Richie's Plank Experience
by Toast Interactive · 18 Dec, 2017
15 downloads
About the Game
Health and Safety
This game invokes a near-instant emotional reaction. Due to the nature of virtual reality, this experience can set you off-balance and affect your decision making. The following safety guidelines will reduce the risk of serious injury or harm.
- Ensure there are two adult supervisors who are alert and capable of catching you if you lose balance.
- Do not run or jump off the plank.
- Pick an activity space clear of any objects in your surroundings and keep a clear buffer around your space.
- Establish a no pushing or provoking rule that is enforced and taken seriously.
You're on a plank, 80 stories high. Knees shaky, palms sweaty. Do you walk or do you freeze?
Richie's Plank Experience is the only VR experience that lets you clone a real-world object into the virtual world for added immersion. Yes, you can adjust the length, width, height and orientation of the in-game plank.
It’s not just a plank.
There’s something for everyone. In Hero Academy, you can:
fly through the city in Rocket Race;
save the city in Missile Defense;
and extinguish fires in Fire Fight!
Is that it?
The Sky Brush level will slow you down with a zen-like skywriting experience and if you are an adventurous adult, try the infamous Nightmare Mode in the hidden elevator panel.
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Updated Safety message text
- Updated EULA text
- Reduced HMD removal threshold from 5s to 1s to trigger safety message
- Turned on Santa Simulator bell in the elevator.
- Updated Santa simulator with shinier bell and shooting star VFX.
- Updated safety message. Now requires agreement from each user.
- Removed rope until we can figure out why it's glitching out.
- LIV sdk should be updated.
- Fixed bug where users sometimes don't have gravity when stepping off the plank.
- Removed ability for users to accidentally press the elevator buttons when standing outside the elevator.
- Change to skybrush particles.
Add the Umbrella to the end of the plank from the Desktop menu. (Press M on your keyboard)
Magic Umbrella soften your fall. If you pull and hold the trigger, you can fly around the city at a relaxing pace.
You may already be familiar with the old Santa Simulator bell inside the elevator in Richie's Plank Experience.
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Well, it's been polished and improved in a night time sleigh ride. Santa Simulator is now published as a Stand alone experience for sale on Steam for $6.99.
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After over 12 months of development and improvements, Richie's Plank Experience is finally out of Early Access.
Here's how it looked then and now.
Plank View
THEN
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NOW
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Flying
THEN
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NOW
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Thanks again for your support.
Merry Christmas!
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This is Toni and Richard from Richie's Plank Experience.
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Below you'll see details of a rebuilt city, feet tracking, nightmare mode and a few other surprises that came out today. Announcement video here (8min)
If you have any questions, we're here to answer them for you.
REBUILT CITY
The city has now been rebuilt from the ground up. Textures, buildings, rooftops, interiors, sky, roads, the plank, elevator. Pretty much everything has been rebuilt. We admit, the early versions looked pretty bad.
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Old Version
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New Version
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New Version from the Ground
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FEET TRACKING
Here's how it works:
Vive Controllers
Using a rubber band, attach the controller upside down, with the head of the controller on the outside of your shoe. This works pretty well, straight out of the box. Attach additional rubber bands if it's not tight enough. Please note that flying and other levels won't work since you obviously won't be able to use your hands. Feet tracking enables hands free mode.
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Vive Tracking Pucks
Great for arcades and serious VR demo fans. Screw the tracker onto some immitation Crocs (or real crocs) for a universally fitting shoe. Purchase the screw from a hardware store. You'll need to dampen harsh vibration with some rubber bands. This stop the shoe from glitching slightly. Please note, the latest update is still being uploaded to the Vivestore.
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Oculus
You'll need two rubber bands for each controller. Both individually looped onto the wrist strap. Then, run them under the shoe and finally use the touch controllers' "circle of lights" to hook the rubber bands. See announcement video for details. We noticed that with most Oculus setups, camera's can't see the ground. Please promise you won't attempt this if your Oculus cameras can't fully see the ground. You'll be setting yourself up for frustration, otherwise.
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NIGHTMARE MODE
Press 666 into the number panel in the elevator to enable Nightmare mode. Hope you enjoy the surprise! We'll be improving this over time. Not suitable for children.
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FLYING IS MORE FUN
Faster sounds. Tuned Rockets. Note: If you enable Ludicrous Speed mode in settings, you can easily die if you hit something at high speed. Pressing code 112 on the number panel will automatically give you rockets.
