Zero Gear - an indie multiplayer kart racing game

Quote from Buddy

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My only issue with it is that the carts are lagging slightly and it drags down overall impression.

do you mean in the video or in the game in general?

I hope that the new networked physics system we are in the middle of writing is going to address a lot of those issues. Basically everything right now is server side, so the physics will only look as smooth as your connection is fast to the server. We are in the middle of trying to work in a mirrored physical simulation that will be running on the client to help decide where things should be while the game is waiting to get data from the server. It will also prevent things like clipping through walls for a split second before the server corrects you. Hopefully it will be a big improvement, cross your fingers for us.

"Let's make a multiplayer game with networked physics!" "sure, how hard could that be!? :p"

talk about a learning experience

Another reason to cross your fingers for us, they will announce the IGF finalists around the 7th of this month!

made a new character over the last few days, say hello to Cacti the cactus

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I am trying to get to 9 (stock) items in every custom item category (karts, characters, wheels, hats, accessories) and this makes 9 characters. I think I just need to make a few more accessories to fill everything out.

*edit* actually I can't count, this makes 11 characters

Quote from Bic-B@ll

lol i thought it was a spiked watermelon at first i like it though, it's cute, i think a cowboy hat would go well. are you focusing on anything right now? it looks like you're kind of jumping from one thing to another

the other half of NimbleBit is busy deep in an underground bomb shelter banging out new networking code, and he goes into an animalistic rage if I bother him so I am just doing whatever art I can do right now that doesn't require programming.

I can make tracks but I can't script new game modes. I already have one in the pipe ready to be scripted (hockey map) I will start on more after I make a few more items since they are quick to do. We can't really work on more than one thing at a time with only one artist and one programmer.

I am trying to get a little more exposure for ZG before we come out with the next beta version, I submitted our trailer video to digg,

http://%7boption%7d

if you want to toss a digg our way.

long time no updates, I am in the middle of making a map to test out a new gameplay mode that will basically just trying to be the first to get from start to end, with checkpoints along the way to save the progress you have made should you fall off.

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In other happenings, I just moved into some new office space with my brother eeenmachine. I'm looking forward to having a nice quiet place to work on Zero Gear!