Nightmare Kart Dev

working on the death animation for the ghost enemies (who from here on will be called their official name 'phantom prisoners') for today;s #NightmareKart dev thread! I originally wanted to make them invincible, but the point of the mobs is to kill them to raise max speed, so we'll need a death anim

Working on this huge stain glass window centerpiece for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! Spent most of the day working on the glass texture alone, although the stone frame it's mapped to was no small feat either!

Made a lot of progress finishing off all the major missing assets for the snow castle level for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! Here's a full race through the level so far. We are getting close and closer to having a finished track!! Below I'll list all the new stuff that was added ⬇️

Working on the foundations of a new enemy for todays #NightmareKart dev thread! As status effects are a new feature of the DLC, this enemy will grant the new 'curse' status effect, which will invert the players steering. First off I added the curse to the S.E. system, and made the associated icon:

working on the snow castle some more for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! To start, I polished up the spiral staircase room, blasting a chunk of the wall out to further imply that it was under siege at some point, explaining why its now considered 'forgotten' I also added some chevrons!

Working on getting enemy NPC racer navigation set up for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! After painstakingly dropping 40+ nav points, they are now capable of racing through the snow castle race track, adding that iconic chaotic nightmare kart energy to the fray!

Worked on the VO for the train fight some more for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! I wrote a new priority system that will either ignore or queue up a VO line if it triggers while a line is currently playing depending on priority (Im aware of the music skip bug dont worry ill fix it soon!)

Did a LOT of work integrating the new VA by @tomschalk.bsky.social into the train fight for this #NightmareKart thread! Theres more lines in this one lvl than probably the entire main campaign so it was a doozy! *This is an unfinished WIP, dialogue cutting itself off & bad balancing are known bugs!

Had a wonderful VA sesh with @tomschalk.bsky.social for the general gameplay vo of Viktor, the DLC protag, for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! As he's a combo of Bloodborne's Alfred & Valtr, we decided to go with 'Pompous axe murderer' for his personality. Have a look! (Audio balance not final!)

Working on the snow track some more for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! To start, I changed the first stair room so it isnt an identical layout to the second stair room, changing it into a curved staircase (which'll be lower poly in the future) which feels more natural to do a turn around on.

Working on the snow castle exterior for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! I added cliffs to both sides of the exterior part of the track (outside of the final stretch) while also adding some trees and snow clods to fill the major details out:

Working on the snow castle track some more for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! Today, I connected the outside wilderness part of the track back to the entrance of the castle, meaning that while it is still very unfinished, we are finally at a first playable state!!

Doing more Snow Castle rooftops for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! I added boost pads at the edge of the roof to signal to the player that it's safe to drive off of. I also found that the racer can fall in between the roof railings, so I added a little boost pad there as well!

Worked on the Snow Castle track some more for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! Today, I made the part of track connecting the shatter window to the rooftop using a combination of wall assets and scaffolding and one big boost pad! I also worked on the rooftop part of the track a little:

Workeed on the snow castle track for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! To start, I made a jump at the end of the room that will launch the player through some (currently very temp) windows and back on the castle walls. There are two routs, with the high route landing on a bit of scaffolding first:

Working on the snow castle map some more for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! Added the library room, which will be the area after the castle wall. Right now its extremely bare bones, but we gotta get the foundation down before we add stuff to it! (Not looking for suggestions, thank you!)

Working on the snow castle level some more for today's #NightmareKart dev thread!!! Most of today's work was spent making interior, non snowy versions of the various textures. I also added a carpet on the stairs, and widened them. Next up is making those snow particles turn off when inside!!

Now that theres a bit of a lull in bunlith show production, & now that Glitch Karts' release is behind us, it's time to get back into #NightmareKart dev threads! Time to dust off the snow level. The outside section of the track is good, but everything after is going to need to be heavily modified:

🏁Nightmare Kart: THE OLD KARTS🏁 Check out a trailer showing off all the beach themed levels, as well as a sneak peek at the mid campaign boss fight: the Orphan of Karts! 🌴🏍️ 📅 Coming: When its ready! 📅 #NightmareKart

I have a small scheduling gap in my comm work so I'm working on shark anims for today's #NightmareKart dev thread! Animated 2 tricks, the default fist pump and one where the hunter hangs on for dear life while the shark spins around! Check it out :)

Integrated shark drifting for today's #NightmareKart dev post! Not a whole lot to say here! We just got the fun drifting animations we did over stream and fully integrated them in game!! Check em out!

LETS GOOOOO #NightmareKart

taught my npc racers how to drive the beach track but they keep drowning because they are very unintelligent 😔 (thats why ur hearing kart death explosions throughout this video) #NightmareKart

polished up the beach level's geometry for today's #NightmareKart dev post! Every sand bar and island now has fully closed off geometry; no more random geo holes! I also fixed a lot of collision errors as well, meaning this level is now ready to have all the race mechanics added to it!

TREASURE #NightmareKart