King of Kalimpong - multiplayer vehicle battle game

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@Luftbauch;357110

Do you plan to launch it for free forever?
It is really nice, i like the lowpolystyle, you should keep it.
That will run on lowspec too, thats cool.
But when you get a playerbase, you have to pay for networking infrastructure and that means you need to generate some money with that.
When you put it on steam, it would give you many consumers and networking stuff would be no big problem.
Make a monthly contest with a wincode of a 10€ paysafecard or similar amazon voucher and you get fat quick, when you update your nice project regular.
It is never to early to start advertising.

Thanks! I am planning to release it for free, and to run several dedicated servers as well (I got into kubernetes lately and am really liking the gcloud infrastructure). I will have monthly network costs that will scale with the player base, but I want everyone to be able to play. I despise Pay-To-Win games, so I may entertain offering some visual/audio content for purchase (rims, radio stations, etc), items that don’t impact gameplay at all. Alternatively, I really like your tournament idea, where players can pay to enter, win prizes, and in doing so entrants help cover the infrastructure costs.

@xraygunner;357441

A couple of us out of our little group went in and trolled around for a bit. It was fun with just the two of us, but would be with more! Things for the most part seemed to work well. There were times when the outcome didn’t seem right, but I’m guessing that has something to do with network prediction and all that. The only things that seemed odd to me were. 1. On the city map the tallest elevator didn’t seem to want to work for me. The car would hover over the platform and would be inoperable until the elevator started to move and the car would be thrown off. 2. Are the rocks supposed to get larger as they move through the air? It’s kinda cool, but strange. But, like others have said, keep up the good work! This is sure to be a hit!

Thanks for checking it out! Regarding the outcomes, do you remember exactly what felt weird? Did you lose head on collisions with other vehicles that you thought you should have won? Since I changed the network architecture I overlooked changes I need to make to that experience. Did you notice issues with the projectile impacts and collisions? There’s some prediction in place for those but since they’re so big and simulated everywhere there’s plenty of opportunity for strangeness. If you can recall any of the details that would be super helpful!

1. That elevator bug is annoying, to say the least; something I introduced through a client-side movement experiment. If I’m able to successfully implement physics replay it will go away.
2. They are supposed to scale up in flight, but I haven’t committed to exactly how I want to do it yet. My initial idea was that in order to help you out when making a really long range shot, your boulder would scale up to create a larger impact area, so you could be less accurate at a distance. I may only allow boulders to scale up if they’re fired at a certain angle, so looping shots scale but straight shots don’t - something like that.

Thanks again for playing, for the feedback, and the kind words!

@Tim_Tivaru;357626

Don’t worry too much dude. Though, I know the feeling you’re having, you put yourself in a vulnerable position when you put something you love online for others to judge. Worst case scenario, you get some feedback! General consensus appears to be very positive :). I think this could be a really fun little LAN party game too xD.

Thanks! It’s great to get the feedback - it’s invaluable - it’s just a bit painful too. Sounds like you know

@;359899

I get a crash on start with 0.8.6 on Win8 x64.

DANG. I’m on roughly the same configuration; do you see anything interesting when you run the build from the command line with -log? I’m traveling (just got married!) but I’m planning to release a better build when I’m back home. By the way, I saw your tweets about multiple physics scenes and I’m going to give that a go, that’s a clever idea. I’ll pop back into IRC when I’m back to civilization to pester you a bit more about that.