Monthly Archives: July 2014

Do some Platform on ShootMania!

With the recent release of Maniaplanet 3 and the Universal Demo, you can now easily download and play for free to a great diversity of experiences.

For both Trackmania 2 and Shootmania, creators or players can easily share a setup to any player to install their favorite title. These titles can include new or customized maps, weapons, effects, moods, sounds, textures, gamemodes, map editor tools, ladder, replay editing, rankings etc.

And to showcase some of these new features, we are releasing a sample gamemode for Shootmania, called Platform. Platform, still in beta, is a mode where you must gather all the fuel and gold as quickly as possible by using your dexterity and skill to get the highest score. It has been designed to get you familiar with the various moves of Shootmania Storm in a simple solo experience before going online for battles on other titles of the same Universal Demo.

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The simple mode will stay fully free for the summer and can be downloaded from http://maniaplanet.com/shootmania/platform

For Steam users, you can access it by installing the Shootmania demo: http://store.steampowered.com/app/229870/

In addition, we are releasing the source of this Title Pack, in that way you’ll be able to understand how structure your own Pack or if you want only to grab some code or assets of it. Please go to the forum to download the sources and feel free to ask questions about the pack: http://maniapla.net/smplatformbetaforum

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The ShootMania Storm Universal Demo is released!

We’re happy to tell you that now it’s possible to play to ShootMania Storm for free from today with the Universal Demo!

We want that as many players as possible enjoy the ShootMania and the Maniaplanet experience at their best level. Which means that now you have access to the following features:

  • 3 multiplayer ranked modes: Battle, Elite & Siege

  • Full multiplayer experience (Nadeo and user-created gamemodes and Title Packs)

  • Access to all editors (Map, MediaTracker (Video), Actions & Weapons, Items)

  • Custom Titles: solo & multiplayer innovative modes

Several improvements have been made to ShootMania the last months like a better netcode, many tweaks of gameplay, new blocks. It’s also possible now to embed 3D objects in the maps of any title!(1)

All these features are available for free the first 48h for the environments you don’t own and then for an unlimited amount of time for titles with less than 100 concurrent players OR one hour per day otherwise. Download the setup on www.shootmania.com

While you can play for free, you have also the possibility to buy, through Uplay, the ShootMania website or Steam, ShootMania Storm to unlock several features such as:

  • Unlimited play

  • Allow you to customize your nickname, horn and your character (both skins and 3D models)

Have fun and see you soon on the servers!

 

(1) Following several limitations.

The TrackMania² Universal Demo is released!

We’re happy to tell you that now it’s possible to play TrackMania² games, including TrackMania² Canyon, TrackMania² Valley and TrackMania² Stadium, for free from today with the Universal Demo!

We want that as many players as possible enjoy the TrackMania² and the Maniaplanet experience at their best level. Which means that now you have access to the following features:

  • 45 white solo tracks

  • Access to the TrackMania² multi-environment title (Canyon + Valley + Stadium at the same time!)(1)

  • Full multiplayer experience (Nadeo and user-created gamemodes and Title Packs)

  • Access to all editors (Map, MediaTracker (Video), Actions & Weapons, Items)

  • Up to 3 user made solo & multiplayer experiences

Several improvements have been made to TrackMania² the last months like the ability to use the Stadium car in the Canyon or Valley environments as well as the Canyon & Valley cars in the environment of each other. It’s also possible now to embed 3D objects in the maps of any title!(2)

All these features are available for free the first 48h for the environments you don’t own and then for an unlimited amount of time for titles with less than 100 concurrent players OR one hour per day otherwise. Download the setup on www.trackmania.com

While you can play for free, you have also the possibility to buy, through Uplay, the TrackMania website or Steam, one or all the TrackMania² games to unlock several features such as:

  • Unlimited play

  • Access to all the tracks of the campaign of the TrackMania² games (for the ones you have paid) which represent 195 tracks in total!

  • Allow you to customize your nickname, horn and your car (both skins and 3D models)

Have fun and see you soon on the servers!

(1) You can load Canyon, Valley and Stadium tracks on the same server.

(2) Following several limitations.