Hello everyone!

We're now developing Flowstorm again!
I'll be streaming development of Flowstorm here: http://www.twitch.tv/acegikm0

(Including now at the time of this announcement, feel free to join in!)

After the Kickstarter failed, we wanted to relaunch it, but ultimately, when the first Kickstarter failed, we lost our motivation to continue completely. We also had to find jobs again in order to survive, so we started freelancing both of us.
During the freelance time, we saw an opportunity, and started developing Shader Forge - a plugin for the Unity game engine, which we're currently selling in the Unity asset store. Luckily, Shader Forge has been very successful! We started getting money into the company to the point where we're now in a position where we can work on our own projects near-full-time!

We do apologize for the time it took for this to happen, but a lot has happened for us at Neat Corporation! It's still just Jenny and I, but this time, we've got a ton of experience and contacts in the industry throughout various events such as Unite and GDC!

We're rewriting Flowstorm from scratch!
Why?
The old code is an awful mishmash back when I didn't know all that much about Unity. Today, I'm much more fluent in it.

• Less bugs
  
• More stability
  
• Better optimized
  
• Easier to add new features with a clean codebase
  
• Multiplayer support has to be done from the beginning
  
• We're both better and faster developers
  
• We have the time/money

So far, in about 4 days, the splines and the whole mesh generation system is about 95% finished, something that took about 3-4 months back then, and it's already much more optimized.


The game will simply be better in every which way. There are a few things we're doing different this time around, most of it outside the game.

Apart from everything that will be better, as outlined above, we'll also cut a few things in order to give us more time to focus on developing Flowstorm itself:

• No account system - in favor of Steam accounts
  
• No level center on the website - in favor of the Steam Workshop
  
• No more forums on the website - in favor of the Steam forums
  
• No webplayer version

In addition, we'll be spending less time on updates/marketing, we'll now mostly be here:
Twitch (for streaming development)[www.twitch.tv]
Twitter (Jenny)
Twitter (Joachim)


Thank you for reading, and a big thanks for your patience throughout these last couple of years.

Let's do this!

// Joachim

Hello!

We've worked incredibly hard for this release, and now it's finally here!

The game and website has gotten a huge update, and we're now, after months of planning and hard work, finally on Kickstarter! Woo! \ o/

Play Alpha 4 here: http://www.flowstormgame.com/
Kickstarter here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/740665854/flowstorm

*Runs around in circles*

// Joachim & Jenny

Hello!

If you're near Stockholm, Sweden, you can meet us two this saturday (3 Nov) at Gamex 2012, in the FutureGames booth, where you can ask us almost anything! We'll also have the standalone up and running for those who want to try out the game and/or the editor!

Also, the aforementioned statistics:
http://flowstormgame.com/images/flowstorm_histogram_levels_alpha3.jpg

Standalone alpha 3 is now sent out to the top 10 players of each scoreboard!

With this, we also want to announce that two community made levels will be included in the next Web Alpha! Happy level designing, everyone who got Standalone Alpha 3! :D

Check out this very large countdown timer: {LINK REMOVED}http://bit.ly/QfML9c

Make sure you're in the blue top 10 by then to secure standalone access :D
Until then, let's hang out in the Steam group chat!