Glider Island — patch notes and updates
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Dated developer announcements recorded from Steam. Open the source for the complete update.
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| Thanks all for participating in prize givaways! Big news coming Q2 2020... | 2020-01-04 | December 2019 was the last month for Amazon Gift card prizes for Glider Island. Thanks for all the intense competition over the last 2 years! Without further to do, here are the final winners: The winners of the December Tournament are: 1st Place on Forest Island: chad_linton wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Forest Island: mrcheez wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Forest Island: TYLER13 wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! You can follow the leaderboards online here: https://5drealities.com/Leaderboards.aspx We also have some exciting news to be announcing Q2 2020 regarding a new iteration of this game where we will continue the prize givea |
| December 2019 last month for Tournament Prize Giveaways! | 2019-12-04 | This month of December will be the last month to win Amazon Gift Cards! It's been more then 2 years since Glider Island has been released, and unfortunately it's time to discontinue the prize giveaways. It's been a pleasure to see the top players compete for the prizes and in the future we might do the tournaments again in a future title! So make this last month count! The winners of the November Tournament are: 1st Place on Desert Island: chad_linton wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Desert Island: JRC_000 wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Desert Island: alex62mat wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! To claim your prize, take a screenshot o |
| October Tournament Winners! | 2019-11-06 | 1st Place on Volcano Island: mrcheez wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Volcano Island: chad_linton wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Volcano Island: danielebbejas wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identity and send it to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize! Good luck to you all next month! -Joey You can follow the leaderboards online here: http://www.5drealities.com/Leaderboards.aspx |
| August Tournament Winners! | 2019-09-16 | 1st Place on Desert Island: mrcheez wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Desert Island: chad_linton wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Desert Island: cmcosta81 wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identity and send it to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize! Good luck to you all next month! -Joey You can follow the leaderboards online here: http://www.5drealities.com/Leaderboards.aspx |
| June Tournament Winners | 2019-07-10 | 1st Place on Desert Island: mrcheez wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Desert Island: chad_linton wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Desert Island: BeerDone wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identity and send it to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize! Good luck to you all next month! -Joey You can follow the leaderboards online here: http://www.5drealities.com/Leaderboards.aspx |
| May Tournament Winners! | 2019-06-08 | 1st Place on Volcano Island: mrcheez wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Volcano Island: chad_linton wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Volcano Island: Voidflakes wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identity and send it to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize! Good luck to you all next month! -Joey You can follow the leaderboards online here: http://www.5drealities.com/Leaderboards.aspx |
| Update 1_16 and April Tournament Winners! | 2019-05-03 | Hey all, I just pushed out the remastered update! This updates includes a couple new scenery updates as well as some polished UI changes. This is mainly because Glider Island will be on the Oculus Store soon and I wanted to clean up some things before releasing there! You will now find a blimp on Volcano Island and a truck driving around Desert Island. This adds for a little extra challenge. As some of you know, before we had really big plans to update Glider Island with larger maps and all new scenery. But after working a month or so on this all new version we released it would be a completely different game, so we are going to included thos |
| March Tournament Winners! | 2019-04-05 | 1st Place on Desert Island: chad_linton wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Desert Island: mrcheez wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Desert Island: Roadglide 15 wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identity and send it to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize! Good luck to you all next month! -Joey You can follow the leaderboards online here: http://www.5drealities.com/Leaderboards.aspx |
| February Tournament Winners! | 2019-03-06 | 1st Place on Volcano Island: chad_linton wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Volcano Island: mrcheez wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Volcano Island: cmcosta81 wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identity and send it to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize! Good luck to you all next month! -Joey You can follow the leaderboards online here: http://www.5drealities.com/Leaderboards.aspx |
