Distance - A survival racing game with parkour cars! Pax East 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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all right guys I'm here at distance which is the spiritual successor to
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nitronic rush I've actually been following this game for a long time ever
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since it was a school project back at pxx Prime so what can you tell me uh
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what has your game become over that time so nitronic we released actually in back
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in 2011 um it was actually released on 1111 which was the same day as Skyrim uh
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ironically and but yeah and since then we've actually uh graduated from digipen
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and we've we formed a company called refract Studios and since then we've
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actually been working on distance and uh you know we actually did a Kickstarter
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for it uh last last year in Octo or two years ago in October and that went over
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really well and ever since we've been plugging away and primarily basically as
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a game it's a it's a what we're call a survival racing game and you actually
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have a a bunch of abilities as a car like boost jump and fly and you're
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trying to navigate like treasurous obstacles around the tracks um and yeah
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so today's actually this practice is our first uh time we're ever really showing
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it publicly and it's gone over really well so we're really happy with it uh
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we're going to be releasing the beta hopefully pretty soon and then uh yeah
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and we'll keep it going from there I'm actually really excited because as some
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of you guys know I used to be a huge fan of the really old NE for Speed games I
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used to love them but I've never really been into that many racers in general
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and ever since NE for Speed has gone completely in the trash in my opinion
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sorry if you like it but in my opinion um I've been looking for another racer
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and I've been really excited for this one cuz I have played it a few times now what can you tell me about the adventure
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mode which is a fairly new mode that you guys have introduced yeah so we're
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actually showing adventure mode for the first time here at pa um and basically
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what it is is kind of like a short story mode where you're like going through and
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you're learning how the the car Works you're learning the abilities you're kind of discovering the world and uh
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hopefully you'll see kind of a a short story unfold as you're doing that I'm
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sure that could help because this isn't necessarily a traditional racer you can
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like go parkour and get chopped in half but still be racing and flying and all
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that kind of stuff so I'm sure something of that could help a new person into the game how can someone get this game or
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get into the Beta so right now you can actually pre-order the beta at survive
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theed distance.com um we're going to be on Steam so we're we're releasing on
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Windows Mac and Linux uh and you know
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once the beta comes out then we'll we'll see uh we're looking into options of
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potentially doing Like An Early Access uh you know or or just waiting till the
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final game's done so yeah awesome thanks a lot if you want to see all the rest of
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