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SKYBRUSH COMPETITION
To celebrate coming out of early access, we're hosting a competition. Win a $50 Steam voucher and naming rights to a Building in Richie's Plank Experience. Post a photo or video of your skybrush art to Steam, Twitter or Instagram with #SkyBrush hashtag. Winner picked December 31st.
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NEW GAME
Yes, we're working on a new game. All we can say for now is that it'll involve flying and a super hero academy. ETA 2019.
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UPDATED SANTA SIMULATOR
It's that time of year to say Merry Christmas!
It looks better and works more smoothly. There's also an option in settings to have the sleigh automatically center itself to the center of your play space. It does this when you first enter the sleigh. Required for smaller play spaces. HO HO HO! My best score is 59 presents delivered. Can you be a better Santa?
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OUT OF EARLY ACCESS
Thank you to everyone who has supported us while in early access! We hope you enjoy this update. The early access price will finish when this post is 48 hours old, so if you've been sitting on the fence, consider buying it now. We will strive to keep bringing you bug fixes, improvements and a SPACE Y launch late next year.
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Gravity is adjusted in a more natural way when flying now.
Bugs Fixed
- Mixed reality is working again.
- Cake can be picked up with the trigger again. Mmmm. Cake.
- Fires are now neverending again. Car fire is back!
- If you fall off the plank, the app menu buttons are temporarily disabled. This stops accidental game menu opening when in panic mode. When demoing, we also recommend enabling arcade mode in the steamVR console to also disable system button.
- Rotating plank in VR setup mode doesn't move the start position anymore.
- Warp to Ground is now "Go to Ground" and easier to press.
- Drop down menu for selecting cake has a mouse color highlight.
Graphics Improvements
3 new buildings
Higher quality detail and lighting near the plank.
Current Issues
Need feature to reset VR ground level
Terrain textures are broken
You want to fly faster?
You get to fly faster.
Enable Ludicrous Speed mode in game settings in the VR menu.
May cause motion sickness.
It also has less wind drag so it's a lot more loose around corners.
Enjoy
Today's Richies Plank Experience update includes:
New HD building on the ground floor. Across the street from starting location.
Headset fades to black if you try to cheat and peek through the elevator doors.
Terrain texture is now complete. It looks WAY better when flying through the mountains. Be sure to enable 3d terrain in the graphics settings.
Higher res realistic lighting.
Improved skybox.
A default externalcamera.cfg for making mixed reality videos.
Santa Sleigh is nearly repaired. (enable in Game Features Menu)
Darker clouds.
GRAPHICS
- New light raytrace light baking
- New static car
- Car shadows
- Better frame rate
- Better street lights with light emission.
- New aggressive rocket models and particle effects. Faster looking and better frame rate.
- 2 New buildings.
- New fire particles! Better looking and better frame rate.
- Improved bloom effect.
- PBR Plank Textures. Much more realistic looking.
- Improved Elevator lighting.
- Improved some concrete textures.
- Road has cracks, puddles and detail.
- Improved textures on close air con vents. One has a subtle drip. Drip. Drip.
- Fog now has a slight blue haze. More realistic than the orange.
- Elevator shaft now has subtle ripples in it. Really accentuates the feeling of speed as you fall past it.
- Occasionaly, leaves fall from the trees.
- Tree animations added.
- More subtle lights around the main city square.
- Player shadow is back.
- Car shadows are fixed.
- Bloom with forward rendering and AA now works.
NEW FEATURES
- "Fine Tune Mode" for Vive has been supercharged.
- Oculus Touch support!
- Easier VR plank setup. This is now the default setup option for Oculus.
BUG FIXES
- Fixed minor VR menu bugs.
- VR Menu pointer now works more reliably. It doesn't get blocked by elevator or pot plants.
- Elevator buttons are now more reliable.
- USABILITY: The color pallet for skybrush now works with less bugs.
KNOWN ISSUES
- Frame is a bit slow when flying sometimes.
- Need better instructions for which buttons open menu and use hose / rocket
- Santa Sleigh too slow and clips with air con vent sometimes.
Without Glorious Atmosphere
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With Glorious Atmosphere (enable in App Menu Button -> Graphics -> Glorious Atmosphere)
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GRAPHICS
- Enable Glorious Atmosphere in App Menu Button -> Settings -> Graphics. It's disabled by default until more testing is done. Please report back if it doesn't work.
- Now using Single Pass Rending.
- Adjusted Color Correction
BUGS FIXED
- Custom sky writing message in the desktop menu is back.
- The desktop menu now remembers if it was open or closed when game restarts. Press M to hide and show.
- Settings now save properly.
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• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
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