| Update 1.13 | 2019-02-19 | Hey guys, just released an update to the game that will change up gameplay some... I decided to make the gravity less strong. After watching people play in the arcades they had a hard time keeping airborne, and was a bit too hard for beginners. This will make it easier to get through the map, and speed up the times for the experts at the game. Added a warning reminder to "Press Triggers For Rocket Booster" if the user get too slow. Made some performance tweaks that hopefully will improve framerate some. |
| January Tournament Winners | 2019-02-07 | 1st Place on Forest Island: mrcheez wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Forest Island: chad_linton wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Forest Island: cmcosta81 wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identity to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize. Good luck to you all next month! P.S. Lots of work being done on Glider Island Remastered! You will be all blown away with the new scenery we are working on ;) -Joey You can follow the leaderboards online here: http://www.5drealities.com/Leaderboards.aspx |
| December Tournament Winners! | 2019-01-02 | 1st Place on Desert Island: mrcheez wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Desert Island: DLrd wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Desert Island: Mr.VR wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identiity to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize. Good luck to you all next month! -Joey You can follow the leaderboards online here: http://www.5drealities.com/Leaderboards.aspx |
| November Tournament Winners! | 2018-12-04 | 1st Place on Volcano Island: mrcheez wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Volcano Island: Viper wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Volcano Island: Mr.VR 2 wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identiity to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize. Good luck to you all next month! -Joey You can follow the leaderboards online here: http://www.5drealities.com/Leaderboards.aspx |
| October Tournament Winners and Update | 2018-11-05 | 1st Place on Forest Island: Viper wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Forest Island: ArcticSunVRBayD wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Forest Island: mllarine22 wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identiity to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize. Good luck to you all next month! -Joey You can follow the leaderboards online here: http://www.5drealities.com/Leaderboards.aspx Game Update: -Add new cinematic camera when starting a level. -Updated 5D Realities logo. -Tweaked flight physics to have more gravity pulling down when sl |
| September Tournament Winners! | 2018-10-05 | 1st Place on Forest Island: FiorinoM40B wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Forest Island: anic_dm wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Forest Island: aboogieman wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identiity to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize. Good luck to you all next month! -Joey You can follow the leaderboards online here: http://5drealities.com/Leaderboards/Home/Steam/GliderIsland.aspx |
| August Tournament Winners! | 2018-09-03 | 1st Place on Desert Island: FiorinoM40B wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Desert Island: cmcosta81 wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Desert Island: tool8now wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! Thanks all for playing Glider Island! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identiity to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize. Good luck to you all next month! You can follow the leaderboards here: http://5drealities.com/Leaderboards/Home/Steam/GliderIsland.aspx |
| July Tournament Winners! | 2018-08-02 | 1st Place on Volcano Island: FiorinoM40B wins $15 Amazon Gift Card! 2nd place on Volcano Island: cmcosta81 wins $10 Amazon Gift Card! 3rd place on Volcano Island: Se7en wins $5 Amazon Gift Card! Thanks all for playing Glider Island! To claim your prize, take a screenshot of your steam username within Glider Island to verify your identiity to joeysipos@5drealities.com and I will send you your prize. Good luck to you all next month! |
| June Tournament Winners! | 2018-07-05 | EDIT: I accidentally posted the scores for Forest Island and not Volcano Island! My bad. Corrections below: Congrats to these pilots who have won!: $15 Amazon Gift Card: FiorinoM40B $10 Amazon Gift Card: mrcheez $5 Amazon Gift Card: clinamen To claim your prize please take a screenshot of your username on the level select screen and send an email to joeysipos@5Drealities.com |
| May Tournamnet Winners! | 2018-06-03 | Congrats to these awesome pilots: $15 Amazon Gift Card: =7Cav=PFC.Fiorino.M $10 Amazon Gift Card: mrcheez $5 Amazon Gift Card: clinamen To claim your prize please take a screenshot of your username on the level select screen and send an email to joeysipos@5Drealities.com June prize details to be posted on the 7th of June. |
| Update 1.11 | 2018-05-09 | Quick update here: New shape to the hoops! Updated flight physics so initial glide speed with out boosters is slower but increased the booster strength. So you can actually get going pretty fast with the boosters now! But note, there is also more drag, so you can go much faster but you will also slow down faster. Removed the option for basic controls since the advanced controls are working pretty well now. Enjoy, -Joey |
| April Tournament Winners! | 2018-05-05 | The April Tournament Winners are: $25 Amazon gift card: mrcheez with a score of 420.4 $15 Amazon gift card: Se7en with a score of 417 $5 Amazon gift card: clinamen with a score of 415.2 Congrats to the winners! To collect your prizes please email joeysipos@5Drealities.com with a screenshot of your Steam username and a gift card will soon be sent to you! May tournament details to be posted May 10th, 2018 |
| April Prize Giveaway Details! | 2018-04-10 | 1st place Desert Island $25 USD Amazon Gift Card 2nd place Desert Island $15 USD Amazon Gift Card 3rd place Desert Island $5 USD Amazon Gift Card Good luck! Tournament ends April 31st 24:00 UTC Time. For the latest Glider Island VR news be sure to follow: Facebook: @GliderIslandVR Twitter: @5DRealities |
| April Prize Giveaway Details! | 2018-04-10 | 1st place Desert Island $25 USD Amazon Gift Card 2nd place Desert Island $15 USD Amazon Gift Card 3rd place Desert Island $5 USD Amazon Gift Card Good luck! Tournament ends April 31st 24:00 UTC Time. For the latest Glider Island VR news be sure to follow: Facebook: @GliderIslandVR Twitter: @5DRealities |
| March Tournament Winners! | 2018-04-03 | $25 Amazon Gift Card: mrcheez with a score of 397.1 $15 Amazon Gift Card: Se7en with a score of 394.7 $5 Amazon Gift Card: clinamen with a score of 386.4 $5 Amazon Gift Card: aboogieman with a score of 369.3 $5 Amazon Gift Card: Dogabix with a score of 266 2 Free Steam Keys: joeysipos with a score of 157 1 Free Steam Key: kenundrum with a score of 155 To collect your prize, please send a screenshot of your Steam username in Glider Island to joeysipos@5DRealities.com to verify your identity. April prize info coming April 7th! |
| March Tournament Winners! | 2018-04-03 | $25 Amazon Gift Card: mrcheez with a score of 397.1 $15 Amazon Gift Card: Se7en with a score of 394.7 $5 Amazon Gift Card: clinamen with a score of 386.4 $5 Amazon Gift Card: aboogieman with a score of 369.3 $5 Amazon Gift Card: Dogabix with a score of 266 2 Free Steam Keys: joeysipos with a score of 157 1 Free Steam Key: kenundrum with a score of 155 To collect your prize, please send a screenshot of your Steam username in Glider Island to joeysipos@5DRealities.com to verify your identity. April prize info coming April 7th! |
| Track your score online! Leaderboards Now on Website. | 2018-03-23 | Hi all! You are now able to keep track of your scores online so you don't have to open the game all the time. We are currently updating the 5D Realities website and it is still in beta, but if you follow the URL bellow it will take to you to the new site! Be sure to bookmark it! It also should display nicely on your mobile device: http://5drealities.com/Leaderboards/Home/Steam/GliderIsland.aspx |
| Track your score online! Leaderboards Now on Website. | 2018-03-23 | Hi all! You are now able to keep track of your scores online so you don't have to open the game all the time. We are currently updating the 5D Realities website and it is still in beta, but if you follow the URL bellow it will take to you to the new site! Be sure to bookmark it! It also should display nicely on your mobile device: http://5drealities.com/Leaderboards/Home/Steam/GliderIsland.aspx |
| March Tournament Prize Details and Update 1.9 with Eagles! | 2018-03-11 | Ok, so finally got the latest update out! I will highlight the changes below but you can view the Dev Log I posted on YouTube We have decided to make the Steam tournaments and Viveport tournaments separate, just because the time difference it takes to get a new build approved on VivePort. We don't want two different versions of the game running at the same time. So each platform will have their own prizes. So it's time to announce the prize details for the March Steam Tournament! The top 7 people will receive a prize... This is the most prizes given out in one month so far! ;) 1st place Forest Island: $25 Amazon Gift Card. 2nd place Forest Is |
| March Tournament Prize Details and Update 1.9 with Eagles! | 2018-03-11 | Ok, so finally got the latest update out! I will highlight the changes below but you can view the Dev Log I posted on YouTube We have decided to make the Steam tournaments and Viveport tournaments separate, just because the time difference it takes to get a new build approved on VivePort. We don't want two different versions of the game running at the same time. So each platform will have their own prizes. So it's time to announce the prize details for the March Steam Tournament! The top 7 people will receive a prize... This is the most prizes given out in one month so far! ;) 1st place Forest Island: $25 Amazon Gift Card. 2nd place Forest Is |
| March Tournament Update - coming very soon! | 2018-03-08 | Hi all! Joey here. I am working on a new update and need a couple more days to work all the bugs out before posting it. And as soon as I post the update I will post the prize details. The update should be out around March 10th! Also, the tournament will take place on Forest Island this month! More to come soon! -Thanks! -Joey |