Zero Gear - an indie multiplayer kart racing game

[zaphod]

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

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

[dissonance]

Holy crap.

[Skjalg]

ZOMG TIS A NEW MICROMACHINES!

what i was thinking

AND THAT SI AWESOEM

!!!!!!!!!!!!

[zaphod]

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

[General Vivi]

The trailer looked interesting but it didn't look like it would hold up.

[zaphod]

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.

[Warby]

helps alot id say

[Jenn0_Bing]

I hadn't actually noticed the lack of shadows, but it looks much better with them.

[zaphod]

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/

[zaphod]

new blog post about the weapon dynamics in ZG

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

[zaphod]

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

[Warby]

thats really cool nice choice of music too how did you do that with the 4 different color pickers ?! that they control only certain elements of the texture the whole thing was too fast for me to see what you did

[st0lve]

Suggestion: Make it a power-up With the ability to shoot and it's invunerable to other power-ups, except for other tanks.

LOVE IT.

[zaphod]

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.

[Bic-B@ll]

that was freaking awesome. are you just doing content creation now or are physics/network stuff and other such things being worked on still?