The team was rather happy me but the game did not sell well enough so the company downsized quite a lot.

The studio was rather small even when I came in, around 40 people. They're currently at like 18 and almost nobody is working fulltime, most have sidejobs.

Well, being a consultant and tester on an unsuccessful game will be even less valuable on your resume, you definitely need other skills.

It wasn't my fault, there was a huge setback because the game changed engines rather late in development. It went from Unity to Unreal and that fucked the whole product quite a lot.

I didn't say it was your fault.

The main tool for a racing game is the vehicle-making tool, right? Imagine making a game with a broken tool because it is mostly incompatible with the freaking Unreal engine.

It also does not matter that it isn't your fault, it is still less valuable on your resume, like it or not.

Have you ever found a game so broken that a joke object or similar becomes a major almost-OP weapon? Well, that's what's happening with Trials Rising and the freaking BMX.

Is Trials Rising supposed to be about motor bikes?

Exactly, an exaggerated version of the actual motorcycling discipline.

trials is supposed to be a super hard physics based motorcycle game

i havent really heard anything about rising cuz i havent given it any thought

Well, now you know that the BMX is sometimes the best vehicle you can have on the harder sections. 😂 It's funny but I hate it because I know that this is proof they failed at doing a good job.

Isn't there some terrain mountain bikes are good for that motor bikes aren't?

BMX trials exist in real life but they can't do the stuff the motorbike guys can.

Also, in the game, the BMX doesn't behave like it does in real life, it's basically a "superlight electric motorbike".

Oh that's right, this is trials stuff, you don't go through actual terrain.

The torque is perfectly smooth, it's a straight, no curve.

lol

No you've got it all wrong, that's just the gearing, SR-9009, Roids and other drugs.

And it weights so little you can do certain stuff a bit better. The only true weak points?
· Top speed, this makes it rather useless for the easier stuff and some HARD/EXTREME sections.
· The bounce after a hard landing is smaller than the one you get off the actual trials-like motorbike, which makes some obstacle harder to overcome.

The only true weak point is the top speed, the bounce is rarely a hardcore disadvantage.

They make up for it by giving the player character Testosterone, Meldonium, P7C3-S243 and SR-9009.

That's why he can generate so much torque so smoothly!

The game is a bit all over the place when it comes to creative direction. The game is set in the present-day and has a "realistic" presentation, the sections look like actual sporting events... except you have explosives, do-or-die jumps, movie-like moments and endings that would kill any rider.

lol

In the game before, Trials Fusion, all that was explained through a small plot that tied everything a bit. Your rider was not a "complete" human being but a clone and the AIs running the place were trying to create a utopia with the rider as the base. The sections in the game are "tests" to create a greater being.

One of the AIs literally tells you something like "stop using the RETRY button so often, you're depleting our reserves of biomass too quickly".

Some of the plastic/metal-looking "boxes" that you see by the side in some levels? They're coffins for the failed clones!

I hate 2019... http://youtu.be/yYtJuZVA59g

Clickbait thumbnail but it's a real thing

https://twitter.com/Studiofow/status/1109674482795532289

OMG, THE HYPE IS REAL!!!
I've earned a job interview to work in Ubisoft's Annecy studio, the one from STEEP. 😄

Nice

Ubisoft uses a 4-step hiring process:
· Offer
· Review
· Interview
· Final negotiation

I've completed 2, which are usually where 90% of possible employees are discarded.

I'm hyped because, even if I don't like the job and I only work for like 6-9 months, it'll still be really positive for me since it'll make me even more hireable for other studios.

What games does annecy make? @druiz

STEEP and, AFAIK, they're probably either making a sequel or another mountain sport-ish game.

It's Annecy, you got PLENTY of inspiration around it for mountain sports-based videogames.

35km south of Geneve in a straight line