Hi All,

We apologize for the long delay since the last update or news. Our other game we're in the middle of releasing, Figurine Scene Simulator fell behind schedule and we had to focus everything on finishing its first early access release.

Once we release Figurine Scene Simulator, we will be finishing our big update for Ambient Channels.

Core Game Updates Include:

• Faster Game Loading - Reduces the initial game load time by around 75%.
  
• Modular DLC - Currently all of our game content is packaged in the core download which is challenging to scale, the Modular DLC update will move the download process to allow you to choose which episodes you want to download through the UI.
  
• New Scenes - we have about a dozen new episodes with camera fly throughs to add.
  
• Figurine Scene Simulator Integration - If you have Figurine Scene Simulator (FSS) installed, you'll be able to import your characters to put on pre-determined waypoint paths. While moving on the paths, your FSS characters can playback animations you saved to them.
  
• Media Capture Features - Figurine Scene Simulator includes several new media features, including setting LUTs, picture frames, gif recording, and more. We will be bringing those features to Ambient Channels.

Editor DLC Update

• Waypoint editor - The first feature available for players with the Editor DLC will allow them to place waypoint paths for FSS characters. The full feature will include the ability to package multiple waypoint paths in an episode as well as pre-select FSS characters to use for those paths to create themes (such as zombies roaming the parking garage) and then the episode packages can be uploaded to the workshop to share with others.

We will communicate soon on what our release strategy will be for all these features.

Thanks for your patience!

Arcade Player '99

Hi All,

We're looking at making a fairly big pricing structure change and wanted to provide an opportunity for anyone who'd like to comment. (At the least, we'd like to be transparent.)

We're currently considering making 90% of episodes free for the different ambiance modes. The 10% that wouldn't be free would usually be due to mature content such as violence/gore or a specific artist spotlight where we're splitting revenue with that episode's artists.

We would add a new fairly-low priced DLC that would provide the game modes to any episodes you'd have access to, so in this case, most people would spend the same on this DLC as purchasing 3-4 episodes and have access to the 90% of the content without paying anything else to be able to play all the current and future game modes including the multiplayer ones.

There would also a new moderately priced DLC that would unlock a new editing mode we're putting on our near-term roadmap. This editing mode will allow you to load a set of assets from one of the episodes you have access to and build an episode from scratch or start from an existing episode's scene and make changes to it. (The editing mode roadmap includes being able to setup your own hidden object games, camera fly throughs and sharing scenes through the workshop so you can share your scenes with others and be able to play the multiplayer experiences in your custom designed scenes.)

There will continue to be the few rotating episodes available like now with the ability to play all of their game modes and multiplayer functionality.

We want to make this change because we're looking at making the editor mode an important aspect of Ambient Channels and we want to come up with a pricing model that allows a wide amount of the audience to have access to the custom content created by others.

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If you like the concept, please thumbs up this announcement, or add to the discussion if you have more to say.

(Notes:
Not all scenes are modular, but when you can't edit the entirety of a scene, you'll usually be able to move/place props within the scene.

At the time of making these changes, we're going to work with Steam to have them give the new game mode DLC to anyone who's purchased any of the 90% of episodes which will now be free to access.)

Thanks for your time!

-Simulated Entertainment