Nightmare Kart Dev

Worked on extending the sand bar for today's #NightmareKart dev post! Not a whole lot to report here, I just made two more sand bar islets, the first of which has a cliff face lined with chevron arrows to help guide the player to the left.

Working on the beach level some more for today's #Nightmarekart dev thread! To start, I made a little (unfinished) underwater shortcut that will rapidly fill the drowning meter as a tradeoff, making navigating the following sandbar more difficult. Check it out!

Working on a boardwalk for the beach track for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! The boardwalk will connect the two existing parts of the track, being the beach and the sand bar. To start, here is a look at the unfinished base model and collision:

Working on fixing some bugged FX for today's #NightmareKart dev thread. The 'surface type' function which spawned FX depending on the floor type was incapable of switching directly from one to another (i.e. sand to water) & required hitting the 'default' type to reset the function. This is fixed!

Working on the sandbar some more for today's #NightmareKart dev post! Took a very long time, but I created the underwater sections, making them darken as they get further down to help convey the depth and danger. I also tinted the surface water to be darker over these areas as well:

Working on making a sand bar for for the beach track for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! To start, I made a tiny small round island:

Working on the beach race track some more for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! To start, I finished the underwater section of the track, giving it a sharp drop-off lined with rocks and dark sand, while the camera refuses to go below the water level so the racer slowly drops below frame:

Working on the new track some more for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! Made a stretch of beach and dropped some forbidden forest assets on top (temp!) to test out a few track design ideas. Check it out!

Taking a break from epic boss fights to work on actual track design for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! To start I finally, successfully made a spline tool that generates track. I've tried to make this many times in the past & failed due to the super janky collision system NMKart operates under:

Worked on sound design ALL DAY for today's #NightmareKart dev post! The two main things I worked on was gross flesh noises sampled from a person destroying tomatoes slowed down by 50% (and processed further), and an 'evil aura' sound that plays when the aurora borealis fades in. Give it a listen!

Working on the bone bike boss fight for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! To start, I added the red arrow and minimap to the fight to help keep track of where the boss is when she's off screen, check it out!

Worked on the bone bike intro some more for today's #NightmareKart dev post! The cutscenes now fully integrated into the game with added VFX (but no audio), meaning that it will play on level load & transition into gameplay (albeit abruptly, with the boss mid-attack. will fix later!) Check it out!

Finished up animation for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! The final shot is the big reveal shot of the bone bike so I wanted to get the camera all up in its business to show off the design as this is the only shot I can do so before it switches to gameplay.

Working on the bone bike intro cutscene again for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! (Once again: cw blood & cw gore!) I added some flesh to the bone bike's texture as a blasted clean skeleton didn't fit the whole 'half born creature falling out of a womb' thing. I also worked on the next shot!

Worked on the intro cutscene for the bike boss for today's #NightmareKart dev post! Its based on of the orphan of kos intro scene, which revolves around a posthumous birth, so I'll just throw up a 'CW blood' and 'CW gore' for ppl who have that muted cuz gross! Anyways check out the first 6 shots:

Working on the next phase of the train boss fight for today's #NightmareKart dev post! After the jump, I use the camera cut (which is currently placeholder) to switch out the dynamic train boss for a static corridor of cars to drive through without any physics issues.

Worked on making an intro cutscene for the train boss for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! The actual cutscene itself is a placeholder, but the actual functionality to load and play it (complete with a cutscene skip) is in, meaning that a proper cutscene can easily be added in later :)

Working on the environment for the train boss for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! The fight will take place across multiple biomes with the first one being in the snow biome, so I'll be add snow assets, check it out!

Working on arcade mode functionality some more for today's #NightmareKart dev thread as the launch party in brooklyn approaches! Today I added a 'leaderboard edit' screen to modify, add, and delete entries for various reasons (potential data loss being a big one)

Polishing up the beach arena for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! To start, I fixed a bug where the drifting tire trails would bug out in a very jarring way if the player drifts through the a teleport mirror. Now there is no weird floating drift trails when going through a mirror:

Working on the beach environment for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! The fade to black distance fog clashed with the beach aesthetic so I instead made everything fade out to the skybox, allowing for the horizon to be visible.

For todays #NightmareKart dev thread, I tackled a common problem common in most 1st/3rd person games, which is the reality of needing to turn around when passing an objective This problem is 100x worse when the player is driving a car so I came up with the idea of lining the arena with teleporters