hand (=spawned in the level). We’ve tweaked that now, so we keep it inactive when you don't feel like documenting and tweeting about your #KillingSpree. We don't know why it became an issue, but this #QuickFix seems to have done the trick. Let us know whether it works for you peeps who suffered! Make sure to spank us if you see us IRL. We’ll be at Nordic Game Conference this week.
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