I’ve teamed up with a company called Curve Digital (who have worked on loads of other cool indie games), and they’ve turned the mobile version of Pumped into a proper console game.

They are still hard at work on it, but check out how much better it looks:

I never thought in a million years I’d be releasing a console game back when I started working on Pumped BMX 1, so this is just… crazy. Anyway, now that it’s all been announced and stuff, expect me to be a bit more chatty, and sorry for being so quiet for a while. Oh and yes, I’m still very much hard at work on Pumped BMX 3, and that’s going to be awesome too! :)

Play ‘The Pipe’ Now!

Changes:

• I’ve changed how flips work so that a quick tap equals a slow flip, and you can hold it to speed up (much like spins in Pumped 2).
• I’ve also changed the flip buttons to Up/Down arrows, which is a bit confusing, I’m not sure how much I like it, but I haven’t come up with a better idea yet.
• I’ve changed the trick buttons to the ‘WSAD’ keys, so you can do up+right etc. for more tricks. I’ve also set up ‘Shift’ to toggle T1/T2, so you can do all the tricks you can do in Pumped 2!
• The bike should land a bit smoother back into the ramp.

Errr I think that’s it for changes. Things I’d like to sort out next week:

• you have to be accurate with your button presses to do the diagonal tricks. I want to loosen up that system.
• You can trick on the ground at the moment. I’ll fix that.
• You can’t crash. I’ll probably sort that out too.

What else would you like to see?

Long story short, I’m working on Pumped 3. This isn’t some big announcement, I’ve only just started working on it really, but it definitely shouldn’t take as long as the gap between Pumped 1 & 2.

Essentially: no Pumped 2 updates cos I’d rather make Pumped 3. I realise that might be a bit of a let down, but try and look at it this way: by not making extra P2 levels I can get P3 done a lot quicker. Just to be clear, P3 is very early on, so don’t expect screenshots etc. for quite a while.

However, I do want to keep chatting shit on the internet, which is why I’ve come up with the new project idea!

#fuckaboutfriday. This is not Pumped 3.

A video posted by Adam Hunt (@pumpedbmx) on Feb 20, 2015 at 4:32am PST

On Friday I spent the morning messing around with making a halfpipe, as you can see in the video above.

It was fun, a good way to spend a few hours on a lazy Friday, and people seemed to enjoy it. So my plan is that I’m going to do a little bit more to ‘The Pipe’ each week (mostly Fridays), and you can follow along if you want. And here’s the kicker: I’ll make it playable online, so you can mess around with playing it as it improves each week. And if you’ve got any cool ideas, throw ’em at me.

It’s not ready to play just yet – you can’t ‘reset’ back to the beginning yet for one thing, but I’m hoping to get it online next Friday, or if not that definitely the Friday after. It’ll be buggy prototype mess, but hopefully it’ll slowly turn into a vert game that’s actually fun to play, for free. Which would be cool. And hopefully it’ll tide you over til P3 is finished!

So that’s the plan: #fuckaboutfriday.

I’ve not been twiddling my thumbs though, I’ve been hard at work on finishing Pumped 2! So, where am I at?

I’ll tick off what I’ve done from the May update:

Finalise level designs
Finalise level challenges
Decorate levels with trees/cactii/rocks etc.
Create final obstacle (e.g. manual pad) models and textures
Create tutorials
Create GameCenter challenges
Hook up GameCenter leaderboards

I’m currently working on fixing some minor gameplay issues which will probably be finished by the end of tomorrow.

I’ve also (just about) finished a sweet recording feature so you can save runs to your iphone/ipad to edit, stick on instagram, whatever you want! There’s a few bugs to work out with that, but it should work great (fingers crossed).

So the game is *almost* there! If tomorrow goes to plan I’ll be testing and bug fixing from next week, and depending on how that goes it really shouldn’t be much longer til it’s out there and in your hands. Fingers crossed (again).

Cheers for being patient, not long now!

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