Our servers got moved last night so the website was down for a few hours. Apologies for not giving a heads up, I totally forgot and the whole thing took me by surprise.

Anyway, on the positive side, everything is now a lot quicker – hurrah!

We’re currently waiting to hear back on a few things before we announce the final launch date and feature set. Hopefully everything should be decided by mid-next week.

I realise it’s frustrating not knowing what’s going on.. but we’re all in the same boat!

Thanks everyone for your patience!

The Beatnik office has been a slightly roomier little attic of late, as its big friendly chief has been absent on a crucial fact-finding mission to the far east of this tiny world...

For the past many days, I have tirelessly, and with no regard for my personal sanity or safety been spreading the love and testament of Plain Sight, whilst also attempting to woo our AI guru... not as easy as the tin might suggest....

Anyway, a few teachings from places far and even dirtier than you...

1) Squat loos are not toys
2) Beer which tastes of piss usually is....
3) Bed bugs are neither pets nor cute
4) Never trust a curry

And to my fellow Beatnikers - love y'all

Peace

Big Chief.

Sup dogs it's the A-Train! Here to let y'all know we're rocking it out at the studio polishing up Plain Sight for a release. I've been hard at work on some cool new levels as well. I can't wait until you can all get it in your mits and start playing it!

The Beatnik slaves team are working on the weekend – what joy!

Although we haven’t started our press drive for the launch, the kind folks at Russian gaming mag "Страна игр", have written a preview on Plain Sight.

Unfortunately, none of us can speak Russian. Not to worry, Google Translate has come to the rescue:

”Meet the new online entertainment about robot samurai Plain Sight quickly with - child and impinge on your wallets and freedoms, time. No printing of money, property by force, with a margin of original ideas and one great dream of the English”

”The pursuit of glasses attached to the meaning of what is happening, and acrobatic stunts by robots in the air, gladden the eye."

I think Google have a little work to do, however, the overall vibe we got from the article is that Plain Sight is 100% awesome – which it is!

We’ll post a link to the article when it’s printed…

I just had to make a zombie robot.

John and Anthony aren't the only pimpin' artists at Beatnik towers. Check out what our AI bots did whilst we were out on lunch!

I'd be lying if I said that writing and testing the new AI bots wasn't fun. It's a lot of fun. Sometimes I feel a little guilty about how fun it is. But then a bot comes along, kicks my arse, the guilt dissipates, and I rage quit.

But seriously, the bots are looking great. They aren't quite pondering the complexities of the universe just yet, but they are definitely kicking butt and taking names. We can get around 30 in game at the minute with stable frame rates on our lower spec machines and 50 on the higher spec machines. These numbers I expect to fluctuate in all manner of ways before release. Special thanks go out to Christian Cerri for setting out the initial AI framework.

More bot art after the jump.

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I could have left the word fun out of the title, but I felt it needed a bit more... Zing!

Ahem. Here at Beatnik we're really truly ramping up for something big that might be on the horizon. A release perhaps? It's too early to be sure, but I've started work on some new promotional material so something exciting must be happening.

Also it's a Friday! We're all super excited about that as well.

Here are some in progress screenshots of new levels that i've been designing! Hope you all enjoy them. I can't wait to play them myself

more after the jump

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John and I have given the website a bit of a brush up. Hopefully it'll work for everyone - feedback welcome!

Hope you all have a great weekend