On September 1, Auto Fire was demoed at the Seattle Indies Expo, a companion exhibition that took place near PAX West in Seattle.  It was an exciting time and an exciting place to be, where 25 local game developers showed their stuff in a chill environment where players could interact directly with creators.  

The good news for those of you who didn't make it out there is that there are a ton of updates that came in to make that demo play well, and you can now check them out!

Fame 

• Made changeover of interactions in the direction of social media to start to push the build-your-following gameplay.
• Fame is now "likes" and bosses now have their own followers that reflect their level of fame.
• Dialogue is now flavored as a chat/twitter interface.  More of this to come.
• A media drone can now follow the player and take shots of their kills for extra fame.  The specific drone loadout slot is coming soon.

Gamepad and Controls

• Revised gamepad controls!  A button drives, B button brakes, B button enters location.
• D-Pad will aim vehicle weapons if not in targeting mode.
• You can now select all squares with the cursor keys or gamepad when the vehicle is aiming diagonally (it had "the bishop's limitation" before this)
• Improved the inventory and loadout to better work with keyboard and gamepad.  There still is a bug with the gamepad if you have a lot of items when loading out.
• Gamepad buttons have cooldowns before auto-repeat.
• Gamepad move marker now renders through the world if you are controlling next to a wall.

UI and Presentation

• The speedometer is now centered onscreen, and the boost key is hinted when the player reaches the 40 mph "safe" speed.
• Resources have been moved to the right side, and the armor is now in the lower-left, making for a less-cluttered interface.
• Icons now fly to their locations onscreen with some more panache.
• Easier to buy and sell in the store.
• Loadout popup is easier to use.
• Gamepad buttons are now prompted, and are put up instead of key tips if the gamepad is currently in use.
• New key art is used for the title and loading screen.
• Fixed some sounds in the store.
• Cleaned up the targeting panel somewhat.
• Tutorial dialogue and loading screen hints now include some gamepad hints.
• Armor panel now uses an alternate visual
• Offscreen objective pointer now pulses and shows over more UI elements.

Content

• There is an invisible, harmless barrier behind the exit square on terrain maps.  This keeps players from moving "past".
• Loot drops now include a large variety of new drops, including some weapons with modifiers (such as high-density machineguns).
• New levels of tires, armor, ram plates were all created.
• The multi-rocket damage was brought down significantly, it was pretty silly.
• Adjusted the price of repairs (chassis costs twice as much, armor costs half as much) and gas.
• Large cities (the 5x5 ones) no longer generate in the overworld.  They were cool but just stupidly complicated to get through.
• Fixed some agent names so that females don't get stuck with a male surname that looks like a first name.
• Fixed some bad results from the procedural boss quotes.

You can download the newest gameplay (linked below) or check out this quick video showing some of the revised gameplay/gamepad experience: