NimbleBit

5 Comments

• Julian Spillane Says:

  October 19th, 2008 at 6:38 pm

  Ooh neat. I’m excited to see how this plays.
• Brian Cronin Says:

  October 19th, 2008 at 6:45 pm

  I am too

  I am actually working on it right now! This is the fun part of game development (Not that positioning wheels for 4 hours isn’t a bucket of fun, don’t ask…)
• Julian Spillane Says:

  October 20th, 2008 at 3:44 am

  Haha. You and me both, my friend. We’re in insane crunch mode right now, so the entire studio has been working all weekend to get a build out for our milestone deadline tomorrow.
• Ben Says:

  October 20th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

  This looks like mad fun! I really like how you’re not making a kart racing game, but more a kart platform for whatever kind of game (Lua, right?).

  As such, could you potentially “race” on this track or do anything based on what the user defines? How rigid of a term is “game mode” here?
• Brian Cronin Says:

  October 20th, 2008 at 11:05 pm

  All of the actual game play is written in the Lua programming language which is embedded in the game.

  Things that can be created by the users include:
  Game modes
  Weapons
  GUIs
  Camera controllers
  Sensors
  Game play objects

  These can include physical, graphical, audio, etc based objects as well.

  All of the parts of the game we use in our game modes (entirely written in Lua) are available to end users.

  The game mode just defines logic. So in this case, the game mode would expect some hole triggers to be defined in the map so the players could score. The race mode expects there to be checkpoints and race track nodes. The game mode is free to setup any rules and scoring and entirely handle the logic of the game.

  I believe we have a very open game for people to extend.