from the ShapeVS team
It’s been a little while but here with a brand new update and reveal. But that’s because we have been working on some big updates to ShapeVS and now it’s finally time to share them all with you. Before we move on to the reveal let’s give some backstory to what spurred this decision.
“The identity of ShapeVS”
For a long time, the “identity” of ShapeVS is something that we have really struggled with and it caused issues that ranged from keeping track of things during gameplay to audio. It was something that we really needed to nail down.
This proved to be a constant battle for the team, finding something that we can solely identify as ShapeVS that still showed everything we needed it to such as players and valuable game information. Feedback sessions were really positive about gameplay but a lot of you agreed the game needed an identifying factor to it.
Well, guess what, we put our collective brains together and came up with the new ShapeVS.
“For the betterment of society”
Revealed at the Tas Game Makers Discord Showcase on Friday the 29th of October, we showed our brand new approach to ShapeVS.
ShapeVS is now the official testing program for acceptance into a future society where your adaptability, attitude and skills will determine your future. Inspired by totalitarian movies such as V for Vendetta and Equilibrium (watch it, seriously) as well as old operating systems from 80’s action films and more, ShapeVS now has a clearer identity which has allowed us to streamline a lot of what we believed the game was missing.
“What a world we live in”
We have been able to add flavour text, win quotes and much more to multiple parts of the game that have seen really positive interactions with players and within the studio alone. So moving forward we are hoping to have a more streamlined update system but for now, look forward to committing yourself to society.