[h2]Episode 2 - Postcards from Sweden [/h2][i]by Hoffa[/i] [b]2017 - Unity [/b] While I was busy with IRL stuff & working at a casino game studio in Stockholm, Aftokinito decided to try and take the mod to the next level and build a standalone game from it. We talked a lot about doing this because of the feedback and response we got from the community, Clearly we had some resemblance of a fun game concept on our hands. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34634199/74b9763e9a95179ac4cac6478665fd156db0f465.jpg[/img] The problem with Unity was their Entity Component System and Network Library Unet. It was not built for this type of game. In fact it was so bad that Aftokinito ended up developing DuneNet, a replacement library for Unet just to handle the multiplayer functionality. Since this was a project with about $0 budget finishing it was far away and while progress was being made it proved too much for one person to handle. Afto and I aren't particularly good at 3D Art which further complicated things. [b]2018 - Intermission[/b] This was the year where not much happened on Rust Racers, but Nethash was started and by the end of the year Aftokinito was hired as the CTO to handle all the things I personally hate dealing with, which coincidentally, he loves working on. Around the same time the Boden Municipality started investing heavily in building up a game development cluster in the region and we saw tons of opportunities relating to game dev arise so by the end of the year going back to game development became more and more alluring compared to babysitting GPU clusters. [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34634199/93ea6fe49981b146c0e8a638cd40f08672fc2aef.jpg[/img] [i]Someone should make a game set in Boden Railway Station [/i] [i]Tune in for the next episode where we take a look at what 2019 when Rust Racers really starts to grow its legs...wheels?[/i] [img]{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/34634199/5cf8db474006c067e84fb47e4d1d340fdb8cf3ac.jpg[/img] [b]Want to be part of the Rust Racers journey? [/b] 🏎️ Wishlist Rust Racers -> http://store.steampowered.com/app/1044060/Rust_Racers 🏎️ [url=https://discord.gg/hE6zkD]Join our discord server[/url] and get exclusive access to betas and other special content. // Hoffa @ [url=https://nethash.se/]Nethash Games[/url]