I love me some behind the scenes action, I don’t care if it’s movies, music or video games. Peering behind the curtain still gets me excited every damn time and Refract Studios is giving you just that with part 1 of this mini-documentary they put together for their latest game Distance.
Right from the get go I love these guys, they have a Distance sitdown style arcade cabinet in the office, which means they are serious about arcade style racing. There’s also an original PlayStation and NES tucked neatly in the corner of the room, you have to know your roots if you’re going to move forward. Finally there’s footage of the build up from their student game which eventually turned into megahit Nitronic Rush. See how the team built on early prototypes to come up with what Distance is today by checking out the video above.
Source Link: YouTube | http://survivethedistance.com/
PRESS RELEASE
Mini-documentary reveals early prototypes and designs for survival racers Distance and Nitronic Rush
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 12, 2014 – Refract has just released the first part of a new mini-documentary covering the past, present, and future of their upcoming survival racing game Distance. In part 1, never-before-seen prototypes and interviews are revealed as the team describes the experience of taking an award-winning student racing game and launching the development of its full-fledged spiritual successor.
Watch the mini-documentary here: http://youtu.be/KFFxvob2R-o
Nitronic Rush is a futuristic arcade racing student game developed by members of Refract while attending DigiPen Institute of Technology. Three years ago it was released for free on PC on 11/11/11, and since then it’s been downloaded over 3 million times and earned awards in the 2012 Indie Game Challenge, 2011 Inside Gaming Awards, and others.
Distance is the spiritual successor to Nitronic Rush. It’s a survival racing game where the action of arcade racing is fused with the exploration of a mysterious world. You control a unique car that allows you to boost, jump, rotate, and even fly through a chaotic city. The private beta released to Kickstarter backers currently features a short single player campaign, as well as additional split-screen and online multiplayer modes such as Sprint, Reverse Tag, Stunt, and Soccer. It also includes a powerful level editor which is connected to Steam Workshop.
Distance will be available on Steam Early Access this fall (i.e. early December). You can pre-order the public beta (Early Access) release of Distance and get instant access to behind-the-scenes updates! Learn more at:http://survivethedistance.com
More details can be found in the latest Kickstarter update for Distance:http://kck.st/1pPpNeC
About Refract Studios
Founded in 2012, Refract is a small Seattle-based independent video game developer. The studio was formed from developers behind several experimental, award-winning projects like Solace (IGF 2011, IndieCade 2010, PAX10 2010), Nitronic Rush (Inside Gaming Awards 2011, Indie Game Challenge 2012, Independent Propeller Awards 2012), Solstice (Sense of Wonder Night 2011, hóPLAY 2012), and others created while attending DigiPen Institute of Technology.
The team is currently developing a futuristic arcade racer called Distance as a spiritual successor to their hit student PC racing game Nitronic Rush. It was successfully Kickstarted in 2012 at over $161,000 and in early 2013 it was the first racing game to be Greenlit on Steam. Distance was also recently selected to be shown at both PAX East and PAX Prime with Indie MEGABOOTH.
Contact Info / Assets
Team contact info, social media links, and images/video of Distance (press kit):http://refractstudios.com/press
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