Zero Gear - an indie multiplayer kart racing game

[Pericolos0]

awesome . You are really putting in some memorable and unique characters in this, which can only turn out good for you =). Squiddles rules and anyone that disagrees can get lost!

[zaphod]

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

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.

http://myzerogear.com/twister2.jpg

*edit*

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

http://myzerogear.com/twister3.jpg

[zaphod]

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!

these are my system specs.

[Defrag]

NVPerfHUD kicks ass

[st0lve]

I want this game so bad

[zaphod]

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

[Bic-B@ll]

oh man ski ball is so badass, that looks great. i dont know if it would fit into the game play but if balls rolled down the slide as obsticles it would be cool.

[2d-chris]

:science: bloody awesome as always.

[Taylor]

The graphical effect on the twister is cool, but from the video it looks like Game Over if you hit it

[zaphod]

if you have any sort of momentum driving into it you will come out the other side. It only sucks you up and keeps you in the air if you spawn it on top of yourself and don't move.

[KungFuSquirrel]

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

This is the best idea ever!

Very cool updates, it's come a long way since you started and looks great!

[zaphod]

thanks KungFu, it's almost been a full year now since I quit my job and put all my chips into this.

[zaphod]

Here is a video of a playtest we had last night of our new game mode, it was a lot of fun!

[Furyo]

That's just going to be awesome. Plain and simple yet awesome.

Is the kart you're driving the most basic one and are they upgradeable? (Sorry if you've answered this before) It just looked like that kart didn't have the best steering, I wonder whether that's one of the layers of your gameplay.

[zaphod]

not yet, every kart controls the same. We want to people to be able to customize that but we haven't gotten around to it yet.