Starting to come together! #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d #kartracer

Give a warm welcome to Elvis! Anyone remember another alien named Elvis from a video game? 😁 #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d

Added a new character to the kart racing crew! Brutus! #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you expect... #indiegamedev #unity3d #indiegames

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Crazy how well GoldenEye and Perfect Dark hold up even today. Split screen multiplayer slays

Challenge: Make a game with just 2 objects. Challenge 2: make it with your own scrappy little engine that couldn't. Result: SoloPong #indieGameDev #indiegames

I built a kart racer in 10 hours 10 times over. This is what I was able to do in my 10th and final iteration. #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d #rapidprototyping

Final attempt at a kart racer after 2 hours #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Iteration 9 after 10 hours. I underestimated how long it would take me to train the AI to pick up the items. Ended up not working but it pretty much cost me the rest of the iteration. Ok on to my last attempt! #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d

Almost 8 hours in: Focussing on mechanics a bit more this time around. Got a basic missile system and item system working. #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

6 hours in. What if your kart just kept getting faster each time you collected a coin? #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Added a coin spawner with the help of Bezi. It created a pretty cool spawner but for some reason the coins are distorted in some areas of the track... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Adding track marks and tire treads was a lot easier this time around. And with just 4 decals :) #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

1 hour into attempt #9 of my kart racer! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Attempt #8 of my kart racer after 10 hours. The squirrel's looking a lot better than last time. And it took me a fraction of the time. Plus I like the way the track looks a lot more now with these subtle tire marks. #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Finally got the road texture to look decent! And this just with one single large decal and 4 smaller ones for the tire treads. Pretty happy with it! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

7 hours in and I am currently kind of obsessed with finding a simple and performant way to add the track details. I managed to project the track details with a single decal projector but it looks awful... Guess I gotta keep trying... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Spent the last 2 hours trying to get decent looking tire treads on my track. Something just isn't right yet... Design iterations are definitely the thing that consumes the most time in these iterations... #IndieGameDev #indiegame #unity3d

2 hours into attempt #8. Experimenting with tire tread decals this time around #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Attempt 7 after 10 hours: Really struggled with training the AI this time around. The more I do this, the more I realise how little I know... Something, something Dunning-Kruger Effect #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Decided to take a break from my kart racing experiment and went with a little something different. Not sure where this is headed just yet but it's really fun making tile-based worlds! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Finally managed to make the character look a little better! I took the squirrel made by sketchfab.com/Jozellsylves... as a base and rigged, skinned, animated and textured it. Definitely a step up! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Hour 3 of my kart racer: Add the trees and grass #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Just added the fences and tweaked the grass a bit #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Kart Racer attempt number 7 after 2 hours #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Iteration 6 after 10 hours: that's what I get for hastily vibe coding a green shell-like projectile 🤣 #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames #quickAndDirty

One more hour to go. Coins are shinier and I added a little effect when collecting them #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d

7 hours in: Added some coins! Need to do some lighting and post-processing work to make them pop. Plus collecting them doesn't work yet. But progress! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Another happy abomination modelled and painted by yours truly #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d #3dmodelling #nightmarefuel

Pretty wild to see how far I've come in just a few weeks! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames #rapidPrototyping

3 hours in and I got my trees and grass back #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

2 hours in. I really wonder just how performant these decals for the road texture are... They do allow for a lot of creative control which is nice #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Kart racer attempt #6 after 1 hour #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d

The AI racers are much better this time around! Seems the main issue was that the AI simply could not see the checkpoints over the uneven terrain. Once I adjusted for this and retrained, the result was much better. Still not perfect, but better! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames #machinelearning

Raced against my first AI agent! It definitely still needs some work. It does kinda follow the track but occasionally just drives in circles... I guess I'll need to tweak and retrain... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames #machinelearning

So this is a first: training one of Unity's ML Agents to race on my kart racing track. Pretty cool stuff! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Meet Elvis the alien. A humble start to my own animated character but a start nonetheless! Though it looks like he's about to fall off the kart at the end there... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

I finally managed to properly animate my edited mesh! Now I just need to properly paint it and I'll have my first character #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

I finally managed to update the mesh of the animated FBX files! Some of the animations didn't quite survive the round trip through Blender but I'll figure that out. Making progress! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

After 3.5 hours I'm back where I was last time. And yes. I'm going a little crazy with the fresnel effect. Now back to the animations, I guess... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

2 hours in. Looks like I'm honing in on an art style here... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

This is what my kart racer looks like after 10 hours the fourth time around. Still stuck at the animations hence the invisible avatar... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

I managed to finally replace the mesh in the kart with my own but something doesn't look quite right. Can you spot it? #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

I wonder how many of my 10 hours it will take me to figure out how to update the mesh of my animated character model... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames #blender

After 3 hours I am back where I was after 10 hours last time I built this #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Attempt 4: Kart racer after 2 hours #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d

My fourth go at the kart racer! Let's go! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

10 hours is up! I am basically where I was in my previous post. I spent the last 3-4 hours trying to update the character mesh. I ended up creating this abomination. Clearly I still have a ways to go... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Finally got those trees looking a tiny bit better. Still not great but getting there. Good enough for this iteration. #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames