DEV BLOG #001 Greetings Citizens, It has been just over a year since you helped successfully kick start Identity into existence! We want to thank you all for your continued support by providing you all with regular updates following the development process for Identity. Engaging with our community is one of the best ways we can show our thanks, and a development blog is a perfect opportunity for us to bring you along for the ride. As you’ve seen throughout the past year, there is no game out there that is quite like Identity, and through your support, you have proven to us that Identity is a vision worth turning into a reality! Feedback has shown us that you all really appreciate our attempts to respond to virtually every question we receive on social media. Twitter and Facebook have been a huge boost in exposure for Identity, and so it is time we begin to explore other avenues of exposure to help our community understand a bit more about the game. In the coming months, our fans will see their first glimpse of gameplay for Identity! We are all extremely excited to show off our first gameplay video, which will fully explore the mechanics of apartment and housing customization. With this video, you will see that we have stayed true to our original art direction from the original Kickstarter trailer, while maintaining high standards in realistic lighting and graphics. We can safely say that we have improved many of the areas of our design that needed attention since February last year. Apartment & Housing Customization Apartments and houses within Identity will have a fully customizable interior. You will be able to change the wall paper on every wall in every room, place furniture anywhere there is space on the ground, swap out doors, windows, baseboards, crown moulding, and even wainscoting! We have made no compromise to the level of detail in which you can customize your apartments or homes, in order to truly express your sense of home decor. With this level of control, there is virtually no chance that the interior of two homes will ever look alike. There will be hundreds of furniture items available to purchase in-game in every style and design, from traditional to contemporary. Furniture in Identity can even be crafted, sold, or traded to other players, and those who wish to try their hand at crafting hand-made furniture from a variety of materials can place a crafting table anywhere they wish inside their homes! And if you wish to share your space with a partner, friend, or even a group of friends, homes and apartments will be available for sale throughout the world that support multiple roommates depending the size of the space and how many bedrooms are available. The home-owner may even grant build permissions to any number of roommates, even visitors, to help them decorate their living space. When you are finished, invite your friends over to compliment you on your interior decorating skills! If you’re anything like us, we know you will spend more time cleaning up this virtual home than you do your real one! Radio This week, our team has also placed a lot of our development efforts into building a functioning radio system that will allow you to listen to your favorite real-world radio stations through placed radio objects inside your virtual home, or car! Yes, you can flip through the channels in your car radio, which will also broadcast to the immediate area outside your car. Imagine driving down the street and having everyone you pass know you listen to NSYNC! One other major part of this feature that we are excited to tell you about is player operated talk-shows which you can personally host, or tune-in and listen to, from your car radio or home. The way we currently have this planned out for hosts, is to have actual physical broadcast stations on the map that you can enter as a player and begin hosting your own radio talk-show. Player’s listening from their car or home can browse a list of channels currently being hosted at that very moment, and listen to you live, talking about government conspiracies and UFO’s! We are really hoping that this feature will have a major social impact for Identity. Like you, we see a lot of potential in something like this for budding stars within the community. We would absolutely love to see many of you sprout a career that started in a game we developed, and ended with us listening to your lovely voice on our actual car radio! The Town Square (Social Module) Many of you already know of, and are eagerly anticipating the release of the planned “Town Square” module that is currently still in production. While we can’t give you an exact date on when that will be ready, progress is steady, and we are as excited as you are to meet you all for the first time in a virtual environment. You may already be aware that Identity is largely influenced by a landmass in the south-eastern portion of the United States. The Town Square itself is only a small portion of a larger city built into the final version of Identity called Ash Hill, a reference to Asheville, North Carolina where we had originally planned to move Asylum’s office. We picked this area of the world particularly because it offered a wide range of geographical variance. The transition between Identity’s mix of biomes needed to feel natural, and this area offered most of what we had been looking for. As for the other cities in Identity, their influences may become more clear to you now. Myrtle Beach is obviously Turtle Beach in Identity, and Roseport is less subtle, but a mix between Atlanta and New York City. When we first started, we kept everything, including the structures and world props level to the ground, a mistake we have since corrected. We quickly realized that cities are rarely ever flat, and knew that setting that precedent now would benefit Identity in the future. The next time you see The Town Square module, we are confident that you will notice the difference compared to earlier screenshots, what such a small transformation makes for immersion in a game environment. Moving Forward We want to thank our community for being so patient with us. Over the course of the past year, we’ve seen many work-in-progress screenshots of assets destined for Identity, and while we believe they serve as a sample of the work we have already put into the game, we know that many of you are still anxious to see video. Our current priority is to get things ready to show off, or more specifically, the housing/apartment customization first. We are convinced that many of you will appreciate the time and effort we have put into this feature, so that you will be able to fully express yourself through your character and virtual home. We know we’ve been pretty quiet this past year, and the criticism we’ve heard from our fans on that through social media and the forums have not fallen on deaf ears! We will start to release regular updates through development blogs and continue to find new ways to interact with our community, to show you our gratitude for your support. You yourself can become more involved by contributing to the discussion with your ideas at www.identityrpg.com/community. We’ll see you there, and thank you again! Always remember that we are gamers too and we are as excited as you are to play Identity at launch!

reading the devblog be like....

