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Trials Evolution Trailer!

2/3/2012 9:15:01 PM

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Inside Xbox featuring Trials Evolution

1/19/2012 9:03:11 AM

Does anyone else notice that you can not just create outdoor worlds but you can customize your rider. Some have hoodies, no helmets, short pants, large boots. NICE

Edited: Now on the North American dashboard as well.

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A Heroic Proposal

1/13/2012 10:07:23 AM

Sometimes popping "The Question" to your loved one can be an intimidating thing. Trying to find a romantic and exciting way to do it can be a bit harder to do.

1000 Heroz player, and Redlynx Forum member, Peter (mace999), had an interesting idea. He proposed through the Redlynx iOS game 1000 Heroz, with a little help from the Redlynx Dev Team.

A little over a year and a half ago Peter met Ying while he was teaching English to Adults in Bangkok, Thailand. While talking, Peter learned that Ying was a hardcore gamer, and actually owns a gaming shop.

Peter met a beautiful, intelligent, gamer. He couldn't let her go! But because of fraternization rules at the school they didn't actively pursue a romantic relationship until she had finished her studies.

Peter describes a typical post-school date:

"We went out which usually ended in her coming back to my house to play video games together. I was in heaven."

This wasn't the first proposal Peter had made to Ying. In Peter's words:

"By chance both of our families were in town one weekend. I am English and she is Thai, so at the very last minute we decided to get engaged. It was very rushed and didn't feel special. I promised her, and myself, that I would do it again and make it special this time.

For 2 months I have been racking my brain to find out what I could do that will be personal to us both and then it clicked. 1000 Heroz. We play together everyday and always make jokes about who can go the fastest. Actually one of the reasons she bought an iPhone was because she wanted to battle against me on 1000 Heroz. We used to take turns on my iPhone before that.

So I thought of the idea for maybe a small banner in a race or something, or maybe just some small text that might pop up in the game. I didn't think that any game company would agree to do it but what did I have to lose?

I was already a member of RedLynx forum, I joined so I could read and hopefully get tips on how to beat Ying.

(Peter laughs.)

Anyway I put my message on the forum and hoped for the best and I was amazed at the response. Everyone was so nice and the Redlynx team came through like I never thought they would."

Peter posted on Sunday, Jan. 8th, and the next day Jonte at Redlynx responded with some ideas, suggestions, and a willingness to help Peter ask one of the most important questions of his life.

Redlynx moved quickly, and on Thursday, January 12th, they were prepared to assist in Peter's proposal.

Peter was waiting all day Thursday for the new 1000 Heroz track to become available through the 1 Track a Day play-style.

Peter made a comment about how Ying did not enjoy the cannons in the game, and Redlynx even took care of that, specifically using a level that didn't include them so that Ying would be in the best possible mood.

"Luckily Ying had waited for me at my condo on Thursday night, as I finish work at 9:30pm, so we watched a movie at home and I managed to keep her at the condo until 1am, when she had to go home. I suggested just 1 game of 1000 Heroz to see who could get the best first run score.

I fell down a hole first run, and she kept hitting restart trying to get a perfect run, I was getting frustated because I wanted to see the end of the race so I finally said "just finish the race."

(Peter laughs again.)

"Finally she did and saw the banner."

"It took about 5 seconds for it to hit her and then she was in tears and just asking "How?" it was a really sweet moment and we are both so happy with Redlynx for doing this."

Redlynx has included a surprise banner in the game today, letting all of the players know the outcome of "The Question".

Here's a picture of the Heroz Couple!

Peter and Ying are planning to get married in March. TrialsHD.net, Redlynx, and both of the communities wish them the best.

-ShiftySamurai

VOTE: MotoHeroz as Best WiiWare Game of 2011

1/10/2012 9:24:52 AM

Hey RedLynx fans! Don't forget to vote for MotoHeroz as Best WiiWare Game of 2011 in the IGN People's Choice Awards!

Show your love for your favorite developers.

http://www.ign.com/wikis/best-of-2011/Best_WiiWare_Game

Developers answers some community questions

12/13/2011 12:24:17 PM

jhitman

After watchin Murdoc's Evo feed, the bike handling after landing was one of my biggest concern, as well as spring and switch jumps remaining intact.

sipe

It's problematic to let people play early version of the game, especially physics sensitive games like Trials. People will ragequit before release if it doesn't feel perfect.

Still we decided to do so even though we knew that physics and lots of other stuff needs to be improved before release.

We are in good shape, trust me

ChicagoAJ

Game already looks like kinda messed up. Bikes come to a complete stop half the time they hit the ground.

sebbbi

You should have seen Trials HD bike physics a month before the release... The bike felt like it was taken from the flintstones, the suspension was basically nonexistent. The current Trials Evolution bike physics are so much better in every way than the physics in the 6 month old version of the game that was shown to public. The 6 months old version also had completely unpolished tracks (basically no background decorations and no dynamic physics interaction). Graphics in general has received a massive face lift and the frame rate is now solid 60 fps all the way (old version had many hiccups).

Everyone in the Trials team agrees with you that the 6 month old bike physics was total crap. But assuming that we couldn't fix it during the 6 months shows pretty little respect towards the team (fixing it actually took just a week or two).

ChicagoAJ

Do the gray cars shown in the water level still look like boxes with windows?

sebbbi

The final cars look very good. Our graphics artist Pekka has also made graphics for FlatOut racing games, so he is pretty good in car modeling

ChicagoAJ

And if the bike physics were such a minor, easily resolved issue, why weren't they one of the things polished up and fixed before the public showing? That's probably the biggest part of the game, even if you left out all background, textures and graphics I'm 100% sure people would still buy it. I don't understand the reasoning behind that.

sebbbi

Textures and graphics weren't 100% polished... not anywhere near. And we did left out most of our backgrounds. We did show it when we felt it looked acceptable (not great by any means). Bike physics was also good enough for most people, the early version wasn't intended for hardcore fans. Normal players didn't notice that the physics wasn't final. Trials HD was also shown to press before we had final physics. Physics finetuning is one of the things we do at the end of our projects, because you pretty much cannot tune the physics to perfection without final levels and technology capable of smooth 60 fps game play. Physics tuning needs a lot of players playing the game competetively, and at the end of our projects we tend to play a lot (and finetune the issues we found while playing the game). No game can be perfect without the team playing it a lot during the development.

ShiftySamurai

Hey sebbbi, can you give an estimate for how many polys are in the bike/rider models?

sipe

Character without cloths: Between ~7k highest and ~4k lowest lod. (1 part)

Avarage character with cloths: ~10k highest and ~6k lowest lod. (1 + 8 parts)

Average bike: Between 18-20k highest and 9-10k lowest lod. (19 parts)

Dynamically switchable items tend to cause some extra tris.

MegaTrain

So it always bothered me that in Trials HD, flowing water couldn't extinguish a flaming rider and bike (there weren't any built-in tracks that allowed this to occur, so it only was relevant in a custom track).

I was going to try and build an "In flames" skill game that allows you to reach an "intermission" where your flames are extinguished by a waterfall. Or perhaps an "In Flames" track where only a skilled rider can reach a hidden water obstacle and put out the fire. But when tested, water didn't seem to help at all

Any idea whether this will be different in Evolution?

sebbbi

The answer is yes.

MegaTrain

So will any built-in tracks use this feature?

Can your rider drown in deep water if he stays under too long?

sebbbi

Yes and yes.

LEGEND

Sebbi (programmer)

Vesa (animator)

Ville (artist)

Sipe (programmer)

Antti (designer)

Jorma (programmer/product manager)

Congrats to our Season 3 Tournament Winners

12/5/2011 10:13:41 AM

I would like to thank all the people that competed in this tournament! All of you rock and show the RedLynx community what we are all about. The tracks where great and the players where on top of their game.

The top riders where...

1. Murdoc Loch
2. CypherDextrous
3. ToonSki

Our sponsored rider MilchMaster got fifth place beaten by x PrOFeSsi0NaL who got fourth place!

Checkout some of the runs

Mind Over Body - Murdoc Loch
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Seasick - CypherDextrous
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Top 3 players will receive a TrialsHD.Net medal Gold, Silver and Bronze and later on Murdoc is going to get the TrialsHD.net custom controller for being such a beast!

You can view the scores here!

Thanks to everyone for making this Season so full of win!

-GameScrub

How to use TrialsHD.net Tutorial by Nytmair

7/7/2011 9:00:57 AM

If you are having problems using this site, check out Nytmair's simple step by step tutorial to get this done.

Check out the tutorial and see if that answers any of your questions.

A big thanks to Nytmair for going out of his way and showing people how things are done.