hey all -- super excited to announce that AUTOGRAV is now live at the wonderville.nyc arcade in brooklyn! you can find it running across from the bar, complete with a 6 key remote for changing the channel on your favorite pilots & stats.

the install features a custom 'kiosk' edition of AUTOGRAV, tuned for 24/7 around the clock hands-off viewing. while putting it together, I found and captured a couple of rare bugs, and plugged a memory leak or two so that you can run the loop even more infinitely than before. it's all in the changelog below -- the dot zero one patch is now the default download on the main page. cheers and happy new year!

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special thanks to:

• Jonah Senzel (for inspiring me to go physical, and for drawing a sign)
• Mark Kleeb (for making it happen, saving the day, and generally being awesome)
• Daniel Zhang (for doing all the hard work on the v1 install hardware, and much more)

you may have noticed AUTOGRAV at wonderville before, and indeed it has been up for a decent chunk of time already -- kinda old news for some (oops)! my only excuse is that I've had my head down working on a little something something to develop this project further... 👀❗ stay tuned for more.

full changelog:

• increased the log timeout to two minutes
• fixed bug where keyboard + mouse posture changes (left control, space) snap to extremes when no controller is connected
• fixed rare fatal freeze that occurred occasionally when a pilot leaves the loop while the player is watching
• fixed rare fatal freeze that occurred when a non racer leaves the loop with a camera
• invite a pilot to the loop immediately if there are zero racers present (this is preventative and has never been observed, as far as I know)
• despawn flares after one hour (pretty unhappy about this -- I prefer the endless accumulation of trash. but we'll stick with it for now)
• fixed small internal memory leak