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Once I finished reading it...

You will most likely be able to change weight and height. Hair length, not so sure. You might just have a selection of different hair styles to chose from. Muscle i have no clue. To be honest id prefer not to have a muscle slider as i think it would be better for people to work for their muscle and not just turn up in game with the biggest muscles.

Underground Racing would like to invite you all to our first modified meetup. The game is set to hopefully release in early 2017, but it will probably be a few months after that that this meetup will take place. So, if you have a modified beast or have a love for cars, then come join us at the official Underground Modified Meetup! More info released closer to date of meetup. Prices: $30 entry. $20 to those who hold an official Underground Membership. The Underground Membership: This membership can be acquired by any high ranking members of the Underground team. It entitles you to discounts in our races, meetups and at our famous chop shop. It also means that you can attend any of our meetups without having to fill out our form, instead just put your name down and your in. To get your spot at our meetup, visit our events page and click the Join In button to fill out a small form so we know you are coming. Events (I know its really early but Underground has been discussing meetups for a while now and we wanted to be the first...plus i also got bored)

So as you may have noticed i have been using photoshop quite a bit I have made a new picture for the Underground Chop Shop which features a logo that ill most like use as it came out quite well. Now im no guru at photoshop, this is just me having fun but if anyone would like anything for their business or something just let me know and ill try my best to do something Always happy to try new things I can also make forum signatures for anyone that wants one. Just PM me with details about what you want and ill get on it!

So I've been wondering if there are any other proper crime families. Seems right now like it's just the Marianos and maybe the Roseport Mafia. Of course, the Mariano Crime Family is accepting members, but we don't just let anyone in. Message me if you're interested and believe you have what it takes. Anyway, it would be good to see some more real crime families emerging.

I have to have something to be a guess around urban supernatural with not like school life which will transform it into a boring thing but something with the mixture of Mirai Nikki ( the reason of it all due to that epic game) a hint of tokyo ghoul art, and I guess the rest is up to me. I will not make a character OP of course character development is important but there must be source of it all. Not something right off the bat, but development. I wonder, I wonder, whom shall I pick, the green or the red of the apple tree.

See you guys there, hope you like my Nissan 370z tires because after the meet they're done -Arianne

I know there is gonna be no exact time for you to do your job but it would be cool if there would be a day and night cycle and it balanced so it doesnt pass to quickly or its not to long if you know what i mean cause that way if there is actual time to go to work then rush hour would be really intresting to watch and buses will be full so my business could be making lots of money and also it could create a new job traffic light control those policemen that tell the traffic to stop or not would be cool also people would go to coffee shops and buy some coffee for the day. Realism at its best but i understand if you cant do but do tell me if it can be a thing -Lion

Don't be mean to him he is learning i had a rough time learning english because of people like you, why not fix the mistakes instead of mocking him.

Already spreading the word

Looking nice Herzog ! Cant wait to party and race/drift with you and your car

I hope to be arriving in one of these. Lets hope it makes its way into the game

Hey Nice Videos Btw

Thats why i just wanted it in my house. Doesnt lead cops to my shop and doesnt really link me with it. Im just a fan of the chop shop!

So today we received a dev blog containing info on house customization. They say that there are hundreds of placeable items that you can place around your home. What i want to know is will there be any placeable banners or flags that we can pin on the wall? And if so will be be able to make custom ones much like how we will be able to create custom clothing? I ask this because i would like a banner with my Chop Shop logo placed on the wall in my garage. Please feel free to comment you ideas and concerns about this suggestion. Herzog

Yes,Even Though we are manly a software company,we are looking to expand in the manufacturing market

Wow that looks great Putting to work some of them new brushes?

don't be shy! it looks good

You'll find me here, reking with my BMW M3 Lookalike With the loudest music and drifting like a maniac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDySW_dEiwM @ 0:50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3TZlVYa58k @ 1:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pjAXyNoD20

Wait if they want to release modules, beta and the game in 1 year and a bit then im guessing each module is gonna come like late every season Town Square - Late April/ May Police Thing idk lol - August/ July The Last thing i have no clue of i forgot - November/October And beta December to January and Finally Release in February Predicted Timeline but with out support and their hard work This can be achieved

I love how people are so optimistic these days. Anything that is made can be broken. A rock can be broken with another bigger rock and so it continues.

It seems they have heard my call

Subaru WRX STI 1969 Dodge Daytona 1970 Plymouth Superbird Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 Shelby GT 500 1967 1970 Dodge Charger Just a couple of cars i would love to see in the game

|| BRAINSTORM IDEA || WHAT IF THERE WAS A SEASON LIKE CYCLE. Oh wait they already have made concept art of it so of course we will force them to make it. Right. @HairyGrenade ... * murder looks *

There is a day/night cycle and day lasts longer than night. When you have a job in identity I think you pick your own hours, but your income will depend on how much you work.

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You can own buses, not really sure if they'll be driven by players or NPCs. You can be a taxi driver though.

Above person's limit: You yell everything you're reading as loud as you can. My power: Mind control

Either an Elio Three Wheeler, or a Morgan Three Wheeler. Something with 3 wheels.