Zero Gear - an indie multiplayer kart racing game

[Sentura]

impressive. is music part of the game or do you plan to make your own music as well or how will that go down?

[zaphod]

it is some music that I licensed from online, We were considering using it for the main menu but for now it is just the soundtrack to the video. None of the maps have music currently.

[zaphod]

small update, we now have one of these new-fangled "Official Game Groups" on steam - you can join it / check it out here: http://steamcommunity.com/games/zerogear

Also, I took some new screenshots last night, I replaced the old ones on our media page here: http://myzerogear.com/media.html

[st0lve]

Joined

And nice screens

[zaphod]

new blog post

been pretty silent over the last week because we have had our heads down furiously pounding keyboards in order to get a build ready for IGF submission. After some very late nights and many eye drops later we have emerged victorious with a build to submit. We made it! Woo!

Along with the submission I have been working on an awesome game manual to submit along with it, you can check it out if you want.

This milestone also marks the start of our closed beta, and although we initially have a limited amount of keys we hope to expand it as we get further in development. If you have a dedicated windows server on a fast connection and are interested in keeping up a ZG server for us, there might be a key for you - drop me a note.

as always, you can keep up with the latest by being in our Steam Group (and you can also just help us climb up the list of games by joining )

[Bic-B@ll]

congratulations!

[FrieChamp]

Cool congrats David that's a big step!

[zaphod]

We have been keeping very busy as usual - spending a lot of time dealing with some nasty memory issues and other non-glamorous things. But to keep our spirits up we started on a new game mode, check out the screenshot and maybe you will be able to guess what it is!

[Minos]

Neat

[Bic-B@ll]

badminton?

[General Vivi]

thats awesome zaph !

[2d-chris]

I could be wrong, but I think it's golf

[zaphod]

this is not entirely related to the game per say, but it gives me an excuse to bump this thread! Brian got some Zero Gear t shirts for his b-day. Brian not pictured in photo!

[dissonance]

i cant decide which i want more in that photo =/

[zaphod]

the 2009 IGF entrants have been announced, all 226 of them! Here is the entire list of entires this year: http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entries2009.php?start=0

and here is Zero Gear (next to last, yay alphabet!): http://www.igf.com/php-bin/entry2009.php?id=667