Gravity Garden version Alpha 8 is now available

Gravity Garden sprouts to life.   The garden's been dormant while I focused on other obligations, but we're back on track and diggin in the virtual dirt.  No new content, but a lot of necessary systems are looking much better.  Most of the changes in this build are focused on the new version of the menu and locomotion options.  

• Removed the Full Body Avatar. I've been messing around with the player movement system and the avatar was requiring way too much attention. I had to tweak and adjust it along with every change I made. So it's gone for now , but may be back in the future. 
• New "Artist's Palette" style menu. The Menu button opens the menu that's held in one hand as you select an icon with the opposite hand. 
• Point at a seed or tool to see a short description and inventory amount
• New Options tab on the menus. Lots of locomotion options:
  • Snap turn + angles
  • Smooth turn + speeds
  • Teleport
  • Free Movement + speeds
  • Swap move/rotate hands
  • steer with hand or face
  • swap hands for info text scree - coming soon.
• Menus and controls are all fully ambidextrous.  Use anything with either hand.  
• Revised movement system. Smoother when switching gravity on/off and overall more consistent between modes. 
• Some tweaks to Teleport system, but it still needs work.
• New cursors for grabbing, info, and menu selection. Should be easier to tell what you are pointing at. Player can still only grab ripe fruits. 
• Basic sound effects when player bumps into things or  skims across the ground. 

Really interested to hear what players think about the locomotion options. I know that everyone has their own preferences when it comes to moving around in VR and I want to  give as many options as I can.  Give it a try and let me know what you think.