Gaming: Creators Of Rain World Were Tired Of Making Something So...

It's like if F-Zero broke up the races so you could have Smash Bros. brawls.

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Airframe Ultra is looking to be the good kind of multiplayer game: No engagement hacking or battle passes⁠—you pay once, but it has lasting value and, depending on its success at launch, dev support. There's no ranked play, but it's still a game with competitive depth and mechanics to master.

When I sat down to play it with developers from Videocult and staff from publisher Akupara Games, they made it clear that having as little in the way between the start menu and the beginning of a race was a development priority.

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