Zero Gear - an indie multiplayer kart racing game

if squiddles doesn't grow on you, I am sure someone else will make a super awesome squid character.

someone had a hat suggestion that would go well with the brain and I couldn't resist making it:

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there are lots of things that I have made specifically becuase it would fit one character - but one of the mail things of the game is that anything can go on anything else.

we are having a lot of fun with the tag game mode in our playtests, but we only have one map for it. So I decided to whip up another quick one for fun. This one is called the Punch Bowl:

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I would bother except for it is rare for you to even see the crowd as it is, since you are always looking down. I could throw some buildings in there pretty quick maybe I guess.

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The primary function or intended purpose of the L.U.V. Bot is still a little hazy. However it is known to run lustfully at any moving object and latch on in a merciless hug, until it's emotion chip shorts, resulting in a massive L.U.V.-splosion.

Sat. night I know, but less that a month left until IGF sumbissions are due!!! AHHHHH!!!! just capped a video showing another one of our items we recently implemented - the fearsome TWISTER!!! Click to watch

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so far our quest to create entirely physical-based weapons/items has been very fruitful, and leads to some very emergent gameplay

spent some more time on the particle effect, It looks much more like a solid pile of twisting stuff now than some smoggy gas.

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*edit*

ok, I think this is the last revision at least for now, I can't spend more than 1 day twister tweaking

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made a pretty big blog post about the WAR ON FRAMERATE that we have been undertaking the last week and a half. It lists a lot of the things we have been tackling specifically - but this is the real sweet screen shot for us personally - 2 weeks ago my computer with as many people on screen here would have been chugging at around 15-20 fps. Now it is over 60! Huzzah!

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these are my system specs.

just a quick bump to show a screenshot of a new game mode we are hoping to have in by the first:

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