Dunno what the ranking is
Voted and requested on facebook for friends to too!

Hm... I get a lot of errors W1550 - Can't compile effect when playing.
The visible game is pretty much described by "Car Game LOL":

I'll try rebooting later, will edit this post.

Which GPU do you have?(GRaphiccard)
And does it support the shadermodel used by the game?

@ YellowAfterlife:

Try updating your DirectX driver.

I had the same thing, if the shaders don't get compiled the solution is updating directX

@YellowAfterlife: Have you tried the latest version? You can find it at the links in my signature. It includes a shader-compiler dll that should've been included all along. I can't update the original post of this thread, but CarGameLOL is old. It should hopefully mean people with slightly out-of-date DirectX versions won't need to update DirectX.

@James: Thank you But I can't see your friend request

Jibb

@JulzMighty: yeah, I've already noticed that I downloaded a outdated version. Downloaded both new version and a recent DirectX. Now everything works great

The new version seems better that the old one, though main menu looks a bit empty. You could add game level into its background, and make camera slowly rotate around.

Car models look very nice and somewhat cute (if that may apply to 3d car model). 'explosion' animation looks great too.

Gameplay is simple, but fun. For some reason I expected a sort of AI (which shouldn't be hard to do). You should add bigger-sized arena's, as well as different themed ones. I'll be happy to see online part in this.

You know what? Online is a lot of work, and I was hoping to complete something newsworthy today so that I can get another article featured on the front page of IndieDB before voting for phase one is over, but this is too much work for such a short time.

AI is a great idea, will add a lot for those who don't have brothers or someone around all the time to play against while online is still in the works, and could perhaps be finished by tonight.

So, yeah, I appreciate all your feedback. Most of it has to wait until after online (as I'm sure you'd understand), but today I'm going to have a stab at busting out some bots.

Thanks for the suggestion

Jibb

DOWNLOAD KarBOOM 0.1.4 with bots. You'll be glad you did. It was only a day's work, which sets back online play a little but gives everyone something to do until then.



The bots aren't geniuses, but they're relentless.

There's also the option of a larger level, to fit the extra chaos.

Jibb

Yay, bots!!
The bots are great, fun to play with. Though I noticed that when playing with 5 bots, one human player in the large dirt pit (score limit 300) when the players reach an average score of around 150, the game gets laggy. Or "jumpy", I should say as there's no network involved. It seems like the framerate drops once every second, making the game almost unplayable.
Is 5 Bots too much for the game to handle?