Dec 18th - Race/Ghost Links Functional!

Hey All,

Next week the office will be relatively quiet so we are making a push to get race/ghost link full support out. Right now we have it so that if you know the link and type it in you can load another players ghost without any of the supporting UI to clarify that a ghost is loaded. We will hopefully get some UI to make this clear per track in this week as well as making it functional on mobile, right now it will only work for desktop!

Until we get the ghost sharing UI in, you can link to your ghosts by appending /r/username to the end of the track link you have a ghost for.

Check out my ghost + a ghost loaded up with multiple tracks! The multiple races is pretty cool if I do say so myself. Let us know if ghost links are useful or any other feedback.

http://www.freeriderhd.com/t/9919-star-wars1/r/eric

http://www.freeriderhd.com/t/1412-d.../unicorn89/brut/ira/eric/mrmisterhart/rhyno14

For ghosts don't forget you can "tab" to change camera focus.

 

Well today was a busy day! We released 2 new features today:

1. Notification Settings - right now we only have the one notification when you are passed on a top 10 track leaderboard and are currently not sending out emails. As we add more notifications we will add the ability to disable/enable.
2. Race challenge link sharing! I announced the ability to link ghosts this morning but with some head down coding Char was able to crack out the UI quicker than expected so we released that late today. We are still missing some functionality for mobile which we will be working on tomorrow most likely. If you have completed a track, clicking the new checkered flag icon by the share icon under the game will bring up your race link with options to share. We will be looking to expand on this with notifications when someone beats your ghost head to head, right now it will just give you the ability to share your best ghost externally.

 

I like you am getting a ton of notifications but unlike you I have completed +100 tracks. Since there are +10k tracks on FRHD with lots of room on the track leaderboards, if you are the first person to complete a track you are setting yourself up for potentially 10 notifications. Right now the flood of notifications in part is a symptom of being an early adopter so it is tough to say how big of an issue it will be once the leaderboards all get filled with top times. I do agree that there could be some tuning to filter out repeat passes but not sure how much time to spend on it until we get more realistic behaviour to make a decision on.

For authors specifically we are definitely interested in putting in notifications around likes, comments, etc and is something we will be doing once we get going on the creator.

 

Individual track notification settings may be possible, would just require more settings. If you knew the place you were bumped too would that help?

Like: "Eric just passed your high score in Twisting Nether 2, you are now #2!"