go-kart model

[zaphod]

I'm doing it all for the benjamins. Or hopefully enough income to keep working on this game / other indie games full time.

We were crunching late last night to try and get one last little element of that menu fixed so we could post a video of it working in game. We almost have the menu swapping out and tweaking the colors of all the assets we have made so far. Hopefully we can fix it otherwise we will probably post a video of it slightly broken. Part of the problem is that for some reason my partner is trying to get me to learn and write and hack all the javascript for the menus which usually just results in him having to figure out where I broke stuff. Him: "you forgot to put and ending parenthesis here". Me: "you mean one of those bendy things?"

[Bic-B@ll]

let the artist do the art!

[Skjalg]

Him: "you forgot to put and ending parenthesis here". Me: "you mean one of those bendy things?"

hahahaha

[zaphod]

UPDAETEZ~!!1

videeooo

http://www.vimeo.com/448510

[Skjalg]

looks really stylish

[Bic-B@ll]

that's pretty awesome. however i think the color picker being its own randomly floating window is silly, it should be integrated to the picker window somehow. the player/car is nice, some idle animations would be nice and maybe the ability to rotate the car or something. lastly, a shadow under the car is needed.

[zaphod]

eventually you will be inside your "garage" doing all this and there will be a lot more polish. I'm not handing it in for grading yet This is just the most basic first implementation of it being able to swap out models / change colors.

[Bic-B@ll]

[st0lve]

lol when is this going to be released? it looks so damn'd cute, I want it!

[zaphod]

Some other cool news, I just got some initial character concepts from Edwin Rhemrev who is going to be helping us out with some concept work. He is very excited about the project and we are excited to be working with him, I'm sure his work will help focus and evolve the flavor of the game.

[KungFuSquirrel]

I see he worked on Overlord, you have my approval.

[hydeph]

:]

http://www.americanstreetrod.com/racing_kart_bodies.htm

[zaphod]

woa, those are crazy looking. Batmobile karts!

[Zacker]

Lots of nice progress!

[zaphod]

things have been slow the past week or so as I have been deathly ill, as well as been taking some time out to write an article (almost 4,000 words!) called:

Budgets Go Down, Independence Goes Up. 9 steps to saving millions, indie style.

I am just now starting to feel like myself again, and have started on a new traditional circuit-type racetrack which I'm hoping will be best suited for working out the driving model. I have the basic layout done, I am working on modeling out the details.