Zero Gear - an indie multiplayer kart racing game

anybody heard of Broken Toys or played it before? It just came out on steam

http://store.steampowered.com/app/26700/

wow, that Smashing Toys game is a broken pile of shit.

I got some good feedback that the lack of shadows was more jarring on this map because of the large scale - I spent yesterday rendering out some lightmaps for the floor and bar surface in order to give all the objects sitting around some added realism. Here is a before and after shot.

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I wrote a little blog post about ZG's art style since we needed something to post about

http://www.nimblebit.com/2009/04/the-ar ... zero-gear/

new blog post about the weapon dynamics in ZG

http://www.nimblebit.com/2009/05/weapon ... zero-gear/

I created a time-lapse video of the process of creating this kart:

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That is part of the video I edited out, but basically there is a .TGA file for each texture - it can define up to four distinct color areas for the texture, one in each channel of the TGA.

still barging ahead full steam on the physics prediction / networking. You can read what we are working on every week on our blog - we post a little summary called "I Know What You Did Last Week".

I just posted last weeks a few minutes ago actually: http://www.nimblebit.com/2009/05/i-know ... st-week-8/

pretty much ASAP once we have the new networking up and running