New version coming soon.

[SDS_Simon]

Hi guys,
Just a quick note to apologise to any folks who've had a problem with the game crashing this week - we have had an issue that our tech team have been working flat out to fix asap.
We tracked the problem down to the joypad system code, and plan to upload a patch ready for this weekend (23rd March) that fixes the crash.

We had to also temporarily disable full screen mode due to some compatibility issues there. Again, we hope to have a fix for this pretty soon.

So, apologies again to any of our players who have been inconvenienced by this. This is our first game on Steam and we have learned a lot already!

Thanks for playing our mad animals-in-space game though, we really look forward to seeing what kinds of high scores hit the leaderboards.


Best,
Simon
Technical Director
Strawdog Studios

[Mivo]

Hi Simon, and welcome to the Steam boards! Glad you managed to get a dedicated Space Ark forum set up.

Very happy to hear that your team has identified the cause of the crashes I didn't get to play the game very much, but what I did see was very promising. The controls are a little difficult (I would prefer the mouse for the pad movement instead of the arrow keys), but this is probably just a matter of having to get used to them.

It's quite the skillful game and definitely improves on the Arkanoid concept. It's well designed and I love the art. :) (It also makes me feel about 30 years younger, and that's a good thing!)

[SDS_Simon]

Hi Mivo,
Thanks for the feedback. We are currently looking at a mouse control option for the pad, as I think you are right, that could work well.

The game was a mashup of all our favourite arcade game influences (nice juicy fruit in particular didn't have to go in the game, but we insisted!! :))

It looks like our patch will be live next Monday now all being well.


Best,
Simon