Title says the two biggest gameplay additions.

Alright more progress and work has happened. To start of I most importantly learned about external codes, external layouts and global objects. All stuff that I should have used in Painter Blazer. Basically code and objects that are constantly loaded which are good for stuff like player sprites and movement and items since those are shared between every level. External layouts are great for UI. Also makes it 10 times faster to edit them.

Now new stuff in the prototype

• 2D billboard sprites (had to find a work around since adding a 3rd person camera to one does not work)
• Actual animations
• Boost ramps
• Rail grinding
• Drifting (which I probably won't end up using)

A lot of what I learned and touched up are not visual but still very important stuff.

Edd from the hit cartoon EddSplode. I might redo the legs because something dumb I realized.

If someone can tell me what this level is you win an awesome prize (real) (except Neb because I told you what it is)

I'mma just try to use news posts more. I barely use them.

It was so cool to be with mr. McQueen.

What I got done today is the blueprint for the item system, lap counting with checkpoints and a banana item (except it doesn't do anything yet). I have not done a button controlled menu yet but it wasn't too hard to get working for the item system. The boost and the trap are the only items I'll be doing during testing. Also a lot of adjustments to the movement to get an idea on how it will function in a possible finished game.

More footage:

I'll probably start to post these with a bit more stuff to show but I was just really happy that I got these 2 very important mechanics done.

Go karts are old and done a million times and they all are rather similar Mario Kart clones so I got rid of them as a whole. Hoverboards have a lot more freedom in movement and are generally just cooler. After I've gotten enough stuff tested I'm going to start a fresh file and remake pretty much everything with much more care put in to it.

So new stuff in testing.

• Debug stuff to show the state of the boosts and player and coins and stuff.
• More placeholder sprites to have "animations" and make it clear it's a hoverboarding game.
• Sounds just for fun. Nicer to showcase.
• Trick system. After jumping you can do one trick and that gives you a bit of a boost. A mechanic to have Mario Kart type of micro boosts but without having drifting in the game.
• Coins for a Crazy Frog Racer type of item system to not have much random chances in the game aka item boxes.

Stuff to be tested in the future:

• Crazy Frog Racer type of item system.
• Lap counting.
• Slopes, hills and other elevation.
• Platforming.
• Maybe grind rails?

Prototype footage.

For those who don't know how the item system works in Crazy Frog Racer (greatest racing game ever) here it is:

Get coins, use coins to buy items from a menu at any time.

So today I finally took a look into GDevelop's rather new 3D feature. What I figured out is how it works, how to make a car, collision, boost item, 2D sprite in a 3D area and third person camera.

Aaaand the gif doesn't work. Click here for Bluesky post

Now it works.

If you are wondering why @mork0 is there it's because of what @Zakeblue1 said

I'm like a real pro gamer now.

Tbh I should play more Newgrounds games. They are fun.

Nothing major but a couple bugs have been fixed again pointed out in the comments. Sorry about those.

Version 1.2

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where players wouldn't die when falling off the level in levels 1-3, 1-4, 1-5 and 1-boss.
• Fixed a bug where tutorial text didn't change according to the control scheme chosen.

The update is out right now on Newgrounds and Itch.io!

Patch notes

NEW:

• Added an option to the controls section to change between WASD controls and arrow key controls.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug where you could mess up the starting animation on the insert coin screen.
• Fixed a bug where pipe smoke effects played but no enemies came out from the pipes.

Newgrounds specific:

• Medals are now checked in the hub and should register better.
• Added the quit to title screen button to the pause menu from the Itch.io build.

Working on some fixes to Painter Blazer because why not. I'm kind of dumb for not realizing the controls are this easy to change so arrow keys will